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Broadus had to replace three starters, two conference all-stars and mesh a team filled with newcomers in 2008-09. His Bearcats were picked to finish fifth by opposing coaches in the America East preseason poll, and trade publications and skeptical observers alike predicted an implosion of talented individuals unable to play as a team. But Broadus and his team defied all naysayers by winning a school-record 10 consecutive games down the stretch to post the programs first 20-win season as a Division I program and just the second in school history. Despite losing his top recruit to injury and facing several roster defections in midseason, Broadus kept his team on track with his check your egos at the door team-first approach. His sincere and personal bond with his players, the fans and the University has endeared him to the campus and community, who seem to clamor for a moment with this rising star. At Georgetown, Broadus worked alongside head coach John Thompson III, and the Hoyas recent national resurgence is a direct result of his recruiting success in the D.C. metro area. The 2006-07 squad went 30-7 and won both the regular season and postseason Big East titles before advancing through the first four rounds of the NCAA tournament to the Final Four. The 2005-06 team went 23-10 and reached the NCAA Sweet 16 and the 2004-05 team went 19-13 and advanced to the NIT quarterfinals. Broadus was introduced as Binghamtons new head coach on March 26, 2007, just days before coaching Georgetown in the Final Four. Also, in the same month he was ranked No. 6 by online publication hoopscooponline.com on its list of the Top 100 Assistant Coaches in the College Game Today. Prior to Georgetown, Broadus
was an assistant coach at George Washington for three years.
In 2003-04, his Colonials team won 18 games and was selected
to the NIT. From 1998 to 2001, he was on the staff at American
University and also had coaching stints at University of the
District of Columbia (1994-97) and Bowie State University (Md.)
(1990-93). Broadus earned his bachelors degree in business administration from Bowie State in 1990 and went on to receive his masters degree in counseling from UDC in 1995. He was a three-year letterwinner at Bowie State, earning conference all-rookie honors in 1984 and leading the team in scoring as team captain in his senior season. He played his first collegiate season at Grambling University in Louisiana. Broadus attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md. In addition to his college coaching résumé, Broadus has worked as a summer camp coach and counselor for both the Philadelphia 76ers and the New York Knicks. He also served four years as a research assistant at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda. Broadus and his wife, Belinda, have four children: Nicol (25), Milan (16), Paris (15) and Kevin Jr. (13). |
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Julius Allen begins his third season with the Binghamton
basketball program in 2009-10. Before taking the BU job he was
an assistant coach at South Florida, of the Big East. Allen was
one of the first assistant coaches to be hired by head coach
Kevin Broadus prior to the 2007-08 season, and he has built a
reputation as an outstanding recruiter. In March, Allen was recognized
as one of the nation's top assistant coaches at the mid-major
level by HoopScoop. |
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Don Anderson begins his third season as the Director
of Basketball Operations with the Binghamton basketball program
in 2009-10. He arrived at Binghamton from America East member
UMBC and along with assistant coach Julius Allen, was one of
the first hired assistants head coach Kevin Broadus. |
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Marc Hsu begins his second season at Binghamton
in 2009-10. |
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