Dunson will serve as an associate head coach while Brady has added assistant coach to his title while still serving as the Director of Player Development.

“Brandon and Jordan have both been instrumental to our program since the day we arrived here,” Young said. “They both carry heavy loads with our on-court coaching efforts, and in many areas behind the scenes. I look forward to them continuing to excel in these expanded roles.”

Both members of Young’s original staff, Dunson and Brady have been great ambassadors for BYU on-and-off the court. Not only have they helped BYU advance to the NCAA Tournament twice in two seasons but have seen Robert Wright III become the 12th player in program history to be named Academic All-American.

Dunson has been an integral part into turning BYU into the best place to prepare young men to play in the NBA as the Cougars are one of five schools in the history of the Big 12 with lottery picks in consecutive drafts. Egor Dëmin was selected with the eighth pick in 2025 by the Brooklyn Nets after his freshman season at BYU followed by AJ Dybantsa, who was the first overall pick in the 2026 Draft by the Washington Wizards, after leading the country in scoring at 25.5 points per game and named the top small forward in all of college basketball.

The Cougars advanced to the Sweet 16 for a third time in program history during Dunson’s first season on staff where they won their final eight games of the regular season including ranked wins over No. 10 Iowa State, No. 19 Arizona and No. 23 Kansas. They would carry that momentum to postseason play with wins over VCU and No. 13 Wisconsin in the NCAA Tournament before falling to Alabama in Newark, N.J.

Prior to coming to Provo, the native of Bloomington, Ind. spent two seasons at Stanford where he helped the Cardinal sign two Top-40 recruits in the same recruiting class for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Brady helped turn Richie Saunders from glue guy to go-to-guy to NBA Draft pick in two seasons as the Riverton native was selected with the 32nd overall pick by the Memphis Grizzlies in this past summer’s draft.

After averaging 9.6 points as a sophomore in BYU’s first season in the Big 12, Saunders was named the league’s Most Improved Player as a junior scoring 16.5 points per game. He scored in double figures 28 times including a then career-high 30 points in a win over Arizona State on New Year’s Eve. He was even better in the Cougars’ postseason run averaging 22.0 points per game, shooting 59.5 percent from the field, 41.7 percent from 3-point range and making all 11 of his free throw attempts.

Mawot Mag appeared in a career-high 34 games for the Cougars in his lone season in Provo where he shot a career-high 48.6 percent from the field and 39.7 percent from the behind the arc. The Cougars went 17-5 when Mag was in the starting lineup including winning 11 of their last 13 games. Following his time in PROvo, Mag signed professional contract in Australia.

Brady served as the head coach of the NBA G League’s Wisconsin Herd from 2017-19 and has been an assistant for five different G League organizations during his coaching career.

The Cougars also welcome seven new graduate assistants to the program in Tre Risk, Tai Walters-Whitaker, Jamison Kay, Colin Donahue, Joe Welch, Koa Baker and Ammon Garrison.

BYU opens the 2026-27 campaign on Monday, Nov. 2, when the Cougars face Ohio State at the Delta Center. It will be the eighth all-time meeting between the two programs and first since a 72-65 victory on Dec. 29, 1997.