Brown’s Martin Named Assistant Coach on Cooley’s Pan American Games Team

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Brown’s Martin Named Assistant Coach on Cooley’s Pan American Games Team

Mike Martin, Brown University
Brown men’s basketball coach Mike Martin has been named to the United States coaching staff for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.

The team will be led by Providence College head coach Ed Cooley, while Martin and Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard will serve as assistants.

Martin at Brown

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Martin has been the coach of the Bears for seven seasons.

In 2018-19, Martin was named the Ivy League Coach of the Year after guiding Brown to its first 20-win season ever (20-12) and a postseason berth in the College Basketball Invitational.

His team also posted its first ever-postseason win, beating Alabama Birmingham in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational.

In his first year as head coach of the Bears, Martin was named a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award as the nation's outstanding first-year head coach.

A member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Regional Advisory Committee, Martin was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in the Perry Category for distinguished achievement in two categories (player and coach).

Pan American Games

The Pan American Games are a multi-sport event featuring teams from North, South and Central American and the Caribbean, which are organized by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) and played every four years in the year preceding the Olympics (2019, 2023, etc.).

The U.S. squad will play five games in five days in Lima. The team will open play in Pool A against Virgin Islands on July 31 followed by contests against Venezuela on Aug. 1 and Puerto Rico on Aug. 2 before medal round play on Aug. 3-4.  

The Pool B Participants are: Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay.

Prior to the Games, the team will practice at the Ruane Development Center on the Providence College campus from July 21-26.


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