Derek Kellogg

Biography

Derek Kellogg enters his third season at Creighton as an assistant coach.He has coached at the Division I level since 1997 and boasts 14 years of head coaching experience. Creighton has won 25 games in both seasons since Kellogg’s arrival in 2023, going a combined 50-21 overall and 29-11 in BIG EAST play. Two Bluejays from his first team have already played in the NBA, and Ryan Kalkbrenner was a Second Round pick in 2025 by Charlotte and expected to be a key piece of the Hornets’ future. Kellogg spent the 2022-23 season at his alma mater, Massachusetts, where he was an assistant coach on Frank Martin’s staff. It was at UMass where Kellogg first became a household name, serving as the point guard for John Calipari’s Minutemen from 1991-95. UMass went 111-24 during that time, winning four outright regular-season titles and four straight league tournament crowns. The Minutemen went 30-5 and reached the Sweet 16 his freshman year and 29-5 while advancing to the Elite Eight his senior campaign, when he was also named Third Team All-Atlantic 10. Kellogg was a two-time team captain and three-time All-Atlantic 10 Academic selection, closing his career with 712 points, 453 assists and 344 rebounds as he shot 38.1 percent from three-point range. Kellogg joined the coaching ranks in 1997, working two seasons for Jim Larrañaga at George Mason before he served as an assistant coach at Youngstown State in 1999-2000. He spent eight seasons working for Calipari as an assistant coach at Memph