Moments after Pat Skerry was named as the Tigers’ head coach, the first call he made was to his former Rhode Island colleague, Kevin Clark. He immediately hired Clark, who enters his 12th season with Towson in 2021-22. He was promoted to associate head coach on July 10, 2018.
Since joining the staff at Towson, Clark has played an integral role in helping the Tigers complete one of the biggest turnarounds in NCAA history.
Towson has won at least 18 games in seven of the last 10 years. The Tigers have won 20 more games, including a school-record 25 during the 2013-14 and 2021-22 campaigns, four times. The Tigers also won 20 games in consecutive seasons (2015-16 & 2016-17) for the first time in program history.
Clark helped Towson earn the program's first-ever CAA regular season title and berth into the National Invitation Tournament during the 2021-22 campaign. The Tigers finished 25-9 and 15-3 in the CAA, with three players earned all-league honors including Cam Holden and Nicolas Timberlake on the First Team. It was the winningest Division I and CAA season in program history.
The Tigers enjoyed a strong 2019-20 campaign that resulted in 19 victories and a third-place finish in the CAA for the third time in five years. In addition, Towson had five players named to the 2020 All-CAA team, the most of any school in the conference. The Tigers won a program record seven CAA road games and had a seven-game winning streak during the month of January.
With Clark working with Towson's big men, the Tigers have led the CAA in rebounding margin in six consecutive years entering the 2020-21 season. This past season, Towson also led the CAA in offensive rebounding percentage. Dennis Tunstall earned consecutive spots on the All-CAA Defensive Team in 2018-19 and 2019-20.
Clark is a consummate professional and has worked as a head coach at the Division I and Division III levels. Skerry said that Clark is a great fit at Towson as he boasts a wealth of experience with recruiting contacts on the Eastern Seaboard and throughout the country.
A native of Stamford, Conn., Clark has been a key figure on the college basketball scene for almost three decades. He has worked at five different Division I schools in the BIG EAST, Atlantic 10, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and the Patriot League.
Clark, who begins his 10th year with the Tigers, came to Towson after a seven-year stint as an assistant to Coach Jim Baron at Rhode Island.
During his tenure, the Rams compiled a 129-97 record that included three trips to the National Invitation Tournament and a berth in the 2011 College Basketball Invitational Tournament. URI completed its fourth-straight 20-plus win season in 2010-11 with a 20-14 mark.
Prior to his affiliation at URI, Clark was the associate head coach at St. John’s from 1998-2004. He helped the Red Storm to a 114-78 record that included the 2003 NIT championship. Clark was named St. John’s interim head coach on December 20, 2003, and coached the Red Storm for the remainder of the 2003-04 season.
In his first season at St. John’s, the Red Storm posted a 28-9 record and reached the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament in 1999. In his second year, the Red Storm turned in another impressive season, winning the BIG EAST championship and earning another berth to the NCAA Tournament.
After going 14-15 in year three, St. John’s bounced back with a 20-12 campaign, earning their third NCAA Tournament berth in four seasons. The 2002-03 season saw the Red Storm defeat Georgetown, 70-67, to win the NIT championship at Madison Square Garden.
Clark took over as the interim head coach in the middle of the 2003-04 season after Mike Jarvis resigned. He guided a depleted St. John’s team to wins over UCLA and Georgetown at Madison Square Garden.
Clark’s first run in the Atlantic 10 was as an assistant coach under Jarvis at George Washington (1994-98). The Colonials compiled a 78-45 mark that included the best record in school history (24-9) during the 1997-98 season. On Clark’s watch, GW captured two Atlantic 10 championships and earned two NCAA tournament bids.
From 1991-94, Clark was an assistant coach at Fairfield.
Prior to that, he was the head coach at his alma mater, Clark University, from 1987-91. He guided the Cougars to the 1988 NCAA Division III Northeast Regional Championship on the strength of a 20-7 record.
In four seasons as the Cougars’ head coach, he led Clark to a 61-43 record.
He was an assistant basketball coach at Clark under Coach Wally Halas from 1984-87. He also served as the head men’s and women’s track coach during those years.
Clark began his coaching career at Holy Cross, where he was a Crusaders’ assistant coach during the 1982-83 season.
A 1981 graduate of Clark University with a degree in sociology, he was a three-time All-American. A four-year starter, he was also a two-year captain for the Cougars.
As a senior, he was named as the New England Division III Player of the Year by the ECAC and United Press International. During his playing career, he led the Cougars to four NCAA Division III Tournament appearances and his teams reached the national quarterfinals twice.
The fourth-leading scorer in Clark history with 1,605 points, Clark still holds school records for rebounds (1,447), rebounding average (14.4) and field goal percentage (.600). On January 28, 1995, he was inducted into the CU Athletic Hall of Fame.
In September, 2003, Clark was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.
Clark lives in Nottingham with his wife Robin. He has a son Korey and daughter Kyla.
