Greg Young

Greg Young is an American basketball coach who is currently the special assistant to the head coach for the Maryland Terrapins. He was most recently the head coach of the UT Arlington Mavericks men's basketball team and the associate head coach for the Troy Trojans.

Playing career A three-sport athlete in high school, Young played college basketball at Howard Payne University where he was a four-year letterman and senior captain. Young would return to the junior college ranks to take the head coaching position at Jacksonville College where he'd lead the team to one of its best records in school history with a 21–10 record during the 2008–09 season, and would be honored as Region XIV Coach of the Year. Overall, Young would compile a 168–139 record across his head coaching stops at the junior and community college level.

In 2009, Scott Cross would hire Young as an assistant coach at UT Arlington. As an assistant, Young was part of the Mavericks' 2012 NIT squad as well as the 2016 Sun Belt regular season title winners and 2017 NIT quarterfinalist team.

Less than two years into his tenure as the head basketball coach, Young was fired after starting 9-16 into the 2022-23 season and compiling a 20-34 record with the program.

He was hired as the associate head coach for the Troy Trojans on August 18, 2023.

Young was hired as the special assistant to the head coach for the Maryland Terrapins on July 9, 2025.

Head coaching record NCAA D1