Trammell would have one year left, and Lamont Butler two.ĭavis is more combo guard than natural point, able to score at all three levels with a quick release on his jumper and quick first step. Instead, they landed junior guard Darrion Trammell, who averaged 18.7 points in two seasons at Seattle, from the portal.ĭavis fills a backcourt need with Matt Bradley and Adam Seiko both in their final year of eligibility. SDSU appears to be taking a similar approach to high school recruiting as it did last season - being highly selective and identifying only three targets, then using the spring transfer market to fill any remaining holes.Ī year ago, they got Elijah Saunders and Miles Byrd but lost out on guard Koran Johnson to Washington. The only other prospect from the class of 2023 to take an official visit to SDSU this month, 6-9 post Miles Heide from Mount Si High in Snoqualmie, Wash., is expected to announce a decision next week following a trip to Washington State. Dunlap was on the visit with Davis, but he grew up in the ACC when he was father was an assistant coach at North Carolina State and told On3.com that “being able to play in that league is a dream come true.” His announcement comes less than 24 hours after another SDSU target, 6-7 Harvard Westlake wing Brady Dunlap, picked Notre Dame. “Committed,” Davis posted on social media shortly after the announcement at school. Also in his list of nine finalists were Boise State, Wyoming, Colorado State, Mississippi, UC Santa Barbara and Drake. He went to Saint Mary’s the following week, then cancelled a trip to Washington State. He visited SDSU over Labor Day and attended the inaugural football game at Snapdragon Stadium. I just try to play the game and stay out of it.” Said Davis: “I don’t get into that politics stuff. 1 guard in the country in front of him, and BJ thinks he’s better.” He can play for us.’ The thing about BJ is, he does not care about any of that (recruiting rankings) stuff. “I consider San Diego State to be a high major, and they were really the first high-major school to jump in and say, ‘I don’t care what these other people say. He just passed up a lot of kids along the way. He just kept working, kept working, and this summer his athleticism kicked into another gear. He was all-state as a sophomore but that was a COVID year without fans and no one saw him. “As a freshman, he played JV and didn’t complain. “Everyone (in the recruiting services) is like, ‘He blew up so fast it’s hard to know where to put him in the rankings,’” Fantazia said. It wasn’t until a strong summer on the club circuit that people began to notice that, yeah, Davis can play, too.Ģ47Sports quickly elevated him to a three-star prospect and No. Davis owns both, most notably a junior year where he averaged 17.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 2.6 steals on a 30-6 team that lost in the Open Division state championship game to Corona Centennial.īut he has largely operated under the radar, being in Modesto and playing in the backcourt shadow of Jamari Phillips, a 6-3 junior who is ranked in the top 25 nationally for the class of 2024 and is being courted by the college basketball’s bluebloods. In its history, Modesto Christian has twice had seasons where a player shot 50 percent from the field, 40 percent behind the 3-point arc and 90 percent at the line. I was just going day by day, trying to get better every day. I thought that kind of gave me an advantage, because I wasn’t chasing the end result. Going into high school, I didn’t know what to expect. I can’t speak highly enough about him.”ĭavis, who was the only guard from the class of 2023 that SDSU invited for an official visit, put it like this: He just wants to be the best basketball player he can be. The Aztecs have flexed their scoring muscle too take Lamont Butler's buzzer-beater in the Final Four upset against Florida Atlantic University.“He doesn’t have an ego, he’s not entitled at all, he doesn’t care about any of that stuff. And their win-loss record this season (32-6) outpaces UConn's (30-8), thanks to a solid defense. Yet San Diego State has a slight defensive edge over UConn, allowing about 63 points per game, more than a point under than the Huskies. UConn has averaged 78.6 points per game over San Diego's 71.5. Offensively, the odds are with the Huskies. The opposing teams will meet in Houston at the NRG Stadium on Monday night, tipping off at 9:20 p.m. The Huskies may be favored to win it all, but the big game caps a March Madness marked by upsets and unpredictability. The men's NCAA basketball championship game is set: The San Diego State University Aztecs are up against the University of Connecticut Huskies for the national title. San Diego State guard Lamont Butler, center, celebrates with teammates after he hit the winning basket against Florida Atlantic during the second half of a Final Four game on Saturday.
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