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Doug Wojcik

Title:
Associate Head Coach
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Phone:
355-1643

Doug Wojcik, a veteran college basketball coach with more than 30 years of experience, enters his eighth year back in East Lansing and his second season as associate head coach.

In the last seven seasons, Michigan State has won three Big Ten regular season titles (2019, 2020, 2025), the 2019 Big Ten Tournament Championship, advanced to the 2019 NCAA Final Four, the 2023 NCAA Sweet Sixteen and the 2025 NCAA Elite Eight. The Spartans have also extended their consecutive NCAA Tournament streak to 27 years, officially recognized by the NCAA as the nation’s longest active streak. During that time, 13 Spartans have earned All-Big Ten honors. In the 2024-25 season, Wojcik was named the Big Ten Conference Howard Moore Assistant Coach of the Year, while Tom Izzo became the Big Ten all-time leader in conference wins.

Wojcik previously spent two years (2003-05) at MSU as an assistant coach and associate head coach and was part of the 2005 Final Four Team prior to taking his first head coaching job at the University of Tulsa.

In Wojcik’s nine years as a Division I head coach, he has a career record of 178-121 (.595) during stints at Tulsa (2005-12) and the College of Charleston (2012-14), leading four teams into postseason play, averaging 20 wins per season overall, winning more than 60 percent of his conference games (88-58, .602), reaching three conference championship games and transitioning both programs to higher-ranked conferences.

During his seven seasons at Tulsa, Wojcik posted four consecutive 20-win seasons, including back-to-back 25-win seasons, advanced to consecutive Conference USA Tournament championship games in 2008 and 2009, won the inaugural College Basketball Invitational (CBI) title in 2008 and received two NIT at-large bids in 2009 and 2010. He is the all-time winningest head coach in Tulsa history with 140 victories.

Following his tenure at Tulsa, Wojcik served as head coach at the College of Charleston for two seasons. He led his initial team to 24 wins, the Southern Conference tournament championship game, an appearance in the CBI and a two-year overall record of 38-29.

Wojcik has spent 23 years as a Division I assistant coach, with stints at the U.S. Naval Academy, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Michigan State, Gonzaga and East Carolina, helping 14 teams reach the NCAA Tournament, including two Final Four appearances and five Sweet 16 appearances, along with 11 conference championships.

Wojcik has helped recruit nine McDonald’s All-Americans in his career, four of whom were first round NBA Draft picks. In addition, he has signed and/or coached 27 NBA players, helping develop 11 first round draft picks.

Wojcik began his coaching career in 1992-93 as an assistant at his alma mater, the United States Naval Academy. During his seven years in Annapolis, Navy won the Patriot League four times and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 1994, 1997 and 1998.

As a player, Wojcik was a three-year starter and team captain at Navy. He helped lead the Mids to three consecutive conference championships and NCAA Tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight trip in 1986, with a combined record of 82-17 during that span. He was an all-conference player who was named to the Colonial Athletic Association’s Silver Anniversary Team. A Navy Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, Wojcik still ranks as the all-time leader in assists (714, 7.21 per game) and scored a career-high 18 points and had eight assists during the team’s 1985 NCAA Tournament win over LSU, Navy’s first NCAA Tournament win in 26 years.

A 1987 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in physical science, Wojcik was commissioned as a Naval Officer and attended Surface Warfare Officer School in Newport, R.I. He was assigned to the USS W.S. Sims out of Mayport, Fla., where he served as First Division Deck and Engineering Boilers Officer.

A native of Wheeling, W.Va., Wojcik played high school basketball for legendary Xavier and Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser. Wojcik and his wife, Lael, have two sons, Paxson and Denham. Paxson played and graduated from Brown University in 2023, where he was the team captain and earned All-Ivy League honors. He finished his college career at the University of North Carolina as a graduate transfer, helping the Tar Heels win the 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference regular season title before playing professionally for one season in Poland. Denham played and graduated from Harvard University, where he was the team captain. He is finishing his collegiate career as a graduate transfer here at Michigan State.