DETROIT (6/23/2023) -- University of Detroit Mercy graduate senior
Antoine Davis will now prepare for his professional career after signing a free agent contract with the Portland Trail Blazers.
In its history, Detroit Mercy has seen 23 players compete in a NBA game.
While an official summer roster has not been released, Portland is set to play in the NBA 2K24 Summer League in Las Vegas, July 7-17.
Davis concluded one of the greatest college careers in NCAA history this past season, one that saw him claim three NCAA records and make a run at the all-time scoring mark.
He is the only five-time First-Team All-Horizon League selection, who was the conference's Freshman of the Year as a rookie, the Co-Player of the Year as a senior and the outright Player of the Year as a graduate senior. He was a USBWA Third Team All-American this past season, a two-time Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American, a four-time Lou Henson All-American and NABC All-District First Team honoree and a three-time USBWA All-District V pick.
He finished his career holding four NCAA records in total 3-pointers (588), 3-pointers by a freshman (132), consecutive games in double figures (144) and total games in double figures (144). His 3,664 career points are second in NCAA history, just three shy of Pete Maravich's record 3,667, while his 1,219 field goals are sixth all-time in the NCAA record book. Davis' 4.08, three-point field goals per game are third all-time in NCAA history, and he is also the only play to ever post 3,500 points and 500 assists, with his 594 helpers third in the school record book.
Davis owns six of the top 13 scoring performances in school history with 48 points against Wright State in 2019 (2nd and most points by a Titan and HL freshman), 46 against Robert Morris in 2021 (4th), 43 at IUPUI in 2020 (T-7th) and 42 against Loyola Maryland in 2018 (T-11th and the original freshman scoring record), 42 at IUPUI and 42 at Milwaukee in 2023. He is the only person in NCAA basketball in the last 40 years with a 40-point game in four different seasons.
Overall, he netted 105 career 20-point games, 40 career 30-point outings and eight 40-point contests in 144 collegiate games - reaching at least 17 points in 125 of them. He also connected on a 3-pointer in 139 of his 144 collegiate games - including 48-straight at one point - and had 82 career games with four or more triples, 33 with six or more, 17 games with seven or more, five games with 10 or more with a Horizon League tournament record 10 against Robert Morris in 2021 and a school-record 11 versus RMU in 2023.
This past year, he led the nation in scoring at 28.2 points per game, total points at 930, and with 4.82, 3-pointers per game. All three marks were Horizon League records, while the 930 points and 4.82 triples per game were both school marks. He became just the second player in school history to ever lead the nation in a national statistic (Spencer Haywood's 22.1 rpg. in 1968-69).
Davis' 4.82, 3-pointers per game was also third all-time in NCAA history, trailing only Florida A&M's Terrence Woods' 4.96 in 2002-03 and Butler's Darrin Fitzgerald's 5.64 in 1986-87, while his 930 points were the most by a player since 2018-19.
Davis drained 159 total triples, a new school and HL record and third in NCAA history. His 303 total field goals were a new conference record and second in the NCAA on the year and his 90.7 free-throw percentage led the league and was eighth in the nation and 165 total free throws 21st.
Off the court, he was the Co-HL Scholar-Athlete Of The Season this year, a two-time Horizon League All-Academic Team member and a CoSIDA Academic Second Team All-American in 2022.
