A veteran of 29 years as a coach on the Division I level, including seven years as a head coach, Greg Gary joined the Georgia Tech men’s basketball staff in June of 2024 as a quality control analyst.
Gary, 54, comes to The Flats after five seasons as the head coach at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., where the Bears won 81 games, and nine players earned all-Southern Conference honors during his tenure. He has made 16 postseason appearances as a college assistant and player, reaching the NCAA Tournament nine times.
“I am very grateful for the opportunity to join Coach Stoudamire and his staff here at Georgia Tech,” said Gary. “Coach Stoudamire’s vision for this program is so clear, and his commitment to excellence is so strong. I’m just thankful and blessed to be able to be a part of the program and I look forward to working every day to make our staff’s shared vision a reality.”
Prior to his arrival in Macon, Gary spent eight seasons working under Matt Painter at Purdue University. He helped the Boilermakers reach the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight in 2019 and make back-to-back Sweet 16 appearances in 2017 and 2018. Calling Purdue’s offensive sets, Gary helped Purdue lead the Big Ten Conference in scoring in two of his last three seasons with the nation’s second-most efficient offense. The Boilermakers led the Big Ten in three-point percentage and free throw percentage while ranking second nationally in assists per game during the 2016-17 season.
Gary helped Boilermaker legend Robbie Hummel earn honorable mention All-America recognition and first-team All-Big Ten recognition after leading Purdue in scoring, rebounds and blocked shots. Hummel was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round of the 2012 NBA Draft, becoming one of 12 players that Gary coached to be drafted by an NBA franchise or spend time on an NBA roster after receiving Gary’s guidance.
The Anderson, Ind., native came to Purdue from two stints at Duquesne, where he spent the 2007-08 and 2010-11 seasons as an assistant coach, sandwiched around two seasons as the head coach at Centenary. Gary resigned from his post at Centenary after the school announced in July 2009 that it would seek reclassification as an NCAA Division III member.
Prior to arriving at Duquesne, Gary spent three seasons (2004-07) as an assistant coach at South Florida, helping the Bulls transition from Conference USA to the Big East. Gary served as an assistant coach under Perry Clark at Miami from 2000-04, helping lead the Hurricanes to the NIT in 2001 and the NCAA Tournament in 2002.
Gary spent six of his first seven years (1993-97, 1998-00) in the coaching industry as an assistant to Perry Clark at Tulane, helping guide his alma mater to the NCAA Tournament in 1995 and the NIT on four occasions. Clark was an assistant coach on the Georgia Tech staff of Bobby Cremins from 1982-88 before taking over the Tulane program in 1989 and coaching the Green Wave for 12 seasons.
Gary served as an assistant coach at McNeese State for the 1997-98 campaign.
After graduating from Anderson Highland High School in 1988 and spending a year at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tenn., Gary transferred to Tulane. He was a vital component in the revitalization of a program that was dropped in 1985 and reinstated in 1988, leading the Green Wave to the 1992 NCAA Tournament as a senior. Despite playing only three seasons in New Orleans, Gary finished his career as Tulane’s all-time leader in assists (370) and now ranks fifth. He is second in career assist-to-turnover ratio (1.97).
Gary and his teammates, including assistant coach Kim Lewis from the 1991-92 Green Wave team, the first in program history to make the NCAA Tournament, were inducted into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame in April of 2020.
Gary earned a bachelor’s degree in sport management from Tulane in 1992. He and his wife, Claudia, have four daughters, Gabrielle, Logan, Alexandra and Brooklyn, and one son, Nash.
