Brian Ellerbe

Brian Hersholt Ellerbe (born September 1, 1963) is an American basketball coach. The Seat Pleasant, Maryland native served as head men's basketball coach at Loyola College in Maryland—now known as Loyola University Maryland—from 1994 to 1997 and the University of Michigan from 1997 to 2001.

Career Ellerbe attended Bowie High School in Bowie, Maryland. Ellerbe played in the backcourt at Rutgers with John Battle for Tom Young.

Ellerbe served as a graduate assistant at Rutgers in the 1985–86 season, before becoming an assistant coach at Bowling Green for two seasons. In the 1988–89 season, Ellerbe was an assistant coach at George Mason University, then at South Carolina the next season. From 1990 to 1994, Ellerbe was an assistant at Virginia.

Ellerbe became head coach at Loyola University Maryland in 1994. In three seasons, Ellerbe turned the team from 9–18 to 13–14.

From 1997 to 2001, Ellerbe was head coach at the University of Michigan.

Ellerbe left coaching to become a consultant for youth and collegiate basketball programs. In 2005, Ellerbe became vice president for corporate development at Madison Grace Construction Services.

In 2019, Ellerbe once again left coaching to become the athletic director at Archbishop Carroll High School (Washington, D.C.).

Head coaching record

Due to NCAA sanctions, a total of 36 wins were vacated: 24 wins from the 1997–98 season, including 11 Big Ten regular season wins, three wins in the Big Ten tournament, and one win in the NCAA Tournament, and 12 wins in the 1998–99 season (including five Big Ten regular season wins). Michigan's 1998 Big Ten tournament championship was also vacated. Originally, Michigan finished fourth in the Big Ten in 1997–98 and ninth in 1998–99.