Jeremy Luther (born October 9, 1973) is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the GardnerâÂÂWebb Runnin' Bulldogs men's basketball team. He played college basketball for the Robert Morris Colonials, Liberty Flames, and Covenant Scots. He has previously coached for the North Greenville Crusaders, at Windsor Academy, for the Mercer Bears, Newberry Wolves and Armstrong Atlantic Pirates.
Luther grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. He attended North Florida Christian School in Tallahassee, where he played basketball, football and ran track. He was a guard in basketball and a placekicker in football. Luther then began playing college basketball for the Robert Morris Colonials in the 1992âÂÂ93 season; he transferred to the Liberty Flames and played from 1993 to 1995, and then transferred to the Covenant Scots where he played from 1995 to 1997.
At Covenant, Luther scored 1,300 points across two seasons and was selected National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Division II All-American as a senior, when he averaged 26.0 points-per-game. After his collegiate career, he played one season of semi-professional basketball for a team in South Dakota and then spent a year playing in overseas tournaments in Australia and New Zealand with the group Athletes in Action. He later returned to the U.S. and attended North Greenville University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1999.
Luther served as an assistant coach for the North Greenville Crusaders from 1998 to 2000 while attending the school. He then spent the 2000âÂÂ01 season as the head coach at Windsor Academy. He was a graduate assistant with the Mercer Bears in 2001âÂÂ02, and then received a promotion to assistant coach for the 2002âÂÂ03 season. He remained in the position through the 2006âÂÂ07 season, assisting in Mercer's Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) title in 2002âÂÂ03, when they had 23 wins, which was the highest in program history up to that point.
Luther became the head coach of the NCAA Division II Newberry Wolves in 2007, and served two seasons in the position, totaling an overall record of 33âÂÂ24 which included a school-Division II-best 21 wins in 2008âÂÂ09. He left for the head coaching job of the Armstrong Atlantic Pirates in 2009âÂÂ10. He totaled a record of 51âÂÂ56 in four seasons before joining the NCAA Division I GardnerâÂÂWebb Runnin' Bulldogs as assistant coach in 2013. In 2017, he was promoted to associate head coach. He was promoted to head coach on March 27, 2024.