Kansas State University Athletics
Men's Basketball
Borne, Marco
Marco Borne
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- mborne@kstatesports.com
- Phone:
- (785) 532-6531
- Instagram:
- coachmarcoemaw
Marco Borne At A Glance
Features (click on headline for link)
Hall of Fame head coach Marco Borne is in his fourth season at Kansas State in 2025-26 after being selected as the program’s Chief of Staff on March 29, 2022, by head coach Jerome Tang. Borne was elevated to an assistant coach prior to the 2023-24 season after changes were made to NCAA rules.
Borne has been part of a coaching staff that has helped reenergize a K-State program the past 3 seasons, leading the Wildcats to 61 wins, including 28 in Big 12 play, with consecutive postseason appearances (2023 NCAA Tournament, 2024 NIT) highlighted by the run to the 2023 Elite Eight.
During their memorable first season in 2022-23, Borne helped the Wildcats to their third-highest win total (26) and a thrilling run to the Elite Eight despite being picked last in the Big 12 preseason poll after three consecutive losing seasons.
Among the 61 wins at K-State are 16 against teams ranked in the Top 25, including 7 Top 10 opponents. The 16 career Top 25 wins tie for the fourth-most in school history, while the 7 against Top 10 competition also ranks fourth all-time. Thirteen of the 16 ranked wins have come in the friendly confines of Bramlage Coliseum, where Tang is 39-9 (.813) overall, including 21-7 (.750) in Big 12 play and 13-4 (.765) against ranked foes. The 13-career home Top 25 wins are the second-most in school history.
Borne assisted in the development of a pair of All-Americans in 2023 Bob Cousy Award winner Markquis Nowell and forward Keyontae Johnson, who became the first duo in school history to each earn the recognition from The Associated Press when they were selected to the Third Team. Both players were named to the All-Big 12 First Team, while Johnson was the league's Newcomer of the Year.
In addition to his work with Johnson and Nowell, Dowling has helped develop four more All-Big 12 performers in Third Team selection Coleman Hawkins (2024-25) and honorable mention picks Arthur Kaluma (2023-24), David N’Guessan (2024-25) and Tylor Perry (2023-24).
Borne, along with the rest of the staff, have capitalized on the program’s excitement by helping attract some of the top transfer classes in the country. Kaluma and Perry were high-level transfer portal additions in 2023-24, which also included a top-35 high school recruiting class. He also helped continue that recruiting momentum this off-season with the additions of five Division I transfers (Abdi Bashir Jr., PJ Haggerty, Marcus Johnson, Nate Johnson, Khamari McGriff), a pair of international standouts (Andrej Kostic and Elias Rapieque), a junior college player (Stephen Osei) and a top-50 high school senior (Exavier Wilson).
In addition to their on-court success, Borne and the staff helped the team set marks for academic success, as the cumulative team GPA (2.993) as well as the Fall 2022 (2.998) and Spring 2023 (2.903) semester GPAs were the highest in program history.
Borne has 23 years of coaching experience, including 14 as a head coach at both the high school and NAIA levels. He has served as the head coach at three different NAIA programs, including his alma mater Dillard University (2000-04), Southern University-New Orleans (2006-07) and Paul Quinn College (2009-11), in addition to a seven-year stint (2011-18) at Roosevelt High School in Dallas. He also has international coaching experience, as the head coach of the Haitian Junior National Team as well as an assistant coach for the Haitian Senior National Team from 2017-20.
Borne has helped lead six different programs to historical record-breaking seasons in his career, including a Louisiana high school state championship while coaching future NBA player Greg Monroe as an assistant coach at Cox High School in 2008. In addition to his ties in the Texas and Louisiana prep ranks, he has coached extensively in the international ranks, including in Haiti, Poland, Puerto Rico, Barbados and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A native of New Orleans, Borne came to K-State after spending the 2021-22 season as the associate head coach at Alcorn State, where he helped the Braves to a record-breaking season, in which, a team picked seventh in the preseason poll won the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) regular-season title and advanced to the NIT. It was the school’s first conference championship in 20 years, and it was the first postseason appearance in 35 seasons.
ASU posted a 17-17 overall record against one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country in 2021-22 en route to winning the SWAC regular-season title with a 14-4 mark and claiming the No. 1 seed at the conference tournament. The Braves advanced all the way to the championship game of the SWAC Tournament before falling to eventual champion Texas Southern. They earned a bid to the NIT where they lost 74-62 at Texas A&M, which lost in the NIT Championship game. Head coach Landon Bussie was selected as the SWAC Coach of the Year, while Justin Thomas was an All-SWAC Second Team selection.
Prior to his stint at Alcorn State, Borne spent three years (2017-20) as the head coach of the Haitian Junior National Team, helping the U16 squad finish second at the FIBA Centrobasket Championship in Hermosillo, Mexico in 2019. He also assisted with the Haitian National Team as they attempted to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
Borne was a high school coach at Roosevelt High School in Dallas for seven years (2011-18), helping transform a program from a 1-win season into one of the top programs in the state of Texas with the Dallas Morning News recognizing it as the best turnaround in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. His final team in 2017-18 won a school-record 22 games, climbing to as high as No. 9 in state rankings.
Borne spent two seasons (2009-11) as head coach at Paul Quinn College, an NAIA program in Dallas, guiding the school to a 21-11 record and earning Red River Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2010-11. The team advanced to the semifinals of the Red River Conference Tournament, which was the best finish in school history. He guided the school from a 2-win program prior to his arrival to his 21-win campaign in year two.
Borne had a two-year stint (2007-09) as an assistant coach at Cox High School in Harvey, Louisiana, helping the school to a 36-win season and their first Class 5A state championship in school history in 2007-08. During his time at Cox High, he helped mentor future NBA player Greg Monroe, who was named a McDonald’s All-American and a Parade All-American after averaging 21 points and 14 rebounds per game.
Borne served as interim head coach at Southern University-New Orleans in 2006-07 during the aftermath of Hurricane Katarina. Despite a 6-man roster and no home gym, he helped guide the team to a fourth-place conference finish and a NAIA national ranking as high as No. 12.
Borne also spent time as an assistant coach at West Jefferson High School in New Orleans, where he helped the school to back-to-back undefeated district championships in 2005 and 2006.
Borne was the head coach at his alma mater Dillard University in New Orleans from 2000-04. A member of the school’s Hall of Fame, he became the first coach in program history to qualify for the NAIA National Tournament in three consecutive seasons. He guided the Bleu Devils to both the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) regular season and tournament titles in 2001, earning conference and Louisiana Small College Coach of the Year honors. He became just the fourth coach in NAIA history to upset the top-seed in the first round of the national tournament with the school’s win over Houston Baptist in 2003.
Borne earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Dillard University in 2003, while he added a master’s degree in human performance and health promotion from the University of New Orleans in 2006.
Borne has a wife, Genean.
Coaching Experience
Head Coach, Dillard University, 2000-04
Assistant Coach, West Jefferson High School [La.], 2004-06
Interim Head Coach, Southern University at New Orleans, 2006-07
Assistant Coach, Helen Cox High School [La.], 2007-09
Head Coach, Paul Quinn College [Texas], 2009-11
Head Coach, Franklin D. Roosevelt High School [Texas], 2011-18
Head Coach, Haitian U16 National Team, 2017-20
Assistant Coach, Haitian Senior National Team, 2017-20
Associate Head Coach, Alcorn State, 2021-22
Chief of Staff, Kansas State, 2022-23
Assistant Coach, 2023-present
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Dillard University, 2003
Master’s Degree in Human Performance and Health Promotion, University of New Orleans, 2006
Personal
Wife: Genean
- Has 23 years of coaching experience, including as a head coach at both the high school and NAIA levels
- Added assistant coaching duties in addition to his Chief of Staff role in 2023-24 due to change in NCAA rules
- Has served as head coach at his alma mater Dillard University (2000-04), Southern University-New Orleans (2006-07) and Paul Quinn College (2009-11)
- Has international coaching experience as the head coach of the Haitian Junior National Team as well as an assistant coach for the Haitian Senior National Team
- Has helped five different programs to historic record-breaking season in his career, including a Louisiana high school state championship in 2008
Features (click on headline for link)
- Loyal and Dedicated, Borne Excited to Serve in New Capacity (K-State Sports Extra, April 13, 2022)
- 'I'm Blessed I'm Still Here (K-State Sports Extra, May 17, 2024)
Hall of Fame head coach Marco Borne is in his fourth season at Kansas State in 2025-26 after being selected as the program’s Chief of Staff on March 29, 2022, by head coach Jerome Tang. Borne was elevated to an assistant coach prior to the 2023-24 season after changes were made to NCAA rules.
Borne has been part of a coaching staff that has helped reenergize a K-State program the past 3 seasons, leading the Wildcats to 61 wins, including 28 in Big 12 play, with consecutive postseason appearances (2023 NCAA Tournament, 2024 NIT) highlighted by the run to the 2023 Elite Eight.
During their memorable first season in 2022-23, Borne helped the Wildcats to their third-highest win total (26) and a thrilling run to the Elite Eight despite being picked last in the Big 12 preseason poll after three consecutive losing seasons.
Among the 61 wins at K-State are 16 against teams ranked in the Top 25, including 7 Top 10 opponents. The 16 career Top 25 wins tie for the fourth-most in school history, while the 7 against Top 10 competition also ranks fourth all-time. Thirteen of the 16 ranked wins have come in the friendly confines of Bramlage Coliseum, where Tang is 39-9 (.813) overall, including 21-7 (.750) in Big 12 play and 13-4 (.765) against ranked foes. The 13-career home Top 25 wins are the second-most in school history.
Borne assisted in the development of a pair of All-Americans in 2023 Bob Cousy Award winner Markquis Nowell and forward Keyontae Johnson, who became the first duo in school history to each earn the recognition from The Associated Press when they were selected to the Third Team. Both players were named to the All-Big 12 First Team, while Johnson was the league's Newcomer of the Year.
In addition to his work with Johnson and Nowell, Dowling has helped develop four more All-Big 12 performers in Third Team selection Coleman Hawkins (2024-25) and honorable mention picks Arthur Kaluma (2023-24), David N’Guessan (2024-25) and Tylor Perry (2023-24).
Borne, along with the rest of the staff, have capitalized on the program’s excitement by helping attract some of the top transfer classes in the country. Kaluma and Perry were high-level transfer portal additions in 2023-24, which also included a top-35 high school recruiting class. He also helped continue that recruiting momentum this off-season with the additions of five Division I transfers (Abdi Bashir Jr., PJ Haggerty, Marcus Johnson, Nate Johnson, Khamari McGriff), a pair of international standouts (Andrej Kostic and Elias Rapieque), a junior college player (Stephen Osei) and a top-50 high school senior (Exavier Wilson).
In addition to their on-court success, Borne and the staff helped the team set marks for academic success, as the cumulative team GPA (2.993) as well as the Fall 2022 (2.998) and Spring 2023 (2.903) semester GPAs were the highest in program history.
Borne has 23 years of coaching experience, including 14 as a head coach at both the high school and NAIA levels. He has served as the head coach at three different NAIA programs, including his alma mater Dillard University (2000-04), Southern University-New Orleans (2006-07) and Paul Quinn College (2009-11), in addition to a seven-year stint (2011-18) at Roosevelt High School in Dallas. He also has international coaching experience, as the head coach of the Haitian Junior National Team as well as an assistant coach for the Haitian Senior National Team from 2017-20.
Borne has helped lead six different programs to historical record-breaking seasons in his career, including a Louisiana high school state championship while coaching future NBA player Greg Monroe as an assistant coach at Cox High School in 2008. In addition to his ties in the Texas and Louisiana prep ranks, he has coached extensively in the international ranks, including in Haiti, Poland, Puerto Rico, Barbados and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A native of New Orleans, Borne came to K-State after spending the 2021-22 season as the associate head coach at Alcorn State, where he helped the Braves to a record-breaking season, in which, a team picked seventh in the preseason poll won the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) regular-season title and advanced to the NIT. It was the school’s first conference championship in 20 years, and it was the first postseason appearance in 35 seasons.
ASU posted a 17-17 overall record against one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country in 2021-22 en route to winning the SWAC regular-season title with a 14-4 mark and claiming the No. 1 seed at the conference tournament. The Braves advanced all the way to the championship game of the SWAC Tournament before falling to eventual champion Texas Southern. They earned a bid to the NIT where they lost 74-62 at Texas A&M, which lost in the NIT Championship game. Head coach Landon Bussie was selected as the SWAC Coach of the Year, while Justin Thomas was an All-SWAC Second Team selection.
Prior to his stint at Alcorn State, Borne spent three years (2017-20) as the head coach of the Haitian Junior National Team, helping the U16 squad finish second at the FIBA Centrobasket Championship in Hermosillo, Mexico in 2019. He also assisted with the Haitian National Team as they attempted to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
Borne was a high school coach at Roosevelt High School in Dallas for seven years (2011-18), helping transform a program from a 1-win season into one of the top programs in the state of Texas with the Dallas Morning News recognizing it as the best turnaround in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. His final team in 2017-18 won a school-record 22 games, climbing to as high as No. 9 in state rankings.
Borne spent two seasons (2009-11) as head coach at Paul Quinn College, an NAIA program in Dallas, guiding the school to a 21-11 record and earning Red River Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2010-11. The team advanced to the semifinals of the Red River Conference Tournament, which was the best finish in school history. He guided the school from a 2-win program prior to his arrival to his 21-win campaign in year two.
Borne had a two-year stint (2007-09) as an assistant coach at Cox High School in Harvey, Louisiana, helping the school to a 36-win season and their first Class 5A state championship in school history in 2007-08. During his time at Cox High, he helped mentor future NBA player Greg Monroe, who was named a McDonald’s All-American and a Parade All-American after averaging 21 points and 14 rebounds per game.
Borne served as interim head coach at Southern University-New Orleans in 2006-07 during the aftermath of Hurricane Katarina. Despite a 6-man roster and no home gym, he helped guide the team to a fourth-place conference finish and a NAIA national ranking as high as No. 12.
Borne also spent time as an assistant coach at West Jefferson High School in New Orleans, where he helped the school to back-to-back undefeated district championships in 2005 and 2006.
Borne was the head coach at his alma mater Dillard University in New Orleans from 2000-04. A member of the school’s Hall of Fame, he became the first coach in program history to qualify for the NAIA National Tournament in three consecutive seasons. He guided the Bleu Devils to both the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) regular season and tournament titles in 2001, earning conference and Louisiana Small College Coach of the Year honors. He became just the fourth coach in NAIA history to upset the top-seed in the first round of the national tournament with the school’s win over Houston Baptist in 2003.
Borne earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Dillard University in 2003, while he added a master’s degree in human performance and health promotion from the University of New Orleans in 2006.
Borne has a wife, Genean.
Coaching Experience
Head Coach, Dillard University, 2000-04
Assistant Coach, West Jefferson High School [La.], 2004-06
Interim Head Coach, Southern University at New Orleans, 2006-07
Assistant Coach, Helen Cox High School [La.], 2007-09
Head Coach, Paul Quinn College [Texas], 2009-11
Head Coach, Franklin D. Roosevelt High School [Texas], 2011-18
Head Coach, Haitian U16 National Team, 2017-20
Assistant Coach, Haitian Senior National Team, 2017-20
Associate Head Coach, Alcorn State, 2021-22
Chief of Staff, Kansas State, 2022-23
Assistant Coach, 2023-present
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Dillard University, 2003
Master’s Degree in Human Performance and Health Promotion, University of New Orleans, 2006
Personal
Wife: Genean
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