Men's Basketball
Bahar, Martin
Martin Bahar
- Title:
- Director of Scouting
- Email:
- mbahar@usc.edu
- Phone:
- 821-2216
Martin Bahar is in his second season as USC’s Director of Scouting, joining the USC staff in July of 2015.
Bahar spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach for the Fairfield University men’s basketball team. He was promoted to that position after spending the 2011-12 season as the director of basketball operations. Bahar recruited two of the top three scorers on the 2014-15 Fairfield team, freshman Tyler Nelson and junior Mike Kirkland, Jr. Nelson, a Boston, MA native, was named to the 2015 MAAC All-Rookie Team after a breakout freshman season that saw him average 11 ppg in MAAC contests, shoot 42 percent from three-point range and make 86 percent of his free throws. Kirkland, Jr., from Ocala, FL, was one of the top newcomers in the league and had one of the best field-goal percentages in MAAC conference contests, shooting 47 percent from the field. Overall, the seven student-athletes Bahar recruited to Fairfield came from seven different states.
Bahar helped the Stags earn two postseason berths, as Fairfield advanced to the 2012 and 2013 CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT). The 2012 Fairfield team won three postseason games for the first time in school history, reached the CIT semifinals and also played in the MAAC Championship game. While at Fairfield, four of his student-athletes (Rakim Sanders, Ryan Olander, Derek Needham and Maurice Barrow) signed professional contracts to play overseas.
He spent the 2010-11 season as an assistant coach at Princeton, helping the Tigers post a 25-7 overall record and capture the 2011 Ivy League championship. With that title, the Tigers advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2004 and nearly upset NCAA tourney runner-up Kentucky. Prior to 2010-11, Bahar served as Princeton’s Director of Basketball Operations for one season. The 2009-10 Tigers won 22 games, won two postseason games for the first time since 1998-99, and finished No. 1 in the country in scoring defense with 53.3 ppg. While at Princeton, Bahar coached Ian Hummer and Douglas Davis, two players who finished as the second and third all-time leading scorers, respectively, in school history behind only the legendary Bill Bradley.
From 2006-2009, Bahar was at Georgetown under head coach John Thompson III, where he served as a graduate assistant from 2006-08 and then as the video coordinator in 2008-09. The 2006-07 Hoyas, led by current NBA players Jeff Green and Roy Hibbert, finished 30-7, won the Big East Tournament, and reached the 2007 Final Four. The program won back-to-back Big East regular season championships in 2007 and 2008 while Bahar was a member of the staff. He earned his master’s degree in Communications, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown in 2008.
He was an undergraduate manager at Vanderbilt University until his graduation in 2006. Bahar completed a double-major in Communications and Spanish at Vanderbilt.
Bahar, a native of Potomac, Md., is married to the former Terrill Keiner who graduated from USC in 2008. The couple had their first child, Beverly Lila, this past offseason
Bahar spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach for the Fairfield University men’s basketball team. He was promoted to that position after spending the 2011-12 season as the director of basketball operations. Bahar recruited two of the top three scorers on the 2014-15 Fairfield team, freshman Tyler Nelson and junior Mike Kirkland, Jr. Nelson, a Boston, MA native, was named to the 2015 MAAC All-Rookie Team after a breakout freshman season that saw him average 11 ppg in MAAC contests, shoot 42 percent from three-point range and make 86 percent of his free throws. Kirkland, Jr., from Ocala, FL, was one of the top newcomers in the league and had one of the best field-goal percentages in MAAC conference contests, shooting 47 percent from the field. Overall, the seven student-athletes Bahar recruited to Fairfield came from seven different states.
Bahar helped the Stags earn two postseason berths, as Fairfield advanced to the 2012 and 2013 CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT). The 2012 Fairfield team won three postseason games for the first time in school history, reached the CIT semifinals and also played in the MAAC Championship game. While at Fairfield, four of his student-athletes (Rakim Sanders, Ryan Olander, Derek Needham and Maurice Barrow) signed professional contracts to play overseas.
He spent the 2010-11 season as an assistant coach at Princeton, helping the Tigers post a 25-7 overall record and capture the 2011 Ivy League championship. With that title, the Tigers advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2004 and nearly upset NCAA tourney runner-up Kentucky. Prior to 2010-11, Bahar served as Princeton’s Director of Basketball Operations for one season. The 2009-10 Tigers won 22 games, won two postseason games for the first time since 1998-99, and finished No. 1 in the country in scoring defense with 53.3 ppg. While at Princeton, Bahar coached Ian Hummer and Douglas Davis, two players who finished as the second and third all-time leading scorers, respectively, in school history behind only the legendary Bill Bradley.
From 2006-2009, Bahar was at Georgetown under head coach John Thompson III, where he served as a graduate assistant from 2006-08 and then as the video coordinator in 2008-09. The 2006-07 Hoyas, led by current NBA players Jeff Green and Roy Hibbert, finished 30-7, won the Big East Tournament, and reached the 2007 Final Four. The program won back-to-back Big East regular season championships in 2007 and 2008 while Bahar was a member of the staff. He earned his master’s degree in Communications, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown in 2008.
He was an undergraduate manager at Vanderbilt University until his graduation in 2006. Bahar completed a double-major in Communications and Spanish at Vanderbilt.
Bahar, a native of Potomac, Md., is married to the former Terrill Keiner who graduated from USC in 2008. The couple had their first child, Beverly Lila, this past offseason
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