Mike Doig joined Pepperdine as an assistant men's basketball coach in April 2024 on Ed Schilling's staff. He enters his second season with the Waves in 2025-26.
Doig returned to the basketball courts after seven seasons as Director of Football Operations and Chief of Staff at Indiana University.
In his first season in Malibu in 2024-25, Doig helped lead the Waves to their first WCC Semifinal appearance in four seasons as Pepperdine won three consecutive games in the tournament, knocking off Portland, Oregon State and Santa Clara in consecutive days.
A veteran hoops coach, Doig totaled an overall record of 268-186 throughout his five boy’s basketball head coaching stops while assisting and directing AAU programs and camps. He specializes on training and skill development that aids players looking to elevate to the next level. Doig also made a stop at Liberty University as an assistant coach for Mel Hankinson during the 2000-2002 seasons.
Doig brings years of leadership experience after four Athletic Director stops on the preps side throughout Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida. Prior to joining the football staff at Indiana, he held the athletic director and head boy’s basketball coaching titles at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Grace Christian Academy from 2013-17. Doig led his teams to runs in the Tennessee state tournament for three-straight years (2015-17), while overseeing multiple other successful athletic programs at Grace.
Before his tenure at Grace, Doig served as the athletic director on the college side at St. Catharine College (NAIA) in Springfield, Kentucky where the department doubled its number of overall athletic programs to 22. Several of St. Catharine’s programs advanced to NAIA National Tournaments under Doig’s watch, as both the baseball and softball teams won championships during his tenure.
As a player, Doig starred on both the basketball court and the soccer field at Clearwater Christian College where he was awarded All-American honors in 1992 and 1993 and was the runner up in both years for the National Christian College Athletics Association (NCCAA) Pete Maravich National Player of the Year awards.
Mike and his wife, Wendy, have two children, Kaylee and Cody.
