Dereck Whittenburg
Dereck Whittenburg (born October 2, 1960)
Teams coached: Wagner Seahawks, Fordham Rams
Wagner record: 67-50 (.573)
Fordham record: 69-112 (.381)
Overall record: 136-162 (.456)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2003)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2002)
- NEC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2003)
- NEC Tournament Champion: 1 (2003)
Awards:
- NEC Coach of the Year: 1 (2003)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2013-2015 | NC State (asst) |
| 2003-2009 | Fordham |
| 1999-2003 | Wagner |
| 1994-1999 | Georgia Tech (asst) |
| 1993-1994 | West Virginia (asst) |
| 1991-1993 | Colorado (asst) |
| 1988-1991 | NC State (asst) |
| 1987-1988 | Long Beach State (asst) |
| 1986-1987 | George Mason (asst) |
| 1985-1986 | NC State (asst) |
Dereck Whittenburg Facts
- Dereck Whittenburg
- Born October 2, 1960
- Hometown: Washington, D.C.
- Alma Mater: North Carolina State University (BS, 1984)
- Played at DeMatha HS (MD) under legendary head coach Morgan Wootten; was a high-school All-American and as a junior helped the team win a national championship, playing alongside his future NC State teammate Sidney Lowe
- Went to NC State and spent four seasons playing for the Wolfpack, first for head coach Norm Sloan then for Jim Valvano
- His cousin, David Thompson, won a national title at NC State in 1974 and Whittenburg went there to do the same
- Whittenburg and Lowe were seniors in 1983 when NC State won their second NCAA National Championship
- Started his coaching career in 1985, spending one season on Valvano‘s staff at his alma mater
- Spent the next two seasons working as an assistant under Joe Harrington, one each at George Mason and Long Beach State
- Returned to Raleigh in 1988 and spent two more seasons with Valvano and then one under his successor, Les Robinson
- Reunited with Harrington in 1991, working as one of his assistants at Colorado for two years
- After one year on Gale Catlett‘s staff at West Virginia, Whittenburg was hired by Hall of Famer Bobby Cremins at Georgia Tech
- Was part of the 1996 Yellow Jackets team that won the ACC and reached the NCAA Sweet Sixteen
- Hired to be the head coach at Wagner in 1999, going 67-50 in four seasons at the helm
- Reached the NIT in 2002 then won the NEC title andT ournament in 2003 to get the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament bid
- Inducted into the Wagner Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019
- Left to be the head coach at Fordham in 2003, but was unable to replicate the success he had previously with the Seahawks
- Was just 69-112 in six full seasons with the Rams and was fired five games into the 2009-10 season with a 1-4 record
- Worked for ESPN as a college basketball analyst from 2011-13 and was a regional scout for the Utah Jazz in 2013
- Returned to NC State in 2013 to be an assistant under Mark Gottfried for two seasons
- Since 2015, Whittenburg has served as the Associate AD/Community Relations and Student Support at his alma mater
Dereck Whittenburg Coaching Tree
- Jared Grasso (Bryant, Fordham)
- Martin Ingelsby (Delaware)