CTK’s Davis picks Seton Hall

It wasn’t a very good year for Larry Davis, Christ the King’s star swingman. He had an inconsistent season on the court, was suspended for his team’s final two games after confronting a referee and then the coach he had decided to play for as a junior, N.C. State’s Herb Sendek, left the ACC school for Arizona State of the PAC-10. “There was a point in which I said the only thing that could happen next will be good,” he said.
He turned out to be quite prophetic. Two weeks ago, N.C. State gave the 6-foot-3 Davis his release, and last week he verbally agreed to stay close to home, picking Seton Hall over Indiana and N.C. State. “Larry analyzed all three places and thought he could make more of an impact at Seton Hall,” said his father, Larry Davis Sr.
As soon as Davis was free to explore other options, Bobby Gonzalez, the new Seton Hall head man and former coach at Manhattan, began calling him repeatedly; they spoke every night. “We just had steady communication throughout this whole thing,” Davis said. “People consider him a con artist and a con man because he talks quick, but the things he said were truthful. He told me he was recruiting me not because he likes me as a person - he doesn’t know me as a person yet - but because I’m a basketball player and he sees me performing at high level for him.”
Additionally, Davis will be surrounded with familiar faces. Brooklyn point guard Eugene Harvey and Rice’s Kashif Pratt, guys Davis knows very well from the summer A.A.U. circuit, will also be part of Gonzalez’s first recruiting class, and Gavin Grant, the former St. Raymond’s star and now a junior at Seton Hall, will be there as well.
That, in tandem with the fact he will be close to home, playing in East Rutherford, N.J. at Continental Airlines Arena, made the decision an easy one. “I’m a family guy,” he said. “My pops came to a lot of my games [in high school] and now my father can be at a lot of my games in college.”
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Molloy’s Janine Maser, a 5-foot-9 guard from Ozone Park, signed a national letter of intent with Division II Queens College of the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) recently. A two-year starter, Maser averaged 10 points and 6 rebounds for the Stanners, leading them to a 19-10 record and the Catholic League Class A final this year.