Trey Brown joined the High Point University men’s basketball staff as assistant coach in 2011 and has helped the Panthers become one of the marquee programs in the Big South. He was named to the 2016 Under Armour/NABC 30-under-30 Team, which recognizes some of the game's most promising up and coming young basketball coaches.
Brown helped the Panthers become one of just four programs in the nation to have won four-consecutive regular season conference championships from 2013-16. The others were Kansas, Gonzaga and Stephen F. Austin. HPU is the only Big South program to make four-consecutive postseason appearances and leads the conference in league wins and conference winning percentage over the last five years.
In 2014-15, HPU set new Div. I program records for wins (23), conference wins (13), road wins (9) and conference road wins (6) while picking up the first postseason victory in the program’s Div. I era. The Panthers matched that league win total in 2015-16 (13) and won a program-record seven Big South road victories. The Panthers won at least 20 games for the second-straight season, marking the first time in Div. I history that HPU won 20+ contests in back-to-back years. The Panthers also advanced to the National Invitation Tournament in 2015-16 for the second time in three seasons.
HPU won the Big South North Division with a team-record 12 league wins in 2012-13 and matched that total in 2013-14, winning the North Division, the outright Big South regular season and earning the league’s automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).
HPU’s CollegeInsider.com Tournament appearance in 2012-13 was the team’s first postseason showing since HPU moved up to NCAA Div. I in 1999-2000.
Brown was instrumental in recruiting freshman contributors Lorenzo Cugini and Adam Weary. Weary was named to the Big South All-Freshman team and scored the fourth-most points by a freshman in HPU's Div. I history. As seniors, Weary was named to the All-Big South second team and finished top-25 in High Point history in scoring, while Cugini led the nation in 3-point percentage for a significant portion of the campaign and finished with 1000+ career points.
Prior to HPU, Brown spent five years working with the men’s basketball team at the University of South Carolina, including the 2008-09 season when HPU head coach Scott Cherry was assistant coach there.
Brown his last season at South Carolina as Graduate Assistant, where he held an array of organizational responsibilities with the program. He worked with USC’s student-athletes on academics and schedule management, assisted with video breakdown and scouting as well as helping the staff with recruiting organization. On the court, Brown assisted with drills and practice management and was coordinator of South Carolina’s youth basketball camps.
As an undergraduate at South Carolina, Brown was a four-year student manager with the Gamecocks. He assisted with practice and travel organization, helped the coaching staff with day-to-day office tasks and assisted with the team’s youth basketball camps. Brown graduated in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Originally from Aiken, S.C., Brown has also gained experience through a variety of volunteer activities, including three years with Dave Telep’s Carolina Challenge and the Darrin Horn Ladies Clinic, which benefitted breast cancer research. Brown has also volunteered with the Oliver Gospel Mission in Columbia, S.C.
