Michael Larkin completed his first season as a part-time assistant coach with the Saint Michael's men's basketball team in 2012-13 before being promoted to a full-time position on March 18, 2013.

Larkin served as a graduate intern for the past two school years at Rutgers University at Newark, helping the Division III Scarlet Raiders post a cumulative 33-21 mark while twice competing in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Metro Tournament, including advancing to the 2011 title game. He was involved in numerous aspects of the program, including recruiting and scouting opposing teams.

During the 2009-10 school year, Larkin was an assistant coach at Bard (N.Y.) College. Since 2009, he has also been a coach and commissioner in the Hoop Group, a basketball camp based out of Pennsylvania.

As an upperclassman at Albright (Pa.) College, Larkin appeared in 35 games between 2007-08 and 2008-09 while helping the squad go 17-9 each season, advancing as far as the ECAC Southern Tournament championship game during his junior year. A Jacob Albright Scholar in 2006, Larkin earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and Spanish before completing his master's degree in public administration at Rutgers-Newark in 2012.