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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.




Coaching career






= Nevada

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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

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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

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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

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




= Kentucky

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




Head coaching record






References






External links


Biography at calbears.com

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