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Ex UC coach Davis gets two years probation for airplane assault

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Former University of Cincinnati associate head men's basketball coach Larry Davis was sentenced Monday to two years probation for assaulting a woman while she was asleep on an airplane in 2017.

The sentence came in a federal court in North Carolina after Davis, who was ousted by UC in September over the incident, pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor assault charge last October.

UC had previously said Davis, 62, of Fort Wright, retired a few months before the start of the 2018-19 season.

According to the U.S. Attorney's office in Charlotte, N.