Bernard "Red" Sarachek (October 19, 1912 – November 14, 2005) was a basketball coach and athletic director at Yeshiva University in New York City from 1940 to 1969.
He was also a mentor of legendary coaches such as Red Holzman (New York Knicks), Lou Carnesecca (St. John's), and Jack Donohue (Holy Cross).
Yeshiva, under Sarachek, has been called "the birthplace of modern basketball" due to his innovative ball-handling schemes.
"Red" was known to drive around in a car filled with envelopes with plays scribbled on them which he would give his team captains to figure out and pass to these future legends.
In inducting Saracheck into the NYC Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class, the late David J. Stern, Commissioner of the NBA noted: "We all know "Red" as an innovative coaching mentor and a fiery and principled redhead - what many forget is that Coach Saracheck was the first coach to dare break the unwritten rule when, in 1949, as coach of the Eastern League champion Scranton Miners, he played "Pop" Gates, "Dolly" King and Eddie Younger - 3 African American superstars on the court at the same time!"