Rodney Davis joined the Spartan men's basketball coaching staff for the 2010-2011 season.
Davis has a wealth of knowledge having played college basketball at Northern Illinois University. Arguably the best all-around backcourt performer in the career Huskie 1,000-Point Club, Davis came to Northern Illinois as a member of the legendary "Magnificient Seven" recruiting class in 1984-85. Prior to 2006-07, the 6-foot-3, 186-pound guard ranked No. 3 in school career assists (332), No. 8 in career steals (117), No. 9 in career free throw percentage (.769), and No. 16 in career scoring (1,175 points in 1984-88). Davis still holds the single season three-point field goal percentage record (48.9%) as well as the record of 45 percent for his career. In 2007 he was inducted into the NIU Athletic Hall of Fame.
Davis has been selected to NIU's All-Decade (1990), All-Time Chick Evans Field House (1996), and All-Century (2000) honor units. A free agent with the National Basketball Association Chicago Bulls (1988) and Minnesota Timberwolves (1989), Davis was also drafted by the World Basketball League Chicago Express (fifth-round pick in 1988) and Continental Basketball Association Quad-City Thunder (sixth-round in 1988).
Tabbed Honorable Mention All-District Four by Basketball Weekly and Basketball Times (1986-87) and again by Basketball Weekly (1987-88), Davis led the Jim Rosborough-coached Huskies in scoring twice (14.5 points-per-game average in 1986-87 and 18.3 ppg. in 1987-88) and became a two-time Northern Illinois team Most Valuable Player the same years. Davis served as team co-captain as a junior and senior as he tallied 512 points his senior year---the second highest, Huskie Division I single-season guard scoring total behind Hall of Famer Billy "The Kid" Harris (603 in 1972-73).
The East Aurora High School grad was inducted into the East Aurora Hall of Fame (2002), Davis won Special Mention All-State, All-Area, and All-Upstate Eight Conference honors as a prep senior.
Davis currently works for L.I.F.E. Support Incorporated in Aurora, Ill., which he is the President and Founder of and is the Director of Player Development for the Illinois Attack Travel team associated with the CrossOver Basketball Academy in Plainfield, Ill.
Davis earned his bachelor's degree from Aurora University in business administration in 1997. Davis and his wife Tonya have two children, Blake and Alexis.
