Mike Brey
Mike Brey (born March 22, 1959)
Current position: Assistant basketball coach
Current team: Atlanta Hawks (NBA)
Teams coached: Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Delaware record: 99-52 (.656)
Notre Dame record: 483-280 (.633)
Overall record: 582-332 (.637)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 15 (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 3 (2003, 2015, 2016)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 6 (2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2018)
- Big East Regular Season Champion: 1 (2001)
- America East Regular Season Champion: 2 (1998, 1999)
- ACC Tournament Champion: 1 (2015)
- America East Tournament Champion: 2 (1998, 1999)
Awards:
- AP Coach of the Year: 1 (2011)
- Henry Iba Award: 1 (2011)
- Jim Phelan Award: 1 (2012)
- Skip Prosser Man of the Year: 1 (2008)
- Big East Coach of the Year: 3 (2007, 2008, 2011)
- America East Coach of the Year: 1 (1998)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | Atlanta Hawks (asst) |
| 2000-2023 | Notre Dame |
| 1995-2000 | Delaware |
| 1987-1995 | Duke (asst) |
Mike Brey Facts
- Michael Paul Brey
- Born March 22, 1959
- Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland
- Alma Mater: George Washington University (1982)
- Mother is Elizabeth “Betty” Brey, a swimmer who participated in the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Graduated from DeMatha Catholic HS in Hyattsville, MD, where he played for Hall of Fame coach Morgan Wootten
- After three years at Northwestern State under head coach Tynes Hildebrand, Brey finished his degree at George Washington, where he played his final season (as team captain) under Gerry Gimelstob
- Started his coaching career with a five-year stint as an assistant under Wootten at DeMatha
- Spent eight seasons at Duke as an assistant to Hall of Fame head coach Mike Krzyzewski
- Was part of six Final Fours and won two National Championships at Duke
- Won 99 games in five seasons as the head coach at Delaware, leading the Blue Hens to two NCAA Tournaments and one NIT
- Hired as the head coach at Notre Dame in 2000, where he has been ever since
- Has led the Irish to 13 NCAA Tournaments (has reached the Sweet Sixteen three times) and five NITs in his twenty-two seasons at the school
- Is the winningest head coach in program history, passing Digger Phelps in 2017
- In January 2023, Notre Dame and Brey announced that the 2022-23 season would be his last as head coach
- Joined the Atlanta Hawks’ coaching staff as an assistant in 2023, working under Quin Snyder – whom Brey had coached while an assistant at Duke
- Member of both the Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame and the George Washington Athletics Hall of Fame
Mike Brey Coaching Tree
- Kenny Blakeney (Howard)
- Gene Cross (Erie BayHawks, Toledo)
- Martin Ingelsby (Delaware)
- Chris Markwood (Maine)
- Mike Pegues (Louisville)
