Hometown: Capital Heights, Md.
Education: B.S., Buffalo, 2006
Coaching: Canisus, Assistant Coach, 2019-23
Buffalo, Assistant Coach/Player Development, 2023-24
Hampton, Assistant Coach, 2024-25
Hampton, Assistant Coach / Recruiting Coordinator 2025-present
Clavin Cage enters his second season on the Pirates coaching staff and is an inaugural member of Coach Ivan Thomas’s staff. This offseason, Cage received a promotion, adding the Recruiting Coordinator role.
Cage comes from Buffalo where he spent one season as an assistant coach under Gerofe Halcovage III. The former UB guard was the head of player development for the Bulls.
Prior to joining Buffaolo’s staff, Cage spent four seasons at Canisius. With the Golden Griffins, he coached three All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Third Team selections Jordan Henders, Malek Green, and Malik Johnson. During his tenure with the program, Canisius won a total of 29 conference contests.
In the high school ranks Cage had a two-year stint as an assistant coach for the Team Takeover 17-U program, part of the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL). With Team Takeover he helped develop and lead skill-based practices, recruited new talent, planned travel, and scheduled logistics for the team.
Cage is also the founder and director of Cage Clinics in Washington, D.C. He would get his coaching start at Rock Creek Christian Academy in Upper Marlboro, Md. as the head coach of the junior varsity program.
A 2006 graduate of UB, Cage played 121 career games for the Bulls from 2002-06. He capped his collegiate career by earning All-MAC Second Team honors after he led the Bulls in scoring average with 18.5 points per contest in his senior campaign.
His 1,314 career points ranks him 14th in UB's record book, and he also ranks fourth in career 3-point field goal makes with 221 to his credit. After graduating from Buffalo with his degree in social science, the Capitol Heights
