Riley Davis

Biography

Riley Davis enters his fourth season at East Carolina and first as the Pirates' associate head coach after serving as an assistant coach in the previous three seasons. Prior to arriving in Greenville, Davis spent four seasons at UT Arlington where he was promoted to assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator in April of 2021. In his first season with the Mavericks in 2018-19, Davis played an integral role in guiding a UTA team predicted to finish second to last in the Sun Belt Conference Preseason Poll to a second-place finish in the regular-season standings and a berth in the Sun Belt Tournament Final for the second-straight year. In 2019-20, he helped the Mavericks finish in the top 40 nationally in four key statistical categories: assist-to-turnover ratio (16th, 1.3), three-point percentage defense (20th, 29.6), fewest turnovers per game (29th, 11.2) and assists per game (35th, 14.9). The 29.6 percent rate for opponents from the three-point line set a single-season program record for defensive performance by the Mavs - bettering the mark set in 2018-19 of 29.8. In 2020-21 behind Davis, UT Arlington once again wrapped up a year in the top 40 in the country in the following categories: blocks per game (21st, 4.8), steals per game (24th, 8.3), turnover margin (33rd, +2.8) and three-point field goals made per contest (37th, 9.0). Davis served as the video coordinator and director of player development at Tennessee for two seasons before coming to UTA in April of 2018. Pri