Savannah State University Men's Basketball

Broadnax was named the head coach for the Savannah State University mens basketball team on April 11, 2005. In eight seasons, SSUs mens basketball team has showed tremendous improvement during the Broadnax era. As the Institutions 11 th head coach, he inherited a team that had a 0-28 record prior to his arrival in 2005. By 2008-09, Broadnax guided the Tigers to its first winning season in over 20 years with a 15-14 record. In 2011-12, the Tigers reached another milestone, winning the first ever Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Regular Season Championship with a 14-2 conference record. The team also earning the University its first ever automatic bid to the National Invitational Tournament (NIT). SSU finished the 2007 season with a 12-18 record earning the distinction of the most wins in Division I school history at that time. In 2008, the team set another Division I record for most wins finishing the season 13-18. The 13-win season was the most wins for any SSU team in 12 years. During the 2007 and 2008 seasons the Tigers have enjoyed back-to-back home wins over Conference USA member Southern Mississippi. Broadnax has not only helped to change the attitude of the team, but is also changing opposing teams perceptions as well. Broadnax made a name for himself during his college career by helping lead Georgetown University to the 1984 NCAA Mens National Championship Title and as National Championship runner-ups in 1985. Horaces Georgetown team was an incredible 115-25 over his four-year career, including 30 plus wins seasons in 1984 and 1985. After receiving his Finance degree from Georgetown in 1986, Horace continued on in his studies, obtaining his Juris Doctorate from Florida State University in 1991. Broadnax came to SSU after practicing law for three years. Prior, he was the head mens basketball coach at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla., from 1997 until 2002. The Plant City, Fla., native is credited with reviving the mens basketball program at Bethune-Cookman College. During his second year as head coach at Bethune-Cookman, Broadnax was voted the mens Coach of the Year in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) after turning around a team that finished 1-26 in his first year as coach to a fifth-place finish with a 10-9 conference record. Broadnax earned the title again after the mens team earned its first number one ranking in the MEAC during the 1999-2000 regular season. Broadnax stepped down in 2002 for family reasons. Prior to joining Bethune-Cookman College, Broadnax was the head mens basketball coach at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Fla., for two years, where he recorded the schools first 20-win season in 1996-97. He also worked as the video coordinator for the mens basketball team at the University of Florida and held assistant basketball coaching positions at Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Fla. Broadnax received his bachelors degree in finance at Georgetown University in 1986. At Georgetown, he was a point guard for the legendary coach John Thompson and helped the Hoyas win the 1984 NCAA title. Broadnax received his law degree from Florida State College of Law in Tallahassee, Fla., in 1991, and became a member of the Florida Bar in 1993.He has been a law partner at the Orlando, Fla., firm of Morgan, Colling & Gilbert since 1998, and has worked as an attorney-at-law in the Law Office of Joseph Williams in Plant City, Fla. He is married to Tammy Broadnax and the couple has two sons, Horace Kaleb (12) and Randall Trent (10). 

Clevan Thompson was named Savannah State's 12th head coach in program history on June 6, 2025. Thompson was appointed as the interim head coach of the program on January 6, 2025 after the mid-season retirement of former head coach Horace Broadnax. Upon his assuming of the reigns of the program, Thompson led the Tigers to a 13-6 mark down the stretch of the 2024-25 season, including an unblemished 7-0 record at home. Thompson then led the Tigers to a memorable run through the postseason as the #5 seed in the SIAC's East Division, defeating Spring Hill, West Division Regular Season Champion Miles, and Central State to earn a spot in the championship game. Thompson and The Tigers claimed the program's sixth SIAC Championship, claiming the 2025 title with a 67-66 victory over Tuskegee in the title game. The championship was also the program's second SIAC title in four years after winning the crown in 2022. The victory also gave SSU an automatic spot in the 2025 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament. Thompson initially came to Savannah State prior to the start of the 2023-24 as the lead assistant to head coach Horace Broadnax. A native of Kingston, Jamaica and one who also has ties to South Florida as part of his upbringing, Thompson previously spent nearly two decades, from 2009-2022 as the head boys' basketball coach at nearby Bethesda Academy. Thompson led the Blazers to their most successful period in program history, amassing 265 victories, twelve Final Four Appearances, six state title appearances, and two state championships. His teams claimed 2012 the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA)  State Championship, and the 2015 South Carolina Independent School (SCISA) Class AAA Title. Thompson is no stranger to "The Marsh" as he is a 2003 graduate of Savannah State, holding a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Information Systems. He is also a former letter winner as a football student-athlete for the Tigers.