Mark Dannhoff
Mark Dannhoff is an American basketball coach who serves as head coach for the Potawatomi Fire of The Basketball League. He has over 30 years of experience. Coach Mark Dannhoff recently completed his third season as the head basketball coach of the Potawatomi Fire, a professional organization in the TBL. Dannhoff is a motivated and experienced “Program Builder” with a history of successfully revitalizing and building basketball programs as a head and assistant coach, doing so with integrity, class, and a championship vision. He possesses a prominent level of competitiveness, dedication, and commitment to success.
In just four seasons as a head coach at the professional level, Coach Dannhoff has a regular season record of 80 – 8, 27 – 3 Playoff record, and an overall record of 107 – 11. In addition, coach Dannhoff has guided his teams to four regular season conference championships, four conference playoff finals appearances, three conference finals championships, 3 West regional championships, and back-to-back-to-back TBL National Championships. As head coach at Potawatomi, Coach Dannhoff led the organization to become the first back-to-back-to-back TBL National Champions. In addition, Coach Dannhoff became the first TBL coach to be named TBL Coach of the Year three straight years. In addition to having an extremely exciting, fast paced, and explosive offense, the Fire are one of the top defensive teams in the league. Dannhoff was also named head coach of the 2023 Team Grant TBL All Star Team.
In November 2021, the Enid Outlaws of TBL announced that the team had hired Dannhoff as its head coach for the 2022 season. In his first season as a professional head coach, Dannhoff guided the Enid Outlaws to a regular season Central Conference Championship and a first-round bye in the TBL Playoffs with a 20 – 4 win – loss record. The Outlaws advanced to the Central Conference Finals only to fall short in the third game of the best of three series. Finishing the season 23-6. In addition, the Outlaws finished first in the conference for fewest points allowed per game and tied for sixth overall out of forty-four teams in the TBL during the regular season.
Prior to joining the professional ranks, Coach Dannhoff has 30+ years of basketball experience. He has been an assistant on eight Division I collegiate coaching staffs, including Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Georgia State, and Tulane.