Michael Bernard

Michael Jerome Bernard Bernard played college basketball at Kentucky State, graduating in 1970, the year Kentucky State won the NAIA national championship. Bernard played professionally for the Wilmington Blue Bonnets of the Eastern Basketball Association from 1970 to 1972.

Bernard studied political science at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) during the 1976–77 school year.

Coaching career Returning to Kentucky State, Bernard began his coaching career in 1974 as an assistant coach. After two seasons at Kentucky State, Bernard was an assistant coach at Norfolk State, then in NCAA Division II, from 1978 to 1984. Accumulating a 115–56 record, Bernard was head coach at North Carolina Central from 1985 to 1991. Bernard led the Eagles to a 28–4 record and NCAA Division II national championship in the 1988–89 season, for which he was named Division II Coach of the Year by Kodak.

Bernard became head coach at Shaw on September 9, 2002, days after the resignation of Joel Hopkins.

He was an assistant coach at Delaware State under head coach Greg Jackson from 2006 to 2009. confstanding = postseason =