Mike Dement

Mike Dement
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	Big South Regular Season Championship (1995); Ivy League Regular Season Championship (1988)
Awards
	Ivy League Coach of the Year (1998)

Mike Dement is an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is married to Southern Methodist University women's basketball head coach Rhonda Rompola.^[1]

From Louisburg, North Carolina, he was the head coach for UNCG from 1991 to 1995, leading them from a team with no conference affiliation to the top of the Big South Conference regular season standings in just four seasons. In his last two seasons at UNCG, Dement’s teams went 38–18, including a school-record 23 wins in 1994–95 winning the Big South regular season title.^[2]

In 2007–08, Dement won his 300th career game when the Spartans topped The Citadel in Charleston. He enters his 23rd year as a head coach with a mark of 312–313.^[3]

On December 13, 2011, Dement stepped down as head coach of the Spartans.^[4]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Cornell Big Red (Ivy League) (1986–1991)
1986–87	Cornell	15–11	9–5	T–2nd
1987–88	Cornell	17–10	11–3	1st	NCAA First Round
1988–89	Cornell	10–16	7–7	T–4th
1989–90	Cornell	12–17	5–9	7th
1990–91	Cornell	13–13	6–8	T–3rd
Cornell:		69–67	38–32
UNC Greensboro Spartans (Independent) (1991–1993)
1991–92	UNCG	7–21
1992–93	UNCG	10–17
UNC Greensboro Spartans (Big South Conference) (1993–1995)
1993–94	UNCG	15–12	11–7
1994–95	UNCG	23–6	14–2	1st
UNCG:		55–56	25–9
SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1995–1996)
1995–96	SMU	8–20	3–11	T–7th
SMU Mustangs (Western Athletic Conference) (1996–2004)
1996–97	SMU	16–12	7–9	T–4th (Mountain)
1997–98	SMU	18–10	6–8	5th (Pacific)
1998–99	SMU	15–15	7–7	T–4th (Mountain)
1999–00	SMU	21–9	9–5	3rd	NIT First Round
2000–01	SMU	18–12	8–8	T–5th
2001–02	SMU	15–14	10–8	4th
2002–03	SMU	17–13	11–7	3rd
2003–04	SMU	10–15^‡	5–10	8th
SMU:		138–120	65–74	‡ Dement resigned 2/27/04; Lineburg coached rest of season.
UNC Greensboro Spartans (Southern Conference) (2005–2011)
2005–06	UNCG	12–19	4–10	5th (North)
2006–07	UNCG	16–14	12–6	2nd (North)
2007–08	UNCG	19–12	12–8	3rd (North)
2008–09	UNCG	5–25	4–16	6th (North)
2009–10	UNCG	8–23	6–12	5th (North)
2010–11	UNCG	7–24	6–12	5th (North)
2011–12	UNCG	2–8^‡	0–3	6th (North)
UNCG:		69–125	44–67	‡ Dement resigned 12/13/11; Miller coached rest of season.
Total:		329–368
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

Coaching Tree

Wes Miller - Currently the head coach at UNCG. Was assistant under Dement from 2010 until Dement resigned on December 13, 2011

References

^ "Dement, Rompola honeymoon includes lots of phone calls, airline miles". ESPN. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
^ 2009-10 UNCG Men's Basketball Media Guide
^ "Mike Dement Bio". UNCG. Retrieved December 21, 2009. ^{[dead link]}
^ "Mike Dement steps aside as UNCG men's basketball coach". uncgspartans.com. Retrieved 13 December 2011.

UNC Greensboro - Official athletics website

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[1] "Dement, Rompola honeymoon includes lots of phone calls, airline miles". ESPN. Retrieved December 21, 2009.

[2] 2009-10 UNCG Men's Basketball Media Guide

[3] "Mike Dement Bio". UNCG. Retrieved December 21, 2009. ^{[dead link]}

[4] "Mike Dement steps aside as UNCG men's basketball coach". uncgspartans.com. Retrieved 13 December 2011.

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