Georgia Tech Officially Announces Scott Cross As Its New Head Coach

Georgia Tech officially has a new basketball coach. After a few weeks of speculation, one candidate seemed to have the most momentum and that was Troy's Scott Cross. Cross was named the next head coach of the program today and he will look to turn around a Georgia Tech program that has only gone to the NCAA Tournament four times since making the national championship in 2004.

A new era begins on The Flats

Scott Cross is named the 16th Georgia Tech Men’s Basketball Head Coach in program history

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New era for the Yellow Jackets

Cross, who comes to the Yellow Jackets after seven successful seasons as the head coach at Troy (2019-26), also served as the head coach at Texas-Arlington for 12 years (2006-2018). He earned his 350th career victory in this month’s Sun Belt Conference championship game, which lifted Troy to its second-straight conference title and NCAA Tournament berth. The Trojans won at least 20 games in each of Cross’s final five seasons at the helm, and he has 10 20-win seasons in all as a head coach, including five at UT Arlington.

In all, he’s led his teams to four regular-season conference championships, three conference tournament titles, three NCAA Tournaments and eight total postseason berths as a head coach, to go along with his 350-260 career record (.574).

He was named the 2026 Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year after leading Troy to the league’s regular-season and tournament crowns. It was the third coach-of-the-year honor of his career (2017 Sun Belt, 2012 Southland).

“We’re thrilled to name Scott Cross the 16th head coach in Georgia Tech men’s basketball history,” Alpert said. “Coach Cross is a proven winner with 350 career victories and seven conference championships on his resume. His combination of experience, success and development of student-athletes, both on and off the court, makes him the perfect person to carry on the proud tradition of Georgia Tech men’s basketball. He is a great fit for our program, the Institute and the Georgia Tech and Atlanta communities.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Coach Cross to Georgia Tech,” Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera said. “His winning record and proven leadership speak for themselves, but what sets him apart is his understanding what it means to develop student-athletes as competitors, scholars, team players and leaders, and that aligns perfectly with Georgia Tech’s values.”

Player development has been a staple of Cross’s career. He’s coached three conference players of the year (2025 – Troy’s Tayton Conerway, 2017 – UTA’s Kevin Hervey, 2010 – UTA’s Marquez Haynes) and 25 players that have earned all-conference honors in his 19 seasons as a head coach, including 12 first-team selections. The total includes four first-team all-Sun Belt honorees and six total all-conference selections in his seven seasons at Troy.

In his seven successful seasons at Troy, he also coached two Sun Belt Freshmen of the Year (2024 – Myles Rigby, 2022 – Duke Deen), an SBC Newcomer of the Year (2022 – Efe Odigie) and the league’s Sixth Man of the Year (2024 – Conerway).

In his 19 seasons as the head coach at Troy and UTA, 19 of his players have gone on to sign professional contracts, highlighted by Kevin Hervey, who became the first UTA player ever selected in the first two rounds of the NBA Draft when he was picked 57th overall in 2018.

In addition to his three coach-of-the-year honors, Cross is also a two-time National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) District Coach of the Year (2012, 2017), was a 2012 finalist for the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year award and was recognized for his actions on and off the court when he was named a finalist for the 2016 Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award.

Cross took over a program at Troy that had only posted one winning record in the previous nine seasons and quickly established it as the Sun Belt's premier program, as it is the only team in the conference that has recorded five-straight 20-win seasons and is also the only team with five-straight 10-win seasons in Sun Belt play. The Trojans’ success under Cross resulted in a boom in fan support, as Troy set both single-season and single-game attendance records during his seven seasons with the program.

“I am truly honored and humbled to be named the head coach of Georgia Tech men’s basketball,” Cross said. “I want to thank President Cabrera and director of athletics Ryan Alpert for their belief and trust in me and my vision for this program. We will build a culture defined by discipline, toughness and accountability. Our players will represent Georgia Tech with pride, compete relentlessly and embrace the responsibility that comes with wearing the jersey. This is a program with a proud tradition, a world-class institution and a passionate fan base. I’m excited to get to work.”