A 1954 graduate of Bowling Green State University, he was voted to the "All-Ohio Team" and received honorable mention as a basketball All-American.

On May 1, 1966, Bianchi was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the NBA expansion draft but never played in a game for them and retired as a player.

After a year in Chicago, he was hired as head coach of the expansion team Seattle SuperSonics, compiling a 53–111 record for the new NBA franchise.

[2] In 1976, he re-entered the NBA to work for head coach John MacLeod as assistant coach for the Phoenix Suns, from 1976 to 1987, a tenure highlighted by the Suns' legendary triple-overtime loss to the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of the NBA finals, won by the Celtics 4 games to 2.

Bianchi died on October 28, 2019, in Phoenix, Arizona, from congestive heart failure at the age of 87.