Mike Hatch completed his fourth season (2021-22) as the Director of Recruiting.
In his four seasons at SMU, the Mustangs won the 2019-20 Southwestern Showdown, and earned a bid to the NIT in 2021 and 2022. SMU has nine All-American Athletic Conference honors in that span, including 2021-22 American Athlletic?Conference Player of the Year Kendric Davis.
Hatch came to the Hilltop with more than three decades of experience as a coach at the collegiate and high school levels, and immediately after leading Justin Northwest High School to two straight UIL 5A State final fours including the 2018 championship game. In 32 seasons as a high school head coach, he has an overall record of 614-361 with 16 playoff appearances and 11 Coach of the Year awards. He also had two stints as a college assistant. First as an assistant to Jankovich at Hutchinson Community College during the 1997-1998 season and later as an assistant at Oklahoma State from 2006-2008.
Hatch spent the previous decade as the head coach at Justin Northwest High School. He coached the program to its first two trips to the UIL State Tournament in Austin, reaching the 5A semifinals in 2017 and 5A title game in 2018. He was also the head coach there from 1983 to 1997.
Hatch was the Boys' Athletic Coordinator and basketball head coach at Ft. Worth's R.L. Paschal High School from 2000 to 2006 and head coach at McKinney High School from 1998 to 2000.
His collegiate basketball career began as a player at Ranger College. He later transferred to Pan American University, now UTRGV, to play for Lon Kruger where he graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Secondary Education in 1983.
