Dane Fife enters his third season at the helm of the IPFW men's basketball program. He has an overall record of 22-35.

The Mastodons took another positive step forward in 2006-07 by winning 12 games, a new record win total for the program since turning Division I. Fife's squad really jelled the last half of the campaign, going 8-6 to finish out the year.

Another sign that the program is continued in the right direction was the signing of former Mastodon Tyler Best to a professional basketball contract. Best, one of Fife's first recruits, will play basketball this season in the top league in Uruguay.

In 2005-06, Fife guided the Mastodons to their best mark ever as a Division-I program with 10 wins. While the `Dons may have started the year a bit slowly, they made up for it with an 8-7 record from January on. Included in that win total was an impressive 54-46 upset of Indiana State at the Hullman Center in Terre Haute.

Fife took over the reigns of the program on March 24, 2005 after spending two years on the staff of former Indiana University Head Coach Mike Davis.

As a player, Fife was the defensive catalyst behind Indiana's 2001-02 Big Ten co-champion and Final Four team. He broke the Hoosiers' career steals record (180) en route to league Defensive Player of the Year honors as a senior. Fife also ranks among the Hoosiers' all-time top 20 in assists (307) and three-pointers (99), and his .478 three-point field goal percentage in 2001-02 is sixth on IU's single-season list. Fife also holds Indiana's single-season record for games started (37) and is tied for sixth in career games played (131).

Fife was the Gary Steelheads' first-round pick in the 2002 CBA Draft and started five of the 34 games in which he played. He averaged 3.4 points and one rebound per game.

At 28, he is the youngest current NCAA Division-I men's basketball head coach. Coach Fife and his wife, the former K. Blair Boles, reside in Fort Wayne.