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DETROIT (11/11/12) –The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will hit the road for the first time when the Titans invade the Big Apple to face St. John's as part of the ESPN College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon. The game is set for Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 2:00 p.m., at Carnesecca Arena and will be televised live on ESPN. Titan fans can watch the game live in Calihan Hall at the Titan Club and join the conversation on social media by sending photos and videos to either Facebook “ESPN College Basketball” or Twitter at #TipOffMarathon. John Saunders will have the play-by-play call for ESPN, with analysis provided by Chris Mullin and Fran Fraschilla.

ABOUT THE TIP-OFF MARATHON
This will be the fifth-straight year that ESPN will celebrate the opening of the college basketball season with a marathon of college basketball coverage across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com. The event will include 11 men's basketball games over 24 consecutive hours on ESPN. The action will begin at midnight with West Virginia at No. 21 Gonzaga in the Old Spice Classic.

GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Titan fans can follow every UDM game this season through men'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.

LAST TIME OUT
Detroit (1-0) opened its regular season with an 88-53 taming of the Northern Michigan Wildcats Friday night at Calihan Hall. Four Titans scored in double figures led by Doug Anderson and Ray McCallum, who combined for 47 points. Anderson led all scorers with a career-high 25 points and nine rebounds, while McCallum netted 22 points on 9-for-13 shooting, with six assists, five rebounds, two steals, and two blocks. Juwan Howard, Jr. added 12 points and five rebounds, while P.J. Boutte scored a career-high 10 points with two steals.

Detroit opened the game with a 24-3 run in the first eight minutes of action and never looked back as the Titans took a 44-23 lead into the locker room. The Titans outrebounded NMU, 40-36, and forced 25 Wildcat turnovers, which resulted in 30 points for Detroit. The Titans also recorded 19 assists, 16 steals, and seven blocked shots. Detroit shot 48.6 percent from the field, including 11-for-31 from behind the arc, while holding NMU to just 33.3 percent for the floor.

SERIES WITH ST. JOHN'S
Detroit and St. John's have only met three times before this matchup, with the Titans leading the series 2-1. Detroit won last year 69-63 on the same night that the court in Calihan Hall was dedicated to Dick Vitale. That game was also televised live on ESPN2. The Red Storm won the first meeting back in 1944 by the final score of 44-31, before the Titans tied the series with a 66-64 win in the NCAA Tournament during the 1998 season.

ABOUT THE RED STORM
St. John's will open its regular season on Tuesday, after playing two exhibition games against Sonoma State (73-55) and Concordia, Ill. (87-36). The Red Storm, which finish 13-19 last season, return BIG EAST All-Rookie team member D'Angelo Harrison, along with combo guard Phil Greene, and forwards Sir'Dominic Pointer and Amir Garrett.

St. John's recorded the No. 8 ranked recruiting class, which included eight student-athletes representing five countries. The elite group includes West African guard Felix Balamou, French shooter and playmaker Marco Bourgault, Texas A&M transfer point guard Jamal Branch, sharpshooting Harvard transfer Max Hooper, stalwart power forward Christian Jones, top 20 Nigerian center Chris Obekpa, 2011-12 New England Preparatory School Athletic Council AAA Player of the Year and National Prep Championship Tournament MVP JaKarr Sampson and Dominican-born JUCO All-America forward Orlando Sanchez.

TITANS RECEIVING VOTES IN MID-MAJOR POLL
Detroit finished with a perfect 2-0 record in the preseason and capped that off by receiving votes in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 Poll released last week. The Titans totaled 117 points in this year's first edition of the poll, which is the second most in receiving votes. Detroit is also one of just three Horizon League teams represented as Valparaiso was ranked 21st and Cleveland State received three votes.

The Mid-Major Poll is made up of teams from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Great West, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast.

McCALLUM NAMED TO THE WOODEN AWARD PRESEASON TOP 50
Detroit junior guard Ray McCallum was recently named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 list, according to a release. The list recognizes the top-returning players in all of college basketball (transfers, freshmen and medical redshirts are not eligible for the preseason list).

The Los Angeles Athletic Club compiles the list, which is chosen by a preseason poll of national college basketball media members.  Each year these 50 student-athletes who, based on last year's individual performance and team records, are the early frontrunners for college basketball's most prestigious honor (although do not have to be listed to qualify for the postseason award).

McCallum, the Horizon League preseason Player of the Year and first team selection for the second-straight season, was named the Horizon League Tournament MVP last year after he helped lead the Titans to the League crown and their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1999. McCallum led the team in scoring (15.4 ppg), assists (4.0 apg) and steals (1.6 spg) for the second-straight season.

O CAPTAINS! DETROIT CAPTAINS!
Detroit Titans head men's basketball coach Ray McCallum announced that senior forward Nick Minnerath along with junior guards Jason Calliste and Ray McCallum have been selected as team captains for the 2012-13 season.

Minnerath is one of only two seniors on the team and is returning to lineup after missing a majority of the season last year due to injury. Minnerath the 2010-11 Titans co-MVP averaged 11.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game as a junior, including six 20-point games over the final two months of action. Calliste, the team's sharp-shooter, led the squad in three-pointers made (56) and three-point percentage (34.4) and finished the season starting 34 games and averaging 10.2 points per game. McCallum had a tremendous sophomore season earning a host of accolades and honors. He was named the Robert Calihan Team MVP and an All-Horizon League First Team selection - the first by a Titan since 2003 - as well as the Horizon League Championship MVP.

TITANS PICKED SECOND
The UDM men's basketball team was picked to finish second in the Horizon League preseason poll voted on by the league's coaches, sports information directors and media members. The reigning HL Tournament Champions totaled 332 points – including four first-place votes – trailing only Valparaiso's 382 points and 40 first-place selections. Green Bay was picked to finish third with 283 points, while Youngstown State was fourth with 243 and Cleveland State fifth tallying 230. Rounding out the poll was Milwaukee (178), Loyola (105), UIC (96) and Wright State (86).

McCALLUM NAMED HL PRESEASON POY
Junior guard Ray McCallum was named the Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year for the second-straight season, following a super sophomore year.

McCallum, the Horizon League Tournament MVP last year, helped lead the Titans to the League crown and their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1999. He was named to the Lou Henson All-America team as well as the National Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA) All-District First Team and the National All-Jesuit Team after a superb season that saw him become the 37th Titan to surpass 1,000 career points and the first to do it as a sophomore.

TWO FOR THE SHOW
Two Titans were named to the 2012-13 Preseason All-Horizon League teams as Ray McCallum, the HL Preseason Player of the Year, was named to the All-Horizon League First Team and senior Nick Minnerath to the All-League Second Team. Minnerath the 2010-11 Titans co-MVP averaged 11.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game as a junior, including six 20-point games over the final two months of action. He averaged 12.0 points and 4.0 rebounds in the first five games last year before enduring a season ending injury.

UP NEXT
Detroit will return home to host Drake on Saturday, Nov. 17 for International Day at Calihan Hall. The game is set to begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be streamed live on the Horizon League Network.