Seth Davis

Seth Davis is an award-winning sports writer and broadcaster who has been a mainstay of CBS Sports’ studio coverage of college basketball and the NCAA Tournament since 2004. Davis is also a Senior Basketball Insider for The Messenger. Previously, he wrote for Sports Illustrated for 22 years and The Athletic for 6 years.

Davis is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestsellers Wooden: A Coach’s Life, which chronicles the life of longtime UCLA coach John Wooden, and When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball, which tells the story of the 1979 NCAA championship game which pitted Magic Johnson against Larry Bird. Davis is also the author of Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams, which profiles elite coaches such as Mike Krzyzewski, Doc Rivers and Dabo Swinney to explain how they use the PEAK (Persistence, Empathy, Authenticity and Knowledge) profile to form winning teams. His most recent New York Times bestseller is Wake Up with Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years, a narrative of the life of Loyola Chicago matriarch “Sister Jean.”

In 2023, Davis was inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Hall of Fame.

A former stand-up comedian who used to perform at comedy clubs throughout New York City, Davis currently resides in Manhattan Beach, California, with his family.