Brandon Gilbert joined the Georgia Tech men’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach in March 2026. He begins his first season on The Flats in 2026-27.
Gilbert, a coaching veteran with 20 years of experience, was a member of Cross’s staff at Troy for the past six seasons (2020-26), helping the Trojans to five-straight 20-win seasons, three postseason appearances and back-to-back Sun Belt Conference regular-season championships and tournament championships. Troy was the only team in the Sun Belt during the 2025-26 campaign to record four-straight 20-win seasons and 10 or more conference wins.
During the last five seasons, Troy finished higher than its projection in the Sun Belt preseason polls, placing top-5 in the conference each season. The Trojans returned to the postseason in 2021-22 with a trip to the College Basketball Invitational, the first postseason appearance since 2016-17, after posting a 20-11 overall record. After consecutive quarterfinal appearances in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament the next two years, the Trojans would return to national recognition with back-to-back Sun Belt Conference regular-season and tournament championships in 2025 and 2026.
Troy erased an eight-point second-half deficit in the Sun Belt Championship game in 2025 to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in five seasons. The Trojans repeated its postseason success in 2026, claiming the regular season championship after being picked to finish fourth in the preseason poll, and upending Georgia Southern in the tournament title game to their second-straight NCAA Tournament appearance.
During his time at Troy, Gilbert was instrumental in the Trojans’ recruiting classes, including the 2021 class that helped Troy to its first postseason bid and 20-win season in five years. He also helped sign Troy’s first-ever Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year when Tayton Conerway won the honor in 2025. Conerway was also tabbed All-Sun Belt First Team that same season.
Before his stint at Troy, Gilbert worked in the high school ranks as both a head coach and assistant coach for 14 years. He was a two-time Texas District 6 6A Coach of the Year after leading Arlington Lamar High School to a 2020 District 6A championship. He also earned the honor after leading Killeen Shoemaker High School to the 2018 district title.
A Madisonville, Texas native, Gilbert spent 11 years as an assistant coach before being named the head coach at Killeen Shoemaker High School in 2017-18, a role he held for two seasons. He spent the 2019-20 season at Arlington Lamar High School. But he began his coaching career at Athens (Texas) High School from 2006-09 before joining the staff at South Grand Prairie (Texas) High School, where he broke through as defensive engineer. In 2013, Gilbert helped lead South Grand Prairie to a Class 6A state championship and two regional finalist finishes.
A two-year letterwinner at North Texas (1998-2000), Gilbert was known as a defensive specialist, rebounder and finisher. He transferred to North Texas from Kilgore College, where he spent two seasons (1996-98) and led the Rangers to a No. 3 overall ranking in 1998.
Gilbert earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in criminal justice from North Texas in 2000.
