Who is Evan Bradds? New Belmont basketball coach on Duke staff in March Madness
Here are six things to know about Evan Bradds, who replaced Casey Alexander as the Belmont basketball coach on March 19.
Belmont basketball has a new coach. The school's all-time leading scorer and Duke assistant Evan Bradds was announced as the Bruins' coach to replace Casey Alexander on March 19. Bradds has been at Duke for one season.
He was on two different NBA staffs before that. Here are six things to know about Belmont's new basketball coach Evan Bradds: Did Evan Bradds play for Casey Alexander? Evan Bradds played for legendary Belmont coach Rick Byrd and missed by a couple of seasons playing for Casey Alexander, who was a longtime assistant at Belmont under Byrd.
Alexander left Belmont after 16 seasons in 2011. Bradds arrived at Belmont in 2013. Alexander returned to Belmont as the head coach in 2019, two seasons after Bradds graduated.
Evan Bradds' grandfather played in the NBA Evan Bradds wasn't the first member of his family to be involved in the NBA. His grandfather, Gary Bradds, was an All-American player at Ohio State who went on to play in the NBA and the ABA. Gary Bradds, who died in 1983, played for the Baltimore Bullets from 1964-66.