Grand Canyon University Men's Basketball

Head Coach Resume YEAR SCHOOL RECORD 2011-12 Valparaiso 22-12 2012-13 Valparaiso 26-8 2013-14 Valparaiso 18-16 2014-15 Valparaiso 28-6 2015-16 Valparaiso 30-7 2016-17 Vanderbilt 19-16 2017-18 Vanderbilt 12-20 2018-19 Vanderbilt 9-23 2020-21 GCU 17-7* 2021-22 GCU 23-8 2022-23 GCU 24-12 2023-24 GCU 30-5 2024-25 GCU 26-8 2025-26 GCU 20-12 Overall (12 seasons): 304-160 (.655) Valparaiso (5 seasons): 124-49 (.717) Vanderbilt (3 seasons): 40-59 (.404) GCU (5 seasons): 140-52 (.729) * 2020-21 season shortened because of COVID-19 Regular-Season Champions 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2024 Conference Tournament Champions 2013, 2015, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 NCAA Tournament Appearances 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 NCAA Tournament Round of 32 2024 Conference Coach of the Year 2012, 2015, 2016 bold denotes at GCU View GCU Men's Basketball coaching records. Bryce Drew is in his seventh season as Grand Canyon's men's basketball head coach in 2026-27 after being named the 14th head coach in program history prior to the 2020-21 campaign. Drew has made the Lopes into an NCAA tournament mainstay with four trips in his first five seasons leading the program. He took things to the next level in 2023-24 by leading GCU to its first March Madness win with the 12th-seeded Lopes defeating fifth-seeded Saint Mary's. Drew has taken all three programs he's been the head coach of to the NCAA Tournament including Valparaiso, Vanderbilt and GCU, and he got his first career tournament win while le

Road to GCU YEAR SCHOOL POSITION 1994-98 Toledo Student-Athlete 1998-99 Philadelphia 76ers Pro Player 1999-11 Italy / Spain Pro Player 2003-10 Athletes in Action Director / Coach 2016-19 Vanderbilt Asst. Coach 2019-20 Davidson Academy (Tenn.) Head Coach 2020-pres GCU Asst. Coach Casey Shaw is in his sixth season as an assistant coach with the Grand Canyon men's basketball program for the 2025-26 season. Shaw has been by head coach Bryce Drew's side since he took over as GCU's head coach in 2020-21. In that five-year span, the Lopes have made four NCAA Tournament appearances by winning the 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025 WAC Tournaments. The 2023-24 was the best in program history. The Lopes won an NCAA tournament game for the first time by defeating fifth-seeded Saint Mary's. GCU finished the season with a top-50 NET ranking and had the program's first WAC Player of the Year in Tyon Grant-Foster. In his first season with the Lopes, Shaw helped lead GCU to its first WAC regular-season championship, first WAC tournament championship and first trip to the NCAA tournament. Shaw and the Lopes coaching staff inherited a 13-17 squad and went 17-7 in 2020-21. The Lopes staff was charged with replacing GCU's two leading scorers heading into their second season. Behind the development of Jovan Blacksher Jr. and the addition of Holland Woods II, the Lopes posted a 23-8 mark in 2021-22. GCU's best win by metrics in its D-I program history came on Dec. 18 in the Colangelo Classic as GCU topped

Derrick Wrobel is in his first season as chief of staff for the GCU men's basketball program in 2025-26. After working 22 seasons for major college basketball coaching staffs and being a part of nine NCAA Tournament teams, Wrobel comes full circle returning to the Valley. A freshman student manager for Ole Miss, Wrobel watched head coach Bryce Drew become a March Madness legend with the buzzer-beating 3-pointer that upset Ole Miss in 1998. Wrobel followed Rob Evans from Ole Miss to Arizona State, where he graduated and worked his first four professional years as director of basketball operations. From there, he handled operations for Ben Braun at California, became assistant to the head coach for Steve Lavin at St. John's with Hall of Famer Gene Keady on the bench, returned to ASU under Bobby Hurley for five years, and joined Kyle Smith's staffs at Washington State and Stanford. Wrobel prioritizes three areas in a program – attitude, work ethic and pride. He holds a degree from Arizona State (2001).

Frank Adams joined GCU’s sports medicine staff in 2025 as the head athletic trainer for the men’s basketball program. He provides comprehensive athletic trai...

Isaac Demosthenes is in his first season as a graduate assistant for GCU men's basketball in 2025-26. In his role, Demosthenes assists with the program's film breakdown and player development. Known for his player development work, Demosthenes has worked with a number of NBA players including Marcus Smart, Corey Kispert, Marvin Bagley and more. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Demosthenes spent three seasons as an undergraduate manager for the Lopes and graduated from GCU in April 2025 with a Bachelor's of Science in Sports Management. The Lopes went to the NCAA Tournament two times during his time as a manager.

Jerome Garrison joined GCU Athletics in 2022 and moved into the role of Director of Athletic Development in May 2026. In his current position, Garrison oversees all fundraising efforts for GCU Athletics and manages the Lopes Club, helping support the department's continued growth through donor engagement, philanthropic strategy and revenue generation. A Phoenix native and Mountain Pointe High School graduate, Garrison returned to Grand Canyon after leaving a lasting impact as a student-athlete. He was a four-year starter for the Lopes men's basketball program while completing his undergraduate degree in education. During his collegiate career, Garrison helped guide GCU through its transition from NCAA Division II to Division I, earned individual honors and led the Lopes to a 74-46 record over four seasons. He remains 12th on GCU's all-time scoring list with 1,265 career points. After graduation, Garrison signed with a professional basketball club in Madrid, Spain, before his playing career was cut short because of his mother's health complications. Upon returning to the United States, he began a six-year career in secondary education, serving as athletic director at Imagine Avondale and Glendale Prep for three years each. At both schools, Garrison focused on impacting lives and leaving programs better than he found them, driving capital sponsorships, facility improvements, campus collaboration, increased participation and state recognition. Garrison's passion for education, a

Jordan Jackson joined GCU's sports performance department in May 2020 as an associate director of sports performance. He oversees the strength and conditioning for the men's basketball program. Jackson has worked behind the scenes day in and day out to develop the strength and conditioning programs for GCU men's basketball players and has been alongside Lopes head coach Bryce Drew since Drew took the head coaching position at GCU. Jackson has helped develop student-athletes for Lopes teams that have won two WAC regular-season championships, four WAC Tournaments and made four NCAA tournament appearances. Jackson spent the previous three seasons at Cal, working with the men's basketball program while in Berkeley. Prior to his time at Cal, Jackson worked with both the men's and women's basketball programs at UCLA for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons. While with the Bruins, he designed student-athlete workouts, conditioning and recovery programs, and individualized nutrition plans. He began his career in collegiate athletics at his alma mater Cal State Northridge, working with men's and women's basketball. Jackson spent five years as an assistant command fitness leader with the United States Navy, working in both Nevada and Bahrain. He conducted daily physical training sessions for all command personnel and CPR trained more than 60 military members. Jackson graduated from CSUN with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and exercise science.

Road to GCU YEAR SCHOOL POSITION 2018-21 West Virginia Student-Athlete 2021-23 UNLV Student-Athlete 2023-24 West Virginia Asst. Coach 2024-25 Green Bay Asst. Coach 2025- GCU Asst. Coach Jordan McCabe is in his first season on the GCU bench for the 2025-26 season. Four years after a point guard known for slick ball-handling chose UNLV over GCU for a 2021 transfer, McCabe was coming off the first two years of his coaching career when he accepted Drew's offer to be a new Lopes assistant coach in June 2025. "Jordan is an extremely hard worker who has a great reputation in the basketball world," Drew said at the time of the hire. "He was a very good player and has shown a great skill to coach in his career so far." "The biggest thing that attracted me to Grand Canyon was Coach Drew," McCabe said. "He has a very intentional way of living life from a faith foundation and a competitive character, where we're going to go hard and do things the right way. I trust in his moral compass and how he runs a basketball program." McCabe played his first three collegiate seasons under Hall of Fame coach Bob Huggins at West Virginia and his final two at UNLV, where he chose the opportunity of a roster with one returning player for new coach Kevin Kruger over GCU. "It's was Jovan Blacksher's fault for being as good as he was," McCabe said. "I did not tell Coach Drew no. I told Jovan no because I wasn't going to play." McCabe averaged 4.4 assists when he started every game in the 2021-22 season fo

Road to GCU YEAR SCHOOL POSITION 2015-17 George Mason Student-Athlete 2017-19 St. Thomas Aquinas Student-Athlete 2019-21 Memphis Grad Asst. 2021-22 St. Thomas Aquinas Asst. Coach 2022-23 Fairleigh Dickinson Asst. Coach 2023-25 Iona Asst. Coach 2025- GCU Asst. Coach Kam Murrell is in his first season on the GCU bench for the 2025-26 season. After working at Memphis, alma mater St. Thomas Aquinas, Fairleigh Dickinson and Iona, Murrell moves back toward his Southern California roots to bring his mix of skill development, scouting ability, recruiting and more to the GCU staff. "I'd be really hard-pressed to find any other staff, program and university in the country that has (faith and winning) values we were praying for," said Murrell, who has six years on a college basketball coaching staff prior to GCU. "It's a 'Thank you, God' moment for us to be at GCU. It's like, 'You are listening.' That part alone has me pinching myself every five minutes." Murrell has known third-year GCU assistant coach Marc Rodgers since they were elementary school-age basketball players. He has followed the Lopes even longer, but their friendship revealed even more about the Lopes to appeal to him. "Kam comes with a lot of energy and with West Coast ties," Lopes head coach Bryce Drew said at the time of the hire. "His faith and character has been an instant fit for our program." Murrell played on state championship teams for a prep powerhouse, Long Beach Poly, before utilizing a post-graduate season a

Road to GCU YEAR SCHOOL POSITION 2013-18 Central Washington Student-Athlete 2018-19 Long Beach State Grad. Asst. 2019-20 Fairfax HS (Calif.) Head Coach 2020-21 Long Beach State Asst. Coach 2021-22 Wyoming Dir. of Recruiting 2022-23 Wyoming Asst. Coach 2023-pres GCU Asst. Coach Marc Rodgers is in his third season on the Grand Canyon men's basketball staff in 2025-26. Rodgers' first season on the GCU coaching staff was also the best season in program history. The Lopes won the WAC regular-season title, the WAC Tournament title and appeared in the NCAA tournament. For the first time in program history, GCU won a game in March Madness by defeating fifth-seeded Saint Mary's. The Lopes ended the season as a top-50 team in the NET rankings. In his second season with the program, GCU was dancing again. The Lopes won three straight games in the WAC Tournament to return to the Big Dance for the third straight time. Prior to GCU, Rodgers spent the previous two seasons on the staff at Wyoming where the Cowboys made an appearance in the 2022 NCAA Tournament as an at-large bid after a 25-9 season. Originally serving as the program's director of recruiting, Rodgers was promoted to an assistant coach for the 2022-23 season. He was credited with pulling splashy Pac-12 transfers to Laramie in the offseason prior to the 2022-23 season. The Los Angeles native was previously a Long Beach State assistant coach (2020-21) and graduate assistant (2018-19), as well as a Fairfax High School head coach,

Road to GCU YEAR SCHOOL POSITION 2000-04 Stanford Student-Athlete 2004-12 International Pro Basketball Athlete 2013-16 Valparaiso Asst. Coach 2016-23 Valpara...