Cliff Warren

Teams coached: Jacksonville Dolphins
Jacksonville record: 126-150 (.457)
Overall record: 126-150 (.457)

Cliff Warren
Born March 8, 1968
Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland
Alma Mater: Mount St. Mary’s University (BA, 1990)
The Maryland-native played for Hall of Fame coach Jim Phelan at Mount St. Mary’s for four years
- Later started his coaching career at his alma mater, spending three seasons as one of Phelan‘s assistants
- Was on staff when the Mountaineers went to the NCAA Tournament in 1995 and the NIT in 1996
Spent eight seasons – three at Siena and five at Georgia Tech – working as an assistant under Paul Hewitt
- Part of four NCAA Tournament teams, including the GT squad that finished National Runner-up in 2004
Hired in 2005 to be the head coach at Jacksonville, leading the Dolphins for nine seasons
- Won back-to-back A-Sun titles to earn NIT bids in 2009 and 2010, plus a CIT bid in 2011
- Finished below .500 in the next three seasons, however, and was let go in 2014; went 126-150 overall
Worked on Mark Turgeon‘s staff at Maryland for three seasons and was Matt McCall‘s associate head coach at UMass for two years
Became an assistant coach at Georgia State in 2019 under Rob Lanier; part of the 2021-22 Panthers team that reached the NCAA Tournament
- Followed Lanier to SMU in April 2022, spending the next two seasons as an assistant with the Mustangs