Dave Leitao is one of the richest Basketball Coach from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dave Leitao's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
A 7’7″ forward was enlisted from Jim Calhoun to play basketball at Northeastern University. From 1978 until 1982 Leitao was a student at Northeastern and scored 6.0 points as well as 5.4 Rebounds every game. The team made it into the NCAA tournament twice and had an overall record of 79-34. Leitao is a member of the Omicron chapter of the Iota Phi Theta fraternity.
Leitao was approached from Calhoun in order to be part of his team in Northeastern University in 1984, after which he transferred on to University of Connecticut as an assistant from 1986 until 1994. He then returned to be the the head coach of his old school, Northeastern University, from 1994 until 1996. Leitao returned to the Calhoun staff for six years, winning the Huskies national championship in 1999.
Leitao’s third season (2007–2008) was marked with close losses and early injuries to the team’s top two frontcourt players, Tunji Soroye and Laurynas Mikalauskas; the two injured players only appeared in two games and sixteen games, respectively. The team attained a 4–3 record with Mikalauskas in the line-up versus a 1–8 record with him injured. Without these two players, the Cavaliers proceeded to lose seven games by two points or less or in overtime; the team ended the season with a record of 17–16 (5–11 ACC). However, as injured players began to return to the team, the Cavaliers won six of their final ten games, and advanced to the semifinals of the inaugural College Basketball Invitational.
