Gerald Gillion

Current position: Associate head men’s basketball coach
Current team: LIU Sharks (Head coach: Rod Strickland)
Current conference: Northeast Conference (NEC)
Teams coached: Chicago State Cougars
Chicago State record: 31-64 (.326)
Overall record: 31-64 (.326)

2024-present	LIU (assoc. HC)
2021-2024	Chicago State
2020-2021	Samford (asst)
2017-2019	Tennessee Tech (asst)
2014-2017	South Florida (special asst. to the HC)
2013-2014	FIU (DBO)

Gerald Gillion
Born October 10, 1985
Hometown: Miami, Florida
Alma Mater: Florida State University (BS, 2008)
Became head coach of the Breakdown Inc. AAU squad – based in Tallahassee, Florida – in 2005 and held that role through 2012
- After graduating from FSU, Gillion spent four years (2008-12) as chief operating officer of Shooting4Success.Inc, a non-profit helping troubled youth through basketball
Was the head boys’ basketball coach at Northeast HS in Oakland Park, FL from 2008-13, completely turning around the program
Joined the college ranks in 2013, spending one season as Anthony Evans‘ director of basketball operations at FIU
Next spent three seasons on Orlando Antigua‘s staff at South Florida, working as special assistant to the head coach
Served as an assistant coach for two seasons at Tennessee Tech (under Steve Payne) and Samford (under Bucky McMillan)
In July 2021, Gillion was hired as the next head coach of the Chicago State Cougars
- After going 7-25 in his first year, Gillion’s squad won 11 games in year two playing an independent schedule
- His 2023-24 team went 13-19 overall and appeared in the CBI, earning the first D-I postseason victory in program history
  - The Cougars upset #25 Northwestern on the road in December 2023, a monumental win for the program
Gillion resigned from CSU in April 2024 to become the associate head coach under Rod Strickland at LIU