Staff

Camp Staff

Bobby Cremins
Head Coach

Bobby Cremins is a veteran of 29 seasons as a college basketball head coach and the winningest coach in Georgia Tech history. He was named coach of the Cougars on July 3, 2006.

A total of 21 of Cremins’ former players went on to play in the National Basketball Association. Jason Colliers’ selection as the 15th pick in the 2000 NBA draft by Milwaukee Bucks marked the 12th of Cremins’ players to be drafted in the first round since 1986. Other first-round picks included Brook Steppe (by Kansas City in 1983), Salley (by Detroit in 1986), Hammonds (by Washington in 1989), Scott (by Orlando in 1990), Anderson (by New Jersey in 1991), Jon Barry (by Boston in 1992), Malcolm Mackey (by Phoenix in 1993), Travis Best (by Indiana in 1994), Marbury (Milwaukee in 1996), Harpring (by Orlando in 1998) and Dion Glover (Atlanta in 1999, 20th overall pick).

Cremins’ success and reputation extended beyond the borders of the United States. His assignment in 1996 as an assistant to Atlanta Hawks’ coach Lenny Wilkens on the coaching staff for the USA team in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Games was his third tour of duty for USA Basketball. In 1986, he assisted Arizona’s Lute Olsen in coaching the U.S. World University Games team to its first-ever gold medal. And, during the summer of 1989, he coached a U.S. squad to qualification for the 1990 World Championships.

Mark Byington
Associate Head Coach

Coach Byington has coached with Coach Cremins for the past two years. Before that, he coached The Cougars with Tom Herrion for three seasons, (2002-04 and 2005-06). The Salem, Va., native served as the director of basketball operations at Virginia during the 2004-05 season.

Under Byington's guidance, the Cougars have compiled an overall record of 100-56, won the 2002 Great Alaska Shootout championship, claimed a pair of Southern Conference South Division titles and added an opening round win over Kent State in the 2003 National Invitation Tournament (NIT).

Byington spent the 2001-02 season as an assistant coach on the Hargrave Military Academy postgraduate basketball staff. He earned his master’s degree in sports psychology from Virginia in December of 2003. He spent the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 basketball seasons as a graduate student manager at Virginia.

Byington earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from UNC-Wilmington in 1998. He was a three-year starter on the men’s basketball team at UNC Wilmington, earning second-team All-Colonial Athletic Association and All-CAA Defensive Team honors his senior year. Byington averaged 14 points a game that season and helped lead the Seahawks to the first round of the NIT against Wake Forest. A two-time CAA All-Academic selection, he scored more than 1,000 points during his career.

Fred Dupree
Assistant Coach

Fred Dupree is in his fifth season as an assistant coach under Bobby Cremins. 

Prior to joining the College of Charleston, dupree spent five years at Rider in New Jersey.  He helped Rider win two MAAC regular season titles (2002,03), and served as recruiting coordinator.  He was very successful in recruiting in the Metropolitan area.  Dupree was instrumental in recruiting on of the best players to play at Rider, Jason Thompson (Sacramento Kings), a lottery pick in the 2008 NBA Draft and the 12th overall pick.

Dupree is a 1998 graduate of Canisius.  He was a member of the 1995 squad that reached the finals of the NIT and the 1996 team that played Utah in the NCAA Tournament.  Dupree played for John Beilein, who is now the coach at Michigan. Dupree served as team captain his senior year.

Andrew Wilson
Assistant Coach

In his fifth season as an assistant coach under Bobby Cremins is Andrew Wilson.

Wilson, who was recruited by Cremins to play at Georgia Tech, opted to play for Florida State, where he was a sixth-year senior in 2005-06.

He averaged a career-high 6.3 points while helping the Seminoles to the second round of the NIT last season. He played in a school-record 129 games at FSU, and earned a master’s degree in sports administration.

Wilson, who is the only player in ACC history to play six seasons, is 12th on Florida State’s all-time list with 110 career 3-pointers.

Wilson was named to the ACC Academic team three times, named to the ACC Honor Roll four times and named to the Dean’s List three times.

Wilson, a 2000 graduate of Harrison High School in Kennesaw, Ga., played for coach Jerry Meuschke and earned all-state first-team honors as a junior and senior.

Jon Cremins
Director of Basketball Operations

Jonathan Cremins is in his first season with the College of Charleston men's basketball program as director of basketball operations.

Cremins previously served as a varsity assistant coach and teacher during the 2009-10 school year at South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Ga. His coaching resume also includes a stint as a graduate assistant men's basketball coach at his alma mater, Valdosta State University, from 2007-09 and working part-time in ticket sales and marketing at the school from 2005-07.

Cremins' on-the-court experience has been enhanced by working numerous basketball camps during the summer months including the Florida State Basketball Camp in 2008, the Georgia State Basketball Camp in 2007 and the Blessed Trinity (High School) Summer League Camp in 2006 and 2007.

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