Mike Burris joined head coach Paul Corsaro's coaching staff as top assistant and recruiting coordinator in April 2024. Burris, an Indiana-native, joined the UIndy staff in Fall 2020 and was promoted to associate head coach prior to the 2022-23 season.
Burris has previous head coaching experience at Olney Central College in Olney, Ill.
In four seasons at UIndy, he coached 14 All-Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) honorees, including 2023 GLVC Player of the Year and D2CCA Midwest Region Player of the Year Kendrick Tchoua. In addition, Jesse Bingham was a two-time All-GLVC First Team and league all-defensive selection, while named an NABC All-American in 2023.
The Greyhounds returned to the national spotlight in his final two seasons, climbing as high as No. 4 in the NABC national polls. UIndy hosted its first NCAA DII Midwest Regional in 25 years in 2023 as the top seed, while the Greyhounds matched program records in total wins (26) and winning streak (18). In addition, the team won back-to-back GLVC regular season crowns in 2023 and 2024.
Burris and the Hounds made history in 2022, marking the first GLVC tournament title game appearance in program history. The Hounds went 19-11 with the league's second-best defense paired with the fifth best offense. The program excelled in the classroom as well, posting their fourth straight semester with a team cumulative grade points average of at least 3.0.
In his first year at UIndy, the program won 11 of its final 16 games to earn an improbable postseason berth, culminating in a come-from-behind win against the No. 2-ranked team in the GLVC quarterfinal.
Burris is the winningest coach in OCC history, racking up 252 wins over 15 seasons from 2005-20. After taking over as the youngest head coach in the school’s history at age 26, Burris had 68 players sign with NCAA DI and DII programs, while graduating 97 percent of his student-athletes.
Burris guided OCC to its best-ever six-year stretch, amassing 118 wins in a six-year span. The Blue Knights compiled a 25-6 record in 2018-19, defeated two top-five programs and finishing the season with a No. 14 national rankings. That season, the Blue Knights also topped the NJCAA in offensive production.
Burris was voted the Great Rivers Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2012 and the NJCAA Region 24 Coach of the Year in 2013.
Prior to his coaching success at OCC, Burris played at Olney Central from 1997-99 before transferring to Division I Cal Poly University. He then returned to OCC as an assistant coach, and obtained his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Eastern Illinois University in 2004.
Burris grew up in Owensburg, Ind., graduating from Eastern Greene in 1997. He and his wife, Lacey, have two sons, Bayden and Braxten.
