Dennis Felton (born June 21, 1963)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: Providence Friars (Head coach: Kim English)
Current conference: Big East Conference
Teams coached: Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, Georgia Bulldogs, Cleveland State Vikings
Western Kentucky record: 100-54 (.649)
Georgia record: 84-91 (.480)
Cleveland State record: 22-44 (.333)
Overall record: 206-189 (.522)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2008)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2004, 2007)
- Sun Belt Regular Season Champion: 3 (2001, 2002, 2003)
- SEC Tournament Champion: 1 (2008)
- Sun Belt Tournament Champion: 3 (2001, 2002, 2003)
Awards:
- Sun Belt Coach of the Year: 1 (2002)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Providence (asst) |
| 2021-2023 | George Mason (assoc. HC) |
| 2019-2021 | Fordham (asst) |
| 2017-2019 | Cleveland State |
| 2014-2017 | Tulsa (asst) |
| 2010-2013 | San Antonio Spurs (DPP) |
| 2003-2009 | Georgia |
| 1998-2003 | Western Kentucky |
| 1994-1998 | Clemson (asst) |
| 1992-1994 | Providence (asst) |
| 1991-1992 | Saint Joseph’s (asst) |
| 1990-1991 | Tulane (asst) |
| 1986-1990 | Delaware (asst) |
| 1985-1986 | Charles County CC (asst) |
Dennis Felton Facts
- Dennis Alan Felton
- Born June 21, 1963
- Hometown: Clinton, Maryland
- Alma Mater: Howard University (BA, 1985)
- Born in Tokyo and moved around as a young child doing to his father being in the US Air Force
- Raised in Clinton, MD, a suburb of Washington DC, where he attended Surrattsville HS
- Started at Prince George’s CC and then played two years at Howard under head coach A. B. Williamson
- Started his coaching career as an assistant at Oxon Hill HS (MD), then spent a season at Charles County CC (MD)
- Moved up to the Division I ranks in 1986, spending four seasons on Steve Steinwedel‘s staff at Delaware
- Worked for one year each under Perry Clark at Tulane and John Griffin at Saint Joseph’s before joining Rick Barnes‘ Providence staff in 1992; followed Barnes to Clemson in 1994, working with the Tigers for four seasons
- Became a head coach in 1998, leading the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers for the next five seasons
- Won three Sun Belt titles and three Sun Belt Tournaments, leading to three NCAA Tournament appearances
- His success at WKU landed him the head coaching job at Georgia in 2003
- Was 84-91 in six seasons at UGA, going to two NITs and one NCAA Tournament
- Won the 2008 SEC Tournament despite being the 11-seed (4-12 conference record) to earn that NCAA berth
- Fired from Georgia in Jan 2009 and spend the next several years working for various NBA franchises
- Was a scout for the Phoenix Suns during the 2009-10 season (under head coach Alvin Gentry) and assisted the front office during the 2010 NBA Draft
- Spent three years as Director of Player Personnel for the San Antonio Spurs and head coach Gregg Popovich
- Returned to college coaching in 2014 when he joined Frank Haith‘s staff at Tulsa
- Hired in March 2017 to become the new head coach at Cleveland State
- Fired in July 2019 after going 22-44 (11-25 Horizon) in two seasons
- Joined Jeff Neubauer‘s staff as an assistant at Fordham in September 2019, working with the Rams for two seasons
- Became associate head coach at George Mason in 2021 under head coach Kim English; followed English to Providence in 2023
- Along with his wife, Melanie, has two sons
Dennis Felton Coaching Tree
- Kevin Baggett (Rider)
- Sam Ferry (Rhode Island College)
- Jonas Hayes (Georgia State, Xavier)
- Pete Herrmann (Young Harris, Georgia)
- Mike Jones (UNC Greensboro, Radford)
- Jay McAuley (Wofford)
- Ken McDonald (Austin Toros/Spurs, Western Kentucky)
- Desmond Oliver (East Tennessee State)
