After spending the previous five seasons as the head coach at RMAC rival MSU Denver, Michael Bahl joins the coaching staff at Colorado School of Mines as a volunteer assistant for the 2022-23 season. The former Roadrunners star and national leader in 3-point percentage posted a record of 65-64 and 52-51 in RMAC play.
Bahl joined the program as a player for the 2003-04 season and played on teams that went 110-21 over four seasons, with two appearances in the Elite Eight. He returned to the program as an assistant coach for the 2010-11 season and during seven years as an assistant, he was a part of teams than went 173-50. During his time on campus as a player, assistant or head coach, the Roadrunners compiled a record of 348-135, making him a part of 43.8% of the program's 795 wins at the Division II level.
Now in his 14th season as a college coach, he has been to five NCAA Division II tournaments and three regional championships along with three Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular-season championships and two RMAC tournament championships.
In his final season at the helm of the Roadrunners, he led the program to a 17-12 record and went 11-11 in RMAC play, highlighted by an 87-81 win over #13/15 Regis on February 5. He coached Laolu Oke to back-to-back RMAC Defensive Player of the Year, First team All-Conference and First Team All-Region honors, while Miles Gibson and Tyrei Randle were named Honorable Mention All-RMAC selections.
After returning to the program ahead of the 2010-11 season, Bahl spent seven seasons as an assistant coach and helped the Roadrunners post a record of 173-50 and make an appearance in the national championship game along with two more appearances in the national quarterfinals. He helped recruit and coach Division II national players of the year Brandon Jefferson (2013-14) and Mitch McCarron (2014-15), other All-Americans in Reggie Evans, Jonathan Morse and Nicholas Kay, and three straight RMAC players of the year (Morse, Jefferson and McCarron). All of those players were All-RMAC selections at least once with Bahl on the sidelines, as were A.J. Flournoy (third team) in 2011, Demetrius Miller (second team) in 2013, Jamal McClerkin (third team) in 2014, Tony Dobbinson (first team) in 2016, and Brian Howard (second team) in 2017.
During his four-year career as a player, he helped MSU Denver post a 110-21 record and capture three regular season RMAC championships and three RMAC Shootout championships. He was also a two-year team captain and led the team to the NCAA tournament all four years. His name dots the men's basketball record books, as he lettered for the Roadrunners for four seasons from 2002 through 2007, starting 64 games in his career. He ranks fifth all-time in 3-point field goals made (168) and attempted (366), sixth in 3-point field goal percentage (.459) and only recently slid out of the top 10 in free throw percentage (.809). As a senior, he led the nation in 3-point shooting, connecting on 52.0 percent (105 for 202) from the outside. As a result, he averaged 14.9 points and was named first team All-RMAC. Bahl was also an excellent student, earning Academic All-RMAC honors three times in his career and being named MSU Denver Student-Athlete of the Year as a senior.
Bahl graduated from MSU Denver in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in history and a minor in social science. He lives Thornton, Colo., with his wife Amy and daughters Alice, Abby and Annie.
