Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. Cleveland State

DETROIT (1/8/2013) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team will open a three-game homestand this Thursday, Jan. 9, as the Titans welcome Cleveland State into historic Calihan Hall. The battle between the Titans and Vikings will tip-off at 7:00 p.m.

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.

The game will be the second Horizon League contest for Detroit and the conference opener for Cleveland State as the red, white and blue look to end a four-game slide. UDM has had a lot of success against CSU leading the all-time series, 35-14.

UDM is coming off a setback at Wright State in its HL opener as sophomore Tayelor McCalister scored a career-high 17 points and junior Brie Wilcox and freshman Haleigh Ristovski each pulled down a career best in rebounds with eight and 10, respectively. Senior Senee Shearer still leads the team in scoring at 20.1 ppg., and is second in the nation with 3.64 three-point field goals per game, while senior Megan Hatter is tallying a career-high 11.7 points and 6.5 rebounds per game.

The Titans' homestand will continue with homecoming on Saturday, Jan. 11, against Oakland as the women's game will be at 2:00 p.m., with the men's match-up at 7:00 p.m. Prior to the women's game, Detroit will raise its Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) championship banner.

Fans are encouraged to wear red to both games and get involved in the rivalry on social media by using the hashtag #BeatOakland in tweets this week for a chance to win a $10 gift card to the UDM Bookstore.

For ticket information, call the Titan Ticket Office at 313-993-1700 or click here.

DETROIT VS. CLEVELAND STATE
The Titans have dominated the all-time series by the tune of a 35-12 advantage, which includes winning four of the last five. The series began back in 1981 with UDM winning 14 of the first 15 games.

Detroit has also had its way with the Vikings in the Motor City with a 20-4 margin winning the last three at Calihan Hall.

ABOUT THE VIKINGS
Cleveland State comes into the game looking to end a three game slide as the Vikings are 5-8 on the season. The contest will also be the conference opener for CSU.

The Vikings have three scorers in the top 12 in the Horizon League led by Imani Gordan's 15.1 points and 8.6 rebounds per game - ninth and third in the HL, respectively. Kiersten Green is 10th at 15.0 ppg., while Cori Colman is tallying 13.8 ppg.

CSU is fourth in the league in scoring at 71.1 points, while allowing 73.7, sixth in the conference. The Vikings also lead the league in field-goal percentage (42.5%) and three-point field-goal percentage (36.1%), but are last in field-goal percentage defense (46.1%).

HORIZON LEAGUE HISTORY
The Titans are 212-201 all-time in the Horizon League with the 212 victories the third most in league history trailing only Green Bay's 272 and former member Butler's 227.

UDM has won two regular season titles claiming the 1987 crown with a 10-2 record and the 1997 championship as senior Autumn Rademacher led Detroit to a 14-2 mark. The Titans also finished that year winning their only conference tournament.

HL HOME OPENERS
Detroit is 17-10 all-time in Horizon League home openers. The Titans have also won four conference home openers in a row.

WEAR RED FOR HOMECOMING
Fans, this Saturday is homecoming and we want all of you to wear red as the Titan women face Oakland at 2:00 p.m., with the men's game against the Golden Grizzlies tipping off at 7:00 p.m. Use the hashtag #BeatOakland in tweets this week and you can win a $10 gift card to the UDM Bookstore

LEADING THE COUNTRY
Senior Senee Shearer currently is second in the nation with 3.64 three-point field goals per game, trailing only Brown's Sophie Bikofsky (3.67). Shearer – who recently saw her school record eight-straight games with 20 or more points come to an end at Wright State – has 51 3-pointers on the year, tied for first in the nation with Morgan Eye of Missouri.

Her 51 three-point field goals are 15 more than the next player in the HL in Wright State's Ivory James (36).

Shearer is also fifth in the league in three-point field-goal percentage (34.5%).

AMONG THE LEADERS
Detroit is currently third in the Horizon League and 91st in the nation in scoring at 72.4 ppg.

SHEARER EYEING 1,000
The UDM 1,000-point club might soon be adding another member as senior Senee Shearer is just 57 points away (943) from becoming the 19th player in school history with 1,000 career points.

Shearer has already scored 281 points this season in 14 games, more than the 231 she totaled in 20 contests last year. She missed the first 14 games of her junior season recovering from a torn ACL that she suffered in the 2012 Horizon League Championship.

Her 281 total points is second in the HL and 27th in the nation, while her 20.1 ppg., is second in the league and 26th in the country.

MIX & MATCH
Due to the injuries Detroit has racked up this year, the Titans have used nine different starting line-ups through their first 14 games.

Only senior Megan Hatter has started all 14 games and 12 of 13 players that have suited up this season have started at least one game, with the lone exception in senior walk-on Abby McCollum who was just officially added to the roster in mid-December.

The Titans have also been forced to play as many as four freshmen on the floor at the same time this year and those four rookies surrounded a first-year transfer.

WHAT A BRIE'S
Junior Brie Wilcox earned her first collegiate start at Wright State and played a career-high 32 minutes finishing with three points and a career-best eight rebounds and two blocks.

Wilcox saw action in just 16 career games before Sunday's contest totaling 66 minutes.

AERIAL ASSULT
A three-point threat might not be sufficient enough to describe Senee Shearer's game.

In her career, Shearer has attempted 826 shots and 546 of them have been from behind the arc. That means 66.1% of her career looks have been from downtown. Her 148 three-point attempts on the year also leads the country, just one ahead of Oregon's Katelyn Loper and Tennessee-Martin's Heather Butler

Shearer has 185 career threes, fifth in school history and just three in back of Patrice Martin (1989-93) for fourth place and seven shy of Lindsey Pasquinzo's (2002-06) 192 for third.

She is on pace to take over the category lead trailing head coach Autumn Rademacher (1993-97) by 16 for second and school record-holder Michelle James (1998-02) by 32 (217).

IT'S TAY TIME
Tayelor McCalister had a fine start to her sophomore year with career highs in nearly every category in her first four games, before an injury forced her out of five straight.

She returned to the hardwood against Chicago State on Dec. 7 and handed out five assists, while scoring seven points and tying her career best with four steals.

McCalister is coming off her best offensive game with a career-high 17 points at Wright State, adding seven boards in just 24 minutes.

She nearly had a triple-double against Eastern Michigan on Dec. 15 with eight points, a career-high eight rebounds and nine assists.

Against Michigan on Nov. 16, McCalister was in double figures with 14 points (7-9 FG) to go with six rebounds and four assists.

On the year, she is averaging 9.7 points - fourth on the team - a team-high 4.1 assists and 1.7 steals as well as 4.1 rebounds per game.

MEGAN'S 26
No not her age, but her new career high as senior Megan Hatter put in 26 points against Madonna on Dec. 30, her second 20-point game of the season as well as in her career. She tied her career best with eight field goals and eight free throws in the contest.

HAT'S OFF TO YOU
Senior Megan Hatter posted her first career double-double against Ball State on Nov. 23, and then tallied her second vs. Chicago State on Dec. 7 with 21 points and tying her career mark with 11 rebounds. Hatter was also a career-best 8-of-13 from the field.

Back on Nov. 30, she recorded a then career-high 17 points and tied her career best with five assists in a winning effort over Georgia Southern. In that contest, she was 5-of-8 from the field with three 3-pointers and was also a perfect 4-of-4 at the free throw line with seven boards.

Against Ball State on Nov. 23, she posted her first double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds, and was actually scoreless with just two caroms in the first half of that game before erupting in the second period.

With a career-high 26 points and seven rebounds against Madonna on Dec. 30, Hatter scored in double digits in six-straight games and seven of the last nine.

Hatter also now has 11 games this season - and 32 in her career - with five or more rebounds and is currently second on the squad and 13th in the HL in rebounding at 6.5 per night.

In her last seven games, Hatter is averaging 16.4 ppg., and a team-best 7.6 rpg., shooting 46.8% from the field (36-of-77), 37.5% (15-of-40) from three and 77.8% at the line (28-of-36).

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 has now posted at least five rebounds in seven of her last nine games and recorded a career performance with 10 points and nine rebounds against Madonna on Dec. 30, and came back with six points and eight rebounds in the HL opener at Wright State.

In the last nine games, she is averaging 5.7 points and 6.2 rebounds per game to go with six assists and six steals.

A REIGN OF OFFENSE
Freshman Reyna Montgomery was not intimidated in her first conference game as the rookie totaled seven points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals at Wright State.

She netted a season-high 11 points against Eastern Michigan on Dec. 15, going 5-of-5 from the field in just 10 minutes of action.

After starting the season just 7-of-38 (18.4%) from the field, Montgomery is 7-of-16 (43.7%) in her last four games.

20 X 8
Make it a school record for senior Senee Shearer as she posted her eighth-straight game with 20 points by tallying 26 against Madonna on Dec. 30. Her streak came to an end at Wright State her last time out.

She passed Detroit Hall-of-Famer and all-time leading scorer Cassandra Pack, who did it in seven straight during the 1983-84 campaign.

Below was her 20-point streak
26 vs. Madonna (8-26 FG, 7-20 3FG, 3-7 FT)
23 vs. IPFW (7-19 FG, 4-9 3FG, 5-8 FT)
28 vs. EMU (10-24 FG, 6-13 3FG, 2-3 FT)
20 vs. Chicago State (8-20 FG, 4-13 3FG, 0-1 FT)
24 at Toledo (9-19 FG, 3-10 3FG, 3-6 FT)
22 vs. Georgia Southern (7-20 FG, 3-8 3FG, 5-6 FT)
21 vs. Rhode Island (7-18 FG, 5-10 3FG, 2-3 FT)
28 vs. Ball State (9-20 FG, 6-14 3FG, 4-4 FT)

Earlier in the year, she tallied a career-high 29 points at Western Michigan. She now has 17 career games reaching the 20-point plateau and nine this season.

RISTOVSKI PROTECTING THE BALL
A lot of freshmen have trouble with turnovers, but Titan rookie Haleigh Ristovski is doing a good job of protecting the ball.

She currently has a 21-6 assist-to-turnover ratio with a season-best four assists in the close setback against Ball State on Nov. 23.

Ristovski has also done a good job hitting the glass at 3.8 rebounds per game, with a season-high 10 caroms at Wright State.

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.

The Titans have also seen Tayelor McCalister and Minisha Frederick-Childress miss five games with an injury. Megan Galloway missed the Eastern Michigan game with an ankle ailment and Ellisha Crosby has missed the last two contests and is day-to-day with a leg injury.

GETTING SHOTS UP
UDM has attempted 909 shots on the year - 64.9 per game - with at least 62 shots in 10 of the 14 games on the season and a season high of 85 against Eastern Michigan.

The 85 shots put up against EMU were the most since UDM took 86 at Cleveland State on Feb. 9, 2002.

Detroit has also netted 30 or more field goals four times this season with a season-high 37 also against the Eagles and the most since going 37-of-63 vs. Madonna on Dec. 22, 2012.

Detroit is second in the Horizon League to Wright State in both shots attempted (1114-909) and made field goals (439-353).

MCCOLLUM ADDING ANOTHER SPORT TO HER RESUME
The UDM women's basketball team did some "in-season" recruiting as the Titans announced that senior Abby McCollum of the women's soccer team has joined the squad as a walk-on as of Dec. 13.

She appeared in her first collegiate game at Wright State on Jan. 4, 2014, recording a point and a rebound in seven minutes.

With the assignment, she became first Detroit female student-athlete in 10 years to play on three varsity teams with the last being Laura Gignac (1999-03), who played three years of softball, two for track and field (2001, 2003) and one with cross country (2001).

McCollum is a four-year letter winner in soccer (2009-13), who also played on the women's lacrosse team as a sophomore in 2011, appearing in five games with one start.

In soccer, McCollum was a two-time All-HL performer earning first team as a sophomore and second team as a junior, while also being tabbed to the All-Newcomer Team as a freshman. As a senior this past fall, she was limited to just 11 games due to a knee injury.

She finished her career playing 68 games making 64 starts, scoring 17 goals with 14 assists for 48 points. Her 14 helpers are tied for eighth in school history.