Colorado Mesa University Athletics

Mike DeGeorge was introduced as the Mavericks head men's basketball coach on May 7, 2018.

He inherited a tradition rich program that was coming off of back to back losing seasons.  He has overseen a remarkable turnaround as the Mavericks have averaged over 22 wins per season while winning two RMAC regular season titles and two RMAC tournament titles and qualified for four NCAA Tournaments in his five seasons. 
 
In 2022-23, the Mavericks lost their first two conference games, but then powered through the rest of the conference season with a 19-1 record to claim a share of the regular season and be selected for their fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament.  DeGeorge was honored with the RMAC Coach of the Year Award for the 2022-23 Season.
 
The Mavericks battled through an injury plagued 2021-22 falling a half game shy of another conference championship. This Maverick group saved the best for last by setting a program record 26 wins and advancing to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the first time in program history.

The 2020-21 campaign saw the Mavericks start the season with 14 consecutive wins on way to the RMAC Regular Season and Tournament Championships and finishing the regular season ranked No. 1 in the nation. DeGeorge was named RMAC and NCAA West Region Coach of the Year.
 
A talented Mavericks squad came together at the right time during the 2019-20 season that culminated in the first RMAC Tournament title in school history. Unfortunately, the Mavericks run was stopped by COVID-19 when the NCAA tournament was cancelled.

The 2018-19 season saw the Mavericks make one of the largest improvements in the country finishing 19-10 in DeGeorge’s first season.  
 
Before heading to Grand Junction, DeGeorge was the head coach at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee for eight seasons prior to joining CMU. In 2016-17, the Lynx won both the Southern Athletic Association regular season and tournament championships, advancing to the NCAA Division III National Tournament for the first time in 24 years.  He was named as the SAA Coach of the Year while his team led the nation in assists.
 
Prior to his arrival at Rhodes, the Lynx had had 10 consecutive losing seasons.  In just his second year (2011-12), DeGeorge guided the team to an 11-win improvement, the fourth biggest in NCAA Division III that year.
 
In his third season, the Lynx won a SAA Co-Championship, Rhodes' first in 20 years.  They duplicated that feat in 2014-15 and posted a 20-7 record.
 
The Lynx also had a 3.2 or higher GPA in all eight of DeGeorge's seasons with the program.
 
Prior to his time in Memphis, DeGeorge was the head coach at Eureka College in Eureka, Ill. from 2000-04 and at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa from 2004-09.
 
In his five seasons at Cornell, he re-built a program that managed just three wins in 2005-06 to one that won a school-record 21 games in his final year with the Rams.  Recruiting and coaching Cornell's all-time leading scorer and five all-conference players, DeGeorge was named as the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year that season and guided the Rams to their only IIAC Tournament Championship in any men's sport.  They also earned the school's first NCAA Tournament appearance and posted a 3.0 or higher team GPA in all five of his seasons at the helm of the program.
 
He had turned Eureka's program around similarly raising a 2-win program into a 17-game winner in his final year with the Red Devils.  In 2003-04, they had their most overall wins in a decade.
 
Prior to obtaining his first head coaching position, DeGeorge served as the top assistant at Grinnell (Iowa) College for the 1999-00 season and at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. from 1994-99.  He also assisted Bill Knapton, a 500-game winner and past president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisc. for the 1993-94 season.
 
A student-athlete himself, DeGeorge was a 4-year member of the Monmouth College basketball team that won two Midwest Conference and four Southern Division championships while making 1989 and 1990 NCAA Division III Tournament appearances.  He was also 2-year member of the Fighting Scots' golf team and recorded the team's lowest stroke average in both 1991 and 1992.
 
He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from Monmouth in 1992 and went on to earn a master's degree from Viterbo University of La Crosse, Wisc. in 1999.
 
He and his wife Christi have four children (Max, Maya, Morgan and Madison) ranging in age from 15-21.