Ole Miss fires Kermit Davis: Rebels coach had simply two successful seasons throughout his five-year tenure

Ole Miss has fired males’s basketball coach Kermit Davis with three video games remaining within the common season. The college introduced the teaching change Friday morning saying that Davis and Ole Miss “mutually agreed to half methods efficient instantly.” 

Davis, as soon as thought-about a serious rent for the Rebels in 2018 after seven straight successful seasons and three NCAA Event appearances as coach at Center Tennessee, has misplaced 9 of his final 10 video games on the season and has already secured a 3rd dropping season for Ole Miss since taking up this system.

“We thank Coach Davis for his dedication to the Ole Miss basketball program and our student-athletes,” Ole Miss Vice Chancellor Keith Carter stated within the assertion. “Nobody needed to carry a title residence to Mississippi greater than him, and we respect the eagerness for that purpose that he shared with our group daily. As he has all through his profession, Coach Davis labored tirelessly to supply a winner, and we want him, Betty and his household the easiest sooner or later.”

Davis had two successful seasons in his first three years with a 20-13 marketing campaign in 2018-19 and a 16-12 marketing campaign two seasons later, however in 5 seasons he made only one NCAA Event, an extended drought that former coach Andy Kennedy needed to finish his tenure with the Rebels. 

“My household and I are extraordinarily grateful for the chance to steer the Ole Miss males’s basketball program the previous 5 years,” Davis stated within the assertion. “We respect Chancellor Boyce, Keith Carter, the workers and gamers for his or her help and work ethic on behalf of our program, and I want Ole Miss the most effective going ahead. Oxford is a particular place to stay and work.”

With solely three regular-season video games left and presumably a short keep within the SEC Event, Ole Miss will flip to assistant coach Win Case as its interim coach for the rest of the season. Davis is in his fifth season with Ole Miss and has been on Davis’ workers courting again to his Center Tennessee tenure for greater than a decade.