Watch a Wright State player knee a defender out of the way for a monster dunk

Published Dec. 14, 2016 8:56 a.m. ET

Brett Smiley

Wright State's Steven Davis dialed up an early dunk-of-the-year submission against Division II-Urbana on Tuesday night when he took a sweet pass and then attacked the rim, where an overmatched defender received Davis' flying knee to the chest. Here it is:

https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/808847067028328448

As for the question posed by SportsCenter, it's hard to tell if Davis, a 6-foot-8 senior forward, used the Urbana Blue Knight as a "step ladder." Here's a long clip:

Davis scored 26 points in the 85-34 drubbing. And if he threw down that dunk through his leaping ability alone, the rest of the Horizon League had better take notice.