Mike Burgomaster was promoted to assistant coach / offensive coordinator on Aug. 2, 2023, and is in his ninth overall season with the Auburn men’s basketball program.
He previously served as assistant director of operations from 2019-21 and recruiting coordinator / assistant to the head coach from 2021-23
Aside from his coaching duties, Burgomaster is in charge of internal operations, scheduling, on-campus recruiting and scouting/game planning. He also assists Pearl with the team’s offense – ranked No. 26 in the country in 2017-18, No. 6 in 2018-19, No. 33 in 2019-20, No. 38 in 2020-21, No. 25 in 2021-22, No. 46 in 2022-03 and No. 10 in 2023-24 – according to Ken Pomeroy’s Offense Rankings.
The Tigers are 66-22 overall in games he has helped scout since the 2016-17 season. Auburn has also made five NCAA Tournament appearances, won four SEC Championship titles and produced six NBA Draft picks since his arrival on The Plains.
Prior to joining the staff in a full-time capacity, he was a graduate assistant for the Tigers – a position for which he was recognized as the Managers on A Mission Graduate Assistant of the Year in 2018.
Last season, Auburn compiled a 27-8 overall record which marked the fourth-most wins in school history. The Tigers claimed the SEC Tournament Championship title and league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by defeating South Carolina, Mississippi State and Florida. They also finished the season with the highest NCAA NET/RPI ranking (No. 5) in program history.
The 2017-18 campaign was a banner year for the program as the Tigers won the Southeastern Conference regular-season title behind a 26-8 overall record and 13-5 mark in conference play. The Tigers advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003 and earned the No. 4 seed in the Midwest Region. They also ended the season ranked No. 19 in the final Associated Press Top 25 Poll for the first time since 2000.
The following year, Burgomaster was a member of the staff during the team’s historic run to the NCAA Final Four in 2018-19. This time, the Tigers hoisted the SEC Tournament trophy and set a program record for wins behind a 30-10 record.
Auburn also became the only team to defeat Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina – the three winningest programs in NCAA history – in consecutive games in NCAA Tournament history. The Tigers would go on to finish the season ranked No. 14 in the final AP Poll.
In 2019-20, Auburn had another banner year going 25-6 overall and finishing second in the SEC. AU became one of four major programs to record three-consecutive 25-win seasons, joining elite company with the likes of Duke, Kansas and Kentucky.
Two years later and after the COVID pandemic season, Auburn once again won the SEC regular-season title, reached the NCAA Tournament, earned the program’s first-ever No. 1 national ranking and recorded the third-most wins in school history with a 28-6 overall record in 2021-22. It was Auburn’s sixth league crown in program history (1960, 1985, 1999, 2018, 2019 and 2022).
The Tigers finished the season ranked No. 8 in the final AP Poll, the highest since capping the 1998-99 campaign at No. 4. They also had two players drafted in the first round of the 2022 NBA Draft in All-Americans Jabari Smith (No. 3) and Walker Kessler (No. 22).
Prior to Auburn, Burgomaster was a student manager at the University of Miami (Fla.) for three years, before being promoted to head manager in his fourth season. Under head coach Jim Larrañaga, he had a key hand in many areas including player development, video coordination, camps, on-campus recruiting and analytics.
During his tenure, the Hurricanes reached two NCAA Sweet Sixteens in 2013 and 2016 and won both the ACC regular-season and tournament championships in 2013.
A 2016 graduate of the University of Miami, he earned his bachelor’s degree in finance and later completed his master’s degree coursework in business administration from Auburn University in December of 2017.
Originally from Westford, Massachusetts, Burgomaster and his fiancé, Amy Masingill, reside in Auburn.