Derek Kellogg
Derek Kellogg (born June 20, 1973)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: Creighton Bluejays (Head coach: Greg McDermott)
Current conference: Big East Conference
UMass record: 155-137 (.531)
LIU Brooklyn/LIU record: 74-74 (.500)
Overall record: 229-211 (.520)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (2014, 2018)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2012, 2013)
- NEC Tournament Champion: 1 (2018)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Creighton (asst) |
| 2022-2023 | UMass (asst) |
| 2017-2022 | LIU Brooklyn/LIU |
| 2008-2017 | UMass |
| 2000-2008 | Memphis (asst) |
| 1999-2000 | Youngstown State (asst) |
| 1997-1999 | George Mason (asst) |
| 1996-1997 | UMass (grad. asst) |
Derek Kellogg Facts
- Derek W. Kellogg
- Born June 20, 1973
- Hometown: Springfield, Massachusetts
- Alma Mater: University of Massachusetts (BA, 1995)
- Named captain of his UMass Minutemen teams as both a junior and senior, where he played for head coach John Calipari
- After one year as a graduate assistant at UMass, Kellogg spent two seasons as an assistant under Jim Larrañaga at George Mason and then one at Youngstown State under John Robic
- Spent eight seasons as an assistant at Memphis working again under Calipari
- Left Memphis in 2008 to become the head coach at his alma mater, UMass
- Went 155-137 in nine seasons, leading the Minutemen to two NITs and one NCAA Tournament (2014)
- Fired in March 2017 after two straight seasons finishing with a losing record
- Hired in April 2017 as the new head coach at LIU (then LIU Brooklyn) out of the NEC
- Led the (then) Blackbirds to the 2018 NCAA Tournament by way of a NEC Tournament title in year one
- Fired in May 2022 after five seasons at the helm, finishing with a 74-74 record overall
- Returned to UMass in August 2022, this time as an assistant under new head coach Frank Martin
- Joined Greg McDermott‘s staff at Creighton in April 2023 as an assistant coach
Derek Kellogg Coaching Tree
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