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"Family-related" matters draws Dr. Ron Bradley back home to South Carolina

Men's basketball retains services of Dr. Ron Bradley

Dr. Ron Bradley joined the Longwood Men's Basketball coaching staff in July 2016. 

In his first major decision as the new Longwood men’s basketball head coach, Griff Aldrich supposedly locked up the first member of his staff by retaining assistant coach Dr. Ron Bradley on April 5. In a slight turn of events, Bradley was offered an assistant coaching role at USC Upstate, in which he accepted, according to Vice President of Athletics Communications Chris Cook.

According to Cook, Bradley’s move was a “family-related” matter, where he wanted to move closer to his family in South Carolina.

A 2010 Big South conference Hall of Fame inductee and coaching veteran, Bradley joined the Lancers staff as an assistant coach in July 2016. He served as Radford’s head coach from 1991-2002 before spending the next 14 seasons at James Madison, Clemson and DePaul as an associate head coach.

Bradley has been a staff member of ten NCAA Division I Basketball tournament teams throughout his illustrious career, including five at Maryland, three at Clemson and one at Radford running the helm.

Additionally, he remains the all-time winningest head coach in Radford basketball history, holding an overall record of 193-124.

Cook released the following statement regarding Bradley’s departure: “Over the weekend, Dr. Bradley accepted a coaching position at USC Upstate. While we are sad to see him leave Longwood, we understand his decision to move closer to his family in South Carolina. We wish him the best and thank him for the impact he had on the Longwood men’s basketball program.”

Aldrich wasted no time in filling in an assistant coaching position by adding Maurice Williams over the weekend.

Cook said Williams will officially join Aldrich’s coaching staff soon, and hope to have an official announcement out this week.

According to Director of Athletics Troy Austin, Aldrich has met with all the current assistant coaches of the program and is still considering his options. The statuses of associate head coach Jake Luhn, assistant coach Cody Anderson and Director of Operations Chris Moore remain unknown.

“(Aldrich) is still interviewing for the other coaching positions,” Austin said. “We’re still in that process.”

In the midst of the live recruiting period, Austin said Aldrich will be traveling and recruiting potential prospects to the program and attempting to have prospects recommit, which may potentially delay any other staff hirings or announcements.

Dr. Ron Bradley joined the Longwood Men's Basketball coaching staff in July 2016. 



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