Forward - Chris Davis
UW-Whitewater
2010-2012

All-American selections: 2012 Player of the Year

All-Region selections: 2012 Player of the Year

Conference MVP: 2012

Other honors: 2012 Tournament Most Outstanding Player...2012 NABC Player of the Year

NCAA Tournament appearance: 2012 (national champions)

From the archives

• Whitewater rushes back to title (March 2012)
• Walton-Moss, Davis take different paths to the same goal (March 2012)
• Video: Davis joins us postgame after game winner at UWRF (February 2012)
• Video: Chris Davis senior year highlight reel (UW-Whitewater) 

What others say: "Chris was a high-level competitor and a winner. He embraced taking the big shot and his focus was always about doing what needed to be done to win. He was a great teammate and set a great tone within our program. It's important to note that Chris made great improvement from his junior to senior year. He really bought in to how we wanted him to play and began to fully understand how good he could be." – Pat Miller, UW-Whitewater men's basketball coach

In their own words: "It was extremely hard to get the basketball program on the same winning level as the football team. Expectations were high from the start. In my first year, we let down Coach Miller and UW-Whitewater fans. It was a challenge in my second year to improve my own game and show that we were team to be reckoned with.  It was a personal goal for me to gain respect from other teams in WIAC conference and help my team to be champions as the “Old Man” on the team."   

Where are they now: Coaching and teaching in the Madison (Wis.) East High School

Career synopsis: Chris Davis came to Division III after two seasons and boy, did he make an impact in that short time. After spending two years at a two-year school in Madison, Wisconsin, to stay close to his son, Davis moved an hour down the road to Whitewater and was the key piece in elevating that program to national champion status. At 6-6, 250, his range and his footwork made him a matchup nightmare for Division III teams, and it showed. He averaged 21.8 points per game in his two seasons, to go along with 8.4 rebounds. The one part of his game that may have been a bit of a liability as a junior got worked on and solved, as he improved his 3-point shooting from 31% to 41%. He shot 89% from the line as a senior, 55% from the floor. Even in a relatively quiet national title game, Davis scored 10 of his 12 points in the final 11 minutes of the game, after Cabrini had taken an 18-point second half lead. That came after he put up 30 points in a 71-56 win against MIT in the semifinals, and 33 with 11 rebounds against Virginia Wesleyan in the round of 8. Twenty-three of those came in the second half when Virginia Wesleyan attempted to cover him one-on-one in the post. 

And imagine: He did all this after a midseason knee injury that bothered him all the way into March.

Davis had had three 30-point games as a junior as well, but with Whitewater losing in the first round of the WIAC tournament, the Warhawks finished 17-9 and did not make the NCAA Tournament. In just two seasons, Davis scored 1,242 points and added 478 rebounds. 

Not content to star in basketball for the Warhawks, Davis also went out for the football team, played tight end and won a national championship in that sport. Davis is back in the Madison area teaching physical education, coaching basketball and planning to build a new gymnasium. He encourages anyone interested in helping develop the next generation of UWW athletes to look him up!