Davis: Feel ‘cheated’ out of chance at NCAA record

Antoine Davis has actually ended his pursuit of” Handgun “Pete Maravich’s NCAA scoring record.The Detroit

Mercy guard completed 4 points shy of breaking Maravich’s mark earlier this month in a loss throughout the Horizon League tournament.While it looked like Davis’college career was over when the College Basketball Invitational did not extend an invitation to the Titans, he held out hope up until Monday that he would get another opportunity to play, perhaps in an inaugural College Hoops Postseason 8.” I’m upset about it,” Davis said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.”I feel like I got cheated out of something that they can’t ever give back to me. I believe it’s selfish– and weird– that people emailed or called the CBI to say we shouldn’t be in the competition because they didn’t want me to break the record.”But there’s absolutely nothing to hold my head down about. I still seem like I’m the very best scorer in my generation, especially completing No. 2 behind him. “Editor’s Picks 2 Related The CBI, which started Saturday, posted pictures on its Twitter account of Maravich and Davis quickly after Detroit Mercy lost at

Youngstown State and had talks with the school about a potential invite. Eventually, the CBI decided not to give the Titans(14-19 )an opportunity to pay $27,500 to play in the 16-team competition.”We did receive unsolicited e-mails and voicemails about Detroit Grace and some stated we don’t ever desire Pete Maravich’s record broken,” stated Rick Giles, president

of the Gazelle Group that runs the CBI.”The choice we made wasn’t based simply on whether we wanted him to break the record or not.” Jaeson Maravich said he did not have a personal problem with Davis, but he wasn’t delighted that his daddy’s record had a chance to be broken in a lower-tier, pay-to-play college basketball postseason competition.”I believe it’s a horrible look,”Jaeson Maravich informed the AP. “Your season must be over if you’re 14-19.”This situation is really individual and sensitive to me.

But to be clear, I’m not mad at Antoine Davis and I have absolutely nothing bad to say about Antoine Davis. My beef is with these tournaments.”In mid-March of last year, the Titans were below.500 and still played in the postseason. Davis scored 24 points in a loss to Florida Gulf Coast in The Basketball Timeless, and Fresno

State went on to win the competition’s championship.Maravich closed his three-season, 83-game career at LSU with 3,667 points in 1970, and his mark has actually meant more than a half-century. The dazzling guard, who went on to end up being a five-time NBA All-Star

in a 10-season career, passed away in 1988 at 40 after suffering a cardiovascular disease in California while playing in a pickup game.Davis scored 22 points in a 71-66 loss at Youngstown State in the 144th game of his five-year profession. He missed out on four 3-pointers, one of them a wide-open look, in the final two minutes of his last college game.

“I had opportunities to do it in the Youngstown game, “Davis said. “I can’t be mad about it, however I just do not get why individuals would go out of their way to state we should not have a chance.”Davis, like all NCAA athletes registered when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., was granted a fifth year of eligibility.The 6-foot-1 guard does own some NCAA records, consisting of 144 straight games with double figures in scoring and 588 career 3-pointers

. He led the country with 28.2 points per game this season and 159 3-pointers, four shy of surpassing the single-season record set by Stephen Curry at Davidson during the 2007-08 season.Detroit Grace coach Mike Davis stated his kid’s pursuit of the scoring championship was not the only the reason the Titans were trying to play once again. He stated the postseason would have offered formerly banged-up players an opportunity to bet a group that was not healthy all season.”People were attempting to paint an image of us that wasn’t real,” Mike Davis said. “The image painted was that we were trying to buy a record. The CBI was never ever going to let us in since of the reaction. The PS8 had teams pulling out, stating they wouldn’t play if we were going to remain in the competition.” It’s disappointing that people

were calling our school president and athletic director and individuals running these tournaments to state do not let us in. We simply needed to let it go. “