Scott Moses hired as assistant basketball coach at USM

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Southern Miss head men’s basketball coach Jay Ladner announced the addition of Scott Moses to his staff as an assistant coach for the 2025-26 season. 

“I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to join the Southern Miss men’s basketball staff,” Moses said. “I have formed a great relationship with Coach Ladner over the last few years, and I’m very excited to help him continue to build this great program.”Moses spent the last two seasons at Southwest Mississippi Community College, where he tutored current Golden Eagle Tylik Weeks. During the 2023-24 season, Moses helped the Bears to a 17-13 mark. Meanwhile, Weeks averaged 17.2 points and 8.2 rebounds per game as a freshman. Southwest had the same record in Moses’ second season, but Weeks averaged 21.0 points per game in 29 games, becoming the all-time leading scorer at the school.

“I am very excited about Scott Moses joining our staff,” Ladner said. “He’s another bright, young coach who has already made a significant impact on our program.  We are glad to have Scott join our talented group of assistants.”

Moses went to Summit from Pennsylvania, where he was the head coach of the Scotland Campus Post Grad Team in Scotland, PA. The program consisted of six teams and over 60 student athletes ranging from 9th graders to Post Grads. While there, Moses’s teams competed on a national level and placed 40 student athletes in college basketball programs, including seven players who went on to Division I teams.

Prior to Scotland, Moses got his first taste of college coaching as an assistant at Adelphi University, a Div. II school in the Northeast 10 Conference. Moses spent three seasons there and had several responsibilities. He helped lead Adelphi to a 54-31 record during his three years there. He also obtained his Master’s Degree there in 2021.

Before Adelphi, Moses spent one season at Woodstock Academy as an assistant for the Gold Team. His team finished 35-5 and was ranked 3rd in the country following a trip to the National Prep School Championship Tournament.

Moses was a coach at Springfield Commonwealth Academy in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 2015-17. There, he was an assistant for the school’s National Prep team, the Regional Prep team, and the middle school team. He helped put 17 student-athletes in four-year schools in the Div. I, Div. II and Div. III levels. The National Prep team finished ranked 5th in the country and made the National Prep School Championship Tournament.

Moses is a graduate of Hauppauge High School, where he was a member of the varsity basketball team for two years. He then attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Management. During his freshman year there, he was a manager for the men’s basketball team. He also created and directed a high school basketball showcase called the Pioneer Valley Tip Off. The showcase consisted of high school and prep school basketball teams from Western Massachusetts and raised money for a student-run sports management club. It is still in existence today. While at UMass, he was the junior varsity and assistant varsity coach at Smith Vocational High School in Northampton.

Moses also has experience working at dozens of basketball camps, including Five Star Basketball Camps, Hoop Group Elite Camps, Monmouth Basketball Camp, Virginia Basketball Camp, Rutgers Basketball Camp, Hofstra Basketball Camp, and Adelphi Basketball Camp. Moses is a native of Long Island (Hauppauge), New York.