Mark Fox (basketball)

For other people named Mark Fox, see Mark Fox (disambiguation).

Mark Leslie Fox (born January 13, 1969) is a men's college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for the University of Kentucky. Fox was previously the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack from 2004–2009, the Georgia Bulldogs from 2009–2018, and the California Golden Bears from 2019–2023. He served the 2023–24 season as the Director of Student-Athlete Relations and NIL Partnerships for the Georgetown Hoyas.

Mark Fox

Current position
Title	Assistant coach
Team	Kentucky
Conference	SEC
Biographical details
Born	(1969-01-13) January 13, 1969 Garden City, Kansas, U.S.
Playing career
1987–1989	Garden City CC
1989–1991	Eastern New Mexico
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991–1993	Washington (assistant)
1994–2000	Kansas State (assistant)
2000–2004	Nevada (assistant)
2004–2009	Nevada
2009–2018	Georgia
2019–2023	California
2024–present	Kentucky (assistant)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2023–2024	Georgetown (Director of Student-Athlete Relations)
Head coaching record
Overall	324–263 (.552)
Tournaments	2–5 (NCAA Division I) 2–3 (NIT) 0–2 (CBI)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
WAC tournament champion (2006) 4× WAC regular season champion (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) As assistant coach WAC tournament champion (2004) WAC regular season champion (2004)
Awards
3× WAC Coach of the Year (2005, 2006, 2007)

Coaching career

Nevada

Fox was the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack basketball team from 2004 to 2009. While with the Wolf Pack, Fox compiled an overall record of 123–43. He also guided the Wolf Pack to five postseason appearances in five years including three NCAA tournaments. The Wolf Pack also won the Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. In 2006, the team won the conference tournament as well.

Fox was named conference coach of the year three times (2005, 2006, 2007) while with Nevada.

Georgia

On April 3, 2009, it was announced that Fox would leave Nevada for the same position at the University of Georgia. In his first year as head coach, Fox and the Bulldogs went 14–17 and finished sixth in the Southeastern Conference East. The highlights of the season included victories over the Tennessee Volunteers and three top 25 teams.

In 2011, Fox's second season, the Bulldogs made improvements. The 2010–11 team won 21 games, finished 3rd in the SEC East and made it to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2008. In 2011–12, the Bulldogs posted another sub-.500 record and finished near the bottom of the SEC with a 5–11 record.

After making the NIT in 2013–14, Fox got his team back to the NCAA tournament in 2014–15, narrowly falling to Michigan State in the first round. That Spartans team would eventually make it to the Final Four.

While at Georgia, Fox compiled an overall record of 163–133. He has placed three players in the NBA, Travis Leslie, Trey Thompkins and the 8th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. On March 10, 2018, Georgia announced Fox would not return for a 10th season.

California

On March 29, 2019, it was announced that Fox would be hired as the new head coach at the University of California, Berkeley, for the Golden Bears. He was the school's 18th head coach all time. After four years and a record of 38–87, Cal fired Fox on March 9, 2023. Fox set a record for most losses (29) in a single season by a major conference coach in 2022–23. Fox's winning percentage at Cal (.304) is the second-worst winning percentage of any head men's basketball coach in school history.

Georgetown

Fox was the Director of Student-Athlete Relations and NIL Partnerships at Georgetown for the 2023–24 season.

Kentucky

On April 24, 2024 Fox was hired as an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky under Mark Pope.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Nevada Wolf Pack (Western Athletic Conference) (2004–2009)
2004–05	Nevada	25–7	16–2	1st	NCAA Division I Round of 32
2005–06	Nevada	27–6	13–3	1st	NCAA Division I Round of 64
2006–07	Nevada	29–5	14–2	1st	NCAA Division I Round of 32
2007–08	Nevada	21–12	12–4	T–1st	CBI first round
2008–09	Nevada	21–13	11–5	2nd	CBI first round
Nevada:		123–43 (.741)	66–16 (.805)
Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) (2009–2018)
2009–10	Georgia	14–17	5–11	6th (East)
2010–11	Georgia	21–12	9–7	T–3rd (East)	NCAA Division I Round of 64
2011–12	Georgia	15–17	5–11	T–10th
2012–13	Georgia	15–17	9–9	T–8th
2013–14	Georgia	20–14	12–6	T–2nd	NIT second round
2014–15	Georgia	21–12	11–7	T–3rd	NCAA Division I Round of 64
2015–16	Georgia	20–14	10–8	T–6th	NIT second round
2016–17	Georgia	19–15	9–9	8th	NIT first round
2017–18	Georgia	18–15	7–11	T–11th
Georgia:		163–133 (.551)	77–79 (.494)
California Golden Bears (Pac-12 Conference) (2019–2023)
2019–20	California	14–18	7–11	T–8th
2020–21	California	9–20	3–17	12th
2021–22	California	12–20	5–15	10th
2022–23	California	3–29	2–18	12th
California:		38–87 (.304)	17–61 (.218)
Total:		324–263 (.552)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

External links

• Biography at calbears.com