Nashad Mackey

Nashad Mackey enters his first season with the USC Upstate men's basketball program in 2024-25.

Mackey joins the Spartans after helping UT Martin to its first Ohio Valley Conference Regular Season Championship in his lone season in West Tennessee, helping the Skyhawks to a program-record 14 conference victories and 21 victories overall. Charged with heading up UT Martin's player development, he mentored three All-OVC players as guard Jordan Sears (First Team) and forwards Jacob Crews (First Team & All-Newcomer) and Issa Muhammad (Second Team) brought home honors.
 
He joined the Skyhawks following a season at Daytona State College, helping the Falcons to a program-best 27 victories and an FCSAA Central Conference Championship en route to a No. 8 national ranking—the highest end-of-season ranking in program history. Under his tutelage, Crews garnered NJCAA Second Team All-American and Central Conference Player of the Year honors.
 
Mackey joined Daytona State following a two-season stint as a graduate assistant at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. In his second season with the Eagles—Embry-Riddle did not compete in 2020-21—he helped the program to its first-ever NCAA Division II National Tournament appearance, concluding with a 24-10 record and a Sweet 16 appearance.
 
Complementing his collegiate coaching experience, Mackey has been an assistant coach with The Bahamas National Team, under head coach Chris DeMarco—an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors—since 2020.
 
He began his coaching career following a stellar four-year collegiate career, recording 1,663 points and 1,319 rebounds at Daytona State (2015-17) and Embry-Riddle (2017-19). At Embry-Riddle, he is the only player in program history to average a double-double (17.2 points and 12.2 rebounds per game) in a career while earning back-to-back Sunshine State All-Conference selections. At Daytona State, he brought home Mid-Florida Conference Player of the Year and NJCAA All-American honors.
 
A native of Nassau, Bahamas, Mackey graduated from Embry-Riddle in 2019 before earning his master's from the institution in 2022. He and his wife, Simone, have three children, Noah, Malayah, and Oaklynn.