On April 29, 2005 Scott Davenport became the 11th coach in Bellarmine’s history, and he is well on his way to becoming one of the most successful. Entering his sixth season as head coach, Davenport has taken a program that had finished last in the Great Lakes Valley Conference and transformed it into a national power, winning the 2011 Division II National Championship. As a result Bellarmine head coach Scott Davenport was named the 2011 Schelde North America/ Division II Bulletin Coach of the Year.
Davenport brings years of coaching experience to the sidelines as he has coached alongside of Hall of Fame coach Denny Crum and National Championship coaches Rick Pitino and Tubby Smith. Davenport spent nine seasons on Crum and Pitino’s staff at the University of Louisville, going to the Final Four in 2005. He spent one season on Mike Polio’s staff at Virginia Commonwealth, where Smith was also an assistant.
Before heading to the University of Louisville, Davenport spent 10 seasons as the head boy’s coach at Ballard High School where he won a state championship in 1988 and coached two future NBA players in DeJuan Wheat and Allan Houston.
A Louisville native, Davenport and his wife Sharon have two sons, Russ and Doug, who are both Bellarmine graduates. Russ lives and works in Louisville, and Doug, who played four years at Bellarmine, is now a graduate assistant coach on Chris Mack’s staff at Xavier University
