Brian Steele

Biography

Brian Steele was hired as an assistant coach at UMass in April of 2022 after spending time on head coach Frank Martin’s staff at South Carolina. Steele served as the team’s video coordinator for the 2020-21 season following time as a player for the Gamecocks. The Greenville, S.C. native was an assistant coach for two years prior at Queens University in Charlotte, where he helped guide the Royals to a NCAA DII Elite Eight appearance in the 2018-19 season. Steele signed the highest ranked recruit in Queens history in three-star guard Justin Thomas and helped coach the Royals to a top 25 finish in both major national polls for a fifth-straight season in 2019-20. Steele was a three-year letter winner at South Carolina as a student-athlete and served as a student assistant during the 2015-16 season in addition to the 2016-17 Final Four campaign. Steele was a three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll member and earned his degree in sport and entertainment management in 2016. During his prep career at Wade Hampton High School, Steele earned all-state, all-region, and all-county honors and helped his squad earn a state championship during his junior season. “Brian Steele is a future star in the coaching profession,” said Martin. “He became a graduate assistant after completing his playing career for me at South Carolina. He then moved on to Queens College, where he was an assistant coach and helped them prepare a team that was worthy of being in the Elite Eight at the DII level. I rehired h