NCAA Basketball: Kendric Davis, Antoine Davis headline Players of the Week

Mid-major Player of the Week – Antoine Davis

After everything that happened over the last week, it was a really easy choice to give this award to Davis. He has been nominated for this award a bunch this year and had yet to win it but very few players, if any players play the game quite like the Detroit Mercy guard. If you have never watched a Titans game let me fill you in. They revolve around Davis, he takes a ton of shots and shoots a ton of threes. The guard is so much different from other volume shooters though because he shoots and scores at an extremely high percentage which is what helps him average 26 points per game.

This award is likely meaningless to him as there is not going to be a trophy or anything presented to him for it. However, the recognition he is going to get as being a 3,000-point scorer. In the win over Robert Morris, the guard also became the NCAA career leader in three-pointers made. He has made 513 three-pointers in his career, which is two more than the second-place guy Fletcher Magee from Wofford. Davis is going to crush the record as there is still half the season left and he is likely going to make close to 600 threes for his career.

41 points in a game are no easy feat, it is also harder to do when the game plan is put into place to stop him. He was 15-26 from the floor that night and he made 11 threes. 11 threes in a game by one player is impressive. It is the second time this season that the guard has made 10 or more threes this season. The season for Davis almost didn’t happen at Detroit Mercy because he did enter the transfer portal early in the offseason before deciding to stay and play his final season for his father and finish his career as a Titan.

As the Horizon League season moves on Davis is going to continue to get recognized by nearly every publication out there. He is one of the best college players ever and the game will miss him next year.