BOSTON (1/9/2019) -- Freshman
Antoine Davis' week of accolades added another high-profile award as he was named to the Lou Henson Award Mid-Season Watch List on Wednesday.
The Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the nation's top mid-major player in Division I College Basketball.
Davis is one of three Horizon League student-athletes to earn the distinction, joining NKU senior Drew McDonald and Wright State sophomore Loudon Love. He is also the only freshman to appear in the 50-player watch-list.
Davis - who was just selected the Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Week and has been tabbed the Horizon League Freshman of the Week five times and the outright Player of the Week twice - is currently second in the nation in scoring at 27.3 points per game, while topping the country with 141 made field goals, 81, 3-pointers and 5.06, 3-pointers per game.
He is third in the nation with 437 total points and he is quickly approaching a Titan true freshman record for most points in a season trailing only Ray McCallum's rookie mark of 446 in 2009-10, and John Long's 445 in 1974-75.
He has led the team in scoring in every game this season and has 11, 20-point games, seven 30+ performances and a pair of 40-point efforts in his first 16 collegiate games, the only freshman in school history with two 40-point outings.
Davis' 48 points against Wright State was the fourth most in league play in Horizon League history and he also became just the third freshman since 1996-97 to score at least 48 points in a game, joining Trae Young's (Oklahoma) 48 points against Oklahoma State last season and Keydren Clark's ( St. Peters) 48 against Northern Arizona in 2002.
The last Titan to appear on the list was Ray McCallum in 2013 as he was named one of 25 finalists for the award.
Lou Henson coached 41 years. When he left the game in 2005 he was sixth all-time in career Division I wins with 779. He is the winningest coach at both Illinois and New Mexico State. He is one of only 12 coaches in the history of the game to take two schools to the Final Four.
The 2019 Lou Henson Award will be presented at the College Insider awards event in April at the site of the men's Division I national championship in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Titans will be back in action tomorrow, Jan. 10, as the red, white and blue welcome first-place Green Bay to Calihan Hall in a 7 p.m. tip.
2018-19 LOU HENSON AWARD MID-SEASON WATCH LIST
Milan Acquaah - So. - California Baptist
Francis Alonso - Sr. - UNC Greensboro
Jordan Barnes - Jr. - Indiana State
James Batemon - Sr. - Loyola Marymount
Jarrell Brantley - Sr. - Charleston
Keith Braxton - Jr. - Saint Francis (PA)
AJ Brodeur - Jr. - Penn
Tookie Brown - Sr. - Georgia Southern
Desmond Cambridge - So. - Brown
Devin Cannady - Sr. - Princeton
Yoeli Childs - Jr. - BYU
Chris Clemons - Sr. - Campbell
RJ Cole - So. - Howard
Zach Cooks - So. - NJIT
Mike Daum - Sr. - South Dakota State
Jordan Davis - Sr. - Northern Colorado
Antoine Davis - Fr. - Detroit Mercy
Jordan Ford - Sr. - Saint Mary's
JaKeenan Gant - Sr. - Louisiana
Jerrick Harding - Jr. - Weber State
Rapolas Ivanauskas - Jr. Colgate
Cameron Jackson - Sr. - Wofford
David Jenkins - So. - South Dakota State
Nathan Knight - Jr. - William & Mary
John Konchar - Sr. - Purdue Fort Wayne
Anthony Lamb - Jr. - Vermont
Loudon Love - So. - Wright State
Fletcher Magee - Sr. - Wofford
Max Mahoney - Jr. - Boston
CJ Massinburg - Sr. - Buffalo
Garrison Mathews - Sr. - Lipscomb
Nick Mayo - Sr. - Eastern Kentucky
Drew McDonald - Sr. - Northern Kentucky
Ja Morant - So. - Murray State
Matt Morgan - Sr. - Cornell
Miye Oni - Jr. - Yale
Nijal Pearson - Jr. - Texas State
Nick Perkins - Sr. - Buffalo
Matt Rafferty - Sr. - Furman
Grant Riller - Jr. - Charleston
Ahmaad Rorie - Sr. - Montana
Jaelan Sanford - Sr. - Toledo
D'Marcus Simonds - Jr. - Georgia State
Terry Taylor - So. - Austin Peay
Jordon Varnado - Sr. - Troy
Jaylin Walker - Jr. - Kent State
Dylan Windler - Sr. - Belmont
Justin Wright-Foreman - Sr. - Hofstra
Milik Yarbrough - Sr. - Illinois State
Akwasi Yeboah - Jr. - Stony Brook
