{"id":9629,"date":"2022-02-10T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2022-02-11T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:05:36","slug":"antoine-davis-featured-in-espn-article-reaches-2500-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2022\/02\/10\/antoine-davis-featured-in-espn-article-reaches-2500-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Davis featured in ESPN article, reaches 2,500 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5800 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/11\/antoine_davis.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"University of Detroit Mercy men\u2019s basketball student-athlete Antoine Davis.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/11\/antoine_davis.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/11\/antoine_davis.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/11\/antoine_davis.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/11\/antoine_davis.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/11\/antoine_davis.jpg?resize=978%2C550&amp;ssl=1 978w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/11\/antoine_davis.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Detroit Mercy men&#8217;s basketball senior Antoine Davis, his father, head coach Mike Davis, and assistant coach Mike Davis Jr. were recently featured in an ESPN.com article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/33251350\/wyoming-new-no-2-kevin-connors-mid-major-top-10-basketball-family-thrives-detroit-mercy\">A basketball family thrives at Detroit Mercy.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis scored 26 points in Wednesday&#8217;s road 79-62 road win at Robert Morris, surpassing the 2,500-point milestone in the process. Davis, who became the school&#8217;s career points leader earlier this season, became the 76th player in Division I men&#8217;s basketball history to eclipse that mark.<\/p>\n<p>Davis currently also leads the nation in scoring at 23.3 points per game. The only other Titan to ever lead the nation in a statistical category was Titan Hall of Famer Spencer Haywood, who led the country in rebounding (22.1 per game) in 1968-69.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans improved to 10-11 overall and 7-4 in the Horizon League in Wednesday&#8217;s win. Detroit Mercy plays at Youngstown State Friday, Feb. 11 before taking on rival Oakland in Rochester on Sunday, Feb. 13. The <a href=\"https:\/\/detroittitans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/schedule\">next home game<\/a> is Friday, Feb. 18 against Northern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/33251350\/wyoming-new-no-2-kevin-connors-mid-major-top-10-basketball-family-thrives-detroit-mercy\">Read the ESPN.com article.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy men&#8217;s basketball senior Antoine Davis, his father, head coach Mike Davis, and assistant coach Mike Davis Jr. were recently featured in an ESPN.com &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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":[6,4404],"tags":[778,600,5231,5232,717,5230,3475,3474,5076],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-2vj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9634,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions\/9634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}