Mark Montgomery
Mark Montgomery (born April 1, 1970)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Detroit Mercy Titans
Current conference: Horizon League
Northern Illinois record: 124-170 (.422)
Detroit Mercy record: 0-0 (.000)
Overall record: 124-170 (.422)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Vegas 16 Appearances: 1 (2016)
- Horizon League Regular Season Champion: 0
- MAC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2020)
- Horizon League Tournament Champion: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2024-present | Detroit Mercy |
| 2021-2024 | Michigan State (recruiting) |
| 2021 | Detroit Mercy (asst) |
| 2011-2021 | Northern Illinois |
| 2007-2011 | Michigan State (assoc. HC) |
| 2002-2007 | Michigan State (asst) |
| 1997-2002 | Central Michigan (asst) |
Mark Montgomery Facts
- Mark Allen Montgomery
- Born April 1, 1970
- Hometown: Inkster, Michigan
- Alma Mater: Michigan State University (BA, 1992)
- Played at Michigan State under legendary head coach Jud Heathcote, earning All-Big Ten third team honors as a senior in 1992
- Spent several years playing professional basketball in Europe before returning to the States to start a coaching career
- Spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Central Michigan under Jay Smith
- Tenure at CMU included a dramatic worst-to-first turnaround, winning just six games in 1999-00 and then winning the MAC a year later at 20-8
- Returned to his alma mater Michigan State in 2002 as an assistant coach to new Spartans’ head man Tom Izzo
- Worked on Izzo‘s staff for nine seasons, the last four as associate head coach
- Was part of three trips to the Final Four, including the Spartans’ runner-up finish in 2009
- Hired as the head coach at Northern Illinois in March 2011, taking over a struggling Huskies program
- After some additional down years, NIU won 20 games in 2015-16 and appeared in the inaugural Vegas 16 Tournament
- Fired in January 2021 after a 1-7 start to the season; Montgomery went 124-170 in nine and a half years at the helm
- Montgomery then joined Mike Davis‘ staff at Detroit Mercy as an assistant coach for the remainder of the 2020-21 season
- Returned to East Lansing again in 2021 to become Izzo‘s recruiting coordinator; part of three more NCAA Tournaments with MSU
- Hired in April 2024 to be the new head coach at Detroit Mercy in the Horizon League
Mark Montgomery Coaching Tree
- Lamar Chapman (Northern Illinois)