Sport(s) | Basketball |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Plainview, New York |
April 18, 1956
Playing career | |
1974–1978 | Fairleigh Dickinson |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1978–1980 | Columbia (assistant) |
1980–1983 | Pittsburgh (assistant) |
1983–1984 | Virginia (assistant) |
1985–1987 | Miami (Florida) (assistant) |
1987–1990 | Long Beach State (assistant) |
1990–1996 | Long Beach State |
1996–2003 | South Florida |
2003–2012 | Virginia Tech |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 383–293 (.567) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
2× Big West Tournament championship (1993, 1995) Big West regular season championship (1996) Conference USA regular season championship (2000) |
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Awards | |
2× ACC Coach of the Year (2005, 2008) |
Seth Vincent Greenberg (born April 18, 1956) is an American college basketball broadcaster who works as an analyst for ESPN. Prior to taking the position at ESPN he was a coach for thirty-four years, the last twenty two as a head coach. Greenberg has been the head coach at Long Beach State University, The University of South Florida, and Virginia Tech.
Seth Greenberg is one of the three sons of Marilyn and Ralph Greenberg of Plainview, New York. Older brother Brad would also become a college basketball coach. After graduating from John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview in 1974, Greenberg attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Lettering for four years in basketball under coach Al Lobalbo, Greenberg graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in broadcast journalism.
From 1978 to 1980, Greenberg was an assistant coach at Columbia University under Buddy Mahar. Greenberg later joined Roy Chipman as an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980 to 1983. In that era, Pittsburgh appeared in the NCAA Tournaments of 1981 and 1982. For the 1983–84 season, Greenberg was an assistant on Terry Holland's Virginia team that made the Final Four of the 1984 NCAA Tournament. Greenberg later worked as an assistant under Bill Foster at the University of Miami from 1985 to 1987.