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Mike Gibson joined the Arizona State men's basketball coaching staff in the summer of 2006 as technology coordinator and was promoted this summer to Director of Operations when Scott Pera made the move to assistant coach.
His main duties include scheduling, oganizing team travel, setting training table and practice times as well as planning player life skills seminars and on-campus recruiting arrangements. He serves as the point person for the basketball program with several departments, including residential life, academic services, compliance, marketing and media relations. Born Sept. 25, 1982, the 25-year-old Gibson is youngest Basketball Operations Director in the Pac-10.
Gibson graduated from Carnegie Mellon University (Herb Sendek's alma mater) in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 2005 with a B.S. in business administration with an emphasis on sports management.
At CMU, Gibson earned a spot on the Dean's High Honor List every semester while playing four years for the men's basketball team, the last of which he served as team captain.
He earned a 3.97 GPA at CMU and had a 4.0 in the master's degree classes that he completed at Michigan State in 2006. At CMU, he was part of five national academic honor societies (National Dean's List, Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society, Mortar Board Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars). He also was on the NABC Academic Honor Roll. He served as an athletic department management intern at CMU in the fall of 2004 and worked mainly with athletic facilities.
Gibson aided Tom Izzo's staff at Michigan State in the 2005-2006 season with scouting, individual workouts and also assisted the director of operations with all duties. Gibson also worked with MSU's scout team and diagrammed all of MSU's and its opponents' plays and tendencies. He served as a student assistant director of operations in the spring of 2006 and worked directly with operations director.
Gibson is now the Executive Director of the Herb Sendek Basketball Camps. He has worked camps at Michigan State, NC State, Louisville, Northwestern, Dayton, Robert Morris and Providence along with the Five-Star Basketball Camp.
