Southeast Missouri State University Athletics

Sam McMahon enters his second year as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri. McMahon was hired on May 6, 2020.

McMahon worked the last six years at Missouri Southern in roles as an assistant coach and associate head coach. 

MSSU averaged 20 wins per season and accumulated a 124-60 record with McMahon on its coaching staff. The Lions earned at least a top four finish in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) regular season every year McMahon was there and advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen in 2019.

McMahon started his coaching career at Central Methodist University. During his two years at CMU, the men’s basketball team went a combined 52-16 and earned a pair of NAIA National Tournament appearances (only time in school history to make the NAIA National Tournament in two straight years).      

After that, McMahon continued his coaching career at Missouri State. He spent four seasons with the Bears working alongside Korn. McMahon helped the Bears post a 75-60 overall record in that span, with teams winning 20 or more games in two seasons. The 2010-11 MSU squad posted a 28-9 record and won the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title for the first time in school history. 

A standout prep player at Jefferson City (Mo.) High School, McMahon spent a year at Bridgton (Maine) Academy and then played four years of Division I basketball at the University of Delaware (2004-08).

At Delaware, McMahon earned four letters, was team captain his senior season (2007-08) and earned Second-Team Colonial Athletic Association All-Academic honors twice.

On his way to earning a degree in Sports Management from Delaware in 2008, McMahon was also on the Dean’s List. After his tenure with the Blue Hens, he spent three months interning at Wilmington University in New Castle, Delaware, where he was the team’s video coordinator. McMahon boasted a perfect 4.0 GPA while earning his Master’s in Education at Central Methodist (2010).