Horace Broadnax was named the head coach for the Savannah State University men’s basketball team on April 11, 2005.
Through 14 seasons, the Savannah State men’s basketball team has showed tremendous improvement under Broadnax. As the program’s 11th head coach, he inherited a team with an 0-28 record prior to his arrival in 2005. By 2008-09, Broadnax guided the Tigers to its first winning season in over 20 years with a 15-14 record.
The Tigers finished the 2007 season with a 12-18 record earning the distinction of the most wins in Division I school history at that time. In 2008, the team set another Division I record for most wins finishing the season 13-18. The 13-win season was the most wins for any Savannah State team in 12 years. During the 2007 and 2008 seasons the Tigers have enjoyed back-to-back home wins over Conference USA member Southern Mississippi.
The 2011-12 Tigers reached another milestone, winning the first ever Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Regular Season Championship with a 14-2 conference record. The team also earned the University its first ever automatic bid to the National Invitational Tournament (NIT). They finished the season 19-15 overall—the best record any team as posted in the Broadnax era. The Tigers repeated in 2018, claiming the MEAC Regular Season Championship with an 11-4 record.
During the 2019-20 season, Broadnax shepherded his program’s transition to NCAA Division II and back to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC). In their first year back in the SIAC, the Tigers finished the season with a 10-9 conference record.
Broadnax came to Savannah State after practicing law for three years. He was the head men’s basketball coach at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla., from 1997 until 2002. The Plant City, Fla., native is credited with reviving the men’s basketball program at Bethune-Cookman College.
During his second year as head coach at Bethune-Cookman, Broadnax was voted the men’s Coach of the Year in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) after turning around a team that finished 1-26 in his first year as coach to a fifth-place finish with a 10-9 conference record. Broadnax earned the title again after the men’s team earned its first number one ranking in the MEAC during the 1999-2000 regular season. Broadnax stepped down in 2002 for family reasons.
Prior to joining Bethune-Cookman College, Broadnax was the head men’s basketball coach at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Fla., for two years, where he recorded the school’s first 20-win season in 1996-97. He also worked as the video coordinator for the men’s basketball team at the University of Florida and held assistant basketball coaching positions at Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Fla.
Broadnax made a name for himself as a point guard during his college career by helping lead Georgetown University to the 1984 NCAA Men’s National Championship Title and as National Championship runners-up in 1985. He played under legendary coach John Thompson and beside teammate Patrick Ewing. Over his four-year career, Georgetown had an incredible 115-25 record, including 30 plus wins seasons in 1984 and 1985.
Broadnax received his bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgetown University in 1986. Broadnax received his law degree from Florida State College of Law in Tallahassee, Fla., in 1991, and became a member of the Florida Bar in 1993. He has been a law partner at the Orlando, Fla., firm of Morgan, Colling & Gilbert since 1998, and has worked as an attorney-at-law in the Law Office of Joseph Williams in Plant City, Fla.
He is married to Tammy Broadnax and the couple has two sons, Horace Kaleb and Randall Trent.
Full Name:
Horace Randall Broadnax
Education:
Georgetown University ’86
Florida State University ‘92
Playing Experience:
Georgetown University, 1983-1986
Member of the 1984 NCAA Men’s National Championship Team
Member of the 1985 NCAA Men’s National Championship runners-up Team
Coaching Experience:
Florida A&M College, 1992-1993 | Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach
Bethune-Cookman College, 1993-1994 | Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach
University of Florida, 1994-1995 | Video Coordinator
Valencia Community College, 1995-1997 | Head Men’s Basketball Coach
Bethune-Cookman College, 1997-2002 | Head Men’s Basketball Coach
Savannah State University, 2005-Present | Head Men’s Basketball Coach
Honors:
1998 MEAC Coach of the Year
Favorite Food:
Water
Favorite Leader:
God
