Larry Davis (basketball)


Larry Davis is an American men's college basketball coach, most recently serving as the co-associate head coach at the University of Cincinnati.

Early life

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.

Coaching career

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.
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.
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. A federal court in North Carolina would ultimately sentenced Davis to two years probation for the incident.
Davis was hired as the head coach of Lincoln Academy, a charter school hosted at Winston-Salem Christian School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The school was suddenly closed on September 5, 2019 as a part of the MyPayrollHR scandal.