AAC Player of the Year: Kendric Davis

[PonyPride]

From SMUMustangs.com:

Kendric Davis Is AAC Player Of The Year, Marcus Weathers All-AAC Second Team

IRVING, Texas (SMU/American Athletic Conference) – Kendric Davis was named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year and Marcus Weathers was selected All-AAC Second Team, the league announced on Wednesday. Davis was the only unanimous All-AAC First-Team honoree.

Davis is averaging 19.5 points (1st AAC), 3.8 rebounds, 1.5 steals (15th AAC), 4.6 assists (3rd AAC) with a 1.7 assist/turnover ratio (9th AAC) and hitting 45.2% on FGs (3rd AAC), 85.9% on FTs (3rd AAC) and 37.3% 3FGs with 2.4 3FGs per game (7th AAC).

Davis has been on the 2021-22 Naismith Trophy Midseason Team, Wooden Award Watch List, Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award Watch List and Lute Olson National Player of the Year Watch List. He was named the AAC Player of the Week three times this season and made the AAC Weekly Honor Roll seven other times. This is his third straight All-AAC season. He also made the All-AAC First Team in 2020-21 and third team in 2019-20.

Weathers has an AAC-best seven double-doubles this season. He is averaging 12.5 points (16th AAC), 7.5 rebounds (2nd AAC) and 0.7 blocks while hitting 51.2% from the field, 71.6% on free throws (13th AAC) and is 21-of-55 on threes (38.2%). He was named AAC Player of the Week twice this season. He is also all-conference for the third straight season after earning All-A-10 honors at Duquesne in 2019-20 and 2020-21.

SMU has the most AAC Player of the Year awards (4) and All-AAC selections (19) in the league. Davis joins Nic Moore (2014-15, 2015-16) and Semi Ojeleye (2016-17) as Mustangs to win AAC Player of the Year. Weathers is the 13th Mustang to earn All-AAC honors. Davis' Player of the Year selection is the 13th in program history. He is also the 20th Mustang with multiple first-team all-conference honors.

The Mustangs are 22-7 overall, have won 19 of their last 23 overall and finished the regular season with a perfect 16-0 mark at Moody Coliseum. SMU went 13-4 in American Athletic Conference play to finish in second. The No. 2 seed Mustangs will play No. 7 seed Wichita State or No. 10 seed Tulsa in the Air Force Reserve AAC Championship quarterfinal round on Friday at 6 p.m. at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. For tickets and other game information, visit SMUMustangs.com/gameday.

[SmooBoy]

Completely deserved. Quality player and person. Congrats!

[mustangxc]

The worst kept secret in sports. He is the best player in the league by far. He should get heavy consideration as an All-American.

[DC-Pony]

Very happy for Kendric. Good for him.

Well deserved honors for Marcus as well.

[Vitale]

I hope PonyFans fully appreciate how great Davis is. This team has some excellent talent, but Davis is the guy who will we'll be comparing future stars to. "He's good, but not like KD."

[Charleston Pony]

KD is special. No question about that. SMU has been fortunate to have had some really talented PGs through the years but I sure hope KD comes back for another season and gets his name high up in the SMU career records book.

[ponyboy]

Still not sure who I’d give the ball at the end of the game: Nic or Kendrick.

[Charleston Pony]

Still not sure who I’d give the ball at the end of the game: Nic or Kendrick.

Both were "money" at the FT line so I'd be comfortable with either. I've never seen anyone who could drive the lane and throw up a "floater" over bigs any better than little Nic and KD can drive and put up those step back shots as well as any PG we've had. I've tried to block that heart breaking event from my memory but was it Nic who missed the shot and then the 2nd shot opportunity at the end of our loss in the NCAA Tourney?

[ponyboy]

I could go back and watch the replay, but yes too painful.

From time to time though, I do like to watch the last few seconds of the NIT game against Cal. Moody shook that evening.

[RedRiverPony]

In the interest of avoiding that argument, I'll gladly take Davis AND Moore in the same backcourt.

Good luck defending against them.

[GHammond]

Don't forget about the GREAT Kato Armstrong!! That 87-88 team was pretty durn special.

[Charleston Pony]

Don't forget about the GREAT Kato Armstrong!! That 87-88 team was pretty durn special.

Can't talk about Kato without also mentioning Butch Moore who might never be passed as the all-time career assists leader at SMU. Remember Butch going head to head with Vinnie "The Diesel" Johnson. Those were some pretty good times in Moody with Koncak going against Akeem and Joe Klein and Carl Wright's high flying slams

[ponyboy]

I had a swimming class with Kato. He didn’t talk much. He was a good player for sure, though.