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Davis’ performance not only helped the ’Hawks win a national title, but almost every individual award given away. Davis earned the Final Four’s MVP and the National Player of the Year, something no UW-Whitewater basketball player had ever achieved before.

First team all WIAC, check. WIAC player of the year, check. First Team All-American, check. All-Tournament team, check.
Last, but definitely not least, National Player of the Year, check.

On the court of the Salem Civic Center Arena, it read “Salem, Virginia’s Championship City.”

They might as well change that to ‘Whitewater’s Championship City,’ after the UW-Whitewater men’s basketball team defeated Cabrini College 63-60 in a stunning 18-point comeback Saturday night in the Division-III National Championship game.

In a stunning comeback where the Warhawks were down by 18 points with 15 minutes left in the game, they Continue…

The UW-Whitewater men’s basketball team advanced to the national championship game after defeating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 71-56 Friday night in Salem, Va.

The last time the men’s basketball team advanced to the Final Four, head coach Pat Miller was the guard for the 1989 team and eventually went on to win the program its second national championship.

Last week when the Warhawks earned a berth into the NCAA Tournament, that wasn’t the only good news. Head Continue…

For the first time since 1996, the men’s basketball team will return to the Sweet 16 of the Division-III NCAA Tournament.