Beau Braden rejoined the Bellarmine University men’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant prior to the 2018-19 season.
In 2021-22, Braden helped guide Bellarmine to a landmark season in the Knights’ second year in Division I. Bellarmine captured its first-ever ASUN Tournament title and posted its first 20-win campaign in D1.
In 2022-23, BU opened the season with a victory at crosstown foe and D1 blue blood Louisville and secured a victory over North Florida in the ASUN Tournament.
In the 2020-21 season, Braden helped guide the Knights to a highly successful transition to D1. Bellarmine sported a 14-8 record overall and earned an invitation to a national postseason tournament (CBI) after falling just one game shy of capturing the ASUN Conference regular-season crown.
After rejoining Bellarmine’s staff in 2018-19, Braden helped the Knights capture the GLVC Tournament title and advance to the Sweet 16 while posting a 28-5 record. Braden was first an assistant coach at Bellarmine during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons. In the latter campaign, the Knights earned a trip to the Final Four while going 32-4 in accumulating the second-most wins in program history. The Knights won an outright GLVC East title and their third GLVC Tournament championship. In 2015-16, Braden’s first-ever season at Bellarmine, the Knights secured a GLVC East title and a 23-7 overall finish.
A native of Louisville, Braden played basketball at DeSales High School before going on to Centre College where he was a four-year player and two-time team captain. The Colonels were 92-21 during his playing career, and they posted a 25-3 record and ascended as high as No. 2 in the national rankings during his junior season. He was part of three Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship teams and played in three NCAA Division III national tournaments.
After his college playing days, Braden embarked on a collegiate coaching career that has provided experience at virtually every level. He served as a graduate assistant at Georgetown College then served on the coaching staffs at St. Catharine College, Morehead State University and the University of Tennessee before returning to his hometown to serve on Scott Davenport’s staff at Bellarmine in 2015. He returned to Morehead for the 2017-18 season but came back to Bellarmine in the summer of 2018.
Braden received his bachelor’s degree in government and economics from Centre in 2009 and his master’s degree in sports management from Morehead State.
