The Central Florida Knights men's basketball team fired head coach Donnie Jones on Thursday, according to CBS Sports' Ryan Bass. The school confirmed the news.
Word of Jones' dismissal trickled out just hours after UCF was bounced in the first round of the AAC tournament by Tulane, 65-63.
During his sixth season with the program, the Knights went 12-18, including a 6-12 record in American Athletic Conference play, en route to an eighth-place finish ahead of only the East Carolina Pirates, South Florida Bulls and Tulane Green Wave.
Jones was hired prior to the 2010-11 campaign, and his tenure started off in encouraging fashion as UCF went 21-12 while ranking as high as 19th in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, per Sports-Reference.