Larry Davis (basketball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Larry Davis (basketball)

American basketball player-coach

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1956

Place of Birth: Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States

Profession: basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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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.

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