Kevin Giltner enters his sixth season on the Wofford staff in 2018-19. He enters his fifth season as an Assistant Coach after serving as Director of Basketball Operations in 2013-2014, his first year on staff. Giltner primarily works with Wofford’s guards.
In five years coaching at Wofford, Giltner has helped guide the Terriers to their third and fourth Southern Conference Tournament championships and NCAA Tournament appearances. Giltner was also a part of the previous two championships as a player, helping the program win its first as a sophomore in 2009-10, and it’s second as a junior in 2010-11. He and Head Coach, Mike Young, have been a part of all four SoCon Championships in Wofford History.
In 2017-18, Giltner oversaw guards Fletcher Magee (SoCon Player of the Year by the media & First-Team All-SoCon) & Storm Murphy (All-Freshman Team) take home conference honors. Murphy was Wofford's sixth All-Freshman team member in the last seven seasons. Magee was a finalist for the Lou Henson Award (presented to the nation's top mid-major player) and the Jerry West Award (presented to the nation's best shooting guard) and was on the mid-season watchlist for the The Lute Olson Award (presented to the nation's top player). He was tabbed as the SoCon Player of the Week four times and the Player of the Month three times. Magee was an AP All-America Honorable Mention selection and named NABC First Team All-District.
Magee, a junior, led the country in total threes made (148) and his output was second for single season threes in SoCon history (behind NCAA leader Steph Curry) and fifth in NCAA history for threes in a single season. Wofford won 20 games for the fifth time and first since 2014-15, finishing with a 21-13 record. The Terriers recorded wins over Georgia Tech at home and picked up its first win over an AP Top 25 team with a huge upset win at No. 5 North Carolina, the defending national champions.
In 2016-17, Giltner coached three guards to All-Conference accolades. Fletcher Magee and Eric Garcia were both named First-Team All-SoCon as Wofford was the only conference team to place two players on the First-Team. Nathan Hoover was named to the All-Freshman team, Wofford’s fifth All-Freshman team member in the last six seasons.
Magee became Wofford’s first sophomore to join the 1,000 point club and scored in double digits in all 33 games on the season. He led Wofford with 18.6 points per game and was third in the conference in the same category. Magee made 112 three pointers, setting a new Wofford record for made three's in a season. His 112 made three's was a conference best and his three point field goal percentage of 42.3% was seventh in the SoCon. The junior shot 89.3% from the free throw line, second best in the conference and 15th nationally.
Garcia also surpassed 1,000 career points in 2016-17. Nationally, he was third in assists per game (6.8), third in assist to turnover ratio (3.77), and fourth in total assists (226). His 226 assists on the year was the most in a season in Wofford history. Garcia left Wofford with 537 career assists, second most in Wofford history.
In the 2015-16 season, he helped coach Fletcher Magee to a Southern Conference Freshman of the Year selection in 2015-16. Magee averaged 13.8 points, shot 47.2 percent from the floor, 47.9 percent from long range (91-190) and 92.5 percent from the foul line (86-93), ending the season as the NCAA Statistical Champion in free throw percentage, as well as No. 3 in 3-point percentage.
Magee also ranked 38th nationally in 3-point field goals per game (2.84) and 44th in total 3-pointers made (91). The freshman scored in double figures 23 times, put together seven 20-point games, and also went on to be named College Court Report's Mid-Major Freshman of the Year. Magee's freshman accolades also included being named Third Team All-Southern Conference, 2016 Southern Conference All-Tournament Team and Southern Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 2-8, 2015).
In 2014-15, Giltner helped coach the Terriers to their most successful season in program history. The Terriers went 28-7 overall, 16-2 SoCon, en-route to the SoCon regular season title. The 28 wins and 16 SoCon wins were both the most in school history; as the Terriers also went on to claim their fourth SoCon Tournament title in the last six years. Wofford earned a 12 seed in the NCAA Tournament, its highest seed in school history.
In his first season back at Wofford, Giltner was part of the team's third SoCon Tournament Championship and third NCAA Tournament berth in program history.
Giltner, a four-year letterman at Wofford, spent the 2012-13 season playing professionally for Keflavik in Reykjanesbaer, Iceland.
A native of Kingston Springs, Tennessee, Giltner averaged 14.8 points per game during his senior year in 2011-12 as the Terriers advanced to the postseason for the third straight season. He also had 4.2 rebounds per game and led the team with 86 three-pointers. He was seventh in the SoCon in scoring and ninth in the nation in minutes played per game at 37.8. Giltner earned All-Southern Conference first team honors from the coaches and second team recognition from the media. He also earned a spot on the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and Winter All-Academic Team.
During his junior year, he played in all 34 games with one start as the team won the Southern Conference Championship and advanced to play BYU in the NCAA Tournament. Giltner scored 211 points for a 6.2 ppg average and also had 48 rebounds (1.4 rpg). He was second on the team with a .416 shooting percentage from behind the arc, which also was seventh in the SoCon. He was named to the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and the SoCon Winter All-Academic Team.
As a sophomore, he saw action in 34 games on the season. He scored 120 points (3.5 ppg) and added 29 rebounds as the team won the Southern Conference championship and faced Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. He was named to the Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and the SoCon Winter All-Academic Team.
Giltner scored 136 points (4.5 ppg) and had 40 rebounds (1.3 rpg) during his freshman season. He led the team with a .787 free throw percentage (37-of-47).
For his career, he scored 954 points and is second in school history in games played with 131. He finished sixth in school history with 187 career three pointers.
Giltner graduated from Wofford in 2012 with a degree in business economics. He resides in Spartanburg with his wife, Katelyn. The couple was married on August 12, 2017.
