Kim Lewis joined the RMU Men's Basketball staff in June 2024 bringing over 20 years of Division I coaching experience to the Colonials.
In his first season, he was part of the staff that won a program record 26 games, took home the Horizon League regular season and tournament championship and earned the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
He arrived in Moon Township after spending the last five seasons at Mercer. While on staff with the Bears, he coached seven SoCon All-Conference players a total of eight times. He helped Mercer advanced to its first-ever SoCon title game for the first time in program history in his second season in Macon.
Prior to Mercer, Lewis served on Richmond’s staff from 2011-19 with the last seven as an assistant coach. The Spiders won 19-plus games in four different seasons during Lewis’ tenure, including 22 in 2016-17 when they made a run to the NIT semifinals.
Before Richmond, Lewis was an assistant coach at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi under his former Tulane coach Perry Clark during the 2010-11 season.
Lewis had two stints as an assistant coach at Tulane (2008-10 and 1997-99) where he coached Linton Johnson, who won an NBA Championship with San Antonio in 2005.
From 2006-08, Lewis was at Duquesne after spending a pair of seasons at Northeastern (2004-06) where he coached JJ Barea, a 2011 NBA champion with Dallas. He also coached at McNeese State (2003-04) and Xavier University of Louisiana (2002-03).
As a player, Lewis was the Metro Conference Freshman of the Year at Tulane in 1991. He set the Tulane career record for steals (242) and is third in games played (125). Lewis scored 1,384 points, the 12th most in program history.
As a sophomore, Lewis led the Green Wave in scoring with 15.4 points a game, helping the school to its first conference crown and its first-ever berth in the NCAA Tournament which included a first-round victory over St. John’s and a national ranking as high as No. 14.
A two-time member of the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame, Lewis was inducted in 2014 as an individual and in 2020 as a member of the 1991-92 squad.
In 1995, Lewis was drafted in the seventh round with the 92nd overall pick in the CBA draft by Sioux Falls. He spent 1998 through 2001 playing professionally in the Icelandic Basketball League. While in Iceland, he led his team to a championship, earning MVP and best all-around player honors in the process. During his first season in Iceland, he doubled as his team’s head coach.
A native of Angie, La., Lewis earned a bachelor’s degree in Media Arts/Communications from Tulane in 1994.
