Sean Woods

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Sean Woods (born March 29, 1970) is an American basketball coach and former player. He is the head coach at Scott County High School in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Woods grew up in East Chicago, Indiana, and played high school basketball at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis before attending the University of Kentucky from 1988 to 1992. He was a member of the celebrated “Unforgettables” with coach Rick Pitino. In the 1992 NCAA tournament, Kentucky reached the Elite Eight after wins over Old Dominion, Iowa State, and Massachusetts. Woods scored 21 points in the overtime against Duke, including a floater over Christian Laettner with 2.1 seconds left, but Duke won 103–102. He finished fifth on Kentucky’s all-time assists list with 482.

After college, Woods briefly joined the Indiana Pacers’ preseason roster and later ran a basketball camp. He began coaching as an assistant at High Point (2003–2005), Texas A&M–Corpus Christi (2005–2006), and TCU (2006–2008). He then served as head coach at Mississippi Valley State (2008–2012), where he won the SWAC regular season and tournament titles in 2012 and earned the Ben Jobe Award as the top minority NCAA Division I coach that year, leading the team to the NCAA First Four.

In 2012, Woods became head coach at Morehead State (2012–2016). In 2016 he was suspended amid a player mistreatment investigation, faced misdemeanor battery charges, and resigned in December of that year; Preston Spradlin served as interim head coach during the process.

Woods then spent a season as an assistant at Stetson (2017–2018) before taking the head coaching job at Southern University (2018–2023). In 2025, he was named the head coach at Scott County High School in Kentucky.

Personal life: Woods is married with two children. His son, Martiese Morones, was a high school point guard who signed with TCU in 2006. Woods’s career head-coaching record is 191–232 (.452). His major honors include the 2012 SWAC regular season and tournament titles, the SWAC Coach of the Year award, and the Ben Jobe Award in 2012.