Michael Downs Bradbury (born 1969) is an American college basketball coach who the head coach of the New Mexico Lobos women's basketball team from 2016 to 2026, Wright State from 2010 to 2016, and Morehead State from 2007 to 2010.
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. He spent the 1991âÂÂ92 and 1992âÂÂ93 seasons as a student assistant coach at Chattanooga before his first full-time assistant coaching assignment.
From 2007 to 2010, Bradbury led Morehead State to a 50âÂÂ44 record over the course of three seasons, including a 22âÂÂ11 record and a bid to the WBI in his final season as head coach. The 22-win mark set the school's NCAA-era record for victories in a season, and the 14âÂÂ4 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.
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.
On March 31, 2016, New Mexico hired Bradbury as head women's basketball coach. Bradbury was fired in March 2026 following the conclusion of the 2025âÂÂ26 season.
Bradbury was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is married and has two sons, Alex and Chris, and a daughter, Sena Nicole. Sena was adopted from Ethiopia in April 2010, shortly after Bradbury accepted the head coaching position at Wright State.
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