Denise Dillon (born September 22, 1973)[1] is the head women's basketball coach at Villanova.
She returned to her alma mater from Drexel, where she was the program's most successful coach since it moved to Division I in 1982–83.
[2] Dillon guided the Dragons to the 2009 CAA Championship and a berth in that year's NCAA tournament.
The star of that team was Gabriela Mărginean, a junior at the time who would go on to become the all-time scoring leader in the history of Philadelphia area collegiate women's basketball.
[8] Dillon's Villanova Wildcats earned an invitation to the NCAA women's basketball tournament, and upset sixth-seeded BYU in the opening-round behind 25 points from Maddy Siegrist.