Martin Named To Pan Am Games Coaching Staff
6/18/2019 12:05:00 PM | Men's Basketball
NEW YORK – Brown men's basketball head coach Mike Martin was named to the United States' coaching staff for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru on July 31 through August 4.
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 July 21-26.
Ed Cooley, the head coach of Providence, will be the head coach of the U.S. squad. Kevin Willard of Seton Hall will join Martin as an assistant coach.
In seven years at the helm of the Brown men's basketball team, Martin has changed the direction and culture of the program, with the building blocks in place to develop an Ivy Championship team.
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. The catalyst to the teams' success was defense with the Bears' defense being ranked 22nd out of 353 Division I teams behind the play of Obi Okolie '19, who was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year. His squad 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).
A four-year starter at Brown, Martin was part of the winningest class in the Bears' basketball history, posting a 63-45 four-year record from 2000-2004. He also helped the Class of 2004 to a school-record 39-17 Ivy League mark during that period -- the best by an Ivy League team other than Penn and Princeton since 1970.
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 July 21-26.
Ed Cooley, the head coach of Providence, will be the head coach of the U.S. squad. Kevin Willard of Seton Hall will join Martin as an assistant coach.
In seven years at the helm of the Brown men's basketball team, Martin has changed the direction and culture of the program, with the building blocks in place to develop an Ivy Championship team.
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. The catalyst to the teams' success was defense with the Bears' defense being ranked 22nd out of 353 Division I teams behind the play of Obi Okolie '19, who was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year. His squad 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).
A four-year starter at Brown, Martin was part of the winningest class in the Bears' basketball history, posting a 63-45 four-year record from 2000-2004. He also helped the Class of 2004 to a school-record 39-17 Ivy League mark during that period -- the best by an Ivy League team other than Penn and Princeton since 1970.
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.).
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