NCAA scoring record in jeopardy

[shizzle787]

Pete Maravich's scoring record is finally in jeopardy. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) scored 38 points against Purdue Fort Wayne to continue his college career and get within 25 points of the record. If he scores 26 or more against Horizon regular season champs Youngstown State, he will break the record. The asterisk will surely be added to the record though as Davis will have taken 5 years while Maravich only took three. Something to watch for tomorrow.

 

[Umami Zen]

Pete Maravich's scoring record is finally in jeopardy. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) scored 38 points against Purdue Fort Wayne to continue his college career and get within 25 points of the record. If he scores 26 or more against Horizon regular season champs Youngstown State, he will break the record. The asterisk will surely be added to the record though as Davis will have taken 5 years while Maravich only took three. Something to watch for tomorrow.

Impressive for Antoine.. Imagine if Pete would have had the benefit of a three- point line during his CBB career??

 

[HuskyHawk]

Pete Maravich's scoring record is finally in jeopardy. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) scored 38 points against Purdue Fort Wayne to continue his college career and get within 25 points of the record. If he scores 26 or more against Horizon regular season champs Youngstown State, he will break the record. The asterisk will surely be added to the record though as Davis will have taken 5 years while Maravich only took three. Something to watch for tomorrow.

Is he doing it in 4 years or 5?

 

[ColchVEGAS]

Is he doing it in 4 years or 5?

This is Davis' 5th year playing for Detroit Mercy. Impressive nonetheless, but not the same as Pistol Pete.

 

[HuskyHawk]

This is Davis' 5th year playing for Detroit Mercy. Impressive nonetheless, but not the same as Pistol Pete.

Yeah, that's not it then. Asterisk at best. He's had a great career but this five year thing shouldn't have happened and doesn't count.

 

[PhillyCoach]

Obviously Davis is a good player who can score . So Davis takes 5 years--Pete takes 3. Davis has 3 pt. line and Pete only has two. Davis competes at Horizon league and Pete with LSU. And the NCAA is going to declare a new scoring record? What a different world we live in.

 

[ElGreco]

Impressive for Antoine.. Imagine if Pete would have had the benefit of a three- point line during his CBB career??

Imagine Pete playing 5 years with the 3 point shots

 

[my2cents]

With players having an extra year, all 5 year totals need an asterisk.

 

[Minicoop69]

Pete Maravich's scoring record is finally in jeopardy. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) scored 38 points against Purdue Fort Wayne to continue his college career and get within 25 points of the record. If he scores 26 or more against Horizon regular season champs Youngstown State, he will break the record. The asterisk will surely be added to the record though as Davis will have taken 5 years while Maravich only took three. Something to watch for tomorrow.

Purdue Fort Wayne is my Alma Mater. We suck at all sports except for Mens Volleyball (sort of).

When Dane Fife (played at IU) was there, buzz was around the program, but he couldn't really do anything of note.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Antoine Davis is at 143 games in his career. Maravich played 83.

 

[Husky25]

I don't think it is quite so impressive.

Freshmen were not allowed to play varsity in Maravich's day and how many less games/season did he play as well? A few years ago, Kentucky was preparing to produce 40-0 championship T-shirts. Maravich played less than 28 games/year over 3 seasons. Nothing against Davis, but he is barely going to eclipse Maravich in total scoring while playing in 72% more total games.

 

[MJKI]

Thought this tweet below summed up nicely the gap between Davis and Maravich..



Still impressive nonetheless. But not in the same ball field

 

[Chin Diesel]

I don't think it is quite so impressive.

Freshmen were not allowed to play varsity in Maravich's day and how many less games/season did he play as well? A few years ago, Kentucky was preparing to produce 40-0 championship T-shirts. Maravich played less than 28 games/year over 3 seasons. Nothing against Davis, but he is barely going to eclipse Maravich in total scoring while playing in 72% more total games.

Yeah. In 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, the two seasons most impacted by COVID, Davis played in 52 games.

Antoine Davis College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Antoine Davis - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more

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[uconnfan68]

I wish Andre watched more of him scoring and less of him passing.

 

[Husky25]

Yeah. In 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, the two seasons most impacted by COVID, Davis played in 52 games.

Antoine Davis College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Antoine Davis - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more

www.sports-reference.com

Freshmen are allowed to play varsity and programs play more games per season than they used to. Also, Pistol Pete played in the SEC. Davis has played five seasons in the Horizon league. I hope he perseveres, but my guess is he'll be a second round pick at best.

 

[Umami Zen]

Pete could sure fill it up.. Had the ultimate "green light" to shoot when open with Dad on the bench as HC.. Had a former business associate who played for two years on those LSU teams.. Had some pretty wild stories about those days. He was a magician with the ball

 

[Jbirdp5]

Obviously Davis is a good player who can score . So Davis takes 5 years--Pete takes 3. Davis has 3 pt. line and Pete only has two. Davis competes at Horizon league and Pete with LSU. And the NCAA is going to declare a new scoring record? What a different world we live in.

The ncaa really isn’t declaring anything, they just track cumulative points.

 

[Jaydumo20]

I'm not old enough to have watched Pete but everyone who was insists he was the best college baller ever. Good for Antoine.
Also, if you don't watch the mid major conference tourneys you're missing the best stuff. All ❤️

 

[borninansonia]

I'm old enough, and I watched Pistol Pete. He was the best offensive college baller I ever saw, but not the best. The best win. Kareem was the best.

 

[superjohn]

This has to have an asterisk next to it at the very least.

 

[NJHusky]

Imagine Pete playing 5 years with the 3 point shots

Would be interesting if anyone went back and recalculated Pete’s totals giving him 3 pts for the shots from that distance

 

[HuskyFich]

All sports change their rules over time. The asterisk is not needed. This is the same argument as Ruth vs Maris due to games played (ALL RISE).

What's impressive is Antoine has scored 500 more points than Doug McDermott in the same amount of college games. Doug McDermott is 7th all time.

Noone is arguing who's the better player...stats are stats.

 

[husky429]

Antoine is such an interesting player. Never left Detroit Mercy when it would have helped his career... he's basically a playground player, but you upped the skill and athleticism +1000.

 

[ColchVEGAS]

Would be interesting if anyone went back and recalculated Pete’s totals giving him 3 pts for the shots from that distance

I remember talking to Wes Bialosuknia about this and he just laughed it off and said just about every shot I took would be worth 3.

 

[superjohn]

All sports change their rules over time. The asterisk is not needed. This is the same argument as Ruth vs Maris due to games played (ALL RISE).

What's impressive is Antoine has scored 500 more points than Doug McDermott in the same amount of college games. Doug McDermott is 7th all time.

Noone is arguing who's the better player...stats are stats.

It's not like that at all, it would've been like that if he did it in 4 seasons but he's getting an extra year of college basketball and that needs to be pointed out via asterisk and with an explanation beside it. Players before him did it in 3 years and then 4 seasons, he gets 5 seasons and players after him will go back to only getting 4 seasons.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

This is Davis' 5th year playing for Detroit Mercy. Impressive nonetheless, but not the same as Pistol Pete.

Pete also did it in three. Freshmen weren't eligible to play varsity back then.

If he had four years and a three point line you could have doubled his career points total.

 

[nomar]

Let him have the record. I don't think anybody is ever going to confuse him with Pistol Pete.

 

[HuskyFich]

It's not like that at all, it would've been like that if he did it in 4 seasons but he's getting an extra year of college basketball and that needs to be pointed out via asterisk and with an explanation beside it. Players before him did it in 3 years and then 4 seasons, he gets 5 seasons and players after him will go back to only getting 4 seasons.

I understand what you're saying, but he will end up playing less than 10 games more than Doug McDermott did...
The number of seasons played does not seem to equate to total games played.

Regardless, Pistol Pete will always be in a league of his own, and his scoring record will never be broken if we base it on how fast it took someone to get there.

 

[uconnfan68]

Antoine is such an interesting player. Never left Detroit Mercy when it would have helped his career... he's basically a playground player, but you upped the skill and athleticism +1000.

His father was hired as the coach there in 2018. I'm sure that had a large influence on him going there, and staying to play for him.

 

[ElGreco]

Would be interesting if anyone went back and recalculated Pete’s totals giving him 3 pts for the shots from that distance

Like approaching 10,000 points