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DETROIT (12/22/2012) -- It was Women's Basketball Alumni Day at Calihan Hall as the Titans rolled to a 90-43 win over the Madonna Crusaders Saturday on Dick Vitale Court at Calihan Hall.

The win moved Detroit to 7-4 on the season as the red, white and blue won its tenth straight at Calihan Hall. With the UDM men's basketball team having won 14 in a row at home, Calihan Hall has not seen a loss since Jan. 14, 2012 when the women fell 68-59 to Green Bay.

Five Titans scored in double figures on the day led by sophomore Shareta Brown's 28 points. The nation's leading scorer at 26.0 ppg., coming into the contest was 13-of-15 from the field and added five assists and a career-high four steals.

Freshman Rosanna Reynolds set new career-highs with 17 points and 10 rebounds for her first career double-double, and also tied her career-best with six assists.

Senior Yar Shayok ended with 12 points and 13 rebounds against the Crusaders for her second straight double-double - and 25th of her career - and is now is four points away from 1,000 in her career sitting at 996, while freshman Tayelor McCalister and Destiny Lavita-Stephens each netted 10 points apiece.

Detroit (7-4) started out hot and never looked back hitting its first seven shots of the game. It was with 14:10 left in the first half when UDM finally missed a shot in taking a 16-8 lead.

The Titans entered the half up 42-20 as the UDM defense held Madonna (6-5) to just 24% shooting from the field. Detroit was shooting a blistering 55% as Reynolds had 13 points at the break. Brown had 10 heading into the locker room with sophomore Audrey Matteson adding nine.
The second half featured more of the same as Detroit upped its shooting percentage to 59% overall making 63% of its shots in the final half. Madonna could not find an answer for Brown who scored 18 of her points in the second half and the Titans dominated in the paint outscoring Madonna 30-12 in the second and 56-16 overall.

The Titans held an opponent to under 60 points for the eighth time this season, while the 43 points they allowed were the fewest since last year's Horizon League Championship quarterfinals 79-43 triumph over Cleveland State. UDM also held Madonna to 27.9% shooting, the ninth time this season it has held an opponent under 40%.

The alumni day featured a reception for all the alums as well as a special recognition to the late Titan great, Lisa Blackburn who passed away in May this year. Blackburn came to the University of Detroit in 1978 just one year after the Titan women's basketball team made its debut. During her four years, U-D posted four 20-win seasons, including a school record 27-4 mark during her freshman campaign of 1978-79. She played in 104 career games with 99 starts and averaged 13.8 points per game, and is still fifth all-time in school history with 1,440 points. She also ranks third in the Titan record book in rebounds (846), seventh in steals (215) and 10th in assists (294).

The next game for the Titans will come on Dec. 31 as UDM will travel to Tampa, Fla., to take on the South Florida Bulls at 2:00 p.m.

Game Notes:
The only other time Detroit played Madonna in the regular season was on Feb. 22, 1978, when the Titans defeated Madonna, 83-17, which included UDM allowing just six points in the second half…With the men's 14-game home winning streak, Calihan Hall has not seen a loss since Jan. 14, when the UDM women fell to #14/12 Green Bay, 68-59…Detroit is 16-3 in its last 19 home games…UDM will not play another home game until Jan. 24 when it hosts Loyola… Detroit is 38-5 all-time against non-Division I schools, with the last loss in 1987… Shayok is now just four points shy becoming the 17th player in school history to reach 1000 career points…Brown has now scored 899 points in her career and is just 101 points shy of 1000 for her career… The Titans are now 32-6 when they score 70 or more points - and 10-1 when they score 80 or more - under head coach Autumn Rademacher… UDM reached 80 points for the third-straight game, the first time the Titans have accomplished that since 2002 when it had 83 versus UIC, 90 at IPFW and 84 at Butler…Reynolds previous season high was 15 points against Canisius…The last time two Titans had a double-double in the same game was on Feb. 2, 2012, against Loyola as Brown had 13 points and 11 rebounds and Shayok collected 14 points and 10 rebounds vs. Loyola…Detroit posted 30 or more field goals for the third-straight game…The last time UDM had five players in double figures was in the Horizon League quarterfinals win against Cleveland State last season.