Brad Autry, who joined the Marquette University men’s basketball staff in 2008, has been promoted to the position of assistant coach for the upcoming 2012-13 campaign. Autry served as the team’s coordinator of student-athlete development in his first four seasons with the Golden Eagles.
Autry owns nearly 20 years of experience at the collegiate level, having made successful stops at programs including Baylor, Tulsa and Arkansas-Little Rock. He has coached more than 30 players over the course of his career who have gone on to play in the professional ranks.
Autry arrived in Milwaukee after spending one year at Dekaney High School in Houston, Texas. He served as the fledgling program’s head coach as DHS opened its doors in the fall of 2007. Autry directed the school’s first team to a 22 – 10 season record and also helped guide his freshman team to the school’s first district championship and undefeated record.
Prior to Dekaney, Autry spent four seasons as an assistant coach at UALR. He was the final hire of Steve Shields’ original staff and played an integral role in the early success of the Shields era at UALR. The program claimed back-to-back divisional titles (2003-04 & 2004-05) in the Sun Belt Conference for the first time in school history and the roster during Autry’s tenure featured several all-conference performers, including the league’s freshman of the year and the nation’s leading rebounder.
Autry was an assistant coach at Tulsa under Bill Self when the Golden Hurricane won the Western Athletic Conference championship in 2000 with a school-record 32 wins and a No. 9 national ranking while advancing to the NCAA Elite Eight. Before his time at Tulsa, Autry was an assistant coach for five seasons at Baylor in Waco, Texas. While at Baylor, Autry coached 1998 NBA first-round pick Brian Skinner for four years and helped the Bears to a school-record 11 consecutive wins (11-1 non-conference record) in 1996-97. Baylor finished 18-12 that season, its first in the Big 12 Conference.
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