Michigan hires Brown head coach Mike Martin to basketball staff under Mike Boynton

New Michigan coach Mike Boynton’s first order of business once he re-recruited the Wolverines’ roster was to hire an assistant coach to run the reigning national champions’ offense, and Boynton has found his man. Brown head coach Mike Martin has been hired at Michigan, the school announced Monday.

Martin has coached the last 13 seasons at Brown, compiling a 171-202 record. The 44-year-old nearly made his first NCAA Tournament in 2024, but Brown lost to 62-61 to Yale in the Ivy League tournament championship.

The follow-up to that season is a good reminder how difficult it is to coach at an Ivy League program like Brown in this era. Three of his five leading scorers transferred following the 2023-24 season. Brown has gone 9-19 in the Ivy League over the past two seasons.

Martin, a Brown graduate, started his coaching career on former coach Glen Miller’s staff at Brown and eventually followed Miller to Penn.

Boynton was given a two-year contract on Friday after serving the previous few weeks as the interim coach following Dusty May’s departure for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. Boynton is still in the process of building his staff. Both Boynton and assistant coach Kyle Church were in Las Vegas recruiting at the Nike EYBL event over the weekend.