Frank Martin
Frank Martin (born March 23, 1966)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: UMass Minutemen
Current conference: Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10)
Kansas State record: 117-54 (.684)
South Carolina record: 171-147 (.538)
UMass record: 35-27 (.565)
Overall record: 323-228 (.586)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 5 (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 2 (2010, 2017)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 1 (2017)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2009, 2016)
- Atlantic 10 Regular Season Champion: 0
- Atlantic 10 Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- Jim Phelan Award: 1 (2017)
- Big 12 Coach of the Year: 1 (2010)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | UMass |
| 2012-2022 | South Carolina |
| 2007-2012 | Kansas State |
| 2006-2007 | Kansas State (asst) |
| 2004-2006 | Cincinnati (asst) |
| 2000-2004 | Northeastern (asst) |
Frank Martin Facts
- Francisco Jose Martin
- Born March 23, 1966
- Hometown: Miami, Florida
- Alma Mater: Florida International University (BA, 1993)
- Martin is a first-generation American and the son of Cuban political exiles
- Began as a high school coach, first as an assistant at Miami HS, then as the head coach of North Miami HS, Miami HS and Booker T. Washington HS
- Won three-straight state championships as Miami HS head coach, coaching future NBA players Udonis Haslem and Steve Blake
- Started his collegiate coaching career at Northeastern as an assistant, first to Rudy Keeling and then to Ron Everhart
- Spent three seasons – two at Cincinnati and one at Kansas State – as an assistant to Bob Huggins
- In five seasons as head coach at Kansas State, won 117 games and led the Wildcats to four NCAA Tournaments and a trip to the 2010 Elite Eight
- Took over as head coach at South Carolina in March 2012, inheriting a team that had won just 10 games the year before
- By year four, Martin’s team won 25 games and made a trip to the 2016 NIT
- The 2017 Gamecocks made the NCAA Tournament as an at-large 7-seed, upset three higher seeded teams en route to the first Final Four appearance in program history
- Martin was fired in March 2022 following ten seasons at the helm; he was 171-147 overall
- Hired later in March 2022 to be the new head coach at UMass, his wife’s alma mater
Frank Martin Coaching Tree
- Mike Boynton, Jr. (Oklahoma State)
- Matt Figger (Austin Peay)
- David Kiefer (Southeastern Louisiana)
- Brad Underwood (Illinois, Oklahoma State, Stephen F. Austin)