Bart Lundy is in his fourth season at the helm of the High Point men's basketball program. He is considered one of of the top young coaches in the profession, averaging over 20 wins a year during his eight-year career. Last season, Lundy became one of the youngest coaches to record his 150th career win as High Point topped Western Carolina (11/23/05).

Lundy, who became HPU's 10th head men's basketball coach on April 22, 2003, wasted little time in returning the Panthers to prominence. He engineered one of the nation's best turnarounds in 2003-04 while leading HPU to a 19-11 mark and a spot in the Big South title game. For his efforts, Lundy was named the 2004 National Rookie Coach of the Year by collegeinsider.com.

Additionally, under Lundy's guidance forward Danny Gathings became the first student-athlete in High Point history to be named an NCAA Division I All-American when he earned honorable-mention All-America honors in 2004.

During his tenure at HPU, Lundy has led the Panthers to appearances in the Big South Tournament semifinals in each of his three seasons. Under his guidance, High Point has established program records for most Division I wins in a season, most conference victories, most road wins, highest RPI ranking and highest preseason ranking. In 2005-06, Lundy guided the Panthers to 16 wins with the nation's second youngest squad. Lundy's uptempo style of play has allowed High Point to lead the Big South Conference in scoring in each of the past three seasons.

Lundy came to High Point after five highly-successful seasons as the head coach at Queens University of Charlotte, where he led the Royals to a 115-41 record and a pair of NCAA Division II Elite Eight appearances, including a trip to the Final Four in 2003.

Queens won the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) in four of Lundy's five seasons on the bench, and finished the season ranked in the Top Five in three of Lundy's five years there (including a No. 3 ranking in 2003).

Under Lundy, the Royals shattered the school record for victories three times (including a 29-4 mark in 2002-03), set the CVAC record for conference wins in a season with a 19-3 finish in 2001, and have broken the school record for points scored in a game (126) five times since the 2000 season.

In 2002-03, Queens was ranked in the Top 10 nationally in scoring offense, scoring margin, field-goal percentage defense, and free-throw shooting.

A 1994 graduate of Winthrop, Lundy was a player at UNC Pembroke and Lenoir-Rhyne before transferring to the Rock Hill, S.C., school. Following graduation, he broke into coaching as an assistant for two seasons at Winthrop before leaving to become an assistant at Queens for three seasons under Dale Layer (who is now the head coach at Colorado State, and led the Rams to the Mountain West Conference title and an NCAA berth in 2003). He earned his masters degree from Winthrop in 1998.

While Lundy was an assistant and head coach at Queens from 1995-2003, he recruited and coached five Division II All-Americans. More importantly, during the same span, the school graduated 90 percent of its men's basketball players.

Lundy is well-connected and nationally-known in the college basketball community. He has served on the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Assistant Coaches Board of Directors. He also worked as director of the Dave Cowens/Charlotte Hornets College Coaches Clinic and has worked in coaching clinics throughout the world.

A native of Galax, Va., Lundy attended five different high schools in North Carolina thanks to his father's employment with Kroger, including Southwest Guilford High School in High Point. He graduated from Hickory High School.

Lundy and his wife, Lori, have three sons: Ian, Kellen and Alec.