A standout player in the ACC, Andrew Wilson has parlayed his success on the court into a successful coaching career that is entering its 14th season in 2019-20 and his seventh campaign with Georgia Southern.
Wilson has helped the Eagles reach new heights in six seasons in Statesboro. Georgia Southern logged 20-plus wins for the third time in five years in 2018-19 and won 20-plus games in consecutive seasons for the first time in 30 years. He helped guide the 2016-17 squad to the program's first postseason appearance since 2006, and the Eagles have finished in the top-3 in four of their five seasons in the Sun Belt. GS is one of 38 Division I programs that have won 10 or more league games in each of the past five seasons, a list that includes Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, Villanova, Michigan State, Kentucky, Oregon and Gonzaga.
Wilson has coached 11 all-conference selections, and Tookie Brown won Sun Belt Player of the Year and All-America Honorable Mention accolades in 2019 and Sun Belt Freshman of the Year honors in 2016. In addition, Brown became the first four-time, first-team All-Sun Belt selection in league history.
The Eagles' offense has steadily improved during Wilson's tenure on staff, and Georgia Southern ranked fourth in the country in field goal percentage (.499) and 15th in scoring, averaging 82.6 points a game, in 2018-19. GS shot 50 percent or better in 17 contests, including the first five games of the year, and 60 percent or better three times and scored 80-plus points in 18 contests.
Georgia Southern student-athletes have excelled in the classroom as well - all of the program's seniors have graduated during Wilson's tenure.
The 2014-15 Eagles tallied a 22-9 mark for the program’s first 20-win season in a decade. Georgia Southern also made the program’s first trip to a conference championship game since 1992 by reaching the 2015 Sun Belt Championship game. The 2016-17 team played in the postseason for the first time since 2006.
Wilson attended the Jay Bilas Coaches Leadership Program in June of 2019. The program was designed to identify and develop up-and-coming coaches who have the potential to be Division I College Head Coaches. The four-day leadership program in Charlotte was limited to 12 coaches who have been recognized as rising stars in the profession as assistants. Â
Wilson, who played collegiately at Florida State, spent six seasons as an assistant coach at Charleston under head coach Bobby Cremins before moving to Binghamton for the 2012-13 season. While at Charleston, Wilson coached with Eagle head coach Mark Byington and helped lead the Cougars to an average of 22 wins a season and three postseason tournament appearances in six years.
At Charleston, Wilson gained a reputation for his recruiting, opponent scouting and steadfast determination. During his time on Cremins’ staff, the Cougars advanced to the Southern Conference title game three times, produced four 20-win seasons, a regular season title in 2011 and the program’s first NBA Draft pick in 14 years when the Los Angeles Lakers selected guard Andrew Goudelock.
A native of Kennesaw, Ga., Wilson played parts of six seasons at Florida State (2001-06), where he showed his mettle by rehabilitating from two devastating injuries to become the first player in the ACC to play in six different seasons. After enduring two medical hardships, Wilson became the school’s all-time leader in games played (129). As a senior co-captain in 2005-06, he averaged a career-high 6.3 points per game and helped the Seminoles advance to the second round of the NIT.
A 2000 graduate of Harrison High School in the metro Atlanta area, Wilson was a two-time, first team all-state honoree and was the school’s all-time scoring leader upon graduation.  He was elected to the Harrison High School Hall of Fame in 2015. Wilson was the 2000 Cobb County Tip-Off Club Player of the Year and was named to The Atlanta Tipoff Club Metro Atlanta Boys Prep Team.
Wilson and the former Lisa Sundberg were married in September of 2017. They are the parents of Cate (11), Mackenzi (7) and Knox (1), and the family resides in Statesboro.
