"Antoine Davis, a fifth-year senior at Detroit Mercy, has scored 3,604 career points entering tonight's first-round game against Purdue Fort Wayne in the Horizon League tournament.
Why it matters: He's just 64 points away from breaking Pete Maravich's 53-year-old NCAA career scoring record (3,667 points), long thought to be one of college basketball's most unbreakable marks.
The intrigue: Tonight is the final guaranteed game of the Titans' season, as they're 13-18 and nowhere near the NCAA Tournament bubble.
They'll need a win to extend the season and give Davis averaging an NCAA-best 28.1 points per game a real shot at history.….
Between the lines: The fact that Maravich's record has stood this long is all the more impressive given two huge disadvantages he faced: fewer years and no three-pointers.
Freshman weren't allowed on varsity back then, so Maravich amassed his staggering sum in just three seasons (83 games). Davis has played five seasons (142 games) thanks to the COVID eligibility waiver.
Three-pointers wouldn't come to the NCAA until 1986, meaning Maravich an all-time great long-range shooter missed out on countless points. Davis, meanwhile, literally broke the NCAA's all-time three-point record earlier this year."
*Take that, Rick Barry!
Why it matters: He's just 64 points away from breaking Pete Maravich's 53-year-old NCAA career scoring record (3,667 points), long thought to be one of college basketball's most unbreakable marks.
The intrigue: Tonight is the final guaranteed game of the Titans' season, as they're 13-18 and nowhere near the NCAA Tournament bubble.
They'll need a win to extend the season and give Davis averaging an NCAA-best 28.1 points per game a real shot at history.….
Between the lines: The fact that Maravich's record has stood this long is all the more impressive given two huge disadvantages he faced: fewer years and no three-pointers.
Freshman weren't allowed on varsity back then, so Maravich amassed his staggering sum in just three seasons (83 games). Davis has played five seasons (142 games) thanks to the COVID eligibility waiver.
Three-pointers wouldn't come to the NCAA until 1986, meaning Maravich an all-time great long-range shooter missed out on countless points. Davis, meanwhile, literally broke the NCAA's all-time three-point record earlier this year."
*Take that, Rick Barry!
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