Michigan's backup center won't be taking a sixth year here, per a Rivals article that doesn't have a good pull quote to that effect. Davis doesn't know what's next, but it should definitely be transferring to a Horizon League school and shooting 80% on giant usage en route to league POY. At Michigan, Davis's playing time was likely to be curtailed. He averaged about 10 MPG in the games he was available for, racking up buckets underneath and also being, uh, present on defense:
That's actually an improvement from the last time I checked, when Davis had a whopping 13-point 2P% D deficit. Even if Moussa Diabate is going to be much less likely to put a post defender in a blender, he's going to be at least in Dickinson's ballpark as a defender, and that'll be enough to relegate Davis to the deep bench. That said, Davis was a fun guy to have around. When John Beilein took him the universal reaction was "…why?" and he still managed to shape himself into a solid bench player in his upperclass years. There was a satisfaction in seeing Davis get in the post against literally anyone and get up a good shot. Dude hit 70% from the floor over his 150-some shots as a junior and senior, which is an incredible conversion rate given Davis's Bill-Laimbeer-but-maimed lift. I will particularly remember back-to-back possessions against Luka Garza in which he D-ed up the national POY and then put him in a post torture chamber on the other end. Austin Davis putting a Chinese food menu’s worth of post moves on Luka Garza is not something I saw coming in this Iowa/Michigan game. — Walker Carey (@walkerRcarey) February 26, 2021 Godspeed. There is no content after the jump.