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Davis Receives Votes For AP All-America Team

A senior guard on the North Texas men's basketball team, Chris Davis (Dallas, Texas), has received votes for the 2002-03 Associated Press All-America Team.

Davis (6-5, 225) was one of 22 players to receive votes from the 72-member national media panel, while Xavier's David West, Arizona's Luke Walton and Jason Gardner, Kansas' Kirk Henrich and Alabama's Erin Deadly were first-team selections. Along with Western Kentucky's Chris Marcus, Davis was the only other Sun Belt Conference player to earn recognition on the list.

Davis helped North Texas to the nation's third-best improvement in winning percentage (.143 in 2000-01 to .517 in 2001-02) while leading the Sun Belt Conference in scoring all season and finishing ranked ninth in the country in points per game with 22.5. Davis, who was a first-team Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference selection, enters his senior season with 1,744 career points and 548 points away from overtaking Kenneth Lyons (1980-83) as the school's all-time scoring leader.

Davis has been a consistent scorer his entire career, averaging 18.0 points per game as sophomore and finishing his freshman season as the second-leading freshman scorer in the nation with a 22.7 points per game average. However, ranked ninth in school history for career assists with 215 to his credit, Davis isn't just a scorer. In fact, last season he became the first player in North Texas history to lead the team in scoring (22.5 ppg), rebounding (6.4 rpg) and assists (74).

Four players in North Texas men's basketball history have been named to the post-season AP All-America team. Bill Menefee was an NAIA All-American in 1942-43, the school's first player to receive the honor. Under Division I status, John Savage became the Mean Green's first player to receive the honor, and he was followed by Rubin Russell in 1966-67 and Kenneth Lyons in 1981-82 and 1982-83. Savage, Russell and Lyons were honorable mention selections.