Bradley Cole Underwood (born December 14, 1963) is the current head coach for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team.

Underwood played as a guard for Hardin-Simmons University during his freshman year from 1982 to 1983 and later transferred to Independence Community College.

[3] Days later, Underwood decided to attend Kansas State University, where he would play under head coach Jack Hartman.

[4] He led Daytona Beach Community College to a 70–24 record from 2003 to 2006 and was twice named the Mid-Florida Conference Coach of the year.

According to athletic director Robert Hill, "Brad Underwood brings years of experience to SFA and has coached at the highest levels of Division I basketball.

[8] SFA was awarded the Southland Conference automatic berth to the 2014 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament where they upset VCU in the round of 64, before eventually falling to UCLA.

He then led the Lumberjacks to an upset victory over the third-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers coached by Bob Huggins, with whom he worked as an assistant at Kansas State.

[9] He led the Cowboys to a 20–13 record in his only season as head coach, ending with a loss to Michigan on March 17, 2017, in the NCAA tournament.

In 2020, Oklahoma State's basketball program received penalties from the NCAA—including a ban on postseason play in 2020–21—as punishment for violations committed during Underwood's tenure.

Underwood's contract was extended until the 2026 season and moves his base salary to $3.4 million, which ranks in the upper quartile of the Big Ten Conference.

Conference tournament champion * ^a b c d e In the Spring of 2019, The Stephen F. Austin athletics department discovered that the process by which student-athletes were being certified as academically eligible was not properly accounting for all NCAA requirements from 2013 thru 2019.

He hosts an annual fundraiser called "Kickin' Cancer" at Gordyville USA, a horse show arena in Gifford, Illinois.