Detroit Mercy’s Davis second on NCAA scoring list

And then there was one.With 5:33 to play in the very first half of his team’s match against IUPUI on Saturday, Detroit Mercy star Antoine Davis passed former Portland State standout Freeman Williams to end up being the No. 2 scorer all-time in college basketball history with his 3,250 th point and 18th of the game.Now, he’ll make a run at “Handgun” Pete Maravich, who scored a Division I record of 3,667 points in his three years at LSU.Davis, who

plays for his father Mike Davis’ team, got in the transfer website last season and thought about a move to another school. Multiple major programs were on his list, including BYU and Maryland, however the veteran stated he returned to Detroit Grace to help the school make a run to the NCAA tournament for the very first time in more than a years.

Detroit Mercy guard Antoine Davis now tracks just Pete Maravich on the NCAA’s profession scoring list. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

Davis has never played in the NCAA tournament and he stated he would trade any record for an appearance.But now, he’ll be

the focus on a pursuit that as soon as seemed impossible.Maravich averaged 44.2 PPG for three years at LSU in the

late 1960s. He did it without a 3-point line.Davis has been chasing Maravich in a profession that began

with the 2018-19 season. He’s played in 131 games, compared to Maravich’s 83. However Maravich also balanced 38.1 basket attempts per game in his career compared to Davis 20.5. After climbing to No. 2 on Saturday, Davis would still require an incredible surface to technique Maravich’s mark.To accomplish the task within the regular season, Davis would have to average more than 38 points per game to score more than 400 points to pass Maravich. Even with a postseason run in the Horizon League competition and an appearance in the NCAA competition, Davis would require a heroic effort to pull it off.He appeared to acknowledge as much when he set the NCAA’s profession record for 3-pointers made in last week’s 87-75 win over

Robert Morris.”That’s a difficult record to break, “he said,” even for me.”