| Morris Scott | |
| Current Title: | Assistant coach |
| Current Team: | Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks |
| Current Conference: | Sun Belt Conference |
| Birth Place: | Fitzgerald, Georgia, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1997–2001 |
| Player Team1: | Florida A&M |
| Coach Years1: | 2003–2005 |
| Coach Team1: | Florida A&M (GA) |
| Coach Years2: | 2005–2006 |
| Coach Years3: | 2006–2007 |
| Coach Team3: | Northwest Florida State (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 2007–2009 |
| Coach Team4: | Southeastern Louisiana (assistant) |
| Coach Years5: | 2009–2010 |
| Coach Team5: | Middleton HS |
| Coach Years6: | 2010–2011 |
| Coach Team6: | Grambling State (assistant) |
| Coach Years7: | 2011–2017 |
| Coach Team7: | Southern (assistant) |
| Coach Years8: | 2017–2018 |
| Coach Team8: | Southern (interim HC) |
| Coach Years9: | 2019–2020 |
| Coach Team9: | Northwestern State (assistant) |
| Coach Years10: | 2020–present |
| Coach Team10: | Louisiana-Monroe (assistant) |
Morris Scott is an American basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for the Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks men's basketball team. Before coaching for Louisiana–Monroe, Scott was the interim head coach of the Southern Jaguars basketball team from 2017 to 2018 following the promotion of head coach Roman Banks to athletic director. Scott's previous position was as an assistant coach for the Northwestern State Demons basketball team.[1]
Morris Scott attended Florida A&M University, where he played both basketball and baseball. While playing basketball at Florida A&M, he helped lead the team to the school's first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1999. Scott was also named to the All-MEAC Tournament team that same year.[2] Scott graduated from Florida A&M with a bachelor's of science.
After graduating from Florida A&M, Scott coached for the basketball team as a graduate assistant (from 2003-2005) while pursuing his master's of science. Scott then spent a year as the head coach for Chipley High School basketball in Chipley, Florida, where he led the team to a district championship. In 2006, Scott became an assistant basketball coach for Northwest Florida State College, and followed that position up with a tenure as assistant basketball coach at Southeastern Louisiana University from 2007 to 2009. Scott returned to high school coaching for a year as head coach of the Middleton High School basketball team in Tampa, Florida. Scott then joined Grambling State University as an assistant basketball coach in 2010-11. In the 2011-12 season, Scott joined Southern University as an assistant basketball coach where he would remain for seven years.[3] Before the 2017–18 season, former head coach for the Southern Jaguars basketball Roman Banks was promoted to become athletic director for Southern, and Scott was promoted to interim head coach in his place.[4] [5] That season, Scott led Southern to a 15–18 record. After Southern hired Sean Woods as head coach, Scott left to become the assistant basketball coach at Northwestern State University in 2019.[6] After one year in that capacity, Scott became an assistant basketball coach at the University of Louisiana–Monroe.[7]