A two-time All-Southeastern Conference selection and 10-year NBA veteran, Marquis Daniels is in his eighth season on head coach Bruce Pearl’s staff.
 
Daniels served as a graduate assistant during the 2018-19 season, before being promoted to his current role as director of player development the following season.
 
Since, he has been a part of four SEC Championship teams (2019, 2022, 2024 and 2025), the Tigers’ historic Final Four runs in 2019 and 2022. 
 
Daniels also helped mentor and develop Chuma Okeke, Isaac Okoro, JT Thor, Sharife Cooper, Jabari Smith, Walker Kessler and Johni Broome, before all seven Tigers were drafted into the NBA.
 
The two-time SEC Player of the Week selection, who donned an Auburn uniform from 1999-2003, still ranks third in the school record books in career steals (208), 10th all-time in career wins (76) and 11th all-time in career scoring (1,532 points). Daniels tied the school single-season record with 34 double-figure-scoring games in 2002-03, a season in which he also set the Auburn single-season record with 78 steals. 
 
During his senior year, he led the 10th-seeded Tigers to a Sweet 16 appearance, recording game highs of 27 points and nine rebounds to help Auburn erase a double-digit deficit with a chance to knock off eventual national champion Syracuse. It was one of two NCAA Tournament berths during Daniels’ time on The Plains.
 
Named SEC Player of the Year by the Birmingham News, SEC Most Valuable Player by CollegeInsider.com and to the SEC Community Service Team in 2003, he graduated in 3.5 years with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and later a master’s degree in adult education in 2019.
 
Daniels was honored as a SEC Men’s Basketball Legend in 2017 and inducted into the City of Auburn’s Tiger Trail Class of 2022.
 
A native of Orlando, Florida, he amassed 4,319 career points, 1,552 career rebounds and 509 career steals as a member of the Dallas Mavericks (2003-06), Indiana Pacers (2006-09), Boston Celtics (2009-12) and Milwaukee Bucks (2012-13) combined.
 
He and his late wife, Shana Askew, a former Auburn women’s basketball player, are the proud parents of Syriah, Antwane and Jasmine. Syriah is a sophomore on the Auburn women’s basketball team.