Mitch Henderson
Mitch Henderson (born August 14, 1975)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Princeton Tigers
Current conference: Ivy League
Princeton record: 232-122 (.655)
Overall record: 232-122 (.655)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (2017, 2023)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 1 (2023)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 3 (2016, 2022, 2024)
- CBI Appearances: 2 (2012, 2014)
- Ivy League Regular Season Champion: 4 (2017, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- Ivy League Tournament Champion: 2 (2017, 2023)
Awards:
- Ivy League Coach of the Year: 2 (2017, 2024)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2011-present | Princeton |
| 2000-2011 | Northwestern (asst) |
Mitch Henderson Facts
- Mitchell Gordon Henderson
- Born August 14, 1975
- Hometown: Vincennes, Indiana
- Alma Mater: Princeton University (BA, 1998)
- Graduated from Culver Military Academy in Culver, IN, where he lettered all four years in football, basketball and baseball
- Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 29th round of 1994, but chose to play basketball at Princeton under Hall of Fame head coach Pete Carril; played his final two years under Bill Carmody
- Played in three NCAA Tournaments and was named Second Team All-Ivy as a senior in 1998
- After one year playing professionally in Italy, Henderson joined Carmody at Northwestern as an assistant coach; spent eleven years at NU
- Hired in 2011 as the new head coach at Princeton, leading the Tigers to two CBIs in his first three years
- Won the 2017 Ivy League title and the first-ever Ivy League Tournament, earning a spot in the NCAA Tournament; has also taken the Tigers to two NITs (2016 and 2022)
- The Tigers won another Ivy League Tournament title in 2023 to head back to the NCAA Tournament; as a 15-seed, Princeton upset 2-seed Arizona in their first game, then beat 7-seed Missouri to reach the Sweet Sixteen
Mitch Henderson Coaching Tree
- Brian Earl (William & Mary, Cornell)
