Antoine Davis nearing Pete Maravich’s NCAA profession scoring file as Detroit performs in Horizon League Match

After scoring 38 factors in Detroit Mercy’s 81-68 Horizon League Match victory over Purdue-Fort Wayne on Tuesday, Antoine Davis wants simply 26 extra factors to interrupt Pete Maravich’s NCAA profession scoring file. Davis made 14 of 27 pictures from the sector towards the Mastodons and in addition completed with eight rebounds, eight assists and 4 steals whereas guiding the No. 8 seed Titans to a cushty victory.

Detroit Mercy wanted to win to ensure that Davis to get yet another recreation and have an opportunity at passing Maravich. The Titans (15-18) will tackle No. 1 seed Youngstown State on Thursday in quarterfinal motion. Davis scored 32 towards YSU in a house recreation on Jan. 12 and 15 in highway recreation on Jan. 29. The Titans misplaced each video games.

Davis leads the nation with 28.1 factors per recreation this season however has upped his manufacturing much more as of late by averaging 34.4 factors over his final 9 video games. Another recreation at that fee would make him the game’s new all-time main scorer. As a result of the Titans have a shedding file, their season will finish with a loss towards Youngstown State, that means Thursday’s recreation may very well be Davis’ solely alternative on the file.

Maravich has held the all-time file with 3,667 factors since 1970. The legendary LSU guard set the mark earlier than the arrival of a 3-point line in faculty basketball and with simply three seasons value of video games since he spent his first season on the varsity’s freshman staff at a time when freshmen weren’t eligible for varsity competitors.

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Against this, that is Davis’ fifth season of faculty basketball since he was granted an extra 12 months of eligibility as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. However there is no such thing as a doubt he is among the many sport’s all-time nice scorers. He is already the NCAA’s all-time chief in made 3-pointers with a tally that elevated to 578 after he drilled 5 extra on Saturday.

Davis is the son of Detroit coach Mike Davis, who was previously the coach of Indiana, UAB and Texas Southern.  After final season, Davis entered the switch portal and even launched record of colleges he thought to be finalists that included BYU, Georgetown, Kansas State and Maryland. In the end, he selected to return to Detroit to cap off his historic profession.