Horace Broadnax
Horace Broadnax (born March 22, 1964)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Savannah State Tigers
Current conference: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) (Division II)
Bethune-Cookman record: 42-88 (.323)
Savannah State record^: 210-303 (.409) **
Overall record^: 252-391 (.392) **
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2012)
- CIT Appearances: 2 (2013, 2016)
- MEAC Regular Season Champion: 2 (2012, 2018)
- SIAC (Div II) Regular Season Champion: 0
- SIAC (Div II) Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- John McLendon Award: 1 (2012)
- MEAC Coach of the Year: 3 (1999, 2000, 2012)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2005-present | Savannah State |
| 1997-2002 | Bethune-Cookman |
| 1995-1997 | Valencia CC |
| 1994-1995 | Florida (video) |
| 1993-1994 | Bethune-Cookman (asst) |
| 1992-1993 | Florida A&M (asst) |
Horace Broadnax Facts
- Horace Randall Broadnax
- Born March 22, 1964
- Hometown: Plant City, Florida
- Alma Mater: Georgetown University (BA, 1986) / Florida State University (JD, 1992)
- After a prep career at Plant City (FL), Broadnax played at Georgetown under HOF head coach John Thompson
- Was a member of the 1984 NCAA National Championship Hoyas team, alongside Patrick Ewing
- After graduating, he got his law degree from Florida State and became a member of the Florida Bar Association in 1993
- Started coaching in 1992, spending one year each with Willie Booker at Florida A&M and Tony Sheals at Bethune-Cookman
- Was the video coordinator at Florida for one season, working under head coach Lon Kruger
- Spent two seasons as the head coach at Valencia CC (FL), going 29-31 during his tenure there
- Returned to Bethune-Cookman in 1997 as the head coach, serving in that role until his resignation in Feb 2002
- In 2002, Broadnax resumed his legal career; as of 2017, is listed as an attorney at the Law Office of Joseph Williams (FL)
- Became the head coach at Savannah State in 2005, when the program was a Division I Independent still six years away from becoming a member of the MEAC
- Broadnax has over 200 wins during his tenure at Savannah, winning the MEAC regular season title and going to three postseason tournaments (1 NIT, 2 CIT)
- The Savannah State program dropped down to Division II following the 2018-19 season, joining the SIAC
- In 2019, the NCAA vacated 26 D-I wins in total from the 2017-18 (10 wins), 2014-15 (3) and 2013-14 (13) seasons
Horace Broadnax Coaching Tree
- Clifford Reed (Maryland Eastern Shore, Bethune-Cookman)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division II levels; Savannah State dropped down to D-II following the 2018-19 season