Wilmington hires former standout, UC player as head boys basketball coach

Wilmington High School has hired former Hurricane basketball standout and University of Cincinnati player Jaevin Cumberland as its new head boys basketball coach.

The school announced the hire Wednesday afternoon, pending approval by the school board later this month.

Wilmington, a member of the Southern Buckeye Athletic & Academic Conference, was 5-18 last season.

Cumberland, 27, graduated from Wilmington with 1,846 career points, the most in school history. He was first-team All-Ohio in the 2014-15 season after scoring 22.5 points per game and leading the Hurricane to a sectional championship.

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He signed to play basketball in college at Oakland University, a rival of Northern Kentucky in the Horizon League. He started every game during the 2018-19 season, averaging 17.2 points per game and hitting 64 3-pointers.

He transferred to the University of Cincinnati as a graduate transfer for the 2019-20 season, joining his cousin Jarron Cumberland and helping the Bearcats to a 20-10 record, 13-5 in the American Athletic Conference, before the postseason was canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jaevin Cumberland started four games that season and played 30, averaging 8.8 points per game and hitting 2.1 3-pointers per contest. He twice scored 21 points in a game that season.

He finished his college career with 946 career points.