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Davis had gone overall in his nine seasons heading the Chippewas, replacing Ernie Zielger in six seasons in Davis had three years remaining on his reworked extension. WMU replaced long-time head coach Steve Hawkins after his retirement in , meaning all three Michigan MAC teams will have coaches with one year or less at the helm going into the season. Guys were coming in and two years later they were gone. The Chippewas cruised to an non-conference record and won their first four MAC games to start the conference slate at CMU dropped two of its last three games to fall out of the top four seeds and a first-round bye in the tournament.

CMU defeated rival Western Michigan for the third time that season in the tournament opener and knocked off Kent State to earn an appearance in the semifinal for the first time since With 10 games remaining, CMU dropped nine, knocking off Western Michigan to win the final game of the regular season.

The Chippewas started their off-season slate , capped by a loss to Flagler, a Division II school. The Chippewas dropped 11 of their next 13 conference games and played their final five games with no more than nine players thanks to injuries and COVID-related issues while suffering their worst conference loss in the Keno Davis-era, a loss to Miami in McGuirk Arena.

The Chippewas upset eventual MAC regular-season champion Toledo and fell to Northern Illinois in the final week of the season. However, after spending the last few months evaluating all aspects of our program, I believe it is necessary and appropriate to make a change in leadership at this time to achieve the goals we have for men's basketball.

But I loved my time at Mount Pleasant, I'm really appreciative of former athletic director Dave Heeke giving me the opportunity. Davis' teams were known to be explosive on the offensive end, particularly during the short-lived Marcus Keene era, but not defensively. Soft nonconference schedules also were a criticism. Davis' rosters, in recent years, have been built heavily on transfers, long before the transfer portal became a thing.

The recent increased transfer buzz, given the "free" year of eligibility and the NCAA allowing one-time transfers without having to sit out a year, has only complicated roster issues, Davis recently told The News. Davis said Polk and four or five others would've given the Chippewas one of the best cores of any MAC team heading into next season. In , Davis engineered the nation's fifth-largest turnaround and captured CMU's first Mid-American Conference regular-season championship since the season.

Central Michigan posted 23 wins, a win improvement from the previous year, after being selected 11th in the MAC preseason poll. The Chippewas proved to be the class of the conference as they won 12 league games, claimed the MAC West title, and earned the No.

In recognition of success achieved on the court and his moral integrity displayed off the court, Davis was also honored with the Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award.

Davis and his assistants have also made inroads in another key area, camps. CMU hosted more than 1, youngsters during its four camps throughout the summer months in Davis' positive and uplifting message has clearly struck an immediate chord with Chippewa fans. His Twitter account boasts more than 22, followers, ranking Davis in the top 15 among all Division I head coaches and first among all mid-major programs.

In , Davis was named the coach of the year by six national organizations, including the Associated Press, the U. In one season at Drake and three at Providence, Davis compiled a Davis inherited a team that had graduated four starters from a squad that went in He took a team that was picked to finish ninth in the MVC to the program's first top ranking since