Mark Dannhoff is in his fifth year as the head coach of the Potawatomi Fire.
With over 30 years of experience, Dannhoff is a proven, 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 his first five seasons as a head coach at the professional level, Coach Dannhoff has a regular season record of 98 – 8 (92.4% winning percentage), 33 – 3 Playoff record (91.6% winning percentage), and an overall record of 131 – 11 (92.2% winning percentage). In addition, Coach Dannhoff has guided his teams to five regular season conference championships, five conference playoff finals appearances, four conference finals championships, four regional championships, and back-to-back-to-back-to-back (2023, 2024, 2025, & 2026) TBL National Championships, becoming the first team in TBL to achieve this feat. Coach Dannhoff is also the first TBL coach to be named TBL Coach of the Year three straight years (2023, 2024, & 2025). It those honors and his success on the court that led TBL to name Coach Dannhoff as the best head coach in TBL history.
As head coach of the Fire, Dannhoff has led the Fire to four straight TBL titles, a 108-5 overall record, two undefeated seasons (28-0 in 2024 & 24-0 in 2026), and has not lost a game at home inside FireLake Arena (63-0). Coach Dannhoff has also coached two TBL MVPs (Chuck Guy-2024 & 2025), three 6th Man of the Year winners (Ricardo Artis II-2024, K.T. Bouchum-2025, & Isaiah Wade-2026), a Defensive Player of the Year (Guy-2023), four playoff MVPs (Deshawn Munson-2023 & 2024, Guy-2023, Artis II-2025, & Jahmal McMurray-2026), and three All Stars (Guy-2023 & 2024, Munson-2023). Coach Dannhoff was also selected as a TBL All-Star head coach in 2023.
Coach Dannhoff began his professional career in 2021 when he was named head coach of the Enid Outlaws for the 2022 TBL season. In his first season as a professional head coach, Dannhoff guided Enid to a regular season Central Conference Championship and a first-round bye in the TBL Playoffs with a 20-4 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 spent 30+ years as an assistant at the collegiate level. He has been an assistant on eight NCAA Division I coaching staffs, including Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Georgia State, and Tulane.