Mike Bradbury

Mike Bradbury
Bradbury in 2017.
Sport(s) Women's basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team New Mexico
Conference MW
Record 15–15 (.500)
Biographical details
Born 1969 (age 48–49)
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Alma mater Chattanooga
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1994–1995 East Tennessee State (assistant)
1995–1996 VCU (assistant)
1996–2002 Cincinnati (assistant)
2002–2007 Xavier (assistant)
2007–2010 Morehead State
2010–2016 Wright State
2016–present New Mexico
Head coaching record
Overall 193–132 (.594)
Tournaments 0–1 (NCAA)
0–2 (WNIT)
2–3 (WBI)

Michael Downs Bradbury (born 1969) is the current head coach of the New Mexico Lobos women's basketball team.

Coaching history

Bradbury served as an assistant coach at Xavier from 2002 until 2007, Cincinnati from 1996 until 2002, and VCU from 1995 until 1996 after beginning his career as an assistant coach at ETSU from 1994 until 1995.[1][2] He spent the 1991-92 and 1992-93 seasons as a student assistant coach at Chattanooga before his first full-time assistant coaching assignment.[3]

From 2007 to 2010, Bradbury led Morehead State to a 50–44 record over the course of three seasons, including a 22-11 record and a bid to the WBI in his final season as head coach.[4] The 22-win mark set the school's NCAA-era record for victories in a season, and the 14-4 conference mark in the same year set the school's single season conference wins record and was also the highest conference winning percentage in a season in school history.[5]

At Wright State from 2010 to 2016, Bradbury had five seasons with 20 or more wins and led the school to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2014, in addition to WBI appearances in 2011 and 2012 and WNIT appearances in 2015 and 2016.[6]

On March 31, 2016, New Mexico hired Bradbury as head women's basketball coach.[7] In Bradbury's first season, New Mexico went 15–15 (10–8 Mountain West Conference).

Personal life

Bradbury was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[8] He is married and has one son, Alex, and a daughter, Sena Nicole. Sena was adopted from Ethiopia in April 2010, shortly after Bradbury accepted the head coaching position at Wright State.[9]

Head coaching record

Sources:

  • 2017-18 Mountain West Women's Basketball Standings[10]
  • 2017-18 Women's Basketball Schedule[11]
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Morehead State Eagles (Ohio Valley Conference) (2007–2010)
2007–08 Morehead State 11–199–11T–6th
2008–09 Morehead State 17–1411–74th
2009–10 Morehead State 22–1114–42ndWBI First Round
Morehead State: 50–44 (.532)34–22 (.607)
Wright State Raiders (Horizon League) (2010–2016)
2010–11 Wright State 20–1311–74thWBI Second Round
2011–12 Wright State 21–1312–63rdWBI Second Round
2012–13 Wright State 12–186–105th
2013–14 Wright State 26–912–42ndNCAA First Round
2014–15 Wright State 25–912–42ndWNIT First Round
2015–16 Wright State 24–1112–6T–2ndWNIT First Round
Wright State: 119–66 (.643)58–31 (.631)
New Mexico Lobos (Mountain West Conference) (2016–present)
2016–17 New Mexico 15–1510–85th
2017–18 New Mexico 25–1110–86thWNIT Third Round
New Mexico: 40–26 (.606)20–16 (.556)
Total:218–143 (.604)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. ↑ "Mike Bradbury". Morehead State University Athletics. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mike Bradbury". Xavier University Athletics. Archived from the original on October 29, 2006.
  3. ↑ "Mike Bradbury". Wright State University Athletics. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ NCAA Women's Basketball Coaches Career, NCAA, retrieved 2011-Aug-14
  5. ↑ "Bradbury Resigns As Morehead State Women's Basketball Coach". msueagles.com. Morehead State University. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  6. ↑ "Mike Bradbury, Head Women's Basketball Coach". New Mexico Lobos. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Mike Bradbury named women's basketball coach". New Mexico Lobos. March 31, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Mike Bradbury". University of Cincinnati Athletics. Archived from the original on June 14, 2002.
  9. ↑ Archdeacon, Tom (April 28, 2010). "New daughter melts Wright State coach's heart". Dayton Daily News. Archived from the original on April 29, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Mountain West Conference". www.themw.com. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  11. ↑ "The University of New Mexico Lobos - 2017-18 Women's Basketball Schedule". golobos.com. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
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