Mike Jordan - Assistant Men's Basketball Coach - Men's Basketball Coaches

Mike Jordan

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Assistant Men's Basketball Coach

Mike Jordan joined the Drexel staff as an assistant coach in July of 2020. Jordan came to the Dragons after working as an assistant at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., for the previous eight seasons. He will work with all aspects of the program, including recruiting, scouting, player development and game preparation.

Jordan arrived at Colgate prior to the 2012-13 season. He played an integral part of rebuilding the Raiders’ program under Matt Langel. Colgate won more than 20 games in each of the last two seasons, the first two 20-win seasons in school history. Last year, Colgate set a program record for wins (25) for the third straight season. The Raiders set a school record with 14 Patriot League victories and won the regular season title outright for the first time. Colgate finished first or second in the Patriot League standings in four of the last six years, including back-to-back first place finishes in 2018-19 and 2019-20. The Raiders have a combined record of 68-34 over the last three years, the best stretch in Colgate basketball history.

In 2018-19, Colgate finished 24-11 overall and 13-5 in the Patriot League, setting program records at the time for both overall league wins in a season. The Raiders won their first Patriot League tournament title and made their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1996. Colgate faced No. 2 seed Tennessee and took the Volunteers to the final minute before falling, 77-70.

In his eight seasons with the Raiders, Jordan has aided in the development of nine student-athletes that played professionally after graduation (Mitch Rolls, Murphy Burnatowski, Damon Sherman-Newsome, Ethan Jacobs, Alex Ramon, Austin Tillotson, Sean O’Brien, Jordan Robertson and Will Raymen). Jordan worked with 17 All-League honorees, a Patriot League Player of the Year, two Defensive Players of the Year and two Patriot League Rookies of the Year.

Before arriving at Colgate, Jordan played professionally for more than a decade. In 2000, before Jordan went to play in Europe, he was a member of the Philadelphia 76ers summer league team and was also a member of the Boston Celtics preseason team. While in Europe, Jordan played in nine different countries, including France, Germany, Israel, Italy and Spain, from 2000 to 2011. He was a member of the 2001-02 Second Division championship team and then won another title with the Bundesliga First Division team in 2005-06. Jordan was an All-Star in both the German Bundesliga League and the Italian A1 league.

While in Europe, Jordan was also a youth basketball coach in Germany, training and coaching youth ages 8-18. During summers in Philadelphia, he helped organize elite training sessions for high school and college players.

Prior to his professional career, Jordan was a three-time first team All-Ivy League selection for the University of Pennsylvania. The Quakers won the Ivy League title in both 1999 and 2000. Jordan was named the Ivy League Player of the Year in 2000 after averaging 16 points and 4.9 assists per game. As a freshman, Jordan was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. He finished his career with 1,604 career points, which ranks sixth all-time at Penn. Jordan is also third all-time with 461 career assists and is ninth in career 3-pointers with 173. He was named to the Big 5 Hall of Fame in 2014.

Jordan, who played his high school basketball at Abington Friends, graduated from Penn in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a concentration in deviance & law. Jordan and his wife, Katie, have three daughters: Eva Alice, Bella Ann, and Jayla Marie.