Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. Toledo, Chicago State

DETROIT (12/5/2013) -- It will be another weekend of back-to-back games as the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team makes the short trek across the border and into Ohio to play in the Toledo Invitational at Savage Arena.

Detroit opens up play with the host Rockets on Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:00 p.m., before facing Chicago State on Saturday in a 2:00 p.m., tip-off. The tournament will have another Horizon League school in the field in Valparaiso as the Crusaders square off against CSU on Friday and Toledo on Saturday. All of the games will feature free live stats and as well as live video (available for a small fee).

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.

Detroit comes into the event at 2-6 after splitting a pair of games last weekend at the Florida Atlantic Thanksgiving Classic. UDM fell to Rhode Island, 70-59, before coming back to defeat Georgia Southern 82-79.

Senior Senee Shearer was an offensive force in the tournament pouring back-to-back 20-point games and averaging 21.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game en route to All-Tournament honors. Junior Ellisha Crosby posted 17.5 ppg., and 6.5 rpg., in the two games and recorded her fourth double-double of the year with 18 points and 10 boards against URI, while freshman Megan Galloway was named the HL Freshman of the Week after tallying 11.5 ppg., and 6.5 rpg.

After this weekend, the Titans will enjoy playing in the Motor City with all three remaining games in December and six of the next seven contests inside historic Calihan Hall, starting with local-rival Eastern Michigan on Dec. 15.

DETROIT VS. TOLEDO
This will be the 25th career meeting between Detroit and Toledo as the Rockets lead the all-time series 16-8. It has been a series of streaks as Detroit won the first four only to be outdone by a 13-game winning streak by the Rockets between 1986-1998.

UDM then won four in a row again, but Toledo has won the last three, including the last meeting in the WNIT, 59-49, in 2012.

ABOUT THE ROCKETS
Toledo enters the weekend at 3-3 after splitting a pair of games in California last week.

Inma Zanoguera leads the team in scoring at 15.7 ppg., while also topping the team on the boards at 8.3 per night. Andola Dortch is tallying 10.0 ppg., 4.3 rpg., and a team-high 4.5 assists, while Brianna Jones is averaging 10.0 ppg., and 6.3 rpg.

DETROIT VS. CHICAGO STATE
The Titans have played a lot of teams in the Chicago area, but this will be just the fourth match-up between UDM and Chicago State, with the Titans owning a 2-1 mark.

The programs first met in the Motor City in 1989 with Detroit winning 78-55. The teams then split the last two games in 1991 as the Titans lost 72-66 in Chicago and came back with a 64-55 victory at home.

ABOUT THE COUGARS
Chicago State started the year with a win over Indiana Tech, but the Cougars have now dropped six in a row. CSU will play Valparaiso on Friday in day one of the Toledo Invite.

Paris Williams leads the team in scoring at 14.6 ppg., to go with 6.0 rpg. Tierre Williams is posting 13.0 ppg., while Chan Wilson-Stewart tops the team in rebounding (8.4) and Layne Murphy is the team's top point guard handing out 3.7 apg.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Last season's Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) title was the first postseason tournament win for Detroit since 1981 when the Titans beat Michigan, Wayne State, and Oakland in the State-Large College Tournament.

EARLY SEASON TOURNAMENTS
Detroit is 21-37 all-time in regular season tournaments as the Titans just ended a weird streak of 11-straight losses in in-season events with an 82-79 win over Georgia Southern at last week's FAU Thanksgiving Classic.

The last time the Titans won a regular season tournament was in 1999 when UDM downed South Alabama and host Florida A&M in the Rattler Classic.

GALLOWAY HONORED
Perseverance pays off and for one Titan rookie, hard work has definitely come to the forefront as the Horizon League named University of Detroit Mercy freshman Megan Galloway as its Women's Basketball Freshman Of The Week this past Monday, Dec. 2.

Her play really shined last weekend as she helped the Titans win the consolation game of the Florida Atlantic Thanksgiving Classic, finishing with a season-high 16 points and tying her season-best with seven rebounds and a block. She was also 7-of-9 from the field.

In the opening game, she tallied what was then a season-high seven points with six rebounds and two assists against Rhode Island.

In the two games, she averaged 11.5 points – third on the team – with 6.5 rebounds – tied for the team high – shooting 9-of-14 (64.3%) from the field.

20 X THREE
Senior Senee Shearer racked up her third-straight 20-point game with a team-high 22 points against Georgia Southern last Saturday, Nov. 30. She is looking to become the first Titan to record 20 or more in four straight since Shareta Brown did it twice last season.

Shearer started the streak with a game-high 28 points against Ball State on Nov. 23, tying her career high with six 3-pointers. She then opened the FAU Thanksgiving Classic with 21 against Rhode Island, where she drained another five treys.

Earlier in the year, she tallied a career-high 29 points at Western Michigan on Nov. 14 - tying her career best with six 3-pointers.

She now has 12 career games reaching the 20-point plateau, and the Titans are 8-4 in those contests.

Shearer currently leads the team and is fourth in the Horizon League and 64th in the nation in scoring at 19.3 ppg., while ranking first in the HL and 12th in the country with 3.38 three-point field goals per game.

SHE'S A SHOOTER
A three-point threat might not be sufficient enough to describe senior Senee Shearer's game.

In her career, Shearer has attempted 702 shots and 473 of them have been from behind the arc. That means 67.3% of her career looks have been from behind the arc.

With her eight three's over the weekend, Shearer now has 161 career 3-pointers, moving her to sixth in school history and 11 in back of Shari Hill (1997-01) for fifth place.

She will have a chance at the top spot trailing head coach Autumn Rademacher (1993-97) by 40 for second and school record-holder Michelle James (1998-02) by 56 (217).

ROLLING DOUBLES
Junior Ellisha Crosby posted her team-best fourth double-double of the season with 18 points and 10 rebounds against Rhode Island on Nov. 29.

The four double-doubles is tied for second in the Horizon League trailing only the five put up by UIC's Ruvanna Campbell.

Her other double efforts on the season have come against Ball State (14 pts., 10 rebs.), at Western Michigan (24 pts., 12 rebs.) and at Canisius (15 pts., 11 rebs.).

In the game at WMU, the 24 points were a season high, while the 12 boards were a career best.

Her collegiate high in points was 25 as a freshman when she was at Cornerstone University in a game against Northwestern Ohio in 2011.

She currently ranks second on the team and eighth in the HL in scoring (15.6), while leading the team and tied for ninth in the conference in rebounding (7.5) and 14th in assists (2.3).

SHEARER EYEING 1,000
The UDM century club might soon be adding another member as senior Senee Shearer is just 184 points away from becoming the 19th player in school history with 1,000 career points. She enters the weekend with 816 career markers.

ANOTHER CAREER MARK
Senior Senee Shearer might have started the season a bit slow hitting just 12-of-21 at the free throw line (57.1%), but she is now 19 for her last 23 (82.6%) moving her career free throw percentage to 75.9%, seventh in school history.

On the season her 31-of-44 effort for 70.5% is 12th in the conference.

HAT'S OFF TO YOU
Senior Megan Hatter posted her first career double-double against Ball State two weeks ago and she is now coming off a career game against Georgia Southern as she tallied a career-high 17 points and tied her career best with five assists.

She was 5-of-8 from the field with a personal-best three 3-pointers and was also a perfect 4-of-4 at the free throw line with seven rebounds.

Against Ball State, she recorded her double-double with 14 points and career-best 11 rebounds. She was actually scoreless with just two caroms in the first half of that game before erupting in the second period.

Hatter now has six games this season - and 27 in her career - with five or more rebounds and is currently second on the squad and 16th in the Horizon League in rebounding at 5.6 per night.

GETTING SHOTS UP
UDM has attempted 499 shots on the year - 62.3 per game - with at least 63 shots in five of the eight games (70 at Canisius and at Western Michigan, 69 versus Lawrence Tech, 64 vs. Ball State, and 63 vs. Michigan).

The 70 shots were the most since the Titans threw up 70 at Loyola on Jan. 31, 2008.

Detroit netted 31 field goals against Lawrence Tech and at WMU, the most since it had 31 at Loyola last year.

COMING ALIVE
Sophomore DaVonna Bradford only played in seven games as a rookie, but the second-year forward is now starting to find her role.

She made her first collegiate start against Georgia Southern last Saturday, Nov. 30, and finished with a career-high eight points and four assists to go with six rebounds in 36 minutes.

She tallied four points and four rebounds versus Rhode Island on Nov. 29, and four points and a career-high eight rebounds in just 15 minutes of action against Ball State on Nov. 23.

In the last four games, she is averaging 5.0 points and 5.3 rebounds per game as well as collecting four steals.

KEEP WORKING
Freshman Megan Galloway was named the Horizon League Freshman Of The Week this past Monday and the award was a great honor considering how she started the year.

Galloway – who didn't play in the season opener and was limited to just four minutes in the second game of the year against NAIA member Lawrence Tech – has started four of the last five games in the middle for UDM.
Last weekend at the FAU Thanksgiving Classic, she tallied 11.5 points and 6.5 rebounds, while shooting 9-of-14 (64.3%) from the field.

She scored a season-high 16 points and tied her season-best with seven rebounds and a block against Georgia Southern and that was after a seven-point, six-rebound effort with two assists against Rhode Island.

She has now scored in six-straight games and has recorded at least five rebounds in five of her last six games.

ON THE DL
Sophomore Rosanna Reynolds will miss the rest of the season after suffering a knee injury early in the game at Western Michigan.

Reynolds was selected to the Horizon League All-Newcomer Team last year after starting all 34 games and averaging a team-high 35.3 minutes per game, tallying 7.8 points – fifth on the team – along with 3.3 rebounds, and a team-high 4.0 assists per game (135).

She also finished fifth in the Horizon League in assists (120th in the nation), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.7), and minutes played.

Also, sophomore Tayelor McCalister missed Detroit's last four games with an undisclosed injury and freshman Minisha Frederick-Childress was unavailable with an injury in the last three contests.

COACH RAD LOOKING FOR A RECORD
Head coach Autumn Rademacher is in her sixth year coaching her alma mater, where she has an 85-84 record and is currently in third place in UDM history in wins, just eight away from the school record held by her coach in college Fred Procter (93, 1990-96) and six away from DeWayne Jones (91, 1983-90).

It is not like Coach Rademacher took over a top of the line program as UDM was coming off back-to-back last-place finishes and just 11 total wins from 2006-08.

In her first five years, Detroit has posted three winning seasons, a 20-win campaign, five-straight years with a conference tournament victory and a trip to the WNIT in 2012 - the first postseason action for UDM since the 1997 NCAA Tournament - and a WBI Championship last season, the first postseason title since 1981.