Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
If you think Wright State’s defense tried to smother him when he was playing for Horizon League rival Green Bay, you ought to see the way his 4-year-old niece wraps him up.
The basketball journey of Amari Davis has – in the words of his mom, Gerie – “come full circle.”
The lithe, 6-foot-2 guard is back home after playing two seasons at Green Bay and then last year at Missouri. Combining both stops, the Trotwood-Madison grad has played 90 college games, started 64 of them and already scored 1,244 points.
He’s now come to WSU via the transfer portal and the Raiders can surely use him. They lost their two top scorers from last season’s NCAA Tournament team. Tanner Holden left for Ohio State and Grant Basile went to Virginia Tech.
While he’ll be an integral part of the new-look Raiders, Davis opted to spend this summer at his parents’ home in Trotwood rather than live on campus. Through the first three years of his college odyssey, he rarely got home and his parents saw him play only once at Missouri and never up in Green Bay.
He missed so much – birthdays, some holidays, get-togethers with friends and relatives – so he wanted to immerse himself in family life for a couple of months and that has included moving back into his old bedroom.
“It’s been kind of weird waking up now and being in my old bedroom,” he admitted.
