Bashir Mason

Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Saint Peter’s Peacocks
Current conference: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC)
Wagner record: 165-130 (.559)
Saint Peter’s record: 33-32 (.508)
Overall record: 198-162 (.550)

Bashir Mason
Born February 11, 1984
Hometown: Jersey City, New Jersey
Alma Mater: Drexel University (BA, 2007) / Wagner College (M.Ed, 2013)
Attended Saint Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, where he played on the basketball team for head coach Dan Hurley
Played at Drexel under head coach Bruiser Flint, leading the team in steals and assists in each of his four seasons there
Returned to his alma mater after graduating from Drexel to be one of Hurley‘s assistants for one season
Spent two seasons coaching under Chuck Martin at Marist before re-joining Hurley at Wagner in 2010
At just 28 years of age, Mason took over as Wagner’s head coach in 2012 when Hurley left for Rhode Island
- Won three NEC regular season titles, earned two NIT berths and won conference COY honors in 2016, 2018 and 2021
Left Wagner in April 2022 to take over as the new head coach at Saint Peter’s in his hometown of Jersey City
- In his second season, Mason and the Peacocks won the MAAC Tournament to get the NCAA Tournament auto bid