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Ole Miss’ Kermit Davis Inducted into the Southwest Mississippi CC Sports Hall of Fame
By Adam Brown
Sports Editor
adam.brown@hottytoddy.com
Image courtesy of Twitter
Ole Miss men’s basketball head coach Kermit Davis was inducted into the 2018 Southwest Mississippi Community College Sports Hall of Fame class earlier this month.
Davis became the youngest junior college head coach in the nation at the age of 24 when he took over the team in 1984.
“It was a great honor for me,” Davis said. “[Southwest] took a chance on me a 24-year-old coach, and coach [Horace] Holmes was the president and a dear friend of the family. I learned so much.”
Davis took over a program that had won 10 or 12 games in a combined four years prior to his coaching. In two seasons, he put together a 39-20 record. His squad won 22 games in 1986, which was the schools first 20-win season in 17 years.
“(His wife) Betty and I still have lifelong friends that we got a chance to see and it was a lot of fun for us,” Davis said.
After receveing the induction coach Davis tweeted this:
We will always be forever grateful to Southwest Ms CC for a fantastic opportunity to be their Head Coach @ 24 years old!! Honored to go into your Sports HOF! Thanks to my friend TW Bearden!! pic.twitter.com/Z9EOAUUu21
— Kermit Davis (@kermitdavisjr) October 14, 2018
Coach Davis and his squad tip off the 2018-19 season against Fayetteville State on November 2, at 6 p.m.
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| Fri, Nov 8 |  | vs Grambling | W, 66-64 |
| Tue, Nov 12 |  | vs South Alabama | W, 64-54 |
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| Thu, Nov 21 |  | vs Oral Roberts | L, 100-68 |
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| Tue, Dec 3 |  | @ Louisville | W, 86-63 |
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| Wed, Jan 8 |  | @ 23 Arkansas | W, 73-66 |
| Sat, Jan 11 |  | vs LSU | W, 77-65 |
| Tue, Jan 14 |  | @ 5 Alabama | W, 74-64 |
| Sat, Jan 18 |  | @ 17 Mississippi State | L, 81-84 |
| Wed, Jan 22 |  | vs 13 Texas A&M | L, 62-63 |
| Sat, Jan 25 |  | @ Missouri | L, 83-75 |
| Wed, Jan 29 |  | vs Texas | W, 72-69 |
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| Tue, Feb 4 |  | vs 10 Kentucky | W, 98-84 |
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| Wed, Feb 12 |  | @ South Carolina | 6:00 PM SECN |
| Sat, Feb 15 | | vs 17 Mississippi State | 5:00 PM TBA |
| Sat, Feb 22 |  | @ Vanderbilt | 2:30 PM SECN |
| Wed, Feb 26 | | @ 2 Auburn | 6:00 PM TBA |
| Sat, Mar 1 |  | vs 12 Oklahoma | 1:00 PM TBA |
| Wed, Mar 5 |  | vs 1 Tennessee | 8:00 PM TBA |
| Sat, Mar 8 |  | @ 6 Florida | 5:00 PM SECN |