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Jun 03, 1956 Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States 67 years old
American basketball player-coach
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About Larry Davis Basketball
- Larry Davis (June 3, 1956) is a former American men's college basketball coach, most recently serving as the co-associate head coach at the University of Cincinnati.
- Davis temporarily served as interim coach for the final 25 games of the 2014-15 team while head coach Mick Cronin was sidelined with a health issue.
- The Bearcats went 16-9 during the regular season with a 23-11 mark at season’s end, finishing tied for third place in the American Athletic Conference and the school’s fifth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
- Davis was the first interim coach at the NCAA tournament since Missouri’s Rich Daly and Michigan’s Steve Fisher in 1989.
- He also became the first non-head coach to lead a team through multiple games of a regular season and into the NCAA tournament since 1961 (Jake McCandless at Princeton).
- Davis was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky.
- After moving to Indiana as a child, he graduated from Wapahani High School in Selma, Indiana in 1974.
- Following high school, he attended Asbury College, in Wilmore, Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1978.
- The following year, he enrolled in a graduate program at East Tennessee State University and began his coaching career as a graduate assistant.
- Before coming to Cincinnati, Davis served as head coach at Furman University from 1997 to 2006 where he compiled a 124-139 record. From East Tennessee State, Davis moved on to coach high school teams, first at Cloverport High School, and then Oak Hill Academy, a prep school located at Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.
- His single season at Cloverport compiled a 12-15 record. On September 13th, 2018 Davis resigned from his position as Associate Head Coach for Cincinnati.
- In October of 2018, it was revealed that Davis resigned over an alleged assault on a plane in September of 2017.
