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Biography
Mike Dement (born April 10, 1954) is an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dement played college basketball at Duke. He is married to Southern Methodist University women's basketball head coach Rhonda Rompola.
From Louisburg, North Carolina, he was the head coach for UNCG from 1991 to 1995, leading them from a team with no conference affiliation to the top of the Big South Conference regular season standings in just four seasons. In his last two seasons at UNCG, Dement’s teams went 38–18, including a school-record 23 wins in 1994–95 winning the Big South regular season title.
In 2007–08, Dement won his 300th career game when the Spartans topped The Citadel in Charleston. He enters his 23rd year as a head coach with a mark of 312–313.
On December 13, 2011, Dement stepped down as head coach of the Spartans.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell Big Red (Ivy League) (1986–1991) | |||||||||
| 1986–87 | Cornell | 15–11 | 9–5 | T–2nd | |||||
| 1987–88 | Cornell | 17–10 | 11–3 | 1st | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
| 1988–89 | Cornell | 10–16 | 7–7 | T–4th | |||||
| 1989–90 | Cornell | 12–17 | 5–9 | 7th | |||||
| 1990–91 | Cornell | 13–13 | 6–8 | T–3rd | |||||
| Cornell: | 69–67 | 38–32 | |||||||
| UNC Greensboro Spartans (Independent) (1991–1993) | |||||||||
| 1991–92 | UNCG | 7–21 | |||||||
| 1992–93 | UNCG | 10–17 | |||||||
| UNC Greensboro Spartans (Big South Conference) (1993–1995) | |||||||||
| 1993–94 | UNCG | 15–12 | 11–7 | ||||||
| 1994–95 | UNCG | 23–6 | 14–2 | 1st | |||||
| UNCG: | 55–56 | 25–9 | |||||||
| SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1995–1996) | |||||||||
| 1995–96 | SMU | 8–20 | 3–11 | T–7th | |||||
| SMU Mustangs (Western Athletic Conference) (1996–2004) | |||||||||
| 1996–97 | SMU | 16–12 | 7–9 | T–4th (Mountain) | |||||
| 1997–98 | SMU | 18–10 | 6–8 | 5th (Pacific) | |||||
| 1998–99 | SMU | 15–15 | 7–7 | T–4th (Mountain) | |||||
| 1999–00 | SMU | 21–9 | 9–5 | 3rd | NIT First Round | ||||
| 2000–01 | SMU | 18–12 | 8–8 | T–5th | |||||
| 2001–02 | SMU | 15–14 | 10–8 | 4th | |||||
| 2002–03 | SMU | 17–13 | 11–7 | 3rd | |||||
| 2003–04 | SMU | 10–15‡ | 5–10 | 8th | |||||
| SMU: | 138–120 | 65–74 | ‡ Dement resigned 2/27/04; Lineburg coached rest of season. | ||||||
| UNC Greensboro Spartans (Southern Conference) (2005–2011) | |||||||||
| 2005–06 | UNCG | 12–19 | 4–10 | 5th (North) | |||||
| 2006–07 | UNCG | 16–14 | 12–6 | 2nd (North) | |||||
| 2007–08 | UNCG | 19–12 | 12–8 | 3rd (North) | |||||
| 2008–09 | UNCG | 5–25 | 4–16 | 6th (North) | |||||
| 2009–10 | UNCG | 8–23 | 6–12 | 5th (North) | |||||
| 2010–11 | UNCG | 7–24 | 6–12 | 5th (North) | |||||
| 2011–12 | UNCG | 2–8‡ | 0–3 | 6th (North) | |||||
| UNCG: | 69–125 | 44–67 | ‡ Dement resigned 12/13/11; Miller coached rest of season. | ||||||
| Total: | 329–368 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||
Coaching Tree
Wes Miller - Currently the head coach at UNCG. Was assistant under Dement from 2010 until Dement resigned on December 13, 2011