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DETROIT (11/22/14) -- Senior Juwan Howard Jr. scored a game-high 22 points as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team improved to 2-0 at home with a 66-53 victory over South Alabama on Saturday at historic Calihan Hall.

Howard reached the 20-point plateau for the second straight game, going 14-of-14 from the free throw line. As a team, Detroit was 20-of-23 from the charity stripe, while South Alabama made 12-of-23.
 
Anton Wilson added 11 points, Matthew Grant scored nine points and added five assists, while Paris Bass had eight points, four rebounds and three blocked shots off the bench for the Titans.
 
The Titans (2-2) were playing their third game in five days and it showed in the opening minutes as South Alabama (1-2) held a 3-2 lead during the first media timeout. The Titans then started to find the basket as an 8-1 run capped off by a long jumper from Jarod Williams gave Detroit a 10-4 lead with 1:45 left. The Jags would trim the lead to 10-7 with 10:23 remaining, but that was as close as the score would get as Detroit put the game away with a 21-13 run to take a 31-20 lead into the locker room. Howard led Detroit with eight points in the first half, while Grant had seven.
 
The Titans run then continued in the second half as Detroit stretched its lead to 19 after back-to-back three-pointers from Wilson and Bass gave to build a 50-31 lead with 12:59 left. A late run from South Alabama would trim the lead to 58-51 with 2:03 left, before the Titans closed the game with an 8-2 run to secure the win.
 
Detroit shot 34.4 percent (21-of-61) from the floor, compared to a 32.7 percent shooting clip for South Alabama. The Titans forced the Jaguars into 22 turnovers with 11 steals and seven blocked shots.
 
Detroit will travel south to compete in the sub-regional rounds of the Progressive Legends Classic hosted by the University of Toledo. Detroit's first game will be on Monday, Nov. 24 at 4:30 p.m. against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). The winner of that game will then face the winner of the Bucknell/Toledo matchup in the championship game on Tuesday, Nov. 25. There will also be a consolation game held on Tuesday prior to the championship game.