Long-time college basketball coach Robert Davenport became Oklahoma Baptist University's director of athletics June 2, 2011.

Since his arrival on Bison Hill, OBU teams have won a combined 25 national titles at the NAIA and National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) levels. The department also earned three consecutive Learfield IMG College Directors' Cups (2013, 2014 and 2015) on Davenport's watch.

In 2017, the university successfully completed the three-year transition process to earn full membership in NCAA Division II.

Davenport, a 1988 OBU graduate, returned to Bison Hill from Wayland Baptist University, where he had served as head men's basketball coach since 2005. The Olive, Oklahoma, native played basketball for OBU for two seasons, and returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach for Hall of Famer Bob Hoffman from 1993-97.

After graduating from OBU with a degree in public relations, Davenport worked at two financial institutions in Texas before beginning his coaching career as an assistant basketball coach at Collin County Community College.

He was an assistant coach at OBU before taking his first job as a head coach at LeTourneau University in 1997. He served one-year stints there and at Missouri Baptist before joining former OBU basketball coach Bob Hoffman's staff at Texas-Pan American in 1999. He was promoted to head coach in 2003 and was named head coach at Wayland Baptist in 2005.

Davenport earned a master's degree in secondary education from East Central University in 1996.

He and his wife, LeAnna, an OBU alumna, have two children, a daughter, Morgan, and a son, Reid.