Mark Slessinger

Current position: Associate head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Indiana State Sycamores (Head coach: Matthew Graves)
Current conference: Missouri Valley Conference (MVC)
Teams coached: New Orleans Privateers
New Orleans record: 171-222 (.435)
Overall record^: 171-222 (.435)

Mark Edward Slessinger
Born May 2, 1974
Hometown: Bloomington, Indiana
Alma Mater: Aurora University (BS, 1995)
Played at Ellettsville HS (IN) before going on to play at D-III Aurora University (IL)
Started his coaching career in 1995 as an assistant for James Lancaster at his alma mater
Spent one year as an assistant to Leonard Drake at Central Michigan before moving out West to work at Northland Pioneer CC in Show Low, AZ
- Took over as head coach at Northland Pioneer in 1998, going 36-25 over two seasons
- Had 8 players move up to the Division I level after playing at Northland Pioneer
Was an assistant coach at D-I Northwestern State for eleven seasons, working under head coach Mike McConathy
Took over as head coach at New Orleans, then a D-I Independent, in 2011; the program moved to the Southland Conference two years later (2013)
- Won the Southland regular season and Tournament titles in 2017, earning a trip to the NCAA Tournament
- Went 171-222 over eleven seasons at the helm, but was just 22-43 over his last two (2022-23 and 2023-24)
Resigned for UNO in April 2024 and returned to his home state to be Matthew Graves‘ associate head coach at Indiana State

^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only