Jim Davis, an integral part of the University of Colorado basketball team that won back-to-back Big Eight titles in the early 1960s, passed away Thursday from complications due to cancer. He was 77.
Davis had been hospitalized recently in Windsor, Ontario, and was surrounded by his family when he died. After his professional days in the National Basketball Association came to an end with the Detroit Pistons, he had remained in the area, eventually moving across the border to Canada.
A 2014 inductee into CU's Athletic Hall of Fame, Davis was a three-year letterman under the legendary Sox Walseth, and just the third African-American player in Colorado basketball history.