Mark Fox
Mark Fox (born January 13, 1969)
Current position: Associate men’s basketball coach
Current team: Kentucky Wildcats (Head coach: Mark Pope)
Current conference: Southeastern Conference (SEC)
Teams coached: Nevada Wolfpack, Georgia Bulldogs, California Golden Bears
Nevada record: 123-43 (.741)
Georgia record: 163-133 (.551)
California record: 38-87 (.304)
Overall record: 324-263 (.552)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 5 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2015)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 3 (2014, 2016, 2017)
- CBI Appearances: 2 (2008, 2009)
- WAC Regular Season Champion: 4 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
- WAC Tournament Champion: 1 (2006)
Awards:
- WAC Coach of the Year: 3 (2005, 2006, 2007)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2024-present | Kentucky (assoc) |
| 2023-2024 | Georgetown (admin) |
| 2019-2023 | California |
| 2009-2018 | Georgia |
| 2004-2009 | Nevada |
| 2000-2004 | Nevada (asst) |
| 1994-2000 | Kansas State (asst) |
| 1991-1993 | Washington (asst) |
Mark Fox Facts
- Mark Leslie Fox
- Born January 13, 1969
- Hometown: Garden City, Kansas
- Alma Mater: Eastern New Mexico (BS, 1991) / University of Kansas (MS, 1996)
- Spent two seasons as an assistant under Lynn Nance at Washington and six seasons under Tom Asbury at Kansas State
- Was an assistant at Nevada for four seasons under Trent Johnson before taking over as head coach in 2004
- Went to the postseason in each of his five seasons as head coach, including four straight WAC regular season titles and one WAC Tournament title
- Hired in 2009 as the head coach at Georgia, where he has been for the last eight seasons
- Went to two NCAA Tournaments and three NITs; four postseason appearances in his last five seasons at UGA
- Fox was fired in March 2018 after failing to make the NCAA Tournament for the third straight season
- Returned to coaching a year later was named the new head coach of the Cal Golden Bears
- Through four seasons, Fox went 38-87 overall at Cal without any postseason appearances
- Coming off a 3-29 season, the worst in the program’s history, Fox was fired in March 2023
- Spent the 2023-24 season working for Ed Cooley at Georgetown as Director of Student-Athlete Relations and NIL Partnerships
- Returned to the SEC in 2024 to join Mark Pope‘s first staff at Kentucky as an associate coach
Mark Fox Coaching Tree
- David Carter (Nevada)
- Zac Claus (Western Colorado, Idaho)
- Jonas Hayes (Georgia State, Xavier)
- Mark Pope (BYU, Utah Valley)
- Byron Samuels (Florida A&M)
- Dedrique Taylor (Cal State Fullerton)