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One of the most anticipated games on the schedule is up next for Detroit as the Titans head to Ann Arbor to battle the Wolverines for the first time in 10 years on Sunday. Tip-off is set for Noon.

The game will be televised live on the Big Ten Network with Tom Hamilton doing the play-by-play and Jimmy King providing the color. Fans can also catch all the action with CSTV's gametracker with the link located on top of the release.

Detroit enters the game at 6-3 and can match its win total from the last two seasons with a win. The Titans have opened the season very strong with four double-digit victories. Even two of their three losses could have gone either way as they have been by a combined three points following a 70-69 setback against Tennessee State and a 68-66 overtime loss at DePaul. Detroit has four players averaging double figures in scoring and are tallying 72.1 ppg., as a team.


The Wolverines, 4-4 on the year, began the season 3-0 and ranked as high as No. 15, but have struggled since losing four of their last five. Manny Harris leads the team in scoring (21.6 ppg.), rebounding (8.4) and assists (4.8). U-M is averaging 70.6 ppg., and shooting 41% as a team, but just 29% from behind the arc.

UDM TO VISIT AN OLD FRIEND
For the first time since 1999, and the 27th time in the history of the program, Detroit will face the maize and blue. 

UDM is 4-22 all-time against the Wolverines. 

The last time these two programs hooked up was on Nov. 23, 1999, when Michigan edged Detroit, 66-62. Rashad Phillips was the game-high scorer with 22 points. 

The Titans were ahead by as many as 15 early in the second half (47-27 - 17:56) but Michigan came back and ended the contest with a 21-7 run to pull out the victory. 

The game was tied at 62 when U-M's Jamal Crawford netted the game-winning basket with just three seconds left before stealing the inbounds pass and scoring as time expired.

THE LAST WIN OVER MICHIGAN
The last time Detroit defeated U-M was during the 1981-82 season in Ann Arbor. U-D was led by Joe Kopicki's 13 points, eight rebounds and three assists as the red, white and blue, under Don Sicko, earned a 55-51 triumph.

UDM AND THE BIG TEN
Detroit has had its moments against the Big Ten, most notably beating Michigan State three years in a row from 1995-98, but overall, UDM has struggled against the conference. Detroit has dropped 11-straight against the conference and is 28-109 all-time against the league's current members, with its last win coming during the 1997-98 campaign when the Titans edged the Spartans, 68-65. 

This will also be Detroit's second appearance on the Big Ten Network after facing Illinois a year ago.

UDM'S SPREAD OFFENSE
It might not be the four wide receiver sets used in college football, but Detroit has its own version of a spread offense. 

UDM has four players averaging double figures in scoring:
Holman - 14.5, Keeling-14.2, Kennedy - 12.3, Simon - 11.9 

Five players shooting over 50%:
Holman - 58%, Payne - 54%, Blue - 52%,
Kennedy 51%, Keeling - 50%
(UDM has two of the top four players in the HL in field-goal percentage in Kennedy (2nd) and Keeling (4th). Blue, Holman and Payne do not have enough shot attempts to qualify and Holman would be leading the league) 

And three Titans averaging more than two assists per game:
Payne - 3.6, Simon - 3.0, Keeling - 2.4

FOUR OR MORE
The Titans have had four or more players reach double figures in the same game five times already this season after not accomplishing that feat at all last season.

FOSTER'S HOT HAND
Sophomore Donavan Foster seems to have shaken off the sophomore funk in his last three games. After tallying just 1.8 points and shooting 25% in the first six games, Foster is averaging 9.0 points on 67% shooting (10-of-15), including hitting 4-of-5 3-pointers in the last three contests.