Mike Maker
Mike Maker (born November 9, 1965)
Current position: Associate head men’s basketball coach
Current team: St. Thomas Tommies (Head coach: Johnny Tauer)
Current conference: Summit League
Teams coached: Williams Ephs, Marist Red Foxes
Williams record^: 147-32 (.821)
Marist record: 28-97 (.224)
Overall record^: 175-129 (.576)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- NESCAC (Div III) Regular Season Champion: 2 (2010, 2011)
- NESCAC (Div III) Tournament Champion: 1 (2010)
- NCAA Division III National Championships: 0 (Runner-up in 2010, 2014)
- NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances: 4 (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
Awards:
- NESCAC (Div III) Coach of the Year: 1 (2010)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2021-present | St. Thomas (assoc. HC) |
| 2014-2018 | Marist |
| 2008-2014 | Williams |
| 2007-2008 | Creighton (asst) |
| 2005-2007 | West Virginia (asst) |
| 2002-2005 | Samford (asst) |
| 1991-2002 | Dartmouth (asst) |
| 1990-1991 | Hartnell (women’s HC) |
| 1988-1990 | California Baptist (asst) |
Mike Maker Facts
- Michael Jon Maker
- Born November 9, 1965
- Hometown: Salinas, California
- Alma Mater: California Baptist University (BA, 1988)
- Played two seasons at Hartnell College (CA) and then played for head coach Jerry King at then-Division II California Baptist
- Started his coaching career at CBU, spending two seasons after graduation as an assistant on King’s staff
- Returned to Hartnell in 1990 and spent one season as the women’s head coach
- Moved up to the D-I ranks in 1991, spending the next eleven years as an assistant at Dartmouth working under Dave Faucher
- Other roles include stints at Samford (under Jimmy Tillette), West Virginia (under John Beilein) and Creighton (under Dana Altman)
- Part of the Mountaineers’ 2006 Sweet Sixteen run and the Bluejays NIT bid in 2008
- Hired in 2008 to be the head coach at D-III Williams; had a very successful six-year run at the school
- Led the Ephs to four D-III NCAA Tournaments, including three Final Fours and two National Runner-Up finishes (2010 and 2014)
- Went 147-32 overall and 47-10 in NESCAC play; won the league title in 2010 and 2011, going 9-0 in both seasons
- Among those he coached was future NBA player Duncan Robinson, who later transferred to play for Beilein at Michigan
- Left Williams in 2014 to become the head coach at D-I Marist, but was unable to reach that level success
- Was just 28-97 in four seasons, never winning more than 8 games in a season or finishing higher than 10th in the MAAC
- Fired in March 2018 at the conclusion of a 6-25 (4-14) season, the lowest win total of his tenure
- Maker and family moved to Minnesota following the firing, where his wife, Erica, took over as women’s cross country coach at D-III St. Olaf
- In 2021, Maker returned to college basketball to be associate head coach for Johnny Tauer at St. Thomas, a program in its first season of D-I competition
Mike Maker Coaching Tree
- Kevin App (Williams)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division III levels