Tory Verdi is an American women's basketball coach, having last coached with the Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball team of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the 2025-2026 season. He spent three years as the head coach at Pittsburgh, having been named to the position on April 6, 2023. He was fired on March 3, 2026 after amassing a 29-66 overall record across three seasons.
His termination came several weeks after six former players on the Pittsburgh women's basketball team filed a Title IX lawsuit against Verdi and Pittsburgh over allegations of abusive coaching methods and a failure to investigate the reports of abuse. The lawsuits allege abusive coaching methods, Title IX violations and a failure by the school to act after abuses were reported to university administrators, including then athletic director Heather Lyke.
Verdi is from New Britain, Connecticut and graduated from Keene State College in New Hampshire in 1996 with a degree in elementary education. He earned a master's degree in computer technology from the University of Hartford.