Gregg Marshall

Gregg Marshall
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Wichita State
Biographical details
Born	February 27, 1963 (1963-02-27) Greenwood, SC, U.S.
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–1987 1987–1988 1988–1996 1996–1998 1998–2007 2007–pres.	Randolph-Macon (asst.) Belmont Abbey (asst.) Col. of Charleston (asst.) Marshall (asst.) Winthrop Wichita State
Head coaching record
Overall	300-142 (.718) (as of Feb. 21 2012)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships Big South Tournament Championship (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007) Big South Regular Season Championship (1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007) NIT Championship (2011)
Awards Big South Coach of the Year (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007)

Gregg Marshall (born February 27, 1963) is the current head basketball coach at Wichita State University.

Background

Born in Greenwood, SC, he was hired to coach WSU on April 14, 2007.

Education

Gregg Marshall graduated from Randolph-Macon College with a B.A. degree in Economics/Business in 1985. He later received his Master's degree in Sports Management from the University of Richmond in 1987.

Career

Marshall accepted the Wichita State University coaching position on April 14, 2007, having previously coached at Winthrop University for nine seasons.

In his nine seasons as head coach at Winthrop, Marshall led the Eagles to seven NCAA tournament appearances and transformed a previously undistinguished program into a mid-major powerhouse. In his first season at Winthrop, the 1998-99 season, he compiled a record of 19-8, 9-1 in Big South Conference play, giving the Eagles their first regular season Big South title. They went on to win the Big South Conference Tournament, earning the Eagles their first ever bid to the NCAA Tournament. As a 16 seed, the team lost to the #1 seed Auburn Tigers in the first round, 80-41.

Since his first season at Winthrop, Marshall has led the team to regular season titles six times, won the Big South Tournament five times, has had five 20-win seasons, was named Big South Coach of the Year three times, and in 2006, surpassed Nield Gordon as the all-time winningest coach in Winthrop men's basketball history.

In the 2006-07 season, Marshall became the first coach in the history of the Big South Conference to have his team go undefeated in conference games. In 2007, he also became the first Big South coach to win an NCAA first round tournament game by defeating 6-seed Notre Dame.

Prior to coming to Winthrop, Gregg Marshall spent two years, 1985–87, as an assistant at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia and was an assistant at Belmont Abbey College during the 1987-1988 season. He then spent eight years under John Kresse at the College of Charleston from 1988 to 1996, where the program received an at-large 1994 NCAA bid, NIT invitations in 1995 and 1996. In 1996, he became an assistant coach at Marshall University until being hired by Winthrop in 1998.

Accomplishments

• Big South Coach of the Year

1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007.

• Regular Season Titles

1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007

• Big South Conference Tournament Champions

1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007

• NIT Appearances

2010 (3) vs. (6) Nevada (Lost 74-70)

2011 (4) vs. (5) Nebraska (Won 76-49)

(4) vs. (1) Virginia Tech (Won 79 - 76)

(4) vs. (6) College of Charleston (Won 82 - 75)

(4) vs. (1) Washington State (Won 75 - 44)

(4) vs. (1) Alabama (Won 66 - 57)

• NCAA Tournament Appearances

2007 (11) vs. (6) Notre Dame (Won 74 - 64)

(11) vs. (3) Washington St. (Lost 75 - 61)

2006 (15) vs. (2) Tennessee (Lost 63 - 61)

2005 (14) vs (3) Gonzaga (Lost 74 - 64)

2002 (16) vs. (1) Duke (Lost 84 - 37)

2001 (16) vs. (16) Northwestern State (Lost 71 - 67)

2000 (14) vs. (3) Oklahoma (Lost 74 - 50)

1999 (16) vs. (1) Auburn (Lost 80 - 41)

The 2006 NCAA Tournament matched up Winthrop against second-seeded Tennessee, the SEC Eastern Division champion. Winthrop led for much of the game, only to lose 63-61 on a long jump shot with 2.9 seconds remaining.

Gregg Marshall's success at the mid-major level created a lot of speculation that he could be a contender for the coaching position at North Carolina State University, which was vacated with the departure of Herb Sendek. Sidney Lowe, a former Wolfpack player and former head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies, was eventually named the head coach of the Wolfpack.

Marshall accepted an offer to coach the College of Charleston in June, 2006 but changed his mind after the press conference introducing him as coach and returned to Winthrop. Many compared this decision to Bobby Cremins' decision to leave Georgia Tech in 1993 for the University of South Carolina, only to change his mind and return to Georgia Tech. In an ironic twist of fate, the College of Charleston eventually hired Bobby Cremins as the new coach.

At Wichita State he broke into the AP Top 25 poll on February 13th, 2012, the first time since December of 2006, under Mark Turgeon

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Winthrop (Big South Conference) (1998–2007)
1998–1999	Winthrop	21-8	9-1	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1999–2000	Winthrop	21-9	11-3	2nd	NCAA 1st Round
2000–2001	Winthrop	18-13	11-3	2nd	NCAA 1st Round
2001–2002	Winthrop	19-12	10-4	T-1st	NCAA 1st Round
2002–2003	Winthrop	20-10	11-3	1st
2003–2004	Winthrop	16-12	10-6	T-3rd
2004–2005	Winthrop	27-6	15-1	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2005–2006	Winthrop	23-8	13-3	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2006–2007	Winthrop	29-5	14-0	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
Winthrop:		194-83	104-24
Wichita State (Missouri Valley Conference) (2007–present)
2007–2008	Wichita State	11-20	4-14	9th
2008–2009	Wichita State	17-17	8-10	T-5th	CBI 2nd Round
2009–2010	Wichita State	25-10	12-6	2nd	NIT 1st Round
2010–2011	Wichita State	29-8	14-4	2nd	NIT Champions
2011–2012	Wichita State	24-4	14-2	1	(TBD)
Wichita State:		106-59	52-36
Total:		300-142
National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion       Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference division champion

External links

• Wichita State University Athletics
• Winthrop Athletics
• Marshall Hoops