Perry Watson

Perry Watson

Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Detroit
Biographical details
Born	(1950-04-30) April 30, 1950 Detroit, Michigan, USA
Playing career
1968–1970	Henry Ford CC
1970–1972	Eastern Michigan
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1979–1991	Southwestern HS
1991–1993	Michigan (asst.)
1993–2008	Detroit
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Horizon League Tournament Championship (1994, 1999) Horizon League Regular Season Championship (1998, 1999)
Awards
Horizon League Coach of the Year (1998)

Perry Watson (born April 30, 1950) is an American college basketball coach from Detroit, Michigan. He played for Eastern Michigan University, graduating in 1972.

In 1977, Watson took the head coaching position at Detroit Southwestern High School where he coached, among others, future NBA player Jalen Rose. Watson left Southwestern to take a position on Steve Fisher's staff at the University of Michigan in 1991, coinciding with the arrival of the Fab Five of which Rose was a member.

After two years as an assistant under Fisher, Watson was hired as the head coach at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he spent the next fifteen seasons.

Watson took an indefinite medical leave of absence in January 2008. He resigned on March 5, 2008. Perry Watson was an important character witness in the University of Michigan basketball scandal.