Don’t miss the newest episode of Ball State’s monthly podcast Our Call to Beneficence, hosted by President Geoffrey S. Mearns. This episode—available now—features Ball State head men’s basketball coach Michael Lewis.
Coach Lewis, a Jasper, Indiana, native and a former college athlete, has spent 18 seasons as a college coach, including the last three at UCLA. His experience also includes stints as an assistant coach at Butler University, the University of Nebraska, Eastern Illinois University, and Stephen F. Austin University, plus two seasons as a graduate assistant at Texas Tech under his former college head coach, Bob Knight.
As a student-athlete in Indiana, Mr. Lewis was a well-known prep school and college basketball performer. He was a standout guard at Indiana University (IU) under Coach Knight. In his senior year at IU, Mr. Lewis served as team captain and secured third-team All-Big Ten honors. He was named to the Big Ten Conference’s All-Star Team that toured Europe in 1997. He earned his undergraduate degree in Sports Management from IU in 2000 before playing professional basketball for two seasons, both domestically and overseas.
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