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Head Coach
Dane Fife
 On March
24, 2005, Dane Fife, at 25, became the youngest Head Coach in NCAA Division-I Basketball.
Employing the same work ethic he displayed as a member of the Indiana University basketball team, Fife set out to put IPFW on the course to becoming a winning program.
In his first year alone, Fife's Mastodons won a school Division-I record 10 games, including an upset of interstate rival Indiana State in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Beginning his second season at the helm, Fife will look to continue to build upon last year's successes.
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.
IPFW
Assistant Coaches
Associate
Head Coach
Jeff Tungate
Associate Head Coach Jeff Tungate begins his second season at IPFW.
In 2004-05, Tungate was an assistant on the staff at Oakland University,
helping the Golden Griz earn a birth in the NCAA Tournament.
Prior
to joining the Oakland staff, he was the head coach at Lincoln
Memorial University in Tennessee for five seasons. While with the
Railsplitters he compiled a 60-74 record, including a 19-10 mark
in the 2002-03 season, the most wins for the school in 15 years.
Prior to taking over as head coach, Tungate spent one season as
an assistant for Lincoln Memorial, helping guide the team to a
17-10 record and a Gulf South Conference-East championship. Before
moving to Tennessee, Tungate was an assistant coach at Rochester
College for three seasons.
 Assistant
Coach
Tony Jasick
Jasick spent last season on the Middle Tennessee staff as a graduate assistant
after spending the previous three years as an NCAA Division II assistant, most
recently at Newberry College.
Jasick began his coaching career as a volunteer
assistant at the University of North Alabama (Gulf South Conference), where he
worked under the school's all-time winningest coach, Gary Elliot.
He spent three years as an NCAA Division II assistant and helped lead Newberry College
to the program's most wins in more than 20 years in 2003-04. Newberry also made
its first appearance in the conference tournament championship game last season.
 Assistant
Coach
Terry Johnson
Former IPFW assistant basketball coach Terry Johnson has returned to the Mastodons program.
Johnson spent last year on the men's basketball staff at Butler University.
He joined head coach Todd Lickliter’s staff as coordinator of basketball operations during the summer of 2004. He handled administrative and operational duties for the Bulldogs, including team travel, and he worked closely with the Blue Team, Butler’s men’s basketball booster organization. Johnson also had duties with Butler’s summer basketball camps.
He has also coached at Auburn (2003-04), Lincoln Trail Junior College (2001-03), Indiana Tech (1999-2001), and at IPFW in the 1997-1999 seasons under then head coach John Williams.
Johnson played both basketball and baseball at Lincoln Trail in Robinson, Ill. from 1992-94. He was the first Lincoln Trail athlete to be named all-conference in two sports, and he earned honorable mention All-America recognition in basketball.
He went on to play both sports at Lamar University, 1994-96, leading the Cardinal basketball team in assists and steals for two straight years.
Johnson, who holds an Associate in Science degree from Lincoln Trail, earned his Bachelor’s degree from IPFW in 1998. He played baseball for the Mastodons and was named all-conference, team MVP and co-Male Athlete of the Year.
He played professional baseball with the Tri-City Posse ( Pasco, Wash.) in the Western League for two years and with the Anderson Lawmen in the Heartland League for one year.
 Director of Basketball Operations
Dan Bere
Dan Bere begins his second year at IPFW, his first as Director of Basketball Operations.
Bere recently earned a bachelor's degree at Indiana University,
and is pursing a master's degree in liberal arts.
Bere spent the four years as a manager for the Hoosiers
under head coach Mike Davis. He was a member of the 2001-02 team
that won the Big Ten and was national runner-up.
With the Mastodons, his duties include film exchange, film breakdown/scouting,
assisting in travel coordination, supervision of student-managers,
assisting with the recruiting database and coordinating recruiting
mail-outs.
Bere is a native of Hinsdale, Illinois.
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