April 26, 2007
SAN DIEGO - San Diego State men's basketball head coach Steve Fisher announced the signing of Kelvin Davis to a National Letter of Intent on Thursday to complete his 2007-08 recruiting class.
Davis, a 6-4, 210-pound shooting guard, is ranked by Rivals.com as the nation's 11th-best junior college player and comes to Montezuma Mesa after helping the College of Southern Idaho (CSI) to a 30-7 record and an appearance in the semifinals of the 2006-07 NJCAA National Tournament. He finished his sophomore campaign as the team's second-leading scorer averaging 15.3 points and led the Golden Eagles with 70 steals. In 30 games, Davis also averaged 4.6 rebounds, 2.0 assists and shot 47.6 percent from the field.
"We are excited about adding Kelvin to our university and our basketball program," Fisher said. "He is a mature and talented basketball player, who will come in and have a great opportunity to contribute immediately. He has the ability to score the basketball and defend multiple positions on the court."
While playing for the nation's winningest junior college program, Davis led the team in scoring 11 different times and posted a season-high 27 points in CSI's victory over Colorado Northwestern Community College in February.
A native of Waterbury, Conn., Davis prepped at Waterbury Sacred Heart where he averaged 29.0 points en route to earning first-team all-state accolades. Following graduation, Davis attended UTEP for two seasons where he averaged 1.8 points and 0.8 rebounds as a freshman in 2004-05. The following year, Davis utilized his redshirt season before transferring to CSI. Davis will have two years of eligibility remaining beginning with '07-08 season.
Davis chose San Diego State after receiving interest from Georgia, Iowa, Iowa State, Miami (Fla.) and Mississippi.
Last season, San Diego State advanced to the second round of the MasterCard NIT and finished the campaign with a 22-11 record. It marked the second consecutive postseason appearance for the Aztecs, who have won 46 games the last two seasons. SDSU is coming off a school-record home attendance average of 7,821, an increase of 11.5 percent from the 2005-06 campaign.
San Diego State is scheduled to return nine of its top 11 scorers from last season's team, including starters Lorrenzo Wade (10.5 ppg, 5.3 rpg), Jerome Habel (10.9 ppg, 6.2 rpg) and Richie Williams (7.0 ppg, 4.6 apg).