Dereck Whittenburg Joins NC STATE Men's Basketball Staff - ALL-MET ELITE

Dereck Whittenburg

 Joins

NC STATE

Men's Basketball Staff 

 ALL-MET ELITE

 

DEMATHA HS.

HYATTSVILLE MD.

 

A Washington, D.C., native and graduate of basketball powerhouse DeMatha Catholic High School where he played for the legendary Morgan Wooten and was inducted into the DeMatha Catholic Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a member of DeMatha's first national championship basketball team in 1978.

Whittenburg began his coaching career as a graduate assistant under the late Jim Valvano (1985-86).
He went on to continue his coaching career at George Mason University (1986-87) and Long Beach State University (1987-88) as a full time assistant before returning to Raleigh for a three-year stint (1988-91) as an assistant coach under the late, Jim Valvano.

He was also an assistant coach at the University of Colorado, Boulder (1991-93), West Virginia University (1993-94) and Georgia Tech (1993-99) before beginning his career as a head coach at Wagner College and Fordham University.

As head coach at Fordham, Whittenburg inherited a program with no previous success since joining the Atlantic 10 conference in 1995. He managed to lead his team to a fourth place finish in 2005 and two winning seasons in a six-year period.

Most recently, he has served as a college basketball analyst for ESPN where he was the executive producer of the network's 30-for-30 film, "Survive and Advance". Whittenburg has also served as a regional NBA scout for the Utah Jazz.