{"id":2015,"date":"2018-12-05T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2018-12-05T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:07:16","slug":"the-davises-father-and-son-talk-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2018\/12\/05\/the-davises-father-and-son-talk-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Davises, father and son, talk basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That Titan men&#8217;s basketball is on the rise is evident in a great new article in the online publication The Athletic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2016\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2016\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2018\/12\/HS_Mike_Davis_2018.jpg?resize=150%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Head Coach Mike Davis\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Head Coach Mike Davis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The Backward Lives of Mike and Antoine Davis,&#8221; by Brendan Quinn, details the relationship between the new men&#8217;s basketball coach and<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2017\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2017\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2018\/12\/antoine.png?resize=150%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Point Guard Antoine Davis\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Guard Antoine Davis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>his son, who plays point guard for the team. It also looks at the past and future of University of Detroit Mercy&#8217;s basketball program.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Davis, who came to national attention in 2000 when he took over Indiana University&#8217;s program upon the firing of its temperamental coach Bobby Knight came to Detroit Mercy amid great fanfare in the summer and quickly pulled together a team that included his son, Antoine and 13 new players. Antoine is earning his own fanfare; for a while, he was the highest-scoring freshman in the NCAA. He is in the second spot, at present. Earlier this season, he set a Detroit Mercy freshman scoring record with 42 points.<\/p>\n<p>The team stands at 3-6 so far this season, with league play yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/667371\/2018\/11\/21\/the-backward-lives-of-mike-and-antoine-davis\/\">here<\/a>. You can purchase tickets for upcoming games and catch up on all Titan athletic teams at <a href=\"https:\/\/detroittitans.com\/\">detroittitans.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Titan men&#8217;s basketball is on the rise is evident in a great new article in the online publication The Athletic. &#8220;The Backward Lives of Mike and Antoine Davis,&#8221; by Brendan Quinn, details the relationship between the new men&#8217;s basketball coach and his son, who plays point guard for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2018\/12\/A_Mike_Davis_BGSU_2018_2.jpg?fit=600%2C315&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-wv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}