AMHERST, Mass. — Former South Carolina head basketball coach Frank Martin has received a two-year contract extension which will keep him in charge of the UMass program through the 2028-29 campaign.
The extension includes an enhanced compensation package for Martin as well as new contracts with considerable compensation increases for his assistant coaches and support staff. One of his assistants is Greenville native Brian Steele, a former player at South Carolina and someone who was on Martin's staff in Columbia before following him to UMass.
This past season, Martin led the Minutemen to their best campaign since 2014, finishing with a 20-11 overall record and securing a top-four seed in the Atlantic 10 Championship. The campaign marked the program's first 20-win season since 2013-14 and first top-four seed since the 2007-08 season.
"I am unbelievably excited personally, for our staff and players that this university believes in us and asked us to be a part of the present and extend us well into the future," said Martin. "Together with our supporters, we will continue to build this program and get it back to a championship level like it deserves and assist the university as we transition to a new conference. I have tremendous enthusiasm for this opportunity that Ryan Bamford and Javier Reyes have afforded me."
Martin was the head coach at South Carolina from 2012-2022, leading that program to its only Final Four appearance in 2017.