Doug Lewis

Head Coach, Men's Basketball
E-mail: dolewis@nmu.edu
Telephone: 906-227-2116
At NMU Since 2010

Lewis enters his third season at NMU. He is 18-34 at Northern and 143-95 overall in nine years of coaching at the Division II level.

The 2011-12 team was 9-17 overall and 5-14 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. His first season at NMU, the ‘Cats were 9-17 and 4-14 in the conference.

Lewis came to NMU from Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio), an NCAA Division II independent school, where he was with the men’s basketball program since 1998, including seven as head coach.

Lewis led his CSU Marauders to a 22-6 record in 2009-10 and into the NCAA Division II Tournament. His 2008-09 and 2007-08 squads won the Independent Athletic Association titles, posting marks of 19-8 and 21-4, respectively. Lewis was twice named the Independent Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2010. In 2006-07, Central went 22-5 and was the runner-up in the NCAA Division II National Independent Tournament. He has had five winning seasons and owns a seven-year coaching mark at CSU of 125-61 (.672).

Prior to CSU, Lewis was the assistant coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1993-98. The 1996-97 freshman class he played a primary role in attracting to UW-Milwaukee was voted “best recruiting class” in the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. He was also an assistant at Washington High School (Milwaukee) in 1992-93 when that prep team won the Wisconsin Division I state title and also the Milwaukee City Conference crown.

Lewis played at Southwest Missouri State (now Missouri State University) from 1987-89 seasons when the Bears won the Mid-Continent Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Division I Tournament in back-to-back years. In 1988, Lewis was the Mid-Continent Conference Newcomer of the Year. He was an honorable mention all-conference pick in 1989.

Lewis played his first two years of collegiate basketball at Mesa (Ariz.) Community College where he was all-conference and all-region in 1986 and 1987. Those squads captured the Arizona Conference Junior College Championship, and the 1987 team played in the National Junior College Division I Tournament. Lewis was ranked one of the five best point guards in the nation among junior college players.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in communications-business industrial in 1989 from SMSU and an associate of arts degree from Mesa C.C. in 1987.

He attended Milwaukee’s Rufus King High School and was a member of the 1984 RKHS squad that won the Wisconsin State High School Championship and went 24-0.

Lewis and his wife, Cheryl, have two daughters: Danielle and Chelsea.