Michael Lewis (born July 27, 1977) is an American

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coach and former player who is the head coach of the Ball State Cardinals men's team. He played in college for the

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Playing career

Lewis played high school basketball at Jasper High School where he scored 2,138 career points, and was named

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in 1996. In college, Lewis played at

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, where he was an all-

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third team selection and ranks second all-time in Indiana history in assists playing for the Hoosiers under

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Indiana statistics

:''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

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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

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' staff at

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. He would stay on staff of the Bulldogs for both Brandon Miller and parts of

Chris Holtmann Christopher Adam Holtmann (born November 11, 1971) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach at DePaul University. Holtmann grew up in Nicholasville, Kentucky, and started his college playing career in-state at Br ...

's coaching stints before joining

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on his coaching staff at

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. Lewis would move on to

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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 Ball State University (Ball State or BSU) is a public university, public research university in Muncie, Indiana, United States. The university has three off-campus centers in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fort Wayne, and Fishers, Indiana. T ...

Head coaching record

References

External links

Ball State bio
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