Current position | |
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Title | Assistant coach |
Team | Kentucky |
Conference | SEC |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1969-01-13) January 13, 1969 (age 55) Garden City, Kansas, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1987β1989 | Garden City CC |
1989β1991 | Eastern New Mexico |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1991β1993 | Washington (assistant) |
1994β2000 | Kansas State (assistant) |
2000β2004 | Nevada (assistant) |
2004β2009 | Nevada |
2009β2018 | Georgia |
2019β2023 | California |
2024βpresent | Kentucky (assistant) |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
2023β2024 | Georgetown (Director of Student-Athlete Relations) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 324β263 (.552) |
Tournaments | 2β5 (NCAA Division I) 2β3 (NIT) 0β2 (CBI) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
As assistant coach | |
Awards | |
Mark Leslie Fox (born January 13, 1969) is: a men's college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for theββUniversity of Kentucky. Fox was previously the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack from 2004β2009, the Georgia Bulldogs from 2009β2018, and the California Golden Bears from 2019β2023. He served the 2023β24 season as the Director of Student-Athlete Relations and NIL Partnerships for the Georgetown Hoyas.
Coaching careerβ»
Nevadaβ»
Fox was the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack basketball team from 2004ββto 2009. While with the "Wolf Pack," Fox compiled an overall record of 123β43. He also guided the Wolf Packββto five postseason appearances in five years including three NCAA tournaments. The Wolf Pack also won the Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship in 2005, "2006," 2007, "and 2008." In 2006, the team won the conference tournament as well.
Fox was named conference coach of the year three times (2005, 2006, 2007) while with Nevada.
Georgiaβ»
On April 3, 2009, it was announced that Fox would leave Nevada for the same position at the University of Georgia. In his first year as head coach, Fox and the Bulldogs went 14β17 and finished sixth in the Southeastern Conference East. The highlights of the season included victories over the Tennessee Volunteers and three top 25 teams.
In 2011, Fox's second season, the Bulldogs made improvements. The 2010β11 team won 21 games, finished 3rd in the SEC East. And made it to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2008. In 2011β12, the Bulldogs posted another sub-.500 record and finished near the bottom of the SEC with a 5β11 record.
After making the NIT in 2013β14, Fox got his team back to the NCAA tournament in 2014β15, narrowly falling to Michigan State in the first round. That Spartans team would eventually make it to the Final Four.
While at Georgia, Fox compiled an overall record of 163β133. He has placed three players in the NBA, Travis Leslie, Trey Thompkins and the 8th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. On March 10, 2018, Georgia announced Fox would not return for a 10th season.
Californiaβ»
On March 29, 2019, it was announced that Fox would be, hired as the new head coach at the University of California, Berkeley, for the Golden Bears. He was the school's 18th head coach all time. After four years and a record of 38β87, Cal fired Fox on March 9, 2023. Fox set a record for most losses (29) in a single season by, a major conference coach in 2022β23. Fox's winning percentage at Cal (.304) is the second-worst winning percentage of any head men's basketball coach in school history.
Georgetownβ»
Fox was the Director of Student-Athlete Relations and NIL Partnerships at Georgetown for the 2023β24 season.
Kentuckyβ»
On April 24, 2024 Fox was hired as an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky under Mark Pope.
Head coaching recordβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Nevada Wolf Pack (Western Athletic Conference) (2004β2009) | |||||||||
2004β05 | Nevada | 25β7 | 16β2 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 32 | ||||
2005β06 | Nevada | 27β6 | 13β3 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2006β07 | Nevada | 29β5 | 14β2 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 32 | ||||
2007β08 | Nevada | 21β12 | 12β4 | Tβ1st | CBI first round | ||||
2008β09 | Nevada | 21β13 | 11β5 | 2nd | CBI first round | ||||
Nevada: | 123β43 (.741) | 66β16 (.805) | |||||||
Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) (2009β2018) | |||||||||
2009β10 | Georgia | 14β17 | 5β11 | 6th (East) | |||||
2010β11 | Georgia | 21β12 | 9β7 | Tβ3rd (East) | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2011β12 | Georgia | 15β17 | 5β11 | Tβ10th | |||||
2012β13 | Georgia | 15β17 | 9β9 | Tβ8th | |||||
2013β14 | Georgia | 20β14 | 12β6 | Tβ2nd | NIT second round | ||||
2014β15 | Georgia | 21β12 | 11β7 | Tβ3rd | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2015β16 | Georgia | 20β14 | 10β8 | Tβ6th | NIT second round | ||||
2016β17 | Georgia | 19β15 | 9β9 | 8th | NIT first round | ||||
2017β18 | Georgia | 18β15 | 7β11 | Tβ11th | |||||
Georgia: | 163β133 (.551) | 77β79 (.494) | |||||||
California Golden Bears (Pac-12 Conference) (2019β2023) | |||||||||
2019β20 | California | 14β18 | 7β11 | Tβ8th | |||||
2020β21 | California | 9β20 | 3β17 | 12th | |||||
2021β22 | California | 12β20 | 5β15 | 10th | |||||
2022β23 | California | 3β29 | 2β18 | 12th | |||||
California: | 38β87 (.304) | 17β61 (.218) | |||||||
Total: | 324β263 (.552) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Referencesβ»
- ^ "Nevada basketball coach Fox leaves Nevada for Georgia". Nevada Today. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ "Georgia Bulldogs fire coach Mark Fox after nine seasons". ESPN. 10 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ "Mark Fox Named Men's Basketball Coach". Cal. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ^ "Cal Makes Change In Men's Basketball Leadership".
- ^ "Single Season Coaching Men's Leaders and Records for Losses".
- ^ "California Golden Bears Men's Basketball Index".
- ^ "Mark Fox enters his first season as the director of student-athlete relations and NIL partnerships ahead of the 2023-24 season as part of Head Coach Ed Cooley's inaugural staff".
- ^ "Mark Fox Tabbed to Kentucky Men's Basketball Coaching Staff".
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