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Patrick Jensen  |  Head Coach

Pat Jensen enters his third season as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Montana Western in 2025-26, and his eighth season overall with the Bulldogs.

Since joining the program, Jensen has helped coach two NAIA All-Americans, a Frontier Freshman of the Year, two Frontier Newcomers of the Year, 17 all-conference selections, 12 CSC Academic All-District honorees, 24 Academic All-Conference selections, and 13 NAIA Daktronics Scholar-Athletes.

In his second season leading the Bulldogs, Jensen guided the team to its most conference wins in seven years. The Bulldogs earned five Frontier Conference postseason honors, highlighted by Kyle Gruhler being named First Team All-Conference, Abi Adedo and Jalyn Stepney receiving Second Team recognition, Jacob Ankeny being named 6^th^ Man of the Year, and Kevin Bethel earning a spot on the All-Defensive Team. Under Jensen’s leadership, the team continued to show strong growth and resilience in conference play.

In his first year at the helm, the Bulldogs went 14-16 overall, notching the program’s first win over a top-10 ranked opponent since 2018 with a 71-61 road victory over No. 10 Arizona Christian.

Before taking over at Montana Western, Jensen spent three seasons at Idaho State University. His responsibilities included player development for guards and forwards, opponent scouting, and analytics. In his first year at ISU, the Bengals posted their best record since 1994, finishing 16-15 overall and 11-7 in Big Sky play.

A Missoula, Mont. native, Jensen played collegiately at Montana State-Northern from 2010-2015, helping the Lights capture two regular season and two postseason Frontier Conference championships, along with four NAIA National Tournament appearances.

He holds bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Health Promotion from MSU-Northern, and earned two master’s degrees from Idaho State University in Business Administration and Athletic Administration.