Greg Gary
Greg Gary (born February 14, 1970)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Mercer Bears
Current conference: Southern Conference (SoCon)
Centenary record: 16-44 (.267)
Mercer record: 65-62 (.512)
Overall record: 81-106 (.433)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- SoCon Regular Season Champion: 0
- SoCon Tournament Champion: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2019-present | Mercer |
2011-2019 | Purdue (asst) |
2010-2011 | Duquesne (asst) |
2008-2010 | Centenary |
2007-2008 | Duquesne (asst) |
2004-2007 | South Florida (asst) |
2000-2004 | Miami (FL) (asst) |
1998-2000 | Tulane (asst) |
1997-1998 | McNeese State (asst) |
1993-1997 | Tulane (asst) |
Greg Gary Facts
- Greg Gary
- Born February 14, 1970
- Hometown: Anderson, Indiana
- Alma Mater: Tulane University (BS, 1992)
- After graduating from Anderson Highland HS (IN), spent one year at Aquinas College (TN) before transferring to Tulane
- Played three seasons at Tulane under head coach Perry Clark, graduating in 1992 as the school’s all-time steals leader
- Joined Clark‘s coaching staff in 1993, working as one of his assistants for six of the next seven years at Tulane
- In between stints at his alma mater, spent one season as an assistant under Ron Everhart at McNeese State
- Spent the next seven seasons in Florida, working with Clark again at Miami (FL) and then under Robert McCullum at USF
- After a season on Everhart‘s staff at Duquesne, Gary was hired in 2008 to be the head coach at then-Division I Centenary (LA)
- Went 16-44 in his two seasons at the helm and resigned in 2010 – the program dropped to Division III a year later
- Returned to Duquesne for one more season before joining Matt Painter‘s staff at Purdue in 2011
- Worked at Purdue for eight seasons, where he was a part of six NCAA Tournament teams (with three Sweet Sixteens)
- Hired in March 2019 to be the head coach at Mercer in the SoCon
- Is 65-62 through his first foir seasons with the Bears; reached the SoCon Tournament title game in 2021
- Along with his wife, Claudia, has four daughters and one son
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