Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2006 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. (NASDAQ: OZRK) today announced it expects to report first quarter earnings at the end of business Wednesday, April 12, 2006. Management will conduct a conference call to review this information at 10:00 a.m. CDT (11:00 a.m. EDT) on Thursday, April 13, 2006. Interested parties may listen to this call by dialing 1-800-990-4845 (United States and Canada only) and ask for the Bank of the Ozarks conference call. A recorded playback of the call will be available starting that afternoon by calling 1-800-642-1687 (U.S. and Canada) or 706-645-9291 (internationally). The passcode for this playback is 7346674. In addition the call will be available live or in recorded version on the company's website www.bankozarks.com under "Investor Relations."

Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. is a bank holding company with $2.1 billion in total assets as of December 31, 2005 and trades on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol "OZRK." The Company owns a state chartered subsidiary bank that conducts banking operations through 55 offices in 31 communities throughout northern, western and central Arkansas, three banking offices in Texas, and loan production offices in Little Rock and Bentonville, Arkansas and Charlotte, North Carolina. The Company may be contacted at [phone] or P. O. Box 8811, Little Rock, Arkansas 72231-8811. The Company's website is: www.bankozarks.com.