GAMEDAY CENTRAL

DETROIT (11/3/2012) -- The Detroit women's basketball team will close out the preseason as the Titans welcome McNichols-rival Marygrove to Calihan Hall on Monday. Game time is set for 7:00 p.m., on Dick Vitale Court.

The game is part of a community service weekend between the two schools as they will get together on Sunday to clean up the mile-stretch of McNichols that separates the two campuses'. That clean-up effort will go on from 3-5:00 p.m., and all media is invited to come out for this community service collaboration.

Detroit opened the preseason with a 97-33 victory over Lawrence Tech last Monday. Four Titans ended the game in double figures, led by double-doubles from sophomore Shareta Brown (20 pts., 13 rebs.), and senior Yar Shayok (18 pts., 13 rebs.). UDM shot nearly 50% from the field hitting 41-of-84 (48.8%), while outrebounding the first-year Lawrence Tech program, 59-21.

UDM is now 5-1 in exhibition games under head coach Autumn Rademacher, with its lone loss in her very first preseason game against Wayne State in 2008.

There will be live stats available, but the game will not be on HLN.

GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Titan fans can follow every UDM game this season through the women's basketball GAMEDAY CENTRAL page located on the Titans Athletic Website that will keep fans one click away from all the action. This page will feature links for live stats (audio and video when applicable) as well as links for all the latest info while also making it easy to find the Titans on social media and to purchase photos and game tickets. The Game Day Central page also carries all the information on each opponent from who is leading the all-time series to who won the last game.

ABOUT MARYGROVE
The closest rival in terms of distance to the Titans, Marygrove is located just 0.9 miles down the road from the University of Detroit Mercy. The two programs have played before with UDM posting a 68-27 win during the regular season on Dec. 27, 2010. The 27 points allowed were the second fewest in school history, behind only the 17 Detroit yielded in an 83-17 triumph over Madonna on Feb. 22, 1978.

The Mustangs are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and are members of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC). The team has eight upperclassmen - headed by a pair of seniors – on its 11-man roster.

Marygrove is coming off an 82-40 drubbing of Great Lakes Christian College in its exhibition opener. Keara Marks led the Mustangs with 29 points, 17 rebounds and seven assists to go with five steals. Shakia Logan tallied 22 points and 17 rebounds, while Elisha Major finished with 16 points.

MORE THAN JUST BASKETBALL
The Titans continue to be very active in the community, a trait that head coach Autumn Rademacher has stressed in her time at UDM. Counting the community service project that they will tackle on Sunday, the Titans have also visited a children's health fair, spent time at a school performing reading and writing exercises with the kids in the second grade, have been involved in a soup kitchen with COTS and helped sell raffle tickets for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation at a Detroit Pistons game.

GETTING SOME EARLY TIME
The Titans were able to play most of their roster in their first exhibition game and saw some impressive performances from its underclassmen. Sophomore Audrey Matteson nailed three 3-pointers and netted 13 points to go with six assists, three steals and two rebounds, while sophomore Brie Wilcox pulled down six boards in just 15 minutes of action.

The freshmen class had a productive night. Rosanna Reynolds had just four points, but ran the offense with finishing with six assists and five steals. Destiny Lavita-Stephens was 6-of-12 from the field, ending with 14 points off the bench, while Tayelor McCalister totaled six points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals. DaVonna Bradford was also strong off the bench as she collected six points and five boards.

WHAT THE POLLS ARE SAYING
The Detroit women's basketball team was picked to finish second in the Horizon League Preseason polls, voted on by the League's coaches, sports information directors and media members.

The Titans totaled 210 points – including two first-place votes – trailing only Green Bay's 241 points and 25 first-place selections. Wright State was picked to finish third with 191 points, Loyola fourth at 151 and Cleveland State fifth tallying 123. Rounding out the poll was UIC (90), Milwaukee (85), Youngstown State (77) and Valparaiso (46).

Last season, UDM was picked seventh, but ended up 14-4 in the conference and made the Horizon League Championship game.

HONORS GALORE
Shareta Brown was tabbed First Team All-League when the Horizon League released its preseason All-Conference teams at the HL Media Day in Chicago on Oct. 8.

Brown – a first team All-HL selection as a freshman, the first by a Titan in school history – was joined on the first team by Kim Demmings of Wright State, Cleveland State's Shalonda Winton, Green Bay's Adrian Ritchie and Brandi Brown of Youngstown State. Loyola's Simone Law and Patrice King, Lydia Bauer of Green Bay, Valparaiso's Tabitha Gerardot and Milwaukee's Sami Tucker comprise the second team.

Brown was also nearly the HL Preseason Player of the Year, but that honor went to Demmings by just one point in the voting. It is not the first time those two have been neck-and-neck as they shared the League's Co-Newcomer of the Year award last season.

A dominant low-post player, Brown broke Detroit's single season record for total points with 611 and led the Horizon League – and was fifth in the NCAA - in field goal percentage (55.9). She also finished fourth in the HL in scoring (18.0) and eighth in rebounding (8.8). She tallied 14 20-point games and a pair of 30-point performances and was fifth in the Horizon League with 12 double-doubles.

During UDM's run to the Horizon League title contest, she averaged 23.7 points and 6.7 rebounds in the three tournament games, including 30 points and eight rebounds against Wright State in the semifinals and a 22-point, nine-rebound performance in the championship versus Green Bay.

It was not the only preseason accolade she has received as she was named to the CollegeSportsMadness.com's All-High Major Third Team as well as to the website's Horizon League Preseason First Team.

Also receiving preseason honors was junior guard Senee Shearer as she was tabbed a Second Team All-Horizon League by CollegeSportsMadness.com. Shearer was one of the top scorers in the league in the last 20 games and ended the year second on the team in scoring at 11.1 points per game. The long-range shooter was third in the conference in three-point field goals (75) and third in the HL, and 59th in NCAA, in three-point field goals per game (2.27). Her 75 3-pointers on the season ranked second all-time on the Titan single-season list.

UP NEXT
That would be the official 2012-13 campaign as the Titans open the year in Ann Arbor to face Michigan on Friday, Nov. 9. Game time is set for 6:00 p.m., at the Crisler Center.