Gregg Gottlieb - Women's Basketball Coach - Grand Canyon University Athletics

Gregg Gottlieb

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
gregg.gottlieb@gcu.edu

Gregg Gottlieb is in his fourth year on staff at GCU and third year as Assistant Coach. He was promoted to Assistant Coach after spending his first year as Grand Canyon's Director of Basketball Strategies and Player Development. The 2023-24 season marks his 28th year in college basketball.

Gottlieb is instrumental in the offensive game plan for the Lopes and coached three double-digit scorers with a group that ranked 58th in the country and 4th in the WAC in scoring offense in 2022-23. GCU spread the ball around during that season with multiple scorers each game as it ranked 13th in the nation in bench points per game (26.7). Gottlieb coached Naudia Evans to new heights in 2022-23 as she went from 3.4 points her freshman year in 2021-22 to the team's leading scorer in 2022-23 with 11.7 points per contest and 41 three pointers.

During the 2022-23 campaign, GCU shot 40% or higher in 23 games, going 19-4 in those contests. The Lopes had five players score 200+ points with two players in the 300+ point club including Evans (350) and Tiarra Brown (338). Brown's efforts on both the offensive and defensive end led her to All-WAC First Team and All-WAC Defensive Team accolades.

In 2021-22, GCU ranked fourth in the conference in scoring offense (65.8 ppg) and had four players score 250 points or more. Gottlieb coached Amara Graham, who led the team in points per game (11.8) and total points (378) while shooting 41% from the floor and 38.7% from three with 65 made three pointers.

In his first season as assistant coach, GCU ranked 65th in the country and first in the WAC with a 42.9 field goal percentage. Gottlieb coached freshman Katie Scott, who ended the season as the WAC Freshman and Newcomer of the Year with averages of 16.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. Scott scored 409 points to become the sixth Lope during the Division I era to eclipse 400 points and did so in 25 games, the second shortest time of the six players on that list. GCU shot 30.7% from three that season to rank second in the WAC in that category and first in the three point field goals made (155).

Prior to GCU, Gottlieb spent 13 seasons coaching in the Pac 12 with stops at Oregon State and California. While at Oregon State from 2014 to 2020, the Beavers made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 25 years during the 2016 season. He served as assistant coach from 2014 to 2019 and special assistant to the head coach during the 2019-20 campaign.

Gottlieb coached two current NBA players in Gary Payton II and Drew Eubanks while at Oregon State. Payton II, the son of Hall of Famer Gary Payton, was an AP Honorable Mention All-American in 2016, two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year (2015, 2016) and two time First Team All-PAC-12 recipient (2015, 2016). Payton II went on to win the NBA G League Defensive Player of the Year accolades in 2021 and came off the bench to help the Golden State Warriors win the 2022 NBA Championship. Eubanks, a 4-star recruit ranked No. 1 in the state of Oregon, averaged 13.2 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game his junior year and declared for the NBA Draft that summer to which he was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs and spent four years there. Eubanks recently signed with the Phoenix Suns during the 2023 offseason.

Before being hired at Oregon State, Gottlieb coached at California from 2008-2014 and helped lead the Golden Bears to the Pac-10 men's title in 2009 for the first time in 50 years. During his time at Cal, the Golden Bears had three Pac-12 Player of the Year winners during a four year stretch, which included Jerome Randle (2009-10), Jorge Gutierrez (2011-12) and Allen Crabbe (2012-13). Cal went 147-89 with Gottlieb on staff and had five 20-win seasons. It advanced to the NCAA Tournament four times and the NIT three times.

Prior to California, Gottlieb was an assistant coach under legendary Steve Fisher at San Diego State from 1999-07. He helped lead the Aztecs to their first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 17 years in 2002. After going winless during conference play during the 1999-00 season, Fisher, Gottlieb and staff helped orchestrate a 21-12 overall Aztec team that won the Mountain West Tournament Championship and stamped its ticket to the NCAA Tournament two seasons later.

Prior to San Diego State, Gottlieb spent two seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Sacramento State University.

His coaching career began in 1994 when he was named men's basketball assistant coach at Cal Poly. Gottlieb helped lead a team who won one game in 1994-95 to 16 wins the next season.

Gottlieb played two seasons at Drake before returning home to California to complete his bachelor's degree in business at UCLA and his master's degree in business administration from Cal Poly. His late father, Bob, was the head basketball coach at Jacksonville University (1974-75) and the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin (1976-80). He was also an assistant coach for Jack Hartman at Kansas State, Eddie Sutton at Creighton, Tex Winter at Long Beach State and Ralph Miller at Oregon State.