Mark Dannhoff was hired as the new head coach for the Fire in the summer of 2022. He led the Potawatomi Fire to the 2023 The Basketball League (TBL) Championship in his first season with the club. In his second season, he led the Fire to a perfect regular season and playoffs (28-0) and the Fire became the first-ever back-to-back champions in TBL history. In his third season with the Fire, Dannhoff led the Fire to another TBL title, finishing the season 27-1. He became the first coach in TBL history to earn three Coach of the Year awards, winning in 2023, 2024, and again in 2025.

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 high 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 (90.9% winning percentage), 27 – 3 Playoff record (90% winning percentage), and an overall record of 107 – 11 (90.6% winning percentage). In addition, coach Dannhoff has guided his teams to four regular season conference championships, four conference playoff finals appearances, three conference finals championships, three regional championships, and back-to-back-to-back (2023, 2024, and 2025) 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 (2023, 2024, and 2025). Dannhoff was also named head coach of the 2023 Team Grant TBL All Star Team.

Prior to joining the professional ranks, Dannhoff had 30-plus years of basketball experience under his belt. He has been an assistant on eight Division I collegiate coaching staffs, including Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Georgia State, and Tulane. He has coached more than 70 players who have moved on to play at the professional level, including two players in the NBA (Linton Johnson and Sam Dekker) and four in the NBA Developmental G-League (including Ra Shawn Thomas, John Jordan, and Bronson Koenig). In addition, he previously served as a member of the NABC D-I Assistant Coaches Committee representing the Southland Conference.