Ole Miss has hired Middle Tennessee's Kermit Davis as its new men's basketball coach, the school announced Thursday.
Davis will be introduced as the Rebels' 22nd head coach on Monday. Ole Miss was 12-20 this season.
Davis, 58, has spent the past 16 years at Middle Tennessee and took the program to three NCAA tournament appearances.
"After assessing the entire landscape of college basketball and speaking to basketball experts across the country to determine the greatest fit for Ole Miss Basketball, the answer was clear -- Kermit Davis is the best coach and best leader to take our program to the next level in the SEC and NCAA," Ross Bjork, the school's vice chancellor for intercollegiate athletics, said in a statement.