Doug Davenport was named the 12th head coach of the Bellarmine University men's basketball program on March 11, 2025.
The son of former head coach Scott Davenport, Doug joined the Bellarmine University men’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant prior to the 2016-17 season and in May of 2022 was announced as the program’s “Coach-in-Waiting.” The Knights posted a 171-108 (.613) record in his nine seasons as an assistant.
In 2021-22, Davenport helped guide Bellarmine to a landmark season in the Knights’ second year in Division I. Bellarmine captured its first-ever ASUN Tournament title and posted its first 20-win campaign in D1.
In 2022-23, BU opened the season with a victory at crosstown foe and D1 blue blood Louisville and secured a victory over North Florida in the ASUN Tournament.
In the 2020-21 season, Davenport helped guide the Knights to a highly successful transition to D1. Bellarmine sported a 14-8 record overall and earned an invitation to a national postseason tournament (CBI) after falling just one game shy of capturing the ASUN Conference regular-season crown.
In 2019-20, Bellarmine’s final season in D2, Davenport helped push the Knights to a 20-8 record and their 12th straight berth in the NCAA II Tournament before the tourney was canceled as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus.
Bellarmine three-peated as the GLVC Tournament champion from 2017-19. The Knights went 32-4 and made a Final Four appearance in 2016-17, went 29-3 in 2017-18 and delivered a 28-5 campaign in 2018-19 while advancing to the Sweet 16. Bellarmine captured outright GLVC regular-season titles in 2017 and 2018.
Davenport had deep ties to Bellarmine before joining the coaching staff. He’s a 2010 graduate of the university and played guard for the Knights while being a member of the 2010 squad that won the program’s first GLVC Tournament title. The team earned berths in the NCAA II Tournament in 2009 and 2010, the former ending a drought that had lasted since 1991.
Following his playing days at Bellarmine, Davenport served on the coaching staff at Xavier, where he earned a Master’s in education in 2012. He went on to serve on Rick Pitino’s staff at Louisville from 2012-2015 (2013 NCAA champions, 2015 NCAA Elite Eight) before moving on to Eastern Kentucky in 2015-16 where he served under Dan McHale. The 2012-13 Louisville squad went 35-5 and preceded its national title run with a Big East Tournament championship.
Davenport is married to his wife, Alex Stanley Davenport.
