Mark Leslie Fox (born January 13, 1969) is a men's
college basketball
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coach who is the head coach of the
California Golden Bears
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of the
Pac-12 Conference
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. He spent nine seasons (2009 to 2018) as the head coach of the
Georgia Bulldogs
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.
He was previously the head coach for the
Nevada Wolf Pack
The Nevada Wolf Pack are the athletic teams that represent the University of Nevada, Reno. They are part of NCAA's Division I's Mountain West Conference. It was founded on October 24, 1896 with football as the Sagebrushers in Reno, Nevada.
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named to that position on June 1, 2004, just days after former Nevada coach
Trent Johnson
Trent Aubrey Johnson (born September 12, 1956) is an American college basketball coach who is currently head coach at Cal State Northridge. Johnson had previously been the head coach at Texas Christian University, Louisiana State University, Stanf ...
had resigned.
Coaching career
Nevada
Fox was the head coach for the
Nevada Wolf Pack
The Nevada Wolf Pack are the athletic teams that represent the University of Nevada, Reno. They are part of NCAA's Division I's Mountain West Conference. It was founded on October 24, 1896 with football as the Sagebrushers in Reno, Nevada.
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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
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tournaments. The Wolf Pack also won the
Western Athletic Conference
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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 twice (2005 & 2006) 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
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East. The highlights of the season included victories over the
Tennessee Volunteers
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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 has placed three players in the NBA,
Travis Leslie
Travis Demetrius Leslie (born March 29, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for Legia Warszawa of the Polish Basketball League. He is a 6'4", 205 lb shooting guard out of the University of Georgia.
High school
Leslie attend ...
,
Trey Thompkins
Howard Samuel "Trey" Thompkins III (born May 29, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League. Standing at , he plays at the power forward position.
High school career
Thompkins attended ...
and the 8th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft,
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Kentavious Tannell Caldwell-Pope (; born February 18, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named a McDonald's All-American as one of the top high school b ...
. 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
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, for the
Golden Bears.
He is the school's 18th head coach all time.
Head coaching record
References
External links
Biography at calbears.com
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1969 births
Living people
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