Career Record
Years: 17
Overall Record: 249-191 (.566)
NJAC Record: 147-122 (.546) |
NCAA Tournament Berths: 4
2010-11, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19
ECAC Tournament Berths: 7
2007-08, 2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14,
2015-16, 2019-20
NJAC Tournament Berths: 12
2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 |
NJAC Championships: 2
2010-11, 2020-21
ECAC Championships: 1
2015-16
NJAC Regular-Season Championships: 1
2015-16 |
Honors & Awards
All-Met Division III Coach of the Year: 2
2012-13, 2018-19
D3hoops.com All-Region Coach of the Year: 2
2010-11, 2020-21
NJAC Coach of the Year: 4
2012-13, 2015-16, 2018-19, 2020-21
ECAC Division III Coach of the Year: 1
2015-16 |
National/Regional Honors
D3hoops.com All-Americans: 2
D3hoops.com Preseason All-Americans: 2
D3hoops.com All-Region Player of the Year: 1
D3hoops.com All-Region Rookie of the Year: 3
D3hoops.com All-Rsegion First Team: 4
D3hoops.com All-Region Second Team: 1
All-Met Division III Player of the Year: 2
All-Met Division III First Team: 5
All-Met Division III Second Team: 2
All-Met Division III Third Team: 1
All-ECAC Division III First Team: 4
All-ECAC Division III Second Team: 1
All-ECAC Division III Rookie of the Year: 3 |
All-Conference Honors
NJAC Player of the Year: 2
NJAC Defensive Player of the Year: 4
NJAC Rookie of the Year: 5
NJAC First Team All-Conference: 5
NJAC Second Team All-Conference: 13
NJAC Honorable Mention All-Conference: 8 |
Last Updated: August 6, 2024
Marc “Showbiz” Brown joined the New Jersey City University department of athletics as the head men’s basketball coach prior to the 2007-08 season on an interim basis and officially became the 10th head coach in NJCU men’s basketball history in the summer of 2009. Since that time, Brown produced one of the most competitive programs in all of Division III on a year-by-year basis. Brown, the second-winningest coach in the program’s near-90-year history, replaced his own father, NJCU Hall of Famer and the court’s namesake,
Charlie Brown – he won 483 games over his 25 years at the helm of the program.
The two Browns became just the third known father/son combination in the history of Division III to both win 100 career games when Marc captured his 100th career victory in an 80-68 win over Montclair State University on February 12, 2014. The other two father/son combos to each win 100 also did so at the same school currently in Division III — Page and Charlie Moir (Roanoke College) and Brian and Don Lane (Transylvania University).
Well known for his on-court accolades – he has eight Coach of the Year honors from various organizations entering the 2023-24 season – coach Brown also earned the
2015 BAAFSSO Stellar Service Award on May of 2015 as part of the 2015 Black Administrators, Alumni, Faculty, Students and Staff Organization's 29th annual Salute to Graduates of African Heritage program on campus. In the past, coach Brown has also served as the advisor for NJCU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and oversaw the athletic department’s community outreach initiatives.
Brown’s active playing career came to a close in 2007 after enjoying 16 standout seasons as a professional from 1991-2007 in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), as well as various major professional leagues throughout Europe and South America – most notably the French A League and the Brazilian Pro League. Brown coached during his offseason – guiding NJCU’s 2002 and 2007 Jersey Shore Professional Summer League teams to a Championship and Semifinalist finish, respectively – before eventually succeeding his father, Charlie, at NJCU.
At the time of his hire in 2007, coach Marc Brown said: “To follow my dad is an honor, because he’s a legend as a coach and a man. For me, if I can do half of what he’s done in the last 25 years, I will be successful. While I have some big shoes to fill, I will continue to run this program with dignity and class and try to mold these young student-athletes into men, because that’s really what it’s about. That’s what it was about for me.”
As a collegiate player, Brown enjoyed a highly successful career with Division I Siena College. He remains the Saints’ all-time leading scorer with 2,284-career points spanning his four-year career from 1987-91. He was inducted into the Siena Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. Brown was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Player of the Year as a senior in 1991 and was also selected as NCAA Division I Honorable Mention All-America by the
Associated Press (AP) and
United Press International (UPI). As a sophomore in 1989,
The Sporting News also named Brown to the Honorable Mention All-America team. At the time of his graduation, Brown was also the all-time leader at Siena in assists (796) and made three-pointers (224). He remains the single-game leader in assists (15), the single-season leader in made field goals (289) and attempted (602) and the career leader in made field goals (850) and attempted field goals (1,766).
A two-time First Team All-MAAC and two-time First Team All-North Atlantic Conference (NAC) selection over his career, Brown had his
#4 uniform retired by Siena on Dec. 13, 2010. Some of his career highlights including leading Siena to the 1991 National Invitational Tournament (NIT) quarterfinal round, the 1989 NAC Championship, the NAC Regular-Season Crown in 1988 and 1989, the 1991 MAAC Regular-Season title and – most notably – helped the Saints to a NCAA Tournament First Round upset in 1989 as #14 Siena topped #3 Stanford University, 80-78, thanks to his game-winning free throws and game-high/NCAA program-record 32 points. A two-time MAAC All-Tournament selection, Brown earned various regional honors as a collegian, as well. He was named Second Team All-East and Honorable Mention All-East by
Eastern Basketball in 1991 and 1990, respectively, and was selected to the 1990 United States Basketball Writers Association (UBWA) All-District 2 squad.
Over his four-year Saints career, Brown helped his teams to an 89-34 record. As a senior, he averaged 23.3 points per game (816 total) to go with 179 assists, 139 rebounds and 70 steals in 35 games – he shot 48.0 percent from the floor and 79.9 percent from the foul line. As a junior, he finished with 16.9 points per game (489) to go with 196 assists, 94 rebounds and 49 steals over 29 games, shooting 44.6 percent from the floor and a career-best 81.1 from the line. His sophomore season saw him score 19.5 points per game (584) to go with 199 helpers, 98 boards and 59 steals over 30 games, shooting 48.4 from the floor and 78.9 from the line. His rookie campaign in 1987-88 saw him shoot 52.8 from the field, dish out a career-best 222 assists to go with 13.6 points per game (395), 43 steals, 41 rebounds and five blocks. He was 71.4 percent from the line that year.
In the professional ranks, Brown had a 16-year career spanning over six countries. He spent 1991-93 with the Albany Patroons of the CBA before heading over to Portugal in 1993-94 to play for Oliverense in Proliga. Brown spent 1994-95 back in the CBA with the Fort Wayne Fury. He then spent six seasons with the Brazilian league, the Confederacao do Basquete (CBB), from 1995-2001. He played for the Corinthians (1995-97), Flamengo (1997-98) and Uberlandia (1998-01). Brown spent 2001-02 with Marinos of the Ligue Profesional de Basket (LPB) in Venezuela and with Graveline of the Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB) in France. After missing 2002-03 due to injury, Brown returned to Flamengo (CBB) for 2003-04 before he joined the Reims of the LNB in France in 2004-05. His final season in Brazil came with Telemer of the Nossa Liga in 2005 before returning to France in 2006 to play for Reims. He finished that year in Mexico with Xalapa of the Ligue Nacional de Basquetbol (LNBP) before closing out his professional career in 2007 with Hyerez-Toulon of the French LNB.
A 1991 graduate of Siena with a B.S. in Marketing, Brown negotiated his own contracts throughout his professional career. He also recruited and negotiated contracts for seven other Americans in the Brazilian Pro League. Additionally, some of his other offseason roles were as an assistant coordinator of the Summer Coaching Clinics for Students at Montclair State from 1996-02. He also spent 1993-94 as a summer supervisor for the Orange Recreation Department.
A three-year standout point guard at Columbia High School from 1984-87 for coach Tom Reilly, Brown was a First Team All-State, All-Essex County, All-Iron Hills Conference and All-Orange selection as a senior – he helped lead the Cougars to the conference championship and state section finals that season. On May 7, 2009, Brown was inducted to the Columbia High School Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the school’s fourth-annual ceremony.
A native of Orange, N.J., Brown resides in Union, N.J., with his wife, Marisa, and their two sons, Marc, Jr., and Mason. Marc, Jr., currently plays for coach brown on the NJCU men's basketball team and is part of the class of 2027.
Mike Dean (Siena Men's Basketball Head Coach, 1986-94) on Mark Brown:
“I have not coached or recruited a finer player or coached a guy who understands what needs to be done more than Marc Brown. His apprenticeship as a coach has been playing in the European and South American theatre. He is a hybrid of the coaches he has played for, and his preparation and knowledge of basketball is unquestioned. He is very intelligent and has grown up in a basketball family.”
“His career was unprecedented and unparalleled there. He generated a following that put Siena in a place as probably the strongest low-to-mid major on the east coast because of the atmosphere he created. I may have orchestrated it, but he created it. It was a pleasure to coach him. He was one of those once-in-a-lifetime kind of guys.”
“He took 15 credits every semester without ever taking summer classes and gradated right on time. His nickname was “Showbiz,” but he was all biz. He got it done. He knew exactly why he was there [in college] and what he had to do.”
|
Overall |
NJAC |
|
| Year |
W |
L |
W |
L |
Postseason |
| 2007-08 |
14 |
12 |
6 |
7 |
ECAC Tournament (Quarterfinals) |
| 2008-09 |
10 |
15 |
4 |
7 |
|
| 2009-10 |
13 |
13 |
5 |
8 |
ECAC Tournament (Quarterfinals) |
| 2010-11 |
19 |
10 |
8 |
5 |
NJAC Tournament (CHAMPIONS)
NCAA Tournament (First Round) |
| 2011-12 |
17 |
8 |
7 |
6 |
ECAC Tournament (Quarterfinals) |
| 2012-13 |
15 |
13 |
9 |
9 |
NJAC Tournament (Quarterfinals)
ECAC Tournament (Semifinals) |
| 2013-14 |
14 |
13 |
9 |
9 |
NJAC Tournament (Quarterfinals)
ECAC Tournament (Quarterfinals) |
| 2014-15 |
13 |
14 |
9 |
9 |
NJAC Tournament (Semifinals) |
| 2015-16 |
21 |
8 |
15 |
3 |
NJAC Regular-Season CHAMPIONS
NJAC Tournament (Semifinals)
ECAC Tournament (CHAMPIONS) |
| 2016-17 |
21 |
8 |
13 |
5 |
NJAC Tournament (Finals)
NCAA Tournament (First Round) |
| 2017-18 |
19 |
8 |
13 |
5 |
NJAC Tournament (Quarterfinals)
NCAA Tournament (First Round) |
| 2018-19 |
20 |
8 |
14 |
4 |
NJAC Tournament (Semifinals)
NCAA Tournament (First Round) |
| 2019-20 |
14 |
14 |
10 |
8 |
NJAC Tournament (Quarterfinals)
ECAC Tournament (Quarterfinals) |
| 2020-21 |
7 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
NJAC Tournament (CHAMPIONS)
**Shortened season and no NCAA Tournament due to COVID-19 restrictions |
| 2021-22 |
12 |
15 |
8 |
10 |
NJAC Tournament (Quarterfinals) |
| 2022-23 |
12 |
14 |
7 |
11 |
NJAC Tournament (Quarterfinals) |
| 2023-24 |
8 |
17 |
5 |
13 |
|
| Overall |
249 |
191 |
147 |
122 |
|
