Bob Davis, the longtime voice of basketball and soccer for the Kansas Jayhawks, has passed away, his family confirmed via KU's athletics club on Friday. He was 80 years old.
Davis passed away just a week after his wife, Linda, who has been in his 50-year-old life. The cause of death was not immediately announced. Kansas Basketball head coach Bill Self remembered Davis as a “selfish person.”
“Bob is not only excellent in his craft, but he was also a wonderful, humble and unselfish person who gave himself to so many people,” Self said. “Our minds come out to the whole family, especially his wonderful wife, Linda, has passed by last week.”
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Bob Davis of the Kansas Jayhawks Broadcasting Station will talk to the crowd at retirement after a match between the Iowa Cyclone and the Kansas Jayhawks at Allenfield House on March 5, 2016 in Lawrence, Canvas. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
Self's seventh seed, the Jay Hawks, was upset by Arkansas in the NCAA Tournament this week. Davis's celebrity broadcast tenure in Kansas began in 1984 and continued until his retirement in 2016. He added a voice to some of the school's biggest sports moments.
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Bob Davis, the Kansas Jayhawks retired broadcaster, will be recognized by athletic director Seahongsenger on March 5, 2016 during halftime with the Iowa Cyclone at Allenfield House in Lawrence, Kansas. (John Liger/USA TODAY SPORTS)
Davis has covered eight trips by the Jayhawks to four final football games, six bowl games and thousands of regular season soccer and basketball games. Many spent time with his predecessor and later his colleague and close friend Max Falkensten. Falkenstien passed away in 2019.
Former Kansas and North Carolina coach Roy Williams described Davis as the “giant” at the University of Kansas.
Kansas Jayhawks logo and Big 12, December 4, 2018 at Allenfield House, Lawrence, Kansas. (NickTre. Smith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“Bob Davis was a great announcer and loved KU,” Williams said. “I'm a new coach and he helped me very much. He set up a bar for everyone I worked with later. He's a KU giant.”
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Davis also called the CBS Women's Final Four six times and made 16 years of radio and television calls to the Kansas City Royals games. He was selected as the Kansas Sports Caster of the Year 14 times.
Davis was survived by his son Stephen, daughter-in-law Katie and four grandchildren.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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