Career
Previously, he served as head coach at Austin, Dodge City Community College and Daytona Beach Community College and assistant coach at Western Illinois, Kansas State, and South Carolina. Underwood began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Hardin-Simmons during the 1986-1987 campaign. He continued his coaching career as the head coach of Dodge City Community College, where he led the Conquistadors to a 62–60 record from 1988 to 1993.
In 1993, he joined Jim Kerwin"s staff at Western Illinois, with whom he spent 10 years as an assistant.
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. He served as assistant coach under Bob Huggins and Frank Martin from 2006 to 2012.
In 2012, Martin left Kansas State to become head coach of South Carolina, and Underwood followed him as an assistant. Austin On April 30, 2013, Underwood was hired as head coach of Austin.
He replaced Danny Kaspar, who left after 13 seasons to become the head coach of Texas State.
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. All of this plus his knowledge of the game and ability to recruit makes him the perfect hire for our men"s basketball program He has great plans on how we can make this program even better." In his first season at the helm, Austin captured the Southland Conference regular season championship going a perfect 18-0 in conference play.
SFA was awarded the Southland Conference automatic berth to the 2014 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Basketball Tournament where they upset VCU in the second round, before eventually falling to University of California, Los Los Angeles In the 2016 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Basketball Tournament he held the 14th seeded Lumberjacks to an upset victory over the 3rd seeded West Virginia Mountaineers coached by Bob Huggins who he worked has an assistant with at Kansas State.
Oklahoma State On March 21, 2016, Underwood was hired as head coach of Oklahoma State. He replaced Travis Ford, who was fired.
A native of McPherson, Kansas, Underwood attended Kansas State University and lettered on the basketball team between 1984 and 1986. He graduated from Kansas State with a bachelor"s degree in radio and television communications in 1986.
Tyler plays for his dad as a freshman at Austin.