Cliff Warren
Cliff Warren (born March 8, 1968)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: SMU Mustangs (Head coach: Rob Lanier)
Current conference: American Athletic Conference (AAC, The American)
Teams coached: Jacksonville Dolphins
Jacksonville record: 126-150 (.457)
Overall record: 126-150 (.457)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2009, 2010)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2011)
- Atlantic Sun Regular Season Champion: 2 (2009, 2010)
Awards:
- Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year: 1 (2009)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | SMU (asst) |
| 2019-2022 | Georgia State (asst) |
| 2017-2019 | UMass (assoc. HC) |
| 2014-2017 | Maryland (asst) |
| 2005-2014 | Jacksonville |
| 2000-2005 | Georgia Tech (asst) |
| 1997-2000 | Siena (asst) |
| 1994-1997 | Mount St. Mary’s (asst) |
Cliff Warren Facts
- 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, becoming an assistant with the Mustangs
Cliff Warren Coaching Tree
- Will Jones (North Carolina A&T)
