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Assistant Coach
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First Season at UM
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Bowling Green State University, 1994
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Michael Huger enters his first season at the University of Miami and his fifth season as an assistant coach for head coach Jim Larranaga assisting in all aspects of the program. He brings six seasons of collegiate coaching experience and nearly a dozen years of professional basketball experience to Coral Gables.
In four seasons at George Mason, Huger helped lead the Patriots to the postseason every year -including NCAA berths in 2008 and 2011. In 2011, the team defeated Villanova to advance to the third round of the NCAA Tournament, earned a regular-season CAA title and posted a school-record tying 27 wins. In 2009, he helped Mason to an NIT bid and its second-straight 20-win season, and in 2008, Huger helped the Patriots to their second-highest win total in school history as they beat nationally-ranked Kansas State and won the CAA title for the first time since 2001.
Huger began his coaching career at Longwood University (Va.) under Mike Gillian, a former Mason assistant coach under Larranaga, where he spent two seasons.
Before joining the coaching ranks, Huger played professional basketball in Europe, spending two years in Holland (1994-96) and nine in Belgium (1996-2005). He was selected Dutch League MVP in 1996 after averaging 25.3 points and 5.8 assists, and went on to earn First Team All-Belgium honors in 2000 and 2004 after leading his clubs to Belgium Cup championships in both seasons.
A native of New York City, Huger is a 1994 graduate of Bowling Green State University with a bachelor's degree in education. There he played for Larranaga from 1989-93, helping the Falcons to a pair of NIT appearances. He earned Mid-American Conference honors in his final two seasons, and was a Naismith Award nominee and the runner-up for conference player of the year as a senior. As a prep player, he helped lead Stevenson High School (Bronx) to back-to-back PSAL City Championships in 1988 and 1989.
Huger and his wife, Tonya, have one son, Michael Anthony II, born in November 2011.
