SUNY Stony Brook University Men's Basketball

Mark Dixon joined the Stony Brook men's basketball staff in June of 2024. The 2024-25 season was his first on staff with the Seawolves. Dixon came to Long Island by way of Marquette University, where he spent three seasons on the coaching staff under Shaka Smart. He served as a program assistant during his first two seasons with the Golden Eagles before being elevated to assistant coach for the 2023-24 season. He helped Marquette win a team-record 29 games, tie the league record for wins (17), and win the Big East Conference regular season and tournament titles in 2022-23. Dixon played an instrumental role in player development for the Golden Eagles, helping mold the league’s player of the year (Tyler Kolek), the sixth man award winner (David Joplin) and a pair of all-league honorees (Kam Jones and Oso Ighodaro) in 2022-23. In his first season as an assistant coach in Milwaukee, Dixon helped Marquette advance to the Big East Tournament title game for the second straight season, earn a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2013. Marquette totaled 56 wins over the last two seasons, the highest two-year total in program history. Prior to his time at Marquette, Dixon spent the 2020-21 campaign at Texas as a graduate assistant with the men’s basketball program under Smart. He assisted with the day-to-day operations of the program, including player development and opponent scouting. A native of Riviera Beach, Florida, Dixon earned his graduate degree in the Master's in Management program at Marquette in 2023.  He earned his bachelor’s in sports management from Florida International in May of 2020 and a graduate certificate from Marquette in sports leadership in 2022.

Jaden Uken enters his seventh season on staff at Stony Brook and his fourth as an assistant coach. Uken was elevated to Assistant Coach for the 2022-23 season, aiding the program in its transition to the Coastal Athletic Association. Uken rejoined his former boss, Geno Ford, as the Director of Basketball Operations at Stony Brook for the 2019-20 season, holding that position for three seasons. Prior to joining the Seawolves, Uken spent three seasons at Fordham University as the team's Director of Basketball Operations. He also served as an assistant coach for the Rams in the 2015-16 season. Before his time in the Bronx, Uken was the recruiting coordinator under Ford at Bradley University, helping the Braves to one of the nation's best turnarounds in the 2012-13 season, winning 11 more games than the previous season. He also helped Ford secure a star-filled recruiting class in 2013-14, including a Top-100 high school recruit, a junior college All-American, and a pair of NJCAA All-Region First-Team selections. Uken was also part of Ford's first staff at Kent State that was responsible in aiding the Golden Flashes to back-to-back Mid-American Conference regular-season titles and NIT bids in the 2010 and 2011 seasons.