Chris MacMartin was announced in Mid-May of 2024 as the Titans' Assistant Coach and Director of Basketball Operations.
MacMartin and head coach Mark Montgomery go back to NIU, where he was a student manager for the Huskies.
"Chris is one of the hardest working young coaches that I have been around," said Montgomery. "He was a sophomore manager for me at NIU and has risen through the ranks to become an assistant coach, and he will be a great addition to our staff and our student-athletes."
He spent last season as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, helping the team post 17 wins. Before that, he was an assistant coach at the University of Dubuque for two years. Over the two seasons, he helped the Spartans go 40-14 overall and 26-6 in American Rivers Conference play. In MacMartin's first season at UD, the Spartans won the ARC regular season and conference tournament championship while making a NCAA Division III tournament appearance.
MacMartin arrived at UD after seven years on staff at Northern Illinois under coach Montgomery. He served as an assistant coach at NIU in 2020-21, following one season as the Director of Player Development and Operations with the Huskies. MacMartin moved into a full-time role following two years as NIU's video coordinator/graduate assistant from 2017 to 2019. He joined the NIU basketball program in 2014 as a student manager, working for the Huskies for three years as an undergraduate.
During MacMartin's time at NIU, the Huskies posted three seasons that rank among the top seven for single-season wins at NIU, earning 21 victories in 2015-16 (tied for second-best), 18 wins in 2019-20 (sixth-best) and 17 wins in 2018-19 (tied for seventh-best). NIU also captured a share of the MAC West Division title in the 2019-2020 season and earned a first-round tournament bye for the first time since 2006. As a graduate assistant, MacMartin helped the Huskies to a 17-win campaign in 2018-19, while reaching the Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2003.
MacMartin graduated with a degree in Community Leadership and Civil Engagement from NIU in 2017 and his earned his master's in Adult and Higher Education in 2019.
