Head Coach - Scott Raines
Scott Raines enters his sixth year as the head coach of the Howard College Men's Basketball program. Raines is entering his fourteenth year with Howard College, having served in several different roles, from assistant coach with the men's basketball program, to Fitness Center director, to Dean of Students, and most recently District Registrar. He has previous collegiate coaching stops at Moberly Area Community College, Midland College, University of Oklahoma (Men and Women), Alderson Broaddus College and Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts.
In five years under Raines, the Hawks are 108-49 with four Region V tournament appearances and one conference championship. The Hawks are coming off a 22-9 season and a quarter-final appearance in the Region V tournament in 2017-18. After starting conference 2-4, the Hawks won 8 out of their next 9 games to finish third overall in conference. In 2016-17 after a slow start to the year, the Hawks finished strong to qualify for the postseason and capped it off with a first round win over 29-1 (7th ranked) McLennan College. In 2014-15, the Hawks were co-conference champions (24-8, 13-3) and the Region V tournament runner-up. Along the way, the Hawks beat the NJCAA national tournament runner-up and third place team. In 2013-14, Raines led the team to a 24-8 (11-5 conference) record and a semifinal appearance in the Region V tournament.
29 players in five years under Coach Raines have moved on to play at the university level:
- Demeco Blue- Texas A & M International
- Srdjan Budimir-Texas A & M Commerce
- Niels Bunschoten- Indiana State University
- Travis Charles- University of Albany
- Will Ferguson- St. Mary’s (TX) University
- Cameron Fields- Howard Payne University
- Christian Fields- Howard Payne University
- Sam Finley- University of Mississippi (Ole’ Miss)
- Rob Gray- University of Houston
- Derrick (DJ) Green- Maryland Eastern Shore
- Jeremy Hayes- University of Louisiana (Lafayette)
- Isaiah Hobbs- University of Texas
- Jake Hutchings- Chaminade University
- Darius Johnson- LSU Alexandria
- Shawn Jones-UMass Lowell
- Diamond Onwuka- St. Cloud State University
- David “Pepe” Joseph- Bowling Green State University
- Jose Libanio- Southeastern Oklahoma State University
- Amari McCray- University of Pacific
- Kuba Niziol- Cal-Poly
- Reggie Oliver-Quinnipiac University
- Jack Pagenkopf- Dixie State University
- Shaquille Preston- Prairie View A & M
- Kelvin “KJ” Riley- Evansville University
- Dante Scott- Mississippi Valley State University
- Lis Shoshi- University of Arkansas-Little Rock
- Ricquail Smoot- Hampton State University
- Nic Thomas- Norfolk State University
- Eric Weary- University of Houston
The Hawks were led the previous nine years by Mark Adams, currently an assistant at Texas Tech University. Adams led the Hawks to the 2010 National Championship along with 2006 and 2013 trips to the national tournament. Adams tenure included three seasons of 30 wins or more and two NJCAA national players of the year, Charles Burgess in 2006 and Jae Crowder (currently with the Boston Celtics) in 2010.
Raines is a graduate of Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts in Edmond, Oklahoma. He played collegiately at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, Colorado and Oklahoma Christian. He is married to Kelly Raines (Howard College Softball Coach) and they have an twelve year old son, Austen.
Assistant Coach - Gabe Palmquist-Clark
Gabe Palmquist-Clark or “Coach PC” is in his first year as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Howard College. Palmquist-Clark comes to Howard after a brief stint at Vincennes University in the 2017-18 Season. In his time at Vincennes the Trailblazers were ranked as high as #2 in the nation. At Vincennes, Coach PC worked for hall of fame coach Todd Franklin.
During the 2016-17 Coach PC worked at Kilgore College in Region 14 of the NJCAA. While working at Kilgore for Brian Hoberecht, he was responsible for post player development, team travel, academics, film, recruiting, among other things.
During the 2015-16 season, Coach PC was an assistant coach at Western Oregon University under head coach Jim Shaw. At WOU he established coaching aspects in the program such as scouting reports, post player development and recruiting. At WOU he helped guide the program to 31-4 record, D2 Final Four appearance, No. 1 ranking in D2, No. 3 final ranking in D2 and broken records for most wins in men’s basketball WOU history and conference history.
Coach PC was also an assistant coach at Holy Names University in Oakland, Calif. in 2014-15 where his primary duties were scouting reports, recruiting, big-men skill development and video coordinating. He was also the assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at Lane Community College from 2012-14 for Head Coach Bruce Chavka.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (with a Sports Business focus) at the University of Oregon and earned a Master's Degree of Science Education from Western Oregon University in 2016.
Coach PC is a native of Portland, OR where he was a four-year scholar athlete at Cleveland High School. His family resides through-out the west coast in Oregon and California.
Assistant Coach - Junsie Cotten
Junsie Cotten begins his first season as assistant coach for Scott Raines at Howard College. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Cotten brings over twenty years of coaching experience both as an assistant and head coach. Prior to Howard, Cotten and Raines worked together at Midland College (1999-2001) guiding the Chaparrals to a two year record of 55-15 while capturing a WJCAC Championship, a Region V title, and finishing 6th at the NJCAA National Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Cotten, a former assistant at the University of Texas at El Paso, has also been the head coach at Lincoln Trail College (2005-2010), and most recently at Panola College (2010-2015) in Carthage, Texas. In his second year at Lincoln Trail, Cotten led the Statesmen to the 2007 Region 24 Championship.
Cotten began his coaching career as a student assistant in 1994 at Utah State under Larry Eustachy, where he helped the Aggies post a 21-8 record and win the Big West Conference Championship.
Collegiately, Cotten played his first two years (1990-1992) at the College of Eastern Utah. He averaged a conference best 21.1 points per game as a sophomore earning First Team All-League and All-Region honors. He played his final two years at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Coach Cotten comes to Howard College after serving as a special needs teacher in the Chapel Hill–Carrboro City School system.
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