stevens is known for projecting a professional, "corporate" look from the sidelines. asked what his life would be like if he had never taken up coaching, he replies "if everything else remained the same, i would have been as happy as heck... friends and family and faith, they're going to take the cake over all this stuff." stevens met his wife, tracy (née wilhelmy), while attending depauw university. tracy, who played soccer for depauw, quickly learned of brad's love for basketball; on their third date he drove her an hour and a half to attend a high school basketball game. tracy graduated from rocky river high school in 1995, and from depauw in 1999. she returned to school in 2000, driving five hours from case western's law school to indianapolis on weekends to see stevens. she finished her final year of law school in indianapolis, and the couple married in august 2003. tracy works as a labor and employment lawyer, and also serves as stevens agent.