by Stephen M. Lewis
DigitalSports Richmond
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Reigning Capital District player of the year Trey Davis won’t be next season.
The rising junior is transferring to Benedictine and leaving Henrico, who was potentially the DigitalSports preseason top-ranked boys basketball team in the area with Davis.
At 6-4, with a silky-smooth game, Davis has developed into a major Division-I prospect. He’s perhaps ACC bound, like North Carolina’s Ed Davis (Benedictine by way of Hanover) and Wake Forest commit Travis McKie (John Marshall rising senior).
Davis and McKie took separate paths, both hitting it big.
“It was tough leaving [Henrico] coach [Vance] Harmon and all of them,” Davis said. “Because I had a good relationship with them. Benedictine, they’ve got the national schedule. Coach [Sean] McAloon does a real good job of preparing kids for college with the success he’s had.”
Several Cadets are playing college basketball now, including recent graduate Darien Brothers, who is a rising freshman at the University of Richmond. But Davis is the model.
The 6-10 UNC sophomore was a lottery pick in every mock draft if he would have bolted Chapel Hill for the NBA.
“You definitely look at that,” Davis said. “He had a lot of success when he went over to Benedictine.
“I’m still going to have to come over and play. Just because he had success doesn’t mean I will have success. I have to work hard to have the same success that he’s had.”
Richmond and VCU have already offered Trey Davis.
Since the contact period has begun this week, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Miami, Marquette, Alabama, Michigan, George Mason and Old Dominion have contacted the rising junior.
“It’s been crazy. I had to return a lot of calls,” Trey Davis said. “They’ve been emailing and everything.”
Everything’s not lost for the Warriors.
Harmon has 6-5 jumpingjack Justin Coleman still in the saddle.
The rising senior’s been lighting up the AAU circuit and will attend the NBA Top 100 Camp this month.
Guards who showed well in the region semifinal appearance against Petersburg, like Kris Walden, Corey Harrison and Torey Burston will also return, along with rising sophomore Evan Thorpe.
“We wish him well,” Harmon said.
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