Chris Beard is set to be a Power Five head coach again.
when they fired coach Kermit Davis with tree games to go in the regular season. Ole Miss was 10-18 overall and 2-13 in the SEC when Davis was fired. The Rebels went 1-2 in their final three regular-season games under interim coach Win Case and [INSERT HERE] in the SEC tournament.
Ole Miss hasn’t made the NCAA tournament since 2019 and hasn’t advanced to the second weekend of the tournament since 2013. The Rebels have made just two NCAA appearances since it made it to the Sweet 16 as a No. 12 seed 10 years ago. Davis compiled a 74-79 record since 2018-19 at Ole Miss. He came to the Rebels from Middle Tennessee State. Ole Miss had a winning record in just one of its seasons since making the tournament in Davis’ first season with the team.Beard was eight games into his second season at Texas before he was placed on leave by the school. The Longhorns were 7-1 at the time and went 22-12 in 2021-22.
He came to Texas after five years at Texas Tech where the Red Raiders made the NCAA tournament three times and advanced to the Final Four in 2019. Texas Tech was 31-7 that season and lost to Virginia in the national title game. Before he was hired at Tech, Beard was the coach at Little Rock for a season in 2015-16. Little Rock was 30-5 that year and made it to the tournament as a No. 12 seed. The Trojans upset No. 5 Purdue before losing to No. 4 seed Iowa State in the second round.
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