Mike Leflar is an American women's basketball coach who is currently the women's basketball head coach at the University of Massachusetts. Early life and education. Leflar is from of Horsham, Pennsylvania. In 2002 he earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Boston College. Coaching career. Before coming to UMass, he served as an assistant women's basketball coach at Penn, Boston, Binghamton, and Northeastern. UMass. In 2018 he was hired as an assistant under Tory Verdi. He was promoted to associate head coach in 2021. After Verdi accepted the head coaching position at Pittsburgh, he was promoted to head coach on April 10, 2023. Through his first two seasons he has an overall record of 22–42. Personal life. He is married to his wife Kate. They have two sons, Graham and Jackson.