Bryan Martin enters his first season with the USC Upstate men's basketball program in 2024-25.
Martin joins the Spartans following a 12-year run as the head coach at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, leading the Kohwaks to a 22-6 mark this past season. In 2023-24, Coe College earned a share of the American Rivers Conference Regular Season Championship, going 13-3 in league play before earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament and advancing to the Round of 32, closing the season ranked No. 23 in the D3Hoops.com National Poll.
The Kohawks trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2023-24 marked the second straight appearance for Coe College after earning the program's first trip since 1976 behind a berth in 2022-23. The berth followed the Kohawks' first-ever A-R-C Tournament Championship, coming as the team won five straight games in the postseason, including three straight road victories for the title upon entering the tournament as the No. 6 seed.
Martin also led Coe College to its first 20-win season since 2005-06 during the 2021-22 campaign, finishing the year 20-7 overall and 11-5 in the A-R-C. He stands as the winningest coach in Coe College history as his team won 166 games during his 12-season tenure with 19 of his players earning a combined 30 All-Conference honors while also taking home three A-R-C Defensive Player of the Year accolades. His Kohawk teams also excelled in the classroom, earning 11 consecutive National Association of Basketball Coaches Team Excellence Awards.
Before joining the Coe College program, Martin spent four seasons as the Associate Head Coach at North Dakota, helping the Fighting Hawks transition to NCAA Division I, serving with the program during its first four years at the D1 level. He helped North Dakota to 60 wins during his four seasons, including leading the program to two of its three winningest seasons since joining the D1 ranks, winning a pair of Great West Conference Championships, and earning consecutive CollegeInsider.com National Tournament bids.
Martin joined the Fighting Hawks following a three-season stint as the head coach at Northern Iowa Area Community College, accruing 50 wins, including a school-record 22 victories during the 2006-07 campaign, finishing the season with a No. 15 ranking. Before joining NIACC, he had coaching stints at Indian Hills Community College (2002-05), Simpson College (2001-02), and South Dakota (1999-01).
A three-year letterwinner at Simpson College—playing alongside Richter—Martin graduated from Simpson College in 1999 before earning his master's from South Dakota in 2001. He and his wife, Angie, have three children, Pearson, Evan, and Kellan.
