Report: Ole Miss parts ways with head basketball coach Kermit Davis

Ole Miss has elected to part ways with head coach Kermit Davis, according to a report from college basketball insider Jon Rothstein.

The Rebels are 10-18 on the season and 2-13 in conference play, which has them tied with LSU for the worst record in the SEC.

Win Case will serve as the Rebels’ interim head coach for the remainder of the 2022-23 college basketball season.

Case has worked with Davis for nearly 20 years and has been an Ole Miss assistant coach since Davis was hired in 2018. He has previously served as a head coach at NAIA Oklahoma City University from 1993-2005, Eastern Oklahoma State College for the next two seasons and then one season with Redlands College.

He won two national titles at Oklahoma City University. His win-loss record as a head coach is 392-169.

Kermit Davis spent four-plus years with Ole Miss

Kermit Davis was in the midst of his fifth season in Oxford, Mississippi, before he was let go Friday by Ole Miss. He went 74-79 in 153 games coaching Ole Miss, leading them to one NCAA Tournament his first year on the job during the 2018-19 season. The Rebels were a No. 8 seed and lost in the first round to Oklahoma.

Ole Miss also participated in the 2021 NIT Tournament, losing in the first round there as well.

Davis was hired by the Rebels from Middle Tennessee, where he had been the coach for 16 seasons. He led the Blue Raiders to three NCAA Tournaments, including the Big Dance in 2016. That year, his Middle Tennessee team pulled off one of the biggest upsets in March Madness history. As a No. 15 seed, the Blue Raiders upset second-seeded Michigan State in the first round of the tournament.