A Life in Basketball - Slide Show - NYTimes.com Vito Montelli watched the St. Joseph High School boys basketball team's tryouts in November in Trumbull, Conn., the program's first tryouts without him as the coach. Montelli led the team to 878 victories, the most by a New England high school basketball coach, and 11 state titles in 50 years. He retired last summer at age 80.