Scott Davenport

Scott Davenport, also known as "Scotty" (born January 25, 1957/1958), is an American former college basketball coach. He is best known as the former head men's basketball coach at Bellarmine University for 20 years.

Early life Davenport, a native of Bellarmine's home city of Louisville, Kentucky, grew up less than a mile from Churchill Downs in the city's South End, an area described by Sports Illustrated writer (and Louisville resident) Pat Forde as "gritty". His father died of a heart attack when he was 9 years old, and he was raised from that point by his mother, a hair stylist who had a sixth-grade education. According to Forde, Davenport "was not blessed with abundant athletic talent, but had an unquenchable love of basketball", playing at nearby Iroquois High School.

Since joining the Knights, Davenport has become the all-time wins leader at the school, and has led the team to six Great Lakes Valley Conference regular season titles and five conference tournament titles, along with 12 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournaments which includes four Final Four appearances (2011, 2012, 2015, 2017), and the 2011 national title.

After a 2021–22 season in which the Knights won the ASUN Conference tournament, Bellarmine named his son Doug, who had played at Bellarmine from 2006 to 2010 and joined the Knights coaching staff in 2016, as his designated successor upon his eventual retirement. Davenport officially announced his retirement on March 10, 2025.

Personality In a 2020 story for SI, Forde had this to say about Davenport's personality:

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