Michael Murphy will begin his first season with Bryant as an Assistant Coach for the upcoming 2025-26 season.
Murphy comes to Smithfield from the Ragin' Cajuns, where he spent 11 seasons (2014-25) as the team's Director of Basketball Operations. Before his time at Louisiana, he spent a year with Lafayette (2013-14).
Murphy would spend ten years as the women's basketball coach at Troy (2002-12), before that he spent seven years (1995-2002) on Alabama's staff, where he served both as an assistant and a Director of Basketball Operations.
He is one of a select handful of coaches in the country that has been involved in the NCAA women's tournament, men's tournament, WNIT, NIT, and the NAIA National men's tournament as a coach.
