The High Point University men’s basketball team added Assistant Coaches Matt Brady and Antoine Young to the staff during the summer, as announced by Head Coach Alan Huss.
Matt Brady – Assistant Coach
Brady joins the Panthers after spending the past season with the men’s basketball team at DePaul University. He first joined the Blue Demons as Special Assistant to the Head Coach in June 2023 and was elevated to interim head coach on January 22, 2024. A former head coach, Brady comes to High Point with more than 35 years of coaching experience.
Brady spent four seasons at Maryland under head coach Mark Turgeon, including three as an assistant where he helped lead the Terps to the 2020 Big Ten Championship title and two NCAA tournament appearances. While at Maryland, he helped develop five All-Big Ten selections and two NBA Draft picks.
A former MAAC Coach of the Year, Brady has 12 seasons of experience as a head coach which includes five 20-win seasons and eight with 18 or more victories. While at James Madison he racked up 139 wins and two conference championships. Brady led the Dukes to the second round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, the school’s first tournament win in 30 years, and coached 10 All-CAA players.
In his time at Marist, Brady led the Red Foxes to the programs only win in postseason history.
Additional stints in his career came at Rhode Island (1987-89), Wagner (1989-93) and Saint Joseph’s (1993-04). Brady was on staff at Saint Joseph’s during the 2003-04 season in which they went 27-0 in the regular season and earned a No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament.
A native of Haddon Heights, N.J., Brady appeared in 114 career games at Siena College where he completed his career as the program’s all-time assists leader and was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 2003.
Antoine Young – Assistant Coach/Director of Recruiting
Antoine Young comes to High Point after spending six seasons as an assistant coach with the Nebraska-Kearney men’s basketball program. He became interim head coach in November 2023 and joined the Lopers in the summer of 2018.
Young helped the Lopers to a winning season in 2019-20, as UNK went 16-13, defeating NCAA Tourney qualifiers Rogers State and Colorado School of Mines. The Lopers qualified for the MIAA Tournament, had three seniors tabbed All-MIAA and posted an 11-3 mark in the Health & Sports Center.
In a COVID shortened 2020-21 season, the Lopers went 8-14 with nearly every game decided in the last five minutes. UNK knocked off NCAA Tournament qualifier Missouri Western, swept Central Missouri and saw senior forward Austin Luger earn All-MIAA honors. UNK upped its’ win total in 2021-22 as transfer guard David Simental came in at 18.8 points per game. The team shot nearly 50% from the field and scored the same number of points (2,057) as its’ opponents. During the 2022-23 season, forward Darrian Nebeker reached 1,000 points despite being at UNK for just three seasons.
The former Bellevue West and Creighton star came to UNK after spending two years at as the graduate assistant coach at MIAA-member Pittsburg State. He worked under head coaches Kim Anderson and Kevin Muff, helping Pitt win 22 games and reach the 2018 league tournament. Young also coached two All-MIAA players.
Young began his coaching career at NAIA Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. During the 2015-16 season the Bulldogs went 18-12 and had four players named to the All-GPAC (Great Plains Athletic Conference) team.
Holding a B.A. in Journalism from Creighton and a master’s from Pittsburg State, Young played professional basketball in Amsterdam, Switzerland and Mexico before entering the coaching ranks. At Creighton, Young was a two-time All-Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) selection who scored 1,342 points from 2008-12. His play helped the Bluejays win 97 games and reach the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
During his days at Bell West, Young was named first-team all-state three times and made the all-state tournament squad three times. He finished his career with 1,726 points thanks to averaging 18.5 points over his final three seasons. Finally, the Thunderbirds were Class A state runners up in both 2007 and 2006.
In the summer of 2023, he married UNK Associate Head Athletic Trainer Whitney Ryan.
