Western Michigan University Athletics

Dustin Yoder joined the Western Michigan men's basketball program as an assistant coach in April of 2026. The 2026-27 season is set to be his first with the Broncos.

Yoder arrived with new WMU head coach Kahil Fennell after serving two years as an assistant coach under him at UTRGV. During their time together in Texas, they helped the Vaqueros to one of the biggest turnarounds in NCAA Division I, taking a team with six wins prior to their arrival and guiding them to 16 victories in their first season. In year two of their tenure, UTRGV climbed up to 19 wins and reached the Southland Conference Tournament semifinals, where it lost to eventual champion McNeese in triple overtime. 

Before linking up with Fennell at UTRGV, Yoder spent two seasons as an assistant coach/offensive coordinator at UC Riverside. The Highlanders won 38 games in his two seasons with the program, including a 22-win campaign in 2022-23 which set a new program record at the Division I level. UC Riverside had back-to-back Freshman of the Year award winners under his tutelage and he was named one of Silver Waves Media's 75 Rising Stars Impactful Men's Mid-Major Assistants both years. 

Prior to his time in Riverside, Yoder was an assistant coach for two seasons at Southeast Missouri State, helping the program to 25 wins, including 17 Ohio Valley Conference victories after the program managed just eight in the two seasons before his arrival.

From 2018-20, he served as associate head coach at Cal State San Bernardino, helping the program to a combined 36 wins, including 21 in 2019-20.

Prior to heading out to California, Yoder spent the 2017-18 campaign as the top assistant coach at UT Permian Basin. That year, the Falcons tied a program record with 26 wins and made their first-ever Sweet 16 appearance.

Before joining UTPB, he spent five seasons at Kansas State, starting out as a graduate assistant before earning a promotion to video coordinator under head coach Bruce Weber. During his time in Manhattan, the Wildcats won 100 games, made three NCAA Tournament appearances and won a share of the 2012-13 Big 12 regular season championship. 

Yoder began his coaching career in 2011 at Parkland Junior College after finishing up his undergraduate work at Illinois. He spent two seasons with the Fighting Illini as a student manager under Weber, including serving as the program's top manager in 2010-11.

Before enrolling at Illinois, he played two seasons at Lake Land Junior College in Matoon, Ill. He went to Lake Land after finishing his school career as the all-time leading scorer at Okaw High School in Bethany, Ill., with 1,517 points.

Yoder received his bachelor's degree in Kinesiology from Illinois in 2011 and his master's in College Student Development & Academic Advising from Kansas State in 2014.