Wofford College Men's Basketball

Drew Gibson returned to Wofford as an assistant coach in April of 2023. The  2008 Wofford graduate previously spent four seasons as an assistant coach at the Naval Academy. During the 2024-25 season, Gibson assisted the team in winning its sixth Southern Conference Championship and earning an NCAA Tournament appearance. Wofford finished the season 19-16 overall and 10-8 in conference play. Corey Tripp and Kyler Filewich were selected to All-Southern Conference Teams. Filewich was named the Southern Conference Tournament MVP, while Jackson Sivills and Corey Tripp were selected to the Southern Conference All-Tournament Team. In his first year back with the Terriers, the team was 17-15 overall and 10-8 in the Southern Conference. Corey Tripp earned All-SoCon honors following the season. During the 2022-23 season, Navy was 18-13 overall and 11-7 in the Patriot League. They were the number two seed in the conference tournament for the second straight season. Daniel Deaver garnered first-team all-league honors, Sean Yoder was named second team all-league and placed on the all-defensive team and Tyler Nelson earned third-team all-league accolades. In 2021-22, Navy’s year began with a victory at No. 25 Virginia and ended with the Mids playing in the championship game of the Patriot League Tournament for the first time in 21 seasons.  Navy compiled an overall record of 21-11 and a league mark of 12-6 on the season as a whole. Navy registered a 15-3 overall record during the 2020-21 season.  One of the team’s victories was the program’s first over Georgetown since the 1976-77 season.  The Mids would go on to post a 12-1 record during the Patriot League season to garner the outright seed in the league tournament for the first time since the 1997 event. The Mids were one of the youngest teams in the country during Gibson’s initial season on The Yard as one senior and eleven freshmen dotted the roster. Navy played a league-high 15 games during the Patriot League season that were decided by 10 or fewer points. The Mids ended the year tied for sixth place in the Patriot League with an 8-10 record that was part of a 14-16 record as a whole. Gibson served as the lead assistant coach at Augusta University for the two prior seasons.  The Jaguars won the Peach Belt Conference regular season and tournament titles in his second year (2018-19), reached the Sweet 16 of the 2019 NCAA (DII) Tournament and ended the year ranked 16th nationally. The program compiled an overall record of 42-19 and a conference mark of 32-12 during Gibson’s two seasons in Augusta. Gibson spent six years playing professionally in Portugal, Germany, Slovakia and Iceland following graduation. He returned to Wofford as the director of basketball operations prior to the start of the 2014-15 season.  His first year back on campus saw the Terriers win the conference regular season (16-2) and tournament titles, reach the NCAA Tournament and post the most wins in a season (28-7) in school history. The Los Angeles native recorded 1,027 points, 507 assists and 213 steals during his four years at Wofford. Gibson earned First-Team All-Southern Conference accolades during his 2007-08 senior season. He led the team in both assists and steals as a sophomore, junior and senior. He left as the school’s career leader during the program’s Division I era in both assists and steals. Gibson graduated from Wofford with a degree in finance in 2008. He and his wife, Staley, have a son, Vaughn.

T.J. Bell joined the staff in the summer of 2023 as the athletic performance coach for men’s and women’s basketball. Prior to joining the Terriers he was at  the University of Georgia as an assistant athletic performance coach for baseball and cheerleading, while also assisting with other sports. Bell spent the 2021-2022 season as a graduate strength and conditioning intern at University of Alabama-Birmingham working with men’s and women’s basketball. Prior to UAB, he was as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach at Carson-Newman University where he worked primarily with men’s and women’s basketball, swimming, and tennis and assisted football during the 2020-2021 season. During his senior year he was an intern at both Mississippi State University and Jackson State University. He also served in the Mississippi Air National Guard for 10 years. Bell earned a bachelor's of science degree in kinesiology-exercise science in 2020 from the Mississippi University for Women.. He added a Master’s of Business Administration degree in 2021 from Carson-Newman. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA), a Level 1 Olympic Weightlifting Coach (USAW), and is American Heart Association First Aid/CPR/AED certified.