Brianna Finch joined the Boston University women's basketball staff in June, 2021 as the program's assistant coach/recruiting coordinator. She recently completed her fourth season with the Terriers in 2024-25, and her second as the associate head coach.
In four seasons on Commonwealth Ave., Finch has helped guide the Terriers to 73 victories. In 2023-24, the Terriers captured 20 wins for the second-straight season. BU recorded 10 wins in Patriot League play, tied for second-most in the conference, and advanced to the Patriot League championship game for the second-consecutive year, and third time in four seasons. BU also set a single-season program record with 158 blocks on the year.
In 2022-23, she helped deliver the program's first-ever Patriot League regular season championship. That year, BU notched 24 wins, set a program record and matching a conference mark with 17 Patriot League victories, and made its fifth-ever appearance in the WNIT. Finch was instrumental in developing BU's perimeter shooting, which set a team record and ranked fifth in the nation at 38.1 percent. Sophomore Alex Giannaros proved a key role in that statistic, leading the nation with a 51.5 percent clip from beyond the arc.
Owning nearly 20 years of coaching experience, Finch served as Davidson's director of player development before she arrived at BU. There, she assisted with opponent scouting, film analysis, player development and recruiting efforts. Prior to her time with with the Wildcats, Finch spent a year as an assistant coach at Florida International University and spent the prior three seasons on staff at Barry University.
Finch additionally led the New Mexico Highlands University program for two seasons and got her first head coaching position with the Lemvig Basketball Club in Denmark in 2013.
A dynamic recruiter on the national and international level, Finch was selected as one of 30 participants for the 2019 Women's Basketball Coaches Association's NEXT UP program.
Finch received her bachelor's degree in 2002 in business administration/marketing from Sonoma State and completed her master's of arts in human performance and sport from New Mexico Highlands in 2018.
