Mike Young
Mike Young (born May 1, 1963)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Virginia Tech Hokies
Current conference: Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
Wofford record: 299-244 (.551)
Virginia Tech record: 92-66 (.582)
Overall record: 391-310 (.558)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 7 (2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2022)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2023, 2024)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2012)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2018)
- ACC Regular Season Champion: 0
- SoCon Regular Season Champion: 4 (2010, 2011, 2015, 2019)
- ACC Tournament Champion: 1 (2022)
- SoCon Tournament Champion: 5 (2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2019)
Awards:
- Sporting News Coach of the Year: 1 (2019)
- Hugh Durham Award: 1 (2010)
- ACC Coach of the Year: 1 (2021)
- SoCon Coach of the Year: 4 (2010, 2014, 2015, 2019)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2019-present | Virginia Tech |
| 2002-2019 | Wofford |
| 1989-2002 | Wofford (asst) |
| 1988-1989 | Radford (asst) |
| 1986-1988 | Emory and Henry (asst) |
Mike Young Facts
- Mike Young
- Born May 1, 1963
- Hometown: Radford, Virginia
- Alma Mater: Emory and Henry College (BA, 1986)
- Played for head coach Bob Johnson at Division III Emory and Henry in Emory, VA; served as team captain as a junior and senior
- Started his coaching career right away, working as an assistant to Johnson at his alma mater for two seasons
- Spent one season assisting Oliver Purnell at Radford before becoming an assistant at Wofford in 1989 under Richard Johnson
- Was one of Johnson’s assistants for thirteen seasons before taking over as head coach in 2002 when Johnson became AD
- Navigated the program’s transition to D-I and led the Terriers to five NCAA Tournaments and has captured the SoCon regular season title four times
- Won in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament, the first ever Division I postseason win for the program
- Left Wofford in April 2019 when he was hired as the head coach at Virginia Tech
- Went 15-7 (9-4 ACC) in 2020-21 and got the Hokies back into the NCAA Tournament as an at-large
- In 2022, Young and the Hokies won the ACC Tournament for the first time in program history
Mike Young Coaching Tree
- Jimmy Allen (Army, Averett)
- Mike Boynton, Jr. (Oklahoma State)
- Mike Jones (Old Dominion)
- Dustin Kerns (Appalachian State, Presbyterian)
- Jay McAuley (Wofford)
- Darris Nichols (Radford)
- Mark Prosser (Winthrop, Western Carolina)
