Todd Buchanan enters his first season with the Lady Red Devil basketball program. Buchanan brings a wealth of coaching experience with him. Buchanan was previously the head coach at the University of Houston where he was the lone first-year head coach to take his team to the NCAA Tournament in 2011, was honored as the Conference USA Coach of the Year, marking only the second Houston floor general to garner the accolade, while also being named a WBCA National Coach of the Year finalist.

Prior to being at Houston, Buchanan had a successful five-year run as the head coach at Houston Baptist. While at HBU, his teams won a Red River Athletic Conference regular-season championship, a pair of RRAC Tournament titles and finished in the top 25 twice, including a No. 6 ranking to end the 2005-06 campaign. The Huskies also had numerous All-America and Academic All-America selections during his tenure.

Before taking the stint at HBU, Buchanan spent five seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Houston Cougars. His time at Houston coincided with the best five-year run in UH women's basketball program history, averaging more than 21 victories a season, including a school-record 28-win campaign in 2003-04. The Cougars also reached the postseason four of the five seasons Buchanan was on staff.

Buchanan spent two seasons (1998-2000) as an assistant coach at East Carolina, after his first head coaching job at the University of Montevallo, where he coached from 1996-98. Prior to Montevallo, Buchanan had coaching stops at Oral Roberts (1995-96) and at his alma mater of Murray State (1992-95). He has also coached at Lyon Country High School (Eddyville, Ky.), Murray High School (Murray Ky.) and Calloway County Middle and High School (Murray, Ky.)

Buchanan is a 1995 graduate of Murray State, where he earned his bachelor's degree in physical education with a minor in health. Buchanan and his wife Michelle have a 7-year old son, Colton, and live in Seabrook, TX. His father, Tom, enjoyed a successfully coaching career at both Texas and Kentucky after playing college basketball at Eastern New Mexico.