Brett Ferguson was hired as assistant men’s basketball coach in April of 2021 and is in his second stint with the Winthrop program.
For the last three seasons, Ferguson worked on Mark Prosser’s staff at Western Carolina. He was promoted to assistant coach in September 2020 after spending the previous two seasons as WCU’s Director of Basketball Operations.
Ferguson joined Prosser’s staff at Western Carolina in April 2018 after he worked with Powerhouse Hoops, an official member of the Under Armour Association (UAA) in Phoenix, Ariz., as a coach and personal basketball skills trainer for kids ages six through high school. He has been an advanced scout for two NBA teams – the Brooklyn Nets and the Atlanta Hawks – which included acquiring play calls for upcoming opponents.
Ferguson began his professional career as an intern for the video department of the Big Ten Conference office in Chicago where he worked with both the football and basketball officials including organizing clinics. He then made the move to Rock Hill, S.C., in the summer of 2012 as a graduate student at Winthrop, serving as the men’s basketball video coordinator.
In the fall of 2013, Ferguson returned to his alma mater as the video coordinator for the Michigan State men’s basketball team, again working with a Final Four participant in 2015. He assisted the coaching staff in breaking down game and practice video, while also creating individual player edits for the Spartan team.
A native of Wheaton, Ill., Ferguson is a 2011 graduate of Michigan State where he earned a degree in interdisciplinary studies of social sciences, graduating with honors from the Urban Educators Cohort Program. During his time as an undergraduate, he was a four-year letter winner as a student manager for the men’s basketball team where he worked very closely with the Spartans’ director of basketball operations. He was a part of back-to-back regular-season Big Ten Championships and consecutive Final Four appearances in 2009 and 2010 while at MSU.
