SIU's Davis heads to transfer portal

MBB: Another All-Conference player won't return to the Valley next year

Kennard Davis averaged 23.0 points and 8.5 rebounds in two games against the Racers this year. (Photo: SIU Athletics)

SIU sophomore guard Kennard Davis, Jr. is entering the transfer portal, according to The Portal Report on X.

Davis earned 2nd Team All-Missouri Valley Conference honors this season, averaging 16.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. He was second on the team in scoring and rebounding this year for a Saluki squad that finished the year 14-19 overall and 8-12 in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Davis joins Valparaiso’s Cooper Schwieger as the second All-Conference player today to enter the transfer portal.

Only five of the 16 All-Conference players, either due to graduating or entering the transfer portal, are returning next year … so far. The transfer portal doesn’t officially open until Monday, March 24th.

FIRST TEAM

• Tytan Anderson — UNI (Senior)

• Duke Deen — Bradley (Senior)

• Jonathan Pierre — Belmont (Senior)

• Bennett Stirtz — Drake (Junior)

• Samage Teel — Indiana State (Senior)

• Chase Walker — Illinois State (Sophomore)

SECOND TEAM

• Tayshawn Comer — Evansville (Junior)

• Kennard Davis — Southern Illinois (Sophomore)

• Darius Hannah — Bradley (Senior)

• Johnny Kinziger — Illinois State (Sophomore)

• Cooper Schwieger — Valparaiso (Sophomore/Transfer Portal)

THIRD TEAM

• Trey Campbell — UNI (Junior)

• Ali Dibba — Southern Illinois (Senior)

• Mitch Mascari — Drake (Senior)

• Zek Montgomery — Bradley (Senior)

• Carter Whitt — Belmont (Senior)