Lynchburg College Men's Basketball

Scott finished his eighth season as head coach of the Hornets in 2015-16 after being named the head coach for the 2008-09 season. He won his 100th game this winter. The 2015-16 season was the best season in school history. LC ended the year with a 23-7 record, the most wins in program history, and a 12-4 conference record, also the best ever. LC captured its first Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) title and NCAA Division III Tournament berth since the 1978-79 season. Lynchburg won two conference tournament games by large margins and earned the title with a 62-60 victory in overtime over Randolph College. Coach Scott led the Hornets to an 82-55 win over Scranton in the NCAA Tournament and his team fell just short of a trip to the Sweet 16. Three Hornets, Alex Graves, Austen Arnold and Zack Burnett, broke the 1,000-point barrier during the season. Lynchburg also broke records during the regular season, many during a 160-156 double overtime win over Roanoke College on February 17. Lynchburg broke the school and conference all-time mark for most points in a game, and the two teams' combined total of 316 surpassed the NCAA Division III top mark, set by Simpson (167) and Grinnell (148), in 1994. The Hornets won 17 games in 2014-15, the fourth-straight campaign with over 15 wins. LC was 9-7 in league play and narrowly missed earning a berth to the conference tournament semifinals. Lynchburg had three players named to the All-ODAC team for the first time since the late 1970s.  The 2013-14 season saw the program do something it had never done before - it posted double-digit wins in ODAC play. The 10 victories gave the team the fourth-seed and a bye to the conference quarterfinals in Salem. In 2012-13, the Hornets had their best season since 1977-78, tying the school record with 19 wins.  The Hornets began the climb up the ODAC in 2010-11, finishing with a record of 15-11 and a fifth-place finish in the conference. In his second season at LC, Scott helped the Hornets finish 12-15 and earn a trip to the conference championship tournament in Salem. In his tenure, Lynchburg has had 14 all-conference players, capped in 2015-16 as Alex Graves earned the ODAC Player of the Year Award and Zack Burnett also took home a spot on the first team. Graves, also the All-South Player of the Year, became the programs first first-team NABC All-American. Scott attended local E.C. Glass High School and played his collegiate basketball at nearby Roanoke College. As a Maroon, he was a two-time National Association of Basketball Coaches All-American in 1993 and 1994 and was named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Player of the Year in his senior season. Scott graduated from Roanoke in May of 1994 with a degree in religion and philosophy, and was inducted into the RC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. In April of 2013, Scott was named to the All-Century Team at Roanoke College. Scott was an assistant coach at Penn State University from 2003-08. In 2005, the Nittany Lions earned a berth to the NIT Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament the next three seasons. He helped recruit three-student athletes that earned all-conference honors a total of seven times, including the programs all-time leading scorer.  He also worked for five seasons as an assistant coach at East Tennessee State University (1998-99 season through 2002-03). The Buccaneers won three-straight Southern Conference North Division Titles and earned an NCAA Tournament berth in 2002-03. Scott recruited three conference players of the year and the all-time leading scorer at ETSU.  Before entering the coaching ranks, Scott played professional basketball in Europe for two teams. As a member of the Killester Basketball Club (Dublin, Ireland), he played from 1994-96 before joining the Chester Jets (England) for the 1996-97 season. Scott resides in Lynchburg with his wife, Lisa, and his son Isaiah and his daughter Haley.

Lynchburg had a 35-28 record with Hall on the sideline during his first three seasons as a part-time assitant coach beginning in 2019-20. Hall and the Hornets reached the conference semifinals in 2019-20 and earned an appearance in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship in 2020-21 for the first time since 2016. In 2021-22, Hall helped the Hornets to a 14-12 record with an ODAC quarterfinals appearance. Hall mentored two players to all-conference honors with T.C. Thacker on the first team and Tharon Suggs on the third. Men's basketball boasted six All-ODAC players with Hall on staff as well as an CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree in 2020-21. Hall was a two-year member of the Lynchburg men's basketball team after transferring from Division II Belmont Abbey in North Carolina. After playing at Lynchburg, he went to East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn., spent two years on the men's basketball staff while completing a masters in kinesiology and sport studies. While he was at ETSU, the Buccaneers advanced to the Southern Conference championship game in 2016. Upon receiving his degree at ETSU, Hall spent one season as a boys assistant coach at Science Hill High School in Johnson City before moving on to Davidson County Community College in Thomasville, N.C., where the Storm posted a 41-19 record in his two years as an assistant coach and won a NJCAA Region X championship in 2018.