Seth Greenberg
Seth Greenberg (born April 18, 1956)
Teams coached: Long Beach State 49ers, South Florida Bulls, Virginia Tech Hokies
Long Beach State record: 105-70 (.600)
South Florida record: 108-100 (.519)
Virginia Tech record: 170-123 (.580)
Overall record: 383-293 (.567)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 3 (1993, 1995, 2007)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 8 (1992, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
- Conference USA Regular Season Champion: 1 (2000)
- Big West Regular Season Champion: 1 (1996)
- Big West Tournament Champion: 2 (1993, 1995)
Awards:
- ACC Coach of the Year: 2 (2005, 2008)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2003-2012 | Virginia Tech |
| 1996-2003 | South Florida |
| 1990-1996 | Long Beach State |
| 1987-1990 | Long Beach State (asst) |
| 1985-1987 | Miami (FL) (asst) |
| 1983-1984 | Virginia (asst) |
| 1980-1983 | Pittsburgh (asst) |
| 1978-1980 | Columbia (asst) |
Seth Greenberg Facts
- Seth Vincent Greenberg
- Born April 18, 1956
- Hometown: Plainview, New York
- Alma Mater: Fairleigh Dickinson University (BA, 1978)
- After graduating from John F. Kennedy HS in Plainview, Greenberg played four years at FDU under head coach Al Lobalbo
- Started coaching right after college as an assistant to Buddy Mahar at Columbia for two seasons
- Spent the next ten years as a Division I assistant, working under Roy Chipman (Pittsburgh), Terry Holland (Virginia), Bill C. Foster (Miami) and Joe Harrington (Long Beach State)
- Took over the 49ers program in 1990, leading them to two Big West Tournament titles and NCAA trips during his six-year tenure
- Left in 1996 to take the head coaching job at South Florida, then in Conference USA
- After winning 108 games in seven years at USF, Greenberg was hired to take over the Virginia Tech program
- The Hokies moved from the Big East to the ACC in 2004 after Greenberg’s first year on the job
- Greenberg was twice named ACC Coach of the Year and led the Hokies to one NCAA Tournament and five NITs
- Despite winning 21+ games four times in his last six years, Greenberg was surprisingly fired in April 2012 by AD Jim Weaver
- Greenberg has worked as a college basketball analyst at ESPN since 2012, working game broadcasts and eventually joining the crew of ESPN’s College GameDay before the 2014-15 seasons
- Inducted into The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 2012 and the Long Beach State Hall of Fame in 2013
- Older brother Brad Greenberg is also a basketball coach, spending four years as the head coach at Radford after working with Seth at Virginia Tech from 2003-2007
- Brad Greenberg has been a head coach overseas since 2012, most recently with the Kosovo senior national team and Maccabi Ashdod in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Along with his wife, Karen, has three daughters
Seth Greenberg Coaching Tree
- Adrian Autry (Syracuse)
- Bobby Braswell (Cal State Northridge)
- Bill Courtney (Cornell)
- Robert Ehsan (UAB)
- Brad Greenberg (Radford)
- James Johnson (Virginia Tech)
- Ryan Odom (Utah State, UMBC, Lenoir-Rhyne, Charlotte)
- Eric Skeeters (Delaware State)
- Jeff Wulbrun (Denver)
