Greg White is an American basketball

Basketball

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 coach

Coach (basketball)

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 best known for his association with the University of Charleston

University of Charleston

The University of Charleston is a private university in Charleston, West Virginia, United States of over 1,300 students.-History:The school was founded in 1888 as the Barboursville Seminary of the Southern Methodist Church...

 in Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers in Kanawha County. As of the 2010 census, it has a population of 51,400, and its metropolitan area 304,214. It is the county seat of Kanawha County.Early...

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He graduated from the (now closed) Mullens High School

Mullens High School

Mullens High School was a high school located in Mullens, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was closed in 1998 after consolidating with nearby Pineville High School to form Wyoming East High School....

 and went on to play at NCAA Division I Marshall University

Marshall University

Marshall University is a coeducational public research university in Huntington, West Virginia, United States founded in 1837, and named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States....

, where he is a member of the school's hall of fame

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. After graduating with a business degree in 1982, he was a graduate assistant coach at Marshall. He then coached at the NAIA

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

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 level Pikeville College

Pikeville College

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 from 1984–89, where his teams went 52-85. He then returned to Marshall for one year as an assistant coach before taking a job at the Division II level Charleston where he went 67-68 in five seasons. During this period he also completed his MBA from the Marshall University Graduate College

Marshall University Graduate College

Marshall University - South Charleston Campus is a non-residential branch campus of Marshall University located in South Charleston, West Virginia, which is primarily focused on extension graduate programs....

. He then spent the 1995-96 year as an assistant coach at UCLA.

In 1996, he was named the head coach at his alma mater, Marshall. He went 115-84, but after two losing seasons, he resigned under pressure to return to the small college ranks at Charleston. He was also named a "special assistant" to the school's president.