The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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2016 BASKETBALL RECRUITING ISSUE "He's kind of taken this diet and has run with it," Maska added. "You can't offer him a cookie. He'll say no. Being a bigger kid his whole life and to see the improvements he's made, he doesn't want to go back." He has no plans to, either. Michi- gan head coach John Beilein chal- lenged him last summer to prove he could run the floor — then and only then might Davis earn an of- fer to what he called his "dream school." He responded, earned his offer in April 2015 and committed days later. He was reverse dunking off two feet on put-backs at the Michigan camp two months later, looking the part of a future Big Ten center. The student with a 4.18 grade-point average (on 5.0 scale) is extremely smart both on and off the court, and he's also got a knack for the ball. "The thing he has that a lot of kids his size don't is tremendous hands," Maska said. "Catching and finishing … he finishes extremely well at the rim. "I think he's going to have a tre- mendous career, and there's nothing to think it wouldn't be. Every year he's been with me he's improved in some aspect." While he's sad to leave the friends he grew up with, Davis is also ready for his next step, grateful his friends and family are only 20 minutes down the road. He's too humble to make any guarantees about his fu- ture, but ready to prove himself. "I'm just looking forward to get- ting up there, getting started and be- ing able to put the work in," he said. "We'll see where it falls." ❏