Tom Pecora (born January 21, 1958) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Fordham University. Born in Queens Village, New York, he graduated from Adelphi University in 1983. He is the former coach of Hofstra University, where he coached from 2001 to 2010 and his record was 155–126. In 2014 his team got Nemanja Zarkovic and Christian Sengfelder whom Pecola admired. During the same year he announced on hiring new assistant coach which will substitute David Duke who got transferred to Adelphi.