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GAME 25
Loyola Ramblers (13-10, 4-8) at Detroit Titans (12-12, 6-6)
Date:  Feb. 5, 2011 - 2:00 pm EST
Location: Detroit, Mich.
Arena:  Calihan Hall (8,295)
Live stats: detroittitans.com
Live video: horizonleague.tv
TV: WADL TV- 38
Series:  Loyola leads, 64-50
Last year:  Detroit, 2-0
This year: Detroit, 1-0
Jan. 6- UDM 83 at UIC 71  (Minnerath- 20)

ON TAP
The Titans will have the opportunity to ascend the Horizon League standings Saturday as they sit just one game back of current fourth-place Milwaukee heading into the day's action.    Detroit is eying its first back-to-back wins since beating Loyola and UIC in their home gyms on Jan. 6 and 8, respectively.
 
ABOUT LOYOLA
The Ramblers are 13-10, 4-8 heading into Saturday's match-up.  Loyola has five players averaging double-digit point totals led by Geoff McCammon's 14 points per game.  Andy Polka is the team's top rebounder with a 6.5 per game average. 

LAST MEETING
Junior Nick Minnerath notched his second straight 20-point night in leading the Detroit Titans to an 83-71 road win at Loyola at the Joseph J. Gentile Center in Horizon League play Jan. 6.  Minnerath had a dozen first-half points and made all three of his triple tries in the game to give Detroit a win in its first league road contest.   The junior transfer led a group of four Titans in double figures as Ray McCallum added 16, Chris Blake 15 and Eli Holman with 10 for the road team.  Holman etched his eighth double-double of the season as he chipped-in a game-high 14 rebounds, helping Detroit own the boards, 40-29.

WHAT'S NEXT?
Detroit's quick three-game homestand concludes Monday night when Cleveland State visits Calihan Hall.  The Vikings currently sit atop the Horizon League and were 81-69 winners over Detroit in Cleveland back on Jan. 20.  The Titans will then take to the road, playing four of their final five away from Calihan Hall.

AMONG THE NCAA'S BEST
Several Titans have their names appear among the NCAA Division I leaders in the Feb. 3 report.  As the time of the release, junior Eli Holman had 10 double-doubles, which ranked 21st.  He also was 18th in rebounds per game (10.1).  LaMarcus Lowe was 18th in the NCAA with his 2.7 blocks per game clip.  Ray McCallum's 4.8 assists per game is 61st while Nick Minnerath cracked the report with his .833 free-throw percentage (90th).

LEADING THE LEAGUE
Eli Holman leads the Horizon League in both offensive (3.5 rpg) and defensive (6.7 rpg) rebounds per game (10.1 total).  He is also second in field goal percentage, connecting on 59.9 percent of his shots (103-of-172) and is 5th in blocks (1.6 bpg).

BRACKETBUSTER ANNOUNCED
The lone non-conference game on Detroit's schedule is the BracketBusters game set for Feb. 19.  The ESPN event recently announced that the Titans would match-up with Drake University, a  ninth-place Missouri Valley Conference school.  Detroit has appeared in all nine BracketBusters, marking a 5-3 record in those contests.  This season's game is just the third against a team not from the Mid-American Conference (MAC).  As part of the agreement, all of the BracketBusters home teams will play a “return” game at the home facility of their opponent in November or December of the 2012-13 season.

Detroit all-time in the BracketBusters (5-3)
2003-     W, 75-59           at UC Santa Barbara
2004-     W, 70-49             vs. Ball State
2005-     L, 65-66               vs. Ohio
2006-     W, 65-63             vs. Toledo
2007-     W, 92-84             at Buffalo
2008-     L, 65-81               vs. Bowling Green
2009-     L, 75-78               at Tennessee State
2010-     W, 68-66              vs. Eastern Michigan

THE LOWE DOWN
Junior LaMarcus Lowe blocked six more shots in the Thursday's win, giving him 65 for the season.  Lowe's block total leads the Horizon League and he now has 15 games with multiple rejections this season.  He has 15 blocks in his last three games combined.

Single-season block records at UDM
1. Terry Tyler, 1978 .....................      172
2. Terry Tyler, 1976 ......................     107
3. Terry Tyler, 1977 ......................       86
4. Eli Holman, 2010 ......................      77
5. LaMarcus Lowe, 2011 ..............      65
    Greg Grant, 1992......................       65
7. Stacy Johnson, 1988 .................      63
     Brian Humes, 1986 ...................      63
9. Keith Jackson, 1979 ..................      61
10. Alan Renner-Thomas, 1994 ......      56
       Brian Alexander, 1998 ...............     56
(*block records not kept before 1976)

MAKING THE MOST OF HIS MINUTES
Junior LaMarcus Lowe is the Horizon League leader in blocked shots with 65.  Even more impressive is that he's etched that total while averaging just under 18 minutes per game.  His adjusted blocks-per-40 minutes played average is 6.48.  That average is second-best in the NCAA heading into Saturday.

NCAA BLOCK LEADERS (per 40 minutes)
Name                                  BLK/G    BLK/40
1. William Mosley, NWSU       4.74    6.94
2. LaMarcus Lowe, Detroit    2.71    6.48
3. David Foster, Utah             3.00    6.41
4. Ty Walker, Wake                2.95    6.12
5. Tom Herzog, UCF               2.50    6.10