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 Indiana Hoosiers.

Playing career

Lewis played basketball 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

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, before accepting a job on Brad Stevens' staff at

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. He would stay on staff of the Bulldogs for both Brandon Miller and parts of Chris Holtmann's coaching stints before joining Tim Miles on his coaching staff at Nebraska. Lewis would move on to UCLA under

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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

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Head coaching record

References

External links

Ball State bio
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