Episode 66: Coach Mike Dunlap- Head Men's Basketball Coach Loyola Maramount University

  Loyola Marymount University Athletics Director Dr. William Husak announced on March 12, 2014, that Mike Dunlap, a 1980 graduate of LMU, has been hired as the 26th head coach of the men's basketball program.  Dunlap returns to the Westchester campus with more than 30 years of college and NBA coaching experience. Coach Dunlap was the head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats for the 2012-2013 season, becoming the first coach in NBA history to win three-times as many games as the year before.  During that season, the Bobcats set franchise records for the most fast break points and the least number of turnovers per game.  Before arriving in Charlotte, Coach spent six years as an assistant coach in the professional and college ranks.  Prior to his work as an assistant, he spent nine seasons as the head coach at Metropolitan State College in Denver, leading his teams to a pair of Division II National Championships in 2000 and 2002 and earning NABC Division II Coach of the Year honors in both of those seasons.  Coach Dunlap, whose teams went to the NCAA Tournament in each of his nine seasons, posted an overall record of 248-50 (.832), winning five Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference titles.  In 2006, Coach Dunlap left Metro State to become an assistant coach with the Denver Nuggets under George Karl.  In two seasons with the Nuggets, he helped the team to a 95-69 record that included a 50-win season in 2007-08 that was the team’s first in 23 years.  Dunlap then spent the 2008-09 season as associate head coach at the University of Arizona under legendary coach Lute Olson and the 2009-10 season as associate head coach on Ernie Kent’s staff at the University of Oregon before joining Steve Lavin at St. John’s in 2010.  During the 2011-12 season, he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the team and served as acting head coach in all but four games while Coach Lavin recovered from surgery to treat prostate cancer.  Coach Dunlap’s previous head coaching experience also includes three seasons with the Adelaide 36ers in Australia’s National Basketball League and five seasons at California Lutheran University.   From 1994-97, he led the 36ers to a 59-33 record (.641) and three straight appearances in the NBL Final Four, including advancing to the Grand Final game in 1995. Before going to Australia, Dunlap was head coach at Division III California Lutheran from 1989-94, where his teams posted an 80-54 record (.597) and won three straight Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles from 1992-94, while also advancing to the Sweet 16 in 1992 and 1994.   His college coaching experience also includes five seasons at his alma mater, Loyola Marymount University (1980-85), one season at the University of Iowa (1985-86) and three seasons at the University of Southern California (1986-89).  http://www.coachdunlap.com/   https://lmulions.com/index.aspx?path=mbball  mike [email protected]