ELLONYA 'TINY' GREEN--Assistant Coach--Entering his sixth season in his second tenure with the Fairleigh Dickinson University men¹s basketball team is Ellonya 'Tiny' Green, the top assistant on Tom Green's staff as Associate Head Coach.

Green¹s first tenure with the Knights, which lasted five seasons (1984-89), saw FDU make two trips to the NCAA Tournament in 1985 and 1988. His contributions during the NEC Championship season two years ago helped lead the Knights to their third NCAA Tournament appearance.

A dynamic recruiter and excellent bench coach, Green has played a major role in the Knights success during the mid-1980s and in the last several years. Green has developed national and world-wide contacts in the coaching profession and has used those contacts in recruiting some of the top basketball talent to the FDU campus.

Green left FDU in 1989 to work at St. Bonaventure University as an assistant coach. From 1989 through 1992, he helped build the Bonnies into a solid program, recruiting four of the five starters who helped lead St. Bonaventure to the 1995 NIT. In 1992 he left to serve as assistant coach to Butch Van Breda Kolff at Hofstra University, where they won the East Coast Conference title.

An All-East performer at Upsala College, Green led the Vikings to a No. 1 Division III ranking and to three consecutive NCAA appearances, including the Final Four as a senior in 1980. One of the Vikings' all-time leading scorers, Green poured in more than 1,000 points in his career.

After graduating, Green remained at his alma mater as an assistant coach for one year. He moved on to C.W. Post for two seasons where he helped lead the school to a 38-18 mark in his tenure and a NCAA Division II Tournament appearance in 1983.

Green and his family, wife Leslie, son Keyvon and daughter Candace, live in East Brunswick, N.J.