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Mike Bradbury

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Assistant Coach

Mike Bradbury joined the women's basketball staff in April of 2026. He came to Louisville after spending the previous 10 seasons as head coach at New Mexico.

During his time with the Lobos, Bradbury amassed a 202-112 overall record and a 114-64 mark in conference play while becoming just the second coach in program history to reach 100 wins. Under his leadership, the Lobos have consistently contended in the Mountain West, posting six 20-win seasons, including a program-tying 26 victories in 2021-22, and ranking among the league’s most successful teams in recent years. UNM finished top three in the conference in scoring offense in eight of the last nine years (four times first).

Bradbury was named Mountain West Coach of the Year in 2023-24, highlighting his impact in elevating the Lobos into a consistent contender both within the conference and nationally. Individually, Bradbury has developed standout talent, coaching 20 All-Mountain West selections and numerous award winners, including conference Players, Newcomers, Defensive and Sixth Players of the Year. He totaled four Newcomers of the Year and one Player, Defensive, Freshman and Sixth Player of the Year during his time at New Mexico.

During the 2021-22 season, the program established several program records. UNM set the program record in made three-pointers (346), a program-best 171 made three-pointers in conference season, as well as a program-record 596 assists on the season and 292 in conference games. In addition, the Lobos made a program-high 523 field goals in conference and scored the most points in conference play in program history with 1,413 points. On Jan. 6 at Utah State, the Lobos set the program record and the MW record in made three-pointers in a game with 21, and three games later made 19 three-pointers for the second most in a game in program history. The Lobos also went on a nine-game win streak, the second longest in program history.

In the 2020-21 season, Bradbury led the Lobos to a Mountain West regular season championship, the first outright in program history and the first regular season title since the 2004-05 season. In addition, the Lobos were selected for the WNIT for the third time in four years.

Prior to coming to Albuquerque, Bradbury built a successful nine year run as a Division-I head coach with stops at Morehead State (Morehead, Ky.) and Wright State (Dayton, Ohio). Most recently with the Raiders, Bradbury led his squad to five 20-win seasons, including each of his final three seasons. During that time, Wright State has amassed a 75-28 record, the best amongst the 13 Division I programs in the state of Ohio.

Overall at Wright State, Bradbury had five winning seasons, all of which were 20-plus win seasons, in six years – a feat made all the more remarkable as Wright State had just one winning season in the previous 22 before his arrival. In the previous 37 seasons of women’s basketball at Wright State, the Raider program had tallied 20 wins just once before Bradbury led the team to 20 wins in five of his six seasons.

In 2013-14, the Raiders won a school-record 26 games on the way to a 26-9 season and the program’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament. That season saw the Raiders finish second in the Horizon League and win its first Horizon League Tournament. He followed up that by earning Horizon League Coach of the Year in 2014-15 after a 25-9 season that saw his squad lose its Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year less than two minutes into the season opener.

Prior to his time at Wright State, Bradbury was the head coach at Morehead State where he led the Division I program to a 50-44 mark in three seasons, including a watershed 22-11 season, which was the second-most wins in Morehead State history and the most wins by the Eagles in the previous 38 years.

At Morehead State he coached one Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year, along with one first-team All-OVC pick (two seasons) and three second-team All-OVC picks.

Bradbury also spent time as an assistant coach at Xavier (2002-06), Cincinnati (1996-02), VCU (1995-96), East Tennessee State (1994-95) and Chattanooga (1991-94). In his 30 seasons as an assistant and as a head coach, Bradbury’s teams have finished below .500 only three times.