Maurice Joseph joined Thad Matta’s Butler staff as an assistant coach in June of 2022. In his three seasons with the Bulldogs, Joseph has helped Butler to a postseason berth as the team made the 2024 NIT and the field for the inaugural College Basketball Crown in 2025.
Joseph spent the 2021-22 season at Richmond as a member of Chris Mooney’s staff. He helped the Spiders to the 2022 Atlantic 10 Tournament title, a win against Big Ten champion Iowa in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, and a 24-13 record. Those 24 wins were the fourth-most in single-season program history.
The majority of Joseph’s coaching career came on the sidelines at George Washington. His eight seasons in the nation’s capital saw Joseph rise from assistant director of operations in 2011 to assistant coach in 2013 to head coach in 2016. Joseph spent three seasons (2016-19) leading the George Washington program, during which time he was the youngest collegiate head coach in a Top 10 RPI conference.
In his first season at George Washington (2016-17), Joseph led the Colonials to a 20-15 record and berth in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI). While at GW, Joseph worked with three players who went on to play in the NBA: Patricio Garino, Tyler Cavanaugh, and Yuta Watanabe. As an assistant at GW, Joseph helped the Colonials to the 2016 NIT Championship.
Following his three seasons as the head coach at GW, he spent the 2019-20 season as an assistant coach at Fairleigh Dickinson. Joseph then joined the George Mason staff as an assistant coach for the 2020-21 season, helping the Patriots to a 13-9 record while assisting with the development of Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year Tyler Kolek.
As a player, Joseph led Vermont to a 49-19 record over his final two collegiate seasons, including an America East championship and appearance in the NCAA Tournament as a senior in 2010. Joseph averaged a career-best 13.9 points per game that season, second on the team. He began his college career at Michigan State, where he was part of a pair of NCAA Tournament teams while appearing in 52 total games as a freshman and sophomore.
Following his graduation from Vermont in 2010, Joseph played professionally in Israel with Hapoel Afula before he began his coaching career.
A native of Montreal, Quebec, Joseph prepped at Champlain-St. Lambert and was named Canada's National Player of the Year in 2005.
Joseph and his wife, Kristen, have a son, Kameron, who was born in 2021. Joseph's younger brother, Kris, is a former Syracuse standout who was selected in the 2012 NBA Draft.
Joseph's Coaching Profile
| Seasons |
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| 2022-present |
Butler (Assistant Coach) |
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| 2021-22 |
Richmond (Assistant Coach) |
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| 2020-21 |
George Mason (Assistant Coach) |
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| 2019-20 |
Fairleigh Dickinson (Assistant Coach) |
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| 2016-19 |
George Washington (Head Coach) |
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| 2013-16 |
George Washington (Assistant Coach) |
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| 2011-13 |
George Washington (Asst. Director, Operations) |
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