The Memphis men’s basketball program announced the hiring of Mike Davis as an assistant coach for the upcoming season. Davis joins Memphis after spending the majority of his coaching career with the Detroit Mercy men’s basketball team,

Memphis coach Penny Hardaway announced the hiring of assistant coaches Nolan Smith and Mike Davis on Wednesday, just two weeks after parting with four staff members on the eve of his seventh season. Smith and Davis are high-profile hires and will be latest on a carousel of assistants who've worked under Hardaway since he took the Memphis job in 2018.

Penny Hardaway announced that Nolan Smith and former Detroit Mercy basketball head coach Mike Davis will be assistant coaches for Memphis

The University of Memphis basketball coach defends his style, saying he's not traditional and no one has really been fired, but went on to bigger and better positions.

Less than a month away from matching up against North Carolina in the first of two high profile charity exhibition games, Penny Hardaway is starting to piece together his coaching staff. A staff left pretty bare when Hardaway parted ways with four staff members a couple of weeks ago.

Nolan Smith is taking his experience as a Louisville and Duke basketball assistant to Penny Hardaway's Tigers.