FAYETTEVILLE — Johnell Davis showed flashes in No. 16 Arkansas men’s basketball's two preseason exhibition games, but the shots weren’t falling. He was getting the looks, fighting on defense, disrupting his opponents — everything the college hoops world had become accustomed to over his four-year stint at Florida Atlantic — but his scoring hadn’t arrived.
He found that, at least in part, in the Razorbacks’ season-opening 76-60 win over Lipscomb.
Davis finished with 15 points on 7-of-12 shooting, 6 rebounds, an assist, a block and a steal. It might not have been his 36-point effort against Alabama-Birmingham during the Owls’ Final Four season, but it was a strong starting point to his lone year in the Natural State.