FDU Hall of Fame
Greenberg is a college basketball analyst for ESPN and Fairleigh Dickinson basketball alum.
Prior to taking the position at ESPN he was a coach for 34 years, the last 22 as a head coach. Greenberg has been the head coach at Long Beach State, the University of South Florida, and Virginia Tech. He was a two-time ACC Coach of the Year.
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The Plainview, New York native graduated from JFK High School in 1974 and then attended FDU. After playing four years under legendary coach Al LoBalbo, Greenberg graduated in 1978 with a degree in broadcast journalism.
From 1978 to June 1980, Greenberg was an assistant coach at Columbia University under Buddy Mahar and later joined Roy Chipman as an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980 to 1983.
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For the 1983–84 season, Greenberg was an assistant on Terry Holland's Virginia team that made the Final Four of the 1984 NCAA Tournament.  Greenberg later worked as an assistant under Bill Foster at the University of Miami from 1985 to 1987.
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After three seasons as an assistant at Long Beach State, Greenberg ascended to head coach where he spent six seasons at the helm from 1990-96. "The Beach" went 105–70 over that span, and Greenberg finished second behind Jerry Tarkanian for the most wins in the program's history.
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Greenberg was head coach at the University of South Florida from 1996 to 2003 compiling a 108–100 record there and winning one Conference USA regular season title and making one NIT appearance.
His final coaching stop was heading the Virginia Tech Hokies. In nine seasons at Virginia Tech, Greenberg attained a 170–123 record. Greenberg's tenure at VT began with the school's final season in the Big East Conference before joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2004.  Following his second season with the Hokies, which included an appearance in the 2005 NIT, Greenberg won the ACC Coach of the Year award.
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Greenberg was inducted into The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 2012, and the Long Beach State Hall of Fame in 2013.
