Jeremy Shulman - Men's Basketball Coach

Jeremy Shulman

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Head Coach

Jeremy Shulman is in his second season as University of Tennessee at Martin head men's basketball coach in 2025-26. The Nashville, Tenn. native was announced as the 13th head coach in Skyhawk men's basketball history on March 27, 2024.

Shulman’s debut season at UT Martin featured 16 newcomers, which were tied with California, IU Indy and Louisville for the most in NCAA Division I men’s basketball in 2024-25. The Skyhawks also touted the most international players (12) in the NCAA Division I ranks, which led to national attention when NCAA.com profiled UT Martin in a feature story as part of World Basketball Day on Dec. 21.

The Skyhawks had several close calls in 2024-25, logging the most one-possession or overtime games (14) in the NCAA Division I ranks. UT Martin’s six overtime games were tied for the most in a single season in school history as eight losses (including seven in Ohio Valley Conference play) were decided by one point or in overtime.

Navigating the entire season without a single minute of playing time from a returner, the Skyhawks won their first-round matchup in the OVC Championship tournament, posting 14 victories against a brutal schedule that included five postseason participants (three of which took part in the NCAA Tournament) and nine games against eventual 20-win teams. UT Martin went 3-1 against the OVC regular season champion (1-1 against Southeast Missouri) and tournament champion (2-0 against SIUE) while also defeating CollegeBasketballInsider.com champion Illinois State. In addition to NCAA Tournament participant SIUE, the Skyhawks also recorded sweeps over OVC rivals Western Illinois, Eastern Illinois and Southern Indiana.

UT Martin wound up ranking in the top-20 in NCAA Division I men's basketball in offensive rebounding per game (13.73, 12^th), bench points per game (29.73, 17^th), rebounds per game (39.42, 19^th) and three-point field goal attempts per game (28.8, 20^th) in 2024-25. The Skyhawks also topped the OVC in three-point field goals made (9.1 per contest) and offensive rebounding (13.1 per outing) in league play.

Many records fell in Shulman’s first season at the helm at UT Martin. The Skyhawks’ 949 three-point field goals attempted were the most for a single season in school history and their 306 makes from three-point land were the second-most in program history – just three shy of the benchmark. UT Martin also established single-game school records for three-point field goals made (19), three-point field goals attempted (42) and rebounds (73, a record that had stood since 1979) against Champion Christian on Dec. 15. Six days later, the Skyhawks also produced the program’s largest margin of victory in an OVC contest with a 77-46 road win at Southern Indiana – splashing 18 three-pointers (in 38 attempts) for their most treys against a NCAA Division I opponent in school history.

Shulman’s 2024-25 roster combined to win one OVC Player of the Week and a trio of OVC Newcomer of the Week awards. Tarence Guinyard became only the fifth player in school history to be named All-OVC first team and OVC All-Newcomer in the same season as he ranked second in the league in scoring (16.8 points per game) in conference competition. He was also crowned as an Oscar Robertson Trophy National Player of the Week on Dec. 17.

Before he was appointed at UT Martin, Shulman spent 14 seasons as head coach at Eastern Florida State College (formerly known as Brevard Community College) in Melbourne, Fla. In that span, he became the program's all-time wins leader (346 victories) and elevated the Titans to a national powerhouse – piling up 11 conference championships in the last 12 seasons with a pair of Final Four and three Elite Eight appearances in the NJCAA Division I Tournament. He won 80.9 percent (152-36 record) of his conference contests at the helm of Eastern Florida State.

A nine-time conference Coach of the Year, Shulman averaged 24.7 wins per season at Eastern Florida State – a number that includes 18 victories during the COVID-19 shortened season. He won 76.4 percent of his games (346-107) after taking over a Titan squad that was coming off a seven-win season and had not been to the postseason in 11 consecutive years. He built the program to annual national contenders as Eastern Florida State finished as national runner-up in 2016-17 and third nationally the following season. The 46-year-old was inducted into the Florida College System Activities Association Hall of Fame in 2023.

Shulman won at least 18 games in all 14 seasons at Eastern Florida State, while posting a dozen 20-win seasons and a pair of 30-win campaigns. He placed at least four players on an all-conference team in every season, mentoring 78 all-league selections and six conference Players of the Year.

From 2014-19, the Titans went 146-28 – an .839 winning percentage while averaging 29.2 wins over a five-season stretch. That included back-to-back 30-win campaigns (31-6 in 2016-17, 30-5 in 2017-18) and an unblemished 15-0 conference record in 2015-16.

Plenty of history was made during Shulman's first three years in charge of Eastern Florida State. His first season (2010-11) included the program's first state tournament in 11 years while the 21 victories in 2011-12 were the program's most since 2000. The following season, the Titans achieved their first Southern Conference title in 13 years, starting a string of 10 consecutive seasons with a conference championship while also adding a title in 2023-24.

Shulman has additionally taken part in other coaching ventures as he was a court coach during the 2017 USA Basketball Men's U19 World Cup training camp as well as serving as the head coach of The JUCO Products roster in the 10^th annual "The Basketball Tournament" (TBT) – a 64-team single-elimination tournament in 2023.

In addition to his success on the hardwood, Shulman preached academics as his Titan program boasted a remarkable graduation rate of 98 percent. His 2020-21 squad earned a 3.34 Grade Point Average – the sixth-highest amongst all NJCAA men's basketball programs.

Before his first collegiate head coaching job, Shulman spent three seasons (2007-10) as an assistant coach under Mark White at East Mississippi Community College in Scooba, Miss. He was part of a Lions turnaround that included an 11-14 record in his first year, followed by records of 17-11 and a record-setting 27-7 campaign in his final year in Scooba. After a semifinal round state and regional tournament appearance in his second season, the 2009-10 East Mississippi squad was ranked No. 12 nationally (highest in school history), won a program-record 27 games and qualified for the NJCAA Tournament for the first time ever after winning the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament championship. Shulman also was part of the program's first-ever Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges North Division regular season championship.

Shulman's first taste of coaching came at the AAU level as he was the youngest coach in Tennessee AAU history (16). In 1998, he founded the Midstate Ballerz Elite AAU program as a senior in high school, serving as head coach and program director. He won 415 games over 10 seasons while churning out a trio of state championships and three national top-12 finishes, including a fourth-place performance in 2005. During his tenure with Midstate Ballerz, 126 players went on to earn scholarships at the collegiate level, including 60 at the NCAA Division I level. A sampling of Ballerz Elite AAU alumni includes Mississippi State's Jarvis Varnado (2010 NBA Draft pick) and Tennessee's Scotty Hopson (2007-08 McDonald's All-American).

Coaching runs in the Shulman family as Jeremy's uncle John is in his second season leading the Central Arkansas program after also serving as head coach at Chattanooga (2004-13) and Alabama-Huntsville (2019-24).

Shulman graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a double minor in athletic coaching and psychology. He is married to the former Evi Vilde of Riga, Latvia (a former All-Conference USA volleyball player at Central Florida) and the couple has three children, Jordan, Mila and Giannis.