Brian Wardle
Brian Wardle (born October 9, 1979)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Bradley Braves
Current conference: Missouri Valley Conference (MVC)
Green Bay record: 95-65 (.594)
Bradley record: 158-138 (.534)
Overall record: 253-203 (.555)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2019)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 4 (2014, 2015, 2023, 2024)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2013)
- Missouri Valley Regular Season Champion: 1 (2023)
- Horizon League Regular Season Champion: 1 (2014)
- Missouri Valley Tournament Champion: 2 (2019, 2020)
Awards:
- Skip Prosser Man of the Year: 1 (2014)
- Missouri Valley Coach of the Year: 1 (2023)
- Horizon League Coach of the Year: 1 (2014)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2015-present | Bradley |
| 2010-2015 | Green Bay |
| 2005-2010 | Green Bay (asst) |
| 2003-2005 | Marquette (DBO) |
Brian Wardle Facts
- Brian Wardle
- Born October 9, 1979
- Hometown: Willowbrook, Illinois
- Alma Mater: Marquette University (BA, 2001)
- Played four seasons at Marquette, first for head coach Mike Deane, then for head coach Tom Crean
- Spent two years playing professionally in the NBA Developmental League and Continental Basketball Association
- First coaching job was as Director of Basketball Operations at Marquette for two seasons under Crean
- Served as an assistant at Green Bay for five seasons under Tod Kowalczyk before taking over as head coach in 2010
- Led the Phoenix to top-3 finishes in the Horizon League in each of his last three seasons (two NIT berths and one CIT)
- Hired in 2015 to be the head coach at Bradley; after winning just 5 games in his first season, Wardle’s Braves won 19 games in year three (2017-18)
- Wardle’s teams won the Missouri Valley Tournament in 2019 and 2020 to earn automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament
- In 2022-23, Wardle led the Braves to a Missouri Valley title for the first time since 1996; he was named MVC COY that year
Brian Wardle Coaching Tree
- Brian Barone (SIU Edwardsville)