Dereck Whittenburg

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Dereck Whittenburg
Title	Head coach
College	Fordham
Sport	Basketball
Place of birth	Washington, D.C., USA
Career highlights
Championships
NEC Tournament Championship (2003)
Playing career
1979-1983	NC State
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985-1986 1986-1987 1987-1988 1988-1991 1991-1993 1993-1994 1994-1999 1999-2003 2003-present	NC State (asst.) George Mason (asst.) Long Beach State (asst.) NC State (asst.) Colorado (asst.) West Virginia (asst.) Georgia Tech (asst.) Wagner Fordham

Dereck Whittenburg is the current head men's basketball coach at Fordham University. Prior to coming to Fordham, Whittenburg served as the head coach of the Wagner Seahawks.

Whittenburg is perhaps most famous for being a member of the NC State Wolfpack team which won the 1983 NCAA national title. Whittenburg threw up the famous high-arching airball that Lorenzo Charles grabbed for the game-winning dunk. Whittenburg and Sidney Lowe were the two starting guards for NC State; they played high school basketball together at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland.

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