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'He is excellence': Longtime KU broadcaster Bob Davis prepares for final call at Allen Fieldhouse

LAWRENCE — Bob Davis wasn’t watching the video board. His mind was elsewhere.

Davis, in his 32nd and final year as the play-by-play voice of Kansas basketball and football, is often oblivious to the highlight packages played during breaks in the action at Allen Fieldhouse, and this day was no different. He was focused on the action, in this instance an early-morning clash with Texas Tech last Saturday.

Eventually, though, Davis’ eyes wandered and locked onto the big screen. And that’s when he noticed something peculiar.

“Those guys,” Davis told a colleague, “went to my high school.