Mike Rhoades

Mike Rhoades

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Penn State
Conference	Big Ten
Record	17–17 (.500)
Annual salary	$2,900,000
Biographical details
Born	(1972-09-21) September 21, 1972
Playing career
1991–1995	Lebanon Valley
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1996–1999	Randolph–Macon (assistant)
1999–2009	Randolph–Macon
2009–2014	VCU (associate HC)
2014–2017	Rice
2017–2023	VCU
2023–present	Penn State
Head coaching record
Overall	390–206 (.654)
Tournaments	0–3 (NCAA Division I) 3–4 (NCAA Division III) 1–1 (NIT) 1–1 (CBI)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
4 ODAC regular season (2002–2005) ODAC tournament (2003) 2 Atlantic 10 regular season (2019, 2023) Atlantic 10 tournament (2023)
Awards
Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (2019)

Michael David Rhoades (born September 21, 1972) is an American basketball coach. He is the head men's basketball coach at Penn State University, where he was hired on March 29, 2023. Prior to his position at Penn State, Rhoades served as the head men's basketball coach at Randolph–Macon College from 1999 to 2009, at Rice University from 2014 to 2017, and at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2017 to 2023.

Biography

Playing career

Rhoades played college basketball at Lebanon Valley College and led the team to the 1994 Division III national championship. A shooting guard, he still holds the records for assists, steals, and free-throw percentage. He also graduated as the college's all-time leading scorer. Rhoades was an All-American twice, the 1995 Division III national player of the year, and his #5 jersey is retired at LVC.

Coaching career

After a playing career at Lebanon Valley under Pat Flannery, Rhoades accepted his first coaching job at Randolph-Macon in 1996, under Hal Nunnally. Upon Nunnally's retirement in 1999, Rhoades was promoted to head coach at just 25 years old. He would go 197–76 in 10 seasons, reaching four NCAA Division III Tournaments and two Sweet Sixteens.

In 2009, Rhoades accepted a spot as the associate head coach at VCU . While on the Rams' staff Rhoades was a part of Final Four squad during the 2010-11 season, and part of four-straight NCAA tournament teams. VCU's record was 137-46 during this period. The Rams also won the 2010 College Basketball Invitational championship, and the 2012 CAA conference tournament championship.

On March 25, 2014, Rhoades was named the head coach at Rice University, replacing Ben Braun. He engineered a turnaround of the Rice program. Rice went 12-49 the two prior seasons to Rhoades' arrival. Rhoades led Rice to an immediate five win improvement from the prior season during his first year at the helm. Rice went 23–12 in Rhoades' third year. This was Rice's first 20 win season since 2003–04, and the 23 wins are the second-most in program history. Rhoades also led Rice to the second round of the CBI which was the program's first post season appearance since 2011–12.

On March 21, 2017, Rhoades was named the 12th head coach in program history, at VCU. During his 5 seasons at VCU, his overall records was 94–50 (0.653) and his conference record was 50–28 (.641). He coached the VCU Rams to the NCAA Tournament in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023.

On March 29, 2023, Rhoades was named the head men's basketball coach at Penn State University, the 15th head coach in program history. His contract was valued at $25.9 million over the course of 7 years. Along with his base pay the contract contains $1.075 million in incentives per year for various achievements ranging from 10 to 150 thousand dollars each. Furthermore the contract also allows for a stipend of a private vehicle, use of private aircraft, ticket allowance and a relocation allowance.

Family

Rhoades is the son of former Pennsylvania State Senator James J. Rhoades.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets (Old Dominion Athletic Conference) (1999–2009)
1999–00	Randolph–Macon	13–12	10–8	4th
2000–01	Randolph–Macon	16–10	12–6	4th
2001–02	Randolph–Macon	24–6	16–2	1st	NCAA Division III Sweet 16
2002–03	Randolph–Macon	28–3	17–1	1st	NCAA Division III Sweet 16
2003–04	Randolph–Macon	23–5	16–2	1st	NCAA Division III second round
2004–05	Randolph–Macon	17–10	13–5	1st
2005–06	Randolph–Macon	22–7	15–3	2nd	NCAA Division III first round
2006–07	Randolph–Macon	14–12	9–9	6th
2007–08	Randolph–Macon	20–6	14–4	3rd
2008–09	Randolph–Macon	20–6	14–2	2nd
Randolph–Macon:		197–76 (.722)	136–42 (.764)
Rice Owls (Conference USA) (2014–2017)
2014–15	Rice	12–20	8–10	T–7th
2015–16	Rice	12–20	7–11	T–9th
2016–17	Rice	23–12	11–7	5th	CBI quarterfinal
Rice:		47–52 (.475)	26–28 (.481)
VCU Rams (Atlantic 10 Conference) (2017–2023)
2017–18	VCU	18–15	9–9	T–5th
2018–19	VCU	25–8	16–2	1st	NCAA Division I Round of 64
2019–20	VCU	18–13	8–10	T–8th
2020–21	VCU	19–7	10–4	2nd	NCAA Division I Round of 64
2021–22	VCU	22–10	14–4	T–2nd	NIT second round
2022–23	VCU	27–8	15–3	1st	NCAA Division I Round of 64
VCU:		129–61 (.679)	72–32 (.692)
Penn State Nittany Lions (Big Ten Conference) (2023–present)
2023–24	Penn State	16–17	9–11	T–9th
2024–25	Penn State	1–0	0-0
Penn State:		17–17 (.500)	9–11 (.450)
Total:		390–206 (.654)
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

• VCU profile