Mark Prosser is in his 6th season on staff with the men’s basketball program and was promoted to men’s basketball associate head coach on Sept. 1, 2013.
Prosser is the son of the late Skip Prosser who coached Kelsey at Xavier and later served as his mentor at Wake Forest, was the head coach at Brevard College this past year following two different stints as an assistant coach at Wofford College totaling four years and five years at Bucknell University.
“Mark has been an integral part of two ‘magical’ basketball eras at both Bucknell University and Wofford College. He helped both programs to multiple NCAA tournament appearances including back to back years at Bucknell in which they advanced beyond the first round,” said head coach Pat Kelsey.
At Wofford, the Terriers repeated as Southern Conference Champions in 2010-11 and reached the NCAA Tournament. The team was first in the SOCON in assists and also first in assist/turnover margin on the way to a 21-13 record. Wofford also was eighth in the nation in three-point percentage and twelfth in overall field goal percentage.
During his first season in Spartanburg in 2008, the Terriers set a school record with twelve Southern Conference wins. In addition, the team posted the first winning overall record since moving to NCAA Division I.
In the 2009-2010 season, Prosser helped Wofford reach a school-record 26 wins along with the Southern Conference Championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. Working primarily with the guards, Wofford was second in the conference in turnover margin and assist/turnover ratio, plus ranked third in steals.
At Bucknell, the team averaged 20 wins a season while Prosser was on the coaching staff of Pat Flannery. In the 2004-05 season, the Bison reached the NCAA Tournament after going 23-10 and winning the Patriot League title. In the tournament, Bucknell upset Kansas in the first round.
In 2005-06, the Bison went undefeated in Patriot League play, the first team to do so in conference history. The team was ranked in the top 25 for the first time in school history and featured Patriot League Player of the Year Charles Lee. For the NCAA Tournament, the Bison were seeded 9th and defeated Arkansas in the first round. In the second round they were defeated by Memphis to end the season at 27-5, the best record in school history.
For the 2002-03 season, he served as an assistant coach for the Terriers in Mike Young’s first season as head coach. During that season, Wofford posted a 14-15 overall record, including a 79-77 win at Virginia Tech. In the Southern Conference, the Terriers were 8-8 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the conference tournament.
A native of Wheeling, WV, Prosser played collegiately at Marist College before a knee injury ended his career. He served as a student assistant coach until his graduation in 2002. He and his wife Emily are the parents of a daughter, Ava Grayce.
