Joe Scott
Joe Scott (born July 28, 1965)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Air Force Falcons
Current conference: Mountain West Conference (MWC)
Princeton record: 38-45 (.458)
Denver record: 146-132 (.525)
Air Force record: 90-141 (.390)
Overall record: 274-318 (.463)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2004)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2013)
- Mountain West Regular Season Champion: 1 (2004)
- WAC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2013)
- Mountain West Tournament Champion: 0
Awards:
- Mountain West Coach of the Year: 1 (2004)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2020-present | Air Force |
| 2018-2020 | Georgia (asst) |
| 2016-2018 | Holy Cross (asst) |
| 2007-2016 | Denver |
| 2004-2007 | Princeton |
| 2000-2004 | Air Force |
| 1992-2000 | Princeton (asst) |
| 1991-1992 | Monmouth (asst) |
Joe Scott Facts
- Joseph Winston Scott
- Born July 28, 1965
- Hometown: Pelican Island, New Jersey
- Alma Mater: Princeton University (BA, 1987) / University of Notre Dame (JD, 1990)
- A three-sport athlete at Toms River HS East (NJ), Scott went on to play PG at Princeton under HOFer Pete Carril
- After graduation, he earned his law degree from Notre Dame and practiced law in New Jersey for a year
- Began his coaching career in 1991, spending a season at Monmouth assisting head coach Wayne Szoke
- Returned to alma mater Princeton 1992, assisting Carril and Bill Carmody for four seasons each
- Part of three NCAA Tournaments as an assistant, including an upset of defending champ UCLA in 1996
- Hired in 2000 to be the head coach at Air Force, going 51-63 in four seasons
- After winning 17 total games his first two years, his 2003-04 team went 22-7 and earned a NCAA bid
- Left AFA for Princeton in 2004, compiling a 38-45 record in three years at the helm
- Decided to leave his alma mater in 2007, taking over as the head coach at Denver
- Went 146-132 over nine seasons, winning the WAC title and going to the NIT in 2013
- Fired in 2016 following a 16-15 season, the third average campaign in a row after the NIT berth
- Reunited with Carmody in 2016, spending the next two seasons as one of his assistants at Holy Cross
- Joined Tom Crean‘s staff as the lead assistant coach at Georgia in April 2018
- Hired in March 2020 to return to Air Force as head coach for a second stint with the Falcons
Joe Scott Coaching Tree
- Chris Mooney (Richmond, Air Force)
- Kyle Smith (Stanford, Washington State, San Francisco, Columbia)