Fort Valley State College has tapped Brandon Britt to guide its males’s basketball program, persevering with his journey inside the HBCU teaching ranks. Britt joins FVSU after serving as an assistant coach and co-recruiting coordinator at fellow HBCU Edward Waters College, making this a transfer from one HBCU to a different.
At Edward Waters, Britt helped the Tigers attain historic milestones. His recruiting technique and participant growth method performed a key function in EWU posting its first NCAA Division II profitable document. The group additionally earned its first victories over Sunshine State Convention opponents, and completed with a formidable 3.4 group GPA—additional demonstrating his dedication to educational excellence inside HBCU athletics.
“Coach Britt’s popularity for constructing profitable packages, whereas staying deeply dedicated to the tutorial and private development of his gamers, aligns completely with our imaginative and prescient at Fort Valley State,” mentioned FVSU Director of Athletics Daphnie Johnson.
Earlier than his time at EWU, Britt was the top coach at Western Kentucky Excessive Faculty from 2018 to 2023. He inherited a struggling 4-22 program and turned it right into a regional contender. His group posted an 83-56 document throughout his tenure, broke the varsity’s single-season win document, and earned a No. 2 state rating in 2022.
His teaching résumé additionally features a 58-4 run as head coach of a 14U AAU group and a profitable stint as an assistant coach at Indiana College Southeast, the place he helped lead the group to a convention championship and an NAIA nationwide match berth.
Britt earned his bachelor’s diploma in sociology from Indiana College Southeast in 2015 and later accomplished a grasp’s in instructing from the College of the Cumberlands.
His arrival provides one other rising identify to the ranks of HBCU basketball management, as Fort Valley State appears to construct on its athletic custom and make new noise within the SIAC.
