TicketsFrank Martin Joins Bearcats Basketball Staff
Former Northeastern aide replaces Dan Peters
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9/1/2004
New UC assistant basketball coach Frank Martin |
CINCINNATI, Ohio--University of Cincinnati head basketball coach Bob Huggins has completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Frank Martin as an assistant coach. Martin, a renowned recruiter at the collegiate level and former standout prep coach in Miami, Fla., replaces Dan Peters, who left UC after five seasons to accept the associate head coaching position at Ohio State.
Martin comes to the Bearcats after spending four seasons as an assistant coach at Northeastern University in Boston, where he helped guide the Huskies to a 19-11 mark last season, the school's best in 11 years.
"Frank is an outstanding young basketball coach who has tremendous contacts around the country," Huggins said. "He will get us in some places that we have not been able to get into. I have known him for a long time and I really believe he will do an outstanding job here at UC."
The 38-year old Martin, a native of Miami, is excited about coming to the tradition-rich UC program.
" Coach Huggins and I have developed a friendship that has gotten stronger over the years," said Martin. "I am really looking forward to being a part of Cincinnati basketball history and building on the great tradition and success that Coach Huggins has built here."
Martin spent seven highly-touted seasons on the prep scene in Miami. He led Miami Senior High to three consecutive Florida Class 6A state championships and a staggering 102-10 record. Martin's 1997-98 MSHS team had 12 players that went on to play Division I college basketball, including current NBA players Udonis Haslem and Brent Wright.
Prior to his stint at Miami Senior, Martin was the head coach at North Miami Senior, where he guided that school to a 39-16 mark in two years, including its first 20-win season in 22 years. Martin's last high school stop before landing the Northeastern assistant's job in 2000 was at Booker T. Washington High in Miami, where he was the head coach in the first year of the school's existence.
A 1993 graduate of Florida International University, Martin coached at several of the top summer camps in the country during the mid to late 1990s, working with standout players like Tracy McGrady (Houston Rockets) and Stromile Swift (Memphis Grizzlies), both of whom have become NBA stars.
Martin will work with the frontcourt players at UC.