Scott Mossman - Men's Basketball Coach - Grand Canyon University Athletics

Scott Mossman

Title:
Assistant Coach

Year	School	Record
2004-05	GCU	13-16
2005-06	GCU	19-8
2006-07	GCU	21-8
2007-08	GCU	12-15
Career	(4 seasons)	65-47 (.580)

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Scott Mossman recorded three different stints with the Grand Canyon men's basketball program including a pair of runs as an assistant coach and a four-year run as head coach from 2004 to 2008.

Mossman was hired in late May 2004. He inherited a 3-24 program and quickly engineered a turnaround that featured a 13-16 record in his inaugural season, a ledger that included three losses to Division I programs. His teams continually improved in his second and third seasons leading the Lopes, peaking in a 21-8 season in 2006-07 where GCU qualified for the NCAA West Regional and won its opening game against Seattle Pacific.

In his previous tenures with GCU, Mossman was a key member of Paul Westphal's coaching staff that won the 1988 NAIA National Championship as well as three NAIA District 7 Championships. Mossman served as an assistant at GCU under the Westphal brothers (Paul, 1986-88; Bill, 1988-90) as well as his predecessor Leighton McCrary (1995-97).

Mossman came to GCU most recently from Biola University where he served as an assistant coach for seven years, covering two stints from 1990-95 and 2002-04.

His GCU head-coaching stint was his second after spending three seasons at California Baptist from 1999 to 2002. With the Lancers, he amassed a 59-39 record (.602).

At the end of his run leading GCU in 2008, Mossman had accumulated a 433-187 mark (.698) in 19 years of college coaching.

A Phoenix native, Mossman graduated from Sunnyslope High School in 1976 before continuing his basketball career at Scottsdale Community College. After two seasons at SCC, he moved on to Mid-America Nazarene College in Olathe, Kansas, where he graduated with a degree in physical education in 1982. In addition to his past coaching duties, Mossman is the founder and president of Quantified Scouting Services, which provides unique statistical analysis for NBA teams.

"Scott has the collegiate experience and familiarity with GCU which makes him an excellent consideration for Canyon," Athletic Director Keith Baker said at the time of his hiring. "His past success with wins and losses as well as the character of the players he has recruited in the past is a good fit for the university."