T he University of Houston is retiring the number of Dwight Davis, one of the most prolific players in its storied basketball history, PaperCity has learned. Davis’ name and number will be put up on the Fertitta Center’s wall (UH’s buzzing on-campus arena’s version of the rafters) at a game later this season.

This comes the season after Houston finally retired Don Chaney’s number and continues UH coach Kelvin Sampson’s push to right history and make sure the basketball program’s all-time great players get the recognition they deserve.

“I just thought they were a lot of things that were just dying on the vine,” Sampson tells PaperCity . “. . . We needed to retire some jerseys. Some people told me, ‘Well, we haven’t done it.’ What’s that got to do with anything? This is what you do

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