Michael Lewis (basketball coach)

Michael Lewis

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Ball State
Conference	MAC
Record	35–28 (.556)
Biographical details
Born	(1977-07-27) July 27, 1977 Jasper, Indiana, U.S.
Playing career
1996–2000	Indiana
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2002–2004	Texas Tech (GA)
2004–2005	Stephen F. Austin (assistant)
2005–2011	Eastern Illinois (assistant)
2011–2016	Butler (assistant)
2016–2019	Nebraska (assistant)
2019–2022	UCLA (assistant)
2022–present	Ball State
Head coaching record
Overall	35–28 (.556)

Michael Lewis (born July 27, 1977) is an American college basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Ball State Cardinals men's team. He played in college for the Indiana Hoosiers.

Playing career

Lewis played high school basketball at Jasper High School where he scored 2,138 career points, and was named Gatorade Player of the Year in 1996. In college, Lewis played at Indiana University Bloomington, where he was an all-Big Ten third team selection and ranks second all-time in Indiana history in assists playing for the Hoosiers under Bob Knight.

Indiana statistics

College	Year	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Indiana	1996–97	33	20.6	.369	.316	.798	2.2	2.9	0.8	0.0	5.7
Indiana	1997–98	32	24.8	.490	.375	.832	2.5	4.7	0.9	0.1	10.7
Indiana	1998–99	33	24	.518	.349	.789	1.8	4.5	0.7	0.1	11.4
Indiana	1999–00	29	30.9	.519	.379	.774	3.9	5.3	1.3	0.1	10.2

Cited from Sports Reference.

Coaching career

After a brief professional playing career, Lewis began coaching as a graduate assistant under Knight for two seasons at Texas Tech before a one-year assistant coaching stop at Stephen F. Austin. The next six seasons Lewis would be an assistant coach at Eastern Illinois, before accepting a job on Brad Stevens' staff at Butler. He would stay on staff of the Bulldogs for both Brandon Miller and parts of Chris Holtmann's coaching stints before joining Tim Miles on his coaching staff at Nebraska. Lewis would move on to UCLA under Mick Cronin in 2019, and was part of the Bruins' 2021 Final Four team.

On March 25, 2022, Lewis was announced as the new head coach at Ball State.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Ball State Cardinals (Mid-American Conference) (2022–present)
2022–23	Ball State	20–12	11–7	4th
2023–24	Ball State	15–16	7–11	9th
Ball State:		35–28 (.556)	18–18 (.500)
Total:		35–28 (.556)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

External links

• Ball State bio