Chris MacMartin will be entering his second season as assistant coach after joining the UD program in the summer of 2021. During his first season, the Spartans went 21-7 overall and 14-2 in American Rivers Conference play. UD won both the A-R-C regular season and conference tournament championship for the second straight year while making a NCAA Division III tournament appearance.Â
MacMartin arrived to UD after seven years on staff at Northern Illinois University. 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 which 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 captured a share of the MAC West Division title in the 2019-2020 season. That year, the Huskies earned a first-round tournament bye for the first time since 2006. As a graduate assistant, MacMartin helped the Huskies to a 17-win season in 2018-19, while reaching the Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2003.
MacMartin helped mentor Eugene German to a remarkable senior season in which he led the MAC in scoring, became NIU’s all-time leading scorer with 2,203 points and became just the eighth player in program history to earn All-America recognition when he was named to the Lou Henson All-America Team. German also earned First Team All-MAC and First Team NABC All-District honors.
A native of Rockton, Ill., MacMartin earned his bachelor’s degree in Community Leadership and Civil Engagement from NIU in 2017 and his master’s degree in Adult and Higher Education in 2019.
