Derek Kellogg

[4] After his firing from LIU, Kellogg returned to his alma mater UMass as an assistant coach for one season before leaving for Creighton in 2023.

[1] He played point guard for the UMass Minutemen from 1991 to 1995 with Marcus Camby, Mike Williams and Lou Roe.

During that span, the Minutemen were just the second team in NCAA history to win four straight outright season and tournament championships.

Though disappointing, the season featured wins over three teams that would reach the NCAA tournament: Kansas, Dayton and Temple.

Kellogg's squad, with many first-year players for UMass, had notable wins against Memphis and Rhode Island in the regular season's finale, which arguably knocked the Rams off the NCAA tournament bubble.

With victories at Mississippi State, Seton Hall and Drexel, Kellogg's squad became only the fourth team in NIT history to reach the semifinals by winning three straight road games.

[6] By defeating Drexel he notched a win against head coach Bruiser Flint, who as a UMass assistant recruited Kellogg to play for the Minutemen.

The team rushed out to a 16–1 start and a national ranking as high as #12 before fading in the second half of the season and splitting its final 16 games to finish 24–9.

The 2014–20 squad dropped 6 of their final seven games and missed out on any post-season and The 2015–2016 season featured a seven-game losing streak marked by double digit losses and second half collapses.

There is some hope that these recent struggles will reverse as Kellogg and his staff have landed a nationally ranked recruiting class for the 2016–2017.

[2] On April 18, 2017 Kellogg was hired at LIU Brooklyn, replacing Jack Perri to become the 14th head coach in Blackbirds history.

On August 17, 2022, UMass Men’s Basketball announced Kellogg’s return to Amherst to serve as an assistant coach under Frank Martin.