Career
He is best known for winning two National Collegiate Athletic Association championships at the University of Kentucky as a player. Edwards is currently the head basketball coach at the University of Wyoming. He is the younger brother of former National Basketball Association player Doug Edwards.
Edwards, a 6"5" shooting guard from Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida, went to Kentucky to play for coach Rick Pitino.
Edwards played a reserve role for the Wildcats on their 1995-1996 national title team, averaging 3.3 points per game. With the departure of Tony Delk, Edwards then moved into the starting lineup as a junior, averaging 8.6 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game.
Kentucky again reached the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship game, but were upset by Arizona. As a senior in 1997-1998, Edwards averaged 9.2 points per game and led the Wildacts to their third straight National Collegiate Athletic Association title game appearance.
After the conclusion of his college career, Edwards went undrafted in the 1998 National Basketball Association Draft.
He instead went to the Continental Basketball Association, where he played for the Rockford Lightning. He split the 1998-1999 season between the Lightning and the Dakota Wizards of the International Basketball Association. He played the next two seasons with the Cincinnati Stuff of the International Basketball League, until the league ceased operations in 2001.
Edwards returned to Kentucky in 2002 to both complete his degree and to serve as an unofficial assistant/manager to his former coach Tubby Smith with the 2002-2003 Kentucky Wildcats men"s basketball team
He then joined the staff of former Wildcat Kyle Macy at Morehead State as a full-time assistant coach. After stops at VCU, Towson and Western Kentucky, Edwards was hired to coach Larry Shyatt"s staff at Wyoming in 2011.
He was announced as the 21st head coach at the University of Wyoming on March 21, 2016.