About Mike Garland
Born 1954. Mike Garland is an American basketball coach.
Mike Garland (born May 31, 1954) is an American former head college basketball coach at Cleveland State University. Before being named head coach at Cleveland State he was an assistant at Michigan State under current head coach Tom Izzo. Before coaching Garland was a teammate of Tom Izzo's on the basketball team at Northern Michigan University. He was named Cleveland State head coach on April 17, 2003. He was relieved of his coaching duties on March 31, 2006. Garland spent one year as an assistant coach at SMU under head coach Matt Doherty, before rejoining the Michigan State basketball staff in 2007 as an assistant coach, and later the special assistant to the head coach in 2021. Garland announced his retirement from Michigan State on June 9, 2022.
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Who is Mike Garland?
American basketball player-coach
When was Mike Garland born?
Mike Garland was born on 31 May 1954.
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Mike Garland is a basketball coach.
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