Career
He is a graduate of Putnam City High School in Warr Acres, Oklahoma and went to Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee to play basketball. From there he returned to his alma mater as men"s coach for the following ten years. From OBU he was the coach at University of Texas-Pan American then back to Oklahoma where he served as an assistant to Kelvin Sampson at the University of Oklahoma until Sampson and Hoffman were found to have committed numerous National Collegiate Athletic Association violations.
Hoffman was not retained by new head coach Jeff Capel and went on to coach in the American Basketball League and the Developmental National Basketball Association. He was hired on March 27, 2008 to replace Mark Slonaker.
He led Mercer to the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship as well as the University"s first National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament victory in an upset of Number. 6 Duke on March 21, 2014.
With the victory, Hoffman is 488-239 as a men"s and women"s college coach. In addition, he previously served as head coach of the Arkansas Aeros in the American Basketball Association and of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the National Basketball Association Developmental League.
Coach Hoffman holds the distinction of being the first coach in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 1 Men"s basketball history to post a victory in each of the collegiate post season basketball tournaments.
Hoffman is a Christian. Hoffman and Mercer President William Doctorate. Underwood are both graduates of Oklahoma Baptist University.
