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Coach: Dr. Mike Sandifar Coach Mike Sandifar has been part of the Oakland City University Department of Athletics since August of 1987, first as the men’s basketball coach, then as the department’s director of athletics and men’s basketball coach, then as the director of athletics, then back again as the director of athletics and men’s basketball coach. From 1987-99, Coach Sandifar directed the men’s basketball program to 12 straight post-season tournaments, three at the NAIA level, then nine at the NCCAA Division I level. His teams made seven straight NCCAA Final Eight appearances from 1992-99, and in 1999, his “Mighty Oaks” won the NCCAA Division I National Championship. Coach Sandifar stepped away from coaching from 1999-2003, assuming the responsibilities of “Assistant to the President” to then OCU President Dr. James Murray, working with Dr. Murray in the areas of fund-raising, marketing, and public relations throughout the tri-state area. He continued in his position as OCU’s Director of Athletics during those four years, guiding the University’s 13 intercollegiate sports programs. In June of 2003, Coach Sandifar returned to the sidelines as the men’s basketball coach at Oakland City University, and he immediately put the “Mighty Oaks” back into post-season competition, winning three more NCCAA Mid-East Region Championships in 2003-04, 2004-05, and 2005-06, giving the “Oaks” 10 consecutive NCCAA Mid-East Region Titles with him at the helm. In 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2003-04, 2004-05, and 2005-06, Coach Sandifar was named Mid-East “Coach of the Year”, and in 1998-99, he was selected as the NCCAA National “Coach of the Year”. From 1987-99, Coach Sandifar’s teams won 236 games while losing just 127 in the 363 outings played during his 12 years as the “Mighty Oak” coach. After serving as the Assistant to the President and Director of Athletics at OCU from 1999-2003, Coach Sandifar returned to the sideline as coach of the “Mighty Oaks” and immediately picked up where he left off in 1999, taking his team right back to post- season play. OCU put together a 19-11 campaign in 2003-04, 20-11 in 2004-05, 18-11 in 2005-06, and 17-12 in 2006-07. In January of 2007, Coach Sandifar was elected to the Oakland City University Athletic “Hall of Fame”. Prior to coming to Oakland City University, Coach Sandifar spent six years (1981-87) as the men’s basketball coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, where his teams posted a 93-62 mark that included a conference championship, two conference runners-up, a third place finish, and a fourth place finish in six seasons. From 1978-81, the Winchester, Indiana, native spent three years at Averett College in Danville, Virginia, where he led the Cougars to a three-year record of 37-42. Averett was 28-106 in the eight years prior to his arrival. Coach Sandifar began his coaching and teaching career as a coach in Indiana during the rugged single-class era. In his seven years at Whitewater Twp., Redkey, New Washington, and Pike Central, his teams posted a 98-49 mark. His Mustangs’ 50-16 record at New Washington was the best three-year standard in the state of Indiana, and his 26-16 mark, including 18-3 in his second hardwood campaign, at Pike Central is still the best won/loss percentage of any coach to walk the sidelines for the Chargers. Coach Sandifar has won at every stop in his 32-year coaching career, but beyond the winning of basketball games, he is most proud of the graduation rate of his players and what they are doing with their lives “after basketball”… E-mail Coach Sandifar at msandifar@oak.edu
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