Brad Davidson, a former National Shooting Coach for Basketball Australia, joined Todd Lee’s staff after spending two seasons at North Dakota.
In 2019-20, Davidson saw the first Coyote in Stanley Umude to be voted preseason all-Summit League Player of the Year. Additionally, he saw Tyler Hagedorn earn first-team all-Summit League while Umude earned second-team all-Summit League honors. Hagedorn also earned NABC all-District 12 first-team honors. As a team, he saw the Coyotes earn 20 wins while recording a 13-2 home record. The Yotes also recorded their longest win streak at eight overall and seven in conference since joining the Summit League.
In his first year with South Dakota, Davidson saw sophomore Stanley Umude earn first-team all-Summit League honors after averaging 14.4 points per game, a mark that increased to 17.1 during Summit League action. He also helped senior Trey Burch-Manning and junior Triston Simpson earn an honorable mention while junior Cody Kelley garnered all-newcomer team accolades.
At North Dakota, he helped the Fighting Hawks to the 2017 NCAA Tournament after sweeping the Big Sky Conference regular season and tournament titles. That same season, North Dakota ranked No. 26 in the nation in three-point field goal percentage, sinking 39 percent of its long-range shots. The mark was nearly a 100-position improvement over the previous year.
A former professional player, Davidson played 13 years in the National Basketball League, the top division in Australia where he ranks as one of the all-time best shooters with a 40.1 percent career mark from long range. He made more than 600 3-point baskets for five teams from 1997-2009.
He then moved to the coaching realm, where he was the head coach of the West Adelaide Bearcats (2009) and Norwood Flames (2011-13) of Australia’s Premier League.
In 2014, Davidson was named the National Shooting Coach and Talent Identification Manager for Basketball Australia. In his three years with the program, he provided coaching for the men’s and women’s national teams and instituted a national shooting testing program for the teams. The Australian men’s team advanced to the semifinals of the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
A native of Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia, Davidson helped the Australian men’s national team win the Gold Medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Davidson and his wife, Megan, have two sons, Cooper and Finn, and two daughters, Zara and Zoe.
