Craig Carter, a standout guard at Rutgers from 1987-91 also coached four seasons (from 2006-10) as an assistant coach for the Scarlet Knights. The Brooklyn, New York native made two NCAA Tournament appearances as a player with Rutgers. He ranks tied for seventh all-time at Rutgers in assists (311) and tenth in career steals (123).
Coach Carter played an integral role in recruiting the most successful class in program history while at Siena College in 2005-06 -- the decorated Class of 2010, which completed a run of four-straight 20-win seasons and three consecutive MAAC titles and NCAA appearances.
Carter spent the 2004-05 season as the director of basketball operations at UMass, where he handled a myriad of duties. He coordinated all aspects of the teams travel and helped establish the team's schedule and workout regiments. Prior to his stint at UMass, Carter spent a year as director of basketball operations at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro in 2003-04, where he was responsible for a wide array of duties within the basketball program under Coach Fran McCaffery.
Carter was an assistant coach at Elizabeth City State in North Carolina for two seasons (2001-03). He served as an assistant coach at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. from 1999-2001, while also working as an elementary school teacher in the New York school system. Carter also served as an assistant coach at Norwalk Community College (Conn.) in 1998 and was a video coordinator with the WNBA's New York Liberty in the summer of 2001. He enters 2013-14 with 16 years of coaching experience on his resume.
Before beginning his coaching career in 1998, Carter worked in the corporate world in various roles, including financial analyst, foreign exchange analyst and trading support specialist with some of the nation's top firms, General Electric, Global Consumer Finance and Chase Manhattan Bank.
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