{"id":7549,"date":"2022-02-21T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2022-02-21T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:06:20","slug":"another-first-for-basketball-star-antoine-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2022\/02\/21\/another-first-for-basketball-star-antoine-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Another first for basketball star Antoine Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7551\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/02\/143976750_3697373470358070_6446216738729767571_n-1.jpg?resize=1249%2C832&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Antoine Davis dribbling the ball\" width=\"1249\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/02\/143976750_3697373470358070_6446216738729767571_n-1.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/02\/143976750_3697373470358070_6446216738729767571_n-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/02\/143976750_3697373470358070_6446216738729767571_n-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/02\/143976750_3697373470358070_6446216738729767571_n-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/02\/143976750_3697373470358070_6446216738729767571_n-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/02\/143976750_3697373470358070_6446216738729767571_n-1.jpg?resize=375%2C250&amp;ssl=1 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1249px) 100vw, 1249px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Detroit Mercy senior Antoine Davis became the first Titan men\u2019s basketball student-athlete in school history to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/detroittitans.com\/news\/2022\/2\/17\/mens-basketball-davis-earns-cosida-academic-all-district-honors-first-in-school-history.aspx\">earn CoSIDA Academic All-District honors<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0he received the accolade\u00a0from the national organization on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Academic All-District teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), recognize the nation\u2019s top student-athletes for their combined performance in the classroom and on the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>Davis is the 31st Titan in school history across all sports to be recognized as an All-District honoree and was one of just two Horizon League men\u2019s basketball student-athletes to receive to laurel in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>Davis has broken numerous school and conference records during the 2021-22 season, including becoming Detroit Mercy\u2019s all-time leading scorer when he surpassed Titan Hall of Famer Rashad Phillips with 2,320 points in early January. He ranks in the top-50 all-time in NCAA Division I basketball history in career scoring with more than 2,550 points to date.<\/p>\n<p>Davis holds a 3.39 GPA in Communications. He&#8217;s led the country in scoring for much of the season and currently ranks second in scoring at 23.4 points per game entering the final stretch of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy senior Antoine Davis became the first Titan men\u2019s basketball student-athlete in school history to\u00a0earn CoSIDA Academic All-District honors\u00a0after\u00a0he received the accolade\u00a0from the national organization on Thursday. The Academic All-District teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), recognize the nation\u2019s top student-athletes for their combined &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":7550,"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":[22,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2022\/02\/143976750_3697373470358070_6446216738729767571_n.jpg?fit=600%2C315&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-1XL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549"}],"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=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}