Report: Hamden's Scott Burrell Favorite to Become SCSU Men's Basketball Coach

Hamden native, and former UConn great, Scott Burrell is the leading candidate to become the next head coach at Southern Connecticut State University, the New Haven Register reports.

Burrell told the Register on Wednesday that he has applied for the job but hasn’t received an offer.

A source told the Register that he would be “shocked” if Burrell didn’t land at Southern and succeed Mike Donnelly.

Burrell, 44, has spent the last eight seasons as an assistant coach to Tom Moore at Quinnipiac University.

Burrell played 14 seasons in the NBA and won a championship with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in 1998. He also played with the Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors, and the New Jersey Nets. He averaged 7.0 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game while shooting 41.6 percent from the field in his career.

Burrell remains the only athlete ever to be a first-round draft pick in two professional sports.

He was a three-sport star (football, basketball and baseball) at Hamden High School. Burrell was drafted in the first round of the 1989 MLB draft by the Seattle Mariners (and drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays the following year), but he chose to attend the University of Connecticut where he played basketball instead.

Read the full story on the SCSU men’s basketball search at the New Haven Register here.

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