Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Fairleigh Dickinson |
Conference | NEC |
Record | 18–24 (.429) |
Biographical details | |
Born | Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. | May 14, 1984
Playing career | |
2003–2007 | VMI |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2007–2008 | UT Martin (assistant) |
2008–2012 | VMI (assistant) |
2012–2014 | Siena (women's assistant) |
2016–2022 | The Citadel (assistant) |
2022–2023 | Fairleigh Dickinson (assistant) |
2023–present | Fairleigh Dickinson |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 18–24 (.429) |
Jack Castleberry (born 1984) is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball team. [1]
Castleberry initially walked on at VMI under coach Duggar Baucom before earning a scholarship and becoming a two-year starter and captain. [2] [3]
After graduation, Castleberry became an assistant coach at UT Martin for a single season before returning to his alma mater to serve as an assistant coach from 2008 to 2012. [4] Castleberry would join the women's basketball coaching staff at Siena for two seasons, where he'd meet Tobin Anderson, then an assistant with the men's program. [2]
After leaving basketball for two seasons to become a financial planner, Castleberry reunited with Baucom at The Citadel in 2016, where he stayed on staff as an assistant until 2022. [5] He'd join up with Anderson on his first coaching staff at Fairleigh Dickinson, and was part of the Knights 16–seed over 1–seed upset of Purdue at the 2023 NCAA Tournament. [6]
After Anderson left to take the head coaching position at Iona, Castleberry was promoted to head coach on March 21, 2023. [7]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Fairleigh Dickinson Knights (NEC)(2023–present) | |||||||||
2023–24 | Fairleigh Dickinson | 15–17 | 9–7 | T–4th | |||||
2024–25 | Fairleigh Dickinson | 3–7 | 0–0 | ||||||
Fairleigh Dickinson: | 18–24 (.429) | 9–7 (.563) | |||||||
Total: | 18–24 (.429) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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