University of Dayton Athletics

Ricardo Greer was promoted to Associate Head Coach on May 25, 2021.  He came to UD as an assistant coach in 2017 from the University of Central Florida staff where he served as the Knights’ Director of Player Development for two seasons. Greer brings a great deal of basketball experience to the staff, including a standout career as a collegian, and internationally as an amateur and professional.  

Greer played collegiately at the University of Pittsburgh from 1997-2001, for the Dominican Republic national team from 1999-2009, and professionally in Europe for 14 seasons. At Pittsburgh, Greer led the Panthers in both scoring and rebounding during his junior and senior seasons and was the only player in the Big East to rank in the top 15 in scoring, rebounds, assists, and steals. His play earned him All-Big East honors during both of those seasons.

His leadership ability on the court is unquestioned as he was team captain at Pittsburgh and for the Dominican Republic national team.

In Europe, Greer had an extremely successful career playing for various top-level teams in France, Ukraine, Croatia and Great Britain. Greer was named First Team All-League in the French Pro-A league three times, was a five-time French Pro-League All-Star and won the Pro A League MVP in 2010. He also led his teams to championships in 2005 and 2008, earning Finals MVP honors for the first title.

He was inducted into the French professional basketball hall of fame in 2017.

He was selected to participate in the 2021 TopConnect Leadership Institute.

Greer earned his bachelor's degree in social sciences from Pittsburgh. He and his wife Misty have two children; Ricardo Jr. (RJ) and Maddison.