Mike Bokosky
Mike Bokosky
  • Title:
    Head Coach
  • Phone:
    (714) 532-6083
  • Email:
    bokosky@chapman.edu
  • Previous College:
    Fort Lewis College (1978)
  • W-L Record:
    517-250 (.674); 30th season
  • CU Record:
    517-250 (.674); 30th season

Bio

Mike Bokosky enters his 31st year leading the Chapman men's basketball team in 2023-24. The longest-tenured coach in Chapman basketball history has led the Panthers through the transition from Division II to Division III and from an independent to a member of the SCIAC, winning over 67 percent of the time since taking over for the 1992-93 season. He is also an Assistant Athletic Director.

Under Bokosky, the Panthers posted 23 straight winning seasons, including nine 20-win campaigns, from 1993-2016. Bokosky has led the Panthers to five SCIAC Tournament appearnaces with two SCIAC regular season titles and two SCIAC Tournament titles in the Panthers' nine seasons in the conference.

Bokosky led the 2021-22 Panthers to the NCAA tournament after a successful season in the SCIAC, placing second in the tournament. A tight 78-75 win over CMS in the semi finals notched the trip to Belton, Texas where Chapman took on Mary Hardin-Baylor in a tight back-and-forth matchup, eventually falling to the Crusaders, 88-81, who would advance to the elite eight. 

In 2016, Chapman won its second SCIAC Tournament title and made its fourth trip to the NCAA Tournament in seven years. The Panthers reached the SCIAC Tournament championship game from 2014-16, winning it in 2014 and 2016. In 2010-11, the Panthers set the school's single-season record with 25 wins (last accomplished in 1935-36) and advanced to the second round of the Division III playoffs.

The school's all-time winningest head coach - a history that spans nearly 100 years – he has been named Coach of the Year by the Association of Division III Independents twice (2008-09, ’09-10) and was named the SCIAC Coach of the Year in 2016. Bokosky has had eight players named to All-West Region teams and another 10 have earned Academic All-District VIII honors - three earning Academic All-America. Another Chapman first came under Bokosky's guidance in 2016 when freshman Cam Haslam earned National Rookie of the Year honors as part of D3Hoops All-American team. Bokosky has also served as an Assistant Athletic Director at Chapman since 2002.

Prior to Chapman, Bokosky served as an assistant coach in the Big West at Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine for 12 years where he recruited and coached future NBA players Scott Brooks, Tom Tolbert, Bruce Bowen, Bob Thornton, Tod Murphy and Johnny Rogers. 

A native of West Virginia, Bokosky graduated from Santa Ana Valley High School and played at Riverside and Saddleback Community Colleges before transferring to Fort Lewis College in Colorado where he received his bachelor’s degree in history in 1978. Bokosky then earned his master’s degree in education from Cal State Los Angeles in 1983. He and his wife, Neddie, currently reside Santa Ana. Their two daughters, Tara and Karly, are graduates of Chapman.