Hall of Fame
While five other Saint basketball players have been enshrined into the Hall before him, Lawrence Davis holds the distinction of being the only one among the sextet to rank in the top five in total points (4th; 1,460), scoring average (4th; 16.98 ppg), total rebounds (5th; 713) and rebounding average (2nd; 8.3 rpg). He also sits third in total field goals made for a career converting 665 in 1,283 total attempts for a .518 overall reading. Davis, a forward/center, showed no fear in taking his game to the collegiate level after a solid career at Thornton Township High School authoring career-bests in rebounds (9.7 rpg; 5th on the single-season charts) and field goal shooting (.552; 10th) as a freshman, while averaging 16.2 points per game. Honorable mention all-america status came his way during his junior campaign when he produced the sixth-best single-season scoring average in school history with his conference-leading 19.5 points per game. Davis' 547 points that year still stands as the ninth-most points scored by a Saint player for one season and eventually led to him being recognized on the all-District 20 team for the first of two consecutive times. One year later, he was in the record books again for his 21-rebound game against Illinois Benedictine College (11/24/80), the third-highest single-game rebound total in the school's annals. Soon after graduating with a degree in Business Administration in 1981, Davis enlisted in the United States Army, where he served in an administrative capacity from 1982 through 1994 working in Korea, Germany, Virginia and at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
