Kermit Davis
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Middle Tennessee |
| Conference | Conference USA |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
December 14, 1959 Leakesville, Mississippi |
| Playing career | |
| 1978–1980 | Phillips County CC |
| 1980–1982 | Mississippi State |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1983–1984 | Mississippi State (asst.) |
| 1984–1986 | Southwest Mississippi CC |
| 1986–1988 | Idaho (asst.) |
| 1988–1990 | Idaho |
| 1990–1991 | Texas A&M |
| 1991–1993 | Chipola JC (asst.) |
| 1993–1994 | Chipola JC |
| 1994–1996 | Utah State (asst.) |
| 1996–1997 | Idaho |
| 1997–2002 | LSU (asst.) |
| 2002–present | Middle Tennessee |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 378–229 (.623) |
| Tournaments | 2-5 NCAA 2-1 NIT 0-2 CIT |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× Big Sky Tournament (1989, 1990) 2× Big Sky regular season (1989, 1990) 2x Sun Belt East Division (2012, 2013) 4x C-USA regular season (2012–2014, 2017) 2x C-USA Tournament (2016, 2017) NCAA Tournament (2016) 2nd Round #15 seed |
|
| Awards | |
|
C-USA Coach of the Year (2017) Sun Belt Coach of the Year (2003) Big Sky Coach of the Year (1989) |
|
John Kermit Davis Jr. (born December 14, 1959) is an American college basketball coach, the men's head coach at Middle Tennessee State University since 2002.
Davis was previously the associate head coach at LSU for five seasons. His head coaching experience included brief stops at Idaho (twice) and Texas A&M.
Davis' father, Kermit, Sr., was the head coach at Mississippi State University for seven seasons, ending in 1977. He was an alumnus of the school and was promoted to head coach at age 34 after four years as an assistant for the Bulldogs. In his first season in 1971, he was named SEC coach of the year.
The younger Davis graduated from high school in 1978 and then played at Phillips County Community College in Arkansas for two years, and transferred to hometown Mississippi State, where he played two seasons and earned a bachelor's degree in 1982 and a master's in 1984 while a graduate assistant.
When promoted from assistant to head coach at Idaho in 1988 at age 28, Davis was the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I. He had been an assistant for two seasons with the Vandals under new and first-time head coach Tim Floyd, who left for New Orleans. Floyd had rejuvenated the program and under Davis, Idaho had consecutive 25–6 (.806) seasons in 1989 and 1990, winning the Big Sky regular season and tournament titles to make the NCAA tournament both years. He left the Palouse for Texas A&M of the Southwest Conference in March 1990, but resigned a year later after an 8–21 (.276) first season in which Davis committed rules violations that landed A&M on two years probation and resulted in a two-year show-cause order against Davis himself.
...
Wikipedia