Joe Scott

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Joe Scott
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Denver
Biographical details
Born	(1965-07-28) July 28, 1965 Pelican Island, New Jersey, USA
Playing career
1983–1987	Princeton
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991–1992 1992–2000 2000–2004 2004–2007 2007–present	Monmouth (asst.) Princeton (asst.) Air Force Princeton Denver
Accomplishments and honors
Championships MWC Regular Season Championship (2004) WAC Regular Season Championship (2013)
Awards MWC Coach of the Year (2004)

Joe Scott (born July 28, 1965 in Pelican Island, New Jersey) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach at the University of Denver. He replaced Terry Carroll on March 20, 2007.

Born on Pelican island in Toms River, New Jersey, Scott played baseball, basketball and football at Toms River High School East, where he set the school's basketball career scoring record.^[1]

As a player in the mid-1980s, Scott became schooled in the "Princeton offense," a methodical system that seeks high-percentage shots by passing until the right opportunity rather than a fast-pace offense with more shots. As a result, Scott has frequently instituted a deliberate pace as a coach, often coaching the slowest-paced team in the country.^[2]

Scott came to Princeton after getting his first head coaching job at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), where he accrued a 51–63 record in four seasons from 2000 to 2004. After guiding the Falcons to a 22–7 record and an NCAA Tournament berth in 2003–04, Scott was named the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year and was selected as the head coach at Princeton, replacing John Thompson III, who left to coach at Georgetown University, where Thompson's father was the longtime head coach.

Scott had a 38–45 record through three seasons at Princeton. The team finished sixth in the Ivy League in 2004–05, his first season, with a 6–8 record, before rebounding to a 10–4 mark good for second place in the conference in 2005–06. Scott Greenman, a senior point guard, became Scott's first and only First-Team All-Ivy player in 2006.

The Tigers finished with a 2–12 Ivy record in 2006–07, its first-ever last-place finish in the Ivy League. That season, Princeton scored just 21 points in a loss to Monmouth, tying a then Division I record for fewest points scored in a game since the inception of the three-point line. The Tigers also fell to Carnegie Mellon University — a Division III opponent. It was the first such defeat in school history.

Prior to Air Force, Scott was an assistant coach at Princeton under Pete Carril and Bill Carmody. His eight-year tenure (1992–2000) included highlights like the 1996 win over defending champion UCLA in the NCAA Tournament and a no. 7 ranking and another second-round NCAA appearance in 1998. The 1998 team earned a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the highest ranking ever for an Ivy League school.

Between his graduation from Princeton in 1987 and his return to the school in 1992 as an assistant coach, Scott earned his law degree at the University of Notre Dame and worked at a New Jersey law firm before spending one season as an assistant coach at Monmouth University in 1991–92.

He starred as a point guard for Toms River High School East, and currently holds the school record for career basketball points with 1,550.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Air Force (Mountain West) (2000–2004)
2000–2001	Air Force	8–20	3–11
2001–2002	Air Force	8–18	3–11
2002–2003	Air Force	12–16	3–11
2003–2004	Air Force	22–7	12–2	1st	NCAA 1st Round
Air Force:		50–61	21–35
Princeton (Ivy) (2004–2007)
2004–2005	Princeton	15–13	6–8
2005–2006	Princeton	12–15	10–4
2006–2007	Princeton	11–17	2–12
Princeton:		38–45	18–24
Denver (Sun Belt) (2007–2012)
2007–2008	Denver	11–19	7–11
2008–2009	Denver	15–16	9–9
2009–2010	Denver	19–13	10–8	6th
2010–2011	Denver	13–17	9–7
2011–2012	Denver	22–9	11–5	2nd
Denver (WAC) (2012–2013)
2012–2013	Denver	22–9	16–2	T-1st	NIT 2nd Round
Denver (The Summit League) (2013–present)
2013–2014	Denver	0–0	0–0
Denver:		101–82	62–42
Total:		189–188
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

Personal life

Scott's wife, Leah (Spraragen), is a 1992 Princeton graduate and was also a point guard, playing for the Tiger women's basketball team. They have two children, Ben and Jack Scott.^[3]

References

↑ Hall of Fame: Joseph W. Scott, Toms River Regional Schools. Accessed May 28, 2013. "A Pelican-Island native, Joe was a three-sport (football, basketball, baseball) standout at Toms River High School East."
↑ http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/entry/wac_log5
↑ http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/mbbprcoach.asp

External links

"Destined to Coach", The Colorado Springs Gazette, March 16, 2004.
"Joe Scott: More than just tough talk.", University of Denver magazine, Winter 2007.

v t e Air Force Falcons men's basketball head coaches

Bob Spear (1956–1971) Hank Egan (1971–1984) Reggie Minton (1984–2000) Joe Scott (2000–2004) Chris Mooney (2004–2005) Jeff Bzdelik (2005–2007) Jeff Reynolds (2007–2012) Dave Pilopovich (2012– )

Princeton Tigers men's basketball head coaches

Mowbray Forney (1900–1901)
Augustus Enderbrock (1901–1902)
William Roper (1902–1903)
William McCoy (1903–1904)
Frederick Cooper (1904–1906)
William Kelleher (1906–1907)
C. F. Kogel (1907–1908)
Harry Shorter (1908–1911)
Harry Hough (1911–1912)
Frederick Leuhring (1912–1920)
Lewis Sugarman (1920–1921)
James Hynson # (1921)
J. Hill Zahn (1921–1923)
Albert Wittmer (1923–1932)
Fritz Crisler (1932–1934)
John Jefferies (1934–1935)
Ken Fairman (1935–1938)
Franklin Cappon (1938–1943)
William Logan (1943–1945)
Leonard Hattinger # (1945)
Wes Fesler (1945–1946)
Franklin Cappon (1946–1961)
Jake McCandless (1961–1962)
Butch van Breda Kolff (1962–1967)
Pete Carril (1967–1996)
Bill Carmody (1996–2000)
John Thompson III (2000–2004)
Joe Scott (2004–2007)
Sydney Johnson (2007–2011)
Mitch Henderson (2011– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Denver Pioneers men's basketball head coaches

Unknown (1903–1906)
John P. Koehler (1906–1909)
No team (1909–1910)
Charles Wingender (1910–1911)
Clem Crowley (1911–1912)
Hiram Wilson (1912–1914)
Charles Wingender (1914–1916)
John Fike (1916–1918)
Charles Wingender (1918–1919)
George Koonsman (1919–1920)
Thomas Thompson (1920–1921)
Ralph Woods (1921–1923)
Aubrey DeVine (1923–1925)
Jimmy Middlebrook (1925–1926)
Burt Potter (1926–1930)
Stuart Clark (1930–1932)
Clyde Hubbard (1932–1940)
Ellison Ketchum (1940–1943)
Mark Duncan # (1943)
Art Quinlan (1943–1944)
Cliff Rock (1944–1945)
Ken Loeffler (1945–1946)
Ellison Ketchum (1946–1948)
Hoyt Brawner (1948–1962)
Troy Bledsoe (1962–1968)
Stan Albeck (1968–1970)
Jim Karabetsos (1970–1972)
Al Harden (1972–1977)
Bill Weimar (1977–1978)
Ben Jobe (1978–1980)
Floyd Theard (1980–1985)
Dick Peth (1985–1997)
Marty Fletcher (1997–2001)
Terry Carroll (2001–2007)
Joe Scott (2007– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

v t e Current men's basketball head coaches of The Summit League

Joe Scott (Denver) Tony Jasick (IPFW) Todd Howard (IUPUI) Saul Phillips (North Dakota State) Derrin Hansen (Omaha) Joey James (South Dakota) Scott Nagy (South Dakota State) Jim Molinari (Western Illinois)

v t e Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year

2000: Bayno & Minton 2001: Hunsaker 2002: McClain 2003: Cleveland 2004: Scott 2005: Giacoletti 2006: Rose 2007: Rose 2008: Kruger 2009: Alford 2010: Alford 2011: Rose & Fisher 2012: Fisher 2013: Alford

Persondata
Name	Scott, Joe
Alternative names
Short description	American basketball player-coach
Date of birth	July 28, 1965
Place of birth	Pelican Island, New Jersey, USA
Date of death
Place of death

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