The High Point University Men’s Basketball team added Assistant Coach Matt Brady to the staff during the summer of 2024.
Over the past season with the Panthers, he helped the staff lead the Panthers to their first ever-NCAA tournament appearance as the No. 13 seed and matched up against No. 4 seed Purdue. Brady helped the staff turn around an under .500 program and guided the Panthers to back-to-back outright Big South Regular Season titles for the first time in program history. High Point became the first team in the Big South since 2011 (Coastal Carolina) to win back-to-back outright regular season titles.
HPU finished with an overall record of 29-6, which tied for the most wins in Big South program history (Winthrop, 2006-07) and the most wins in HPU program history. The Panthers finished the regular season with a 26-5 record and a 14-2 league record. The 26 regular-season wins is the most in program history and tied the Big South regular-season wins record with Coastal Carolina's 2010-11 season (26-4). The Panthers also set the best win percentage in Division I era with an 88-percent win percentage in conference play and an 84-percentage win percentage in the regular season.
Brady joined the Panthers after spending the 2023-24 season with the men’s basketball team at DePaul University. He first joined the Blue Demons as Special Assistant to the Head Coach in June 2023 and was elevated to interim head coach on Jan. 22, 2024. A former head coach, Brady comes to High Point with more than 35 years of coaching experience.
Brady spent four seasons at Maryland under head coach Mark Turgeon, including three as an assistant where he helped lead the Terps to the 2020 Big Ten Championship title and two NCAA tournament appearances. While at Maryland, he helped develop five All-Big Ten selections and two NBA Draft picks.
A former MAAC Coach of the Year, Brady has 12 seasons of experience as a head coach which includes five 20-win seasons and eight with 18 or more victories. While at James Madison he racked up 139 wins and two conference championships. Brady led the Dukes to the second round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, the school’s first tournament win in 30 years, and coached 10 All-CAA players.
In his time at Marist, Brady led the Red Foxes to the programs only win in postseason history.
Additional stints in his career came at Rhode Island (1987-89), Wagner (1989-93) and Saint Joseph's (1993-04). Brady was on staff at Saint Joseph's during the 2003-04 season in which they went 27-0 in the regular season and earned a No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament.
A native of Haddon Heights, N.J., Brady appeared in 114 career games at Siena College where he completed his career as the program's all-time assists leader and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 2003.
