ONSTED -- Austin Davis stood in the doorway, nearly too tall to pass through, and gave high-fives, handshakes and fist bumps to much smaller kids this morning.
Of course, everyone in the Onsted High School gym would stare up at the 6-foot-10 gentle giant, who became the Michigan basketball team's first signee of the 2016 basketball recruiting class. But he thanked every student from Onsted Elementary School as they filed out.
His mother, Marsha, is the elementary school's principal, but today was about more than that connection. It was about a village of around 1,000 people embracing its first Division I basketball recruit.