University of Denver Athletics

Max Bent enters his second season as the Director of Basketball Operations at the University of Denver in 2020-21.

In his first year with the program, Bent handled all logistics of travel, scheduling, meals and lodging of the team on the road. He also was responsible for handling all film and video editing and scheduling practice times and plans throughout the year for both home and away contests.
 
Bent served as an assistant coach at the University of Charleston in 2018-19. In his lone year with the program, Bent helped propel the Golden Eagles to only its second 20-win regular season in the last 17 years. As a team Charleston finished second in the country in field goal percentage with a mark of 52.1% from the field and scored an average of 86.6 points per game which was good enough to finish the season as the 18^th highest scoring offense in the country. Bent’s responsibilities included being the guards/wings position coach, scouting of upcoming opponents, recruiting, fundraising, being the point person for social outreach, running the program’s social media accounts, compliance liaison, and serving as an academic coordinator.
 
Prior to his time at the University of Charleston, Bent served as a Graduate Assistant at the University of Detroit Mercy for the 2017-18 season under then head coach Bacari Alexander. While with the program he had a multitude of responsibilities. These duties included scouting upcoming opponents through film and disseminating that information to the coaching staff, creating style of play videos, helping to plan and carry out summer camps, and leading crowdfunding campaigns. He was also an instrumental part to helping develop the program’s student manager program.
 
Bent attended the University of Michigan from 2013 to 2017 where he served as a student manager on John Beilein’s staff for all four years and was named the head student manager for his senior year. He performed tasks with the Director of Basketball Operations, Director of Player Personnel, Video Analyst, and Graduate Manager. He also was an integral part to the development of the student manager program as he was a focal point in the interviewing and hiring process in the 2016-17 season.
 
He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in Sport Management in 2017.
 
Bent is originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan where he graduated from Comstock Park High School.