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Game Notes vs. UIC
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DETROIT (1/13/2015) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team will look to end a recent slide when the Titans host UIC on Thursday. Game time is set for 7:00 p.m., inside historic Calihan Hall.
 
Denny Kapp will call all the action on ESPN3.com.
 
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The Titans are looking for their first Horizon League win as they enter the game at 5-10 overall and 0-2 in conference action. UDM went on the road last Saturday and had a lead at the half against the defending league champion Wright State Raiders, but WSU was able to stage a comeback in the second half.
 
Senior Ellisha Crosby tied her season high with 24 points in her return to the floor, while redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds netted 17. Reynolds leads the team and is fifth in the HL in scoring at 15.6 points per game, while Crosby is tallying 12.6 ppg., second on the squad.
 
UIC started the year at 8-1 and is 11-4 on the season and 1-1 in the Horizon League after cruising past Valparaiso, 86-56, last Saturday. UIC is the best defensive team in the league allowing just 52.9 points, but the Flames are eighth in the conference in offense at 52.9 ppg.

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DETROIT VS. UIC
This is the 26th career meeting between Detroit and UIC and the Titans lead the all-time series, 23-22. UIC has won three in a row and six of the last eight to be in position to even up the all-time match-up.
 
UDM lost the game at home last season, but has won two of the last three in Calihan Hall and is 13-11 against the Flames in the Motor City.
 
ABOUT THE FLAMES
UIC has won three of the last four and enters the game at 11-4 overall and 1-1 in the Horizon League. The Flames lost a tough 69-66 contest against Youngstown State before defeating Valparaiso, 86-56.
 
Ruvanna Campbell leads the team in scoring at 17.7 points per game - third in the HL - as well as leading the league in rebounding at 13.3 per contest. She is also shooting 47.6 percent from the field.
 
Terri Bender is second on the team in scoring at 14.5 ppg., to go with 4.6 assists - third in the HL - and 3.3 rpg.
 
UIC is eighth in the Horizon League in scoring at 66.2 points, but first giving up only 52.9.
 
HORIZON LEAGUE HISTORY
The Titans are 215-215 all-time in the Horizon League with the 215 victories the third most in league history trailing only Green Bay's 284 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 '97 led Detroit to a 14-2 mark. The Titans also finished that year winning the conference tournament and advancing to their only NCAA Tournament.
 
Detroit is in its 35th season as a member of the Horizon League this year and now stands as the eldest member in the conference by 14 years over Cleveland State, Green Bay, Milwaukee, UIC, and Wright State, who all joined in 1994 with the Titans entering in 1980.
 
MAKE IT 12 FOR ROSIE
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds posted her 12th double-digit scoring effort on the year with 17 points at Wright State.
 
She already has three 20+ point games on the year capitalized by her career-high 33 points at IPFW on Dec. 2, where she was a career-best 11-of-18 from the field with seven 3-pointers. She became just the 18th Titan in school history to score 30 or more in a game, with the 33 points the most since teammate Ellisha Crosby had 33 against EMU last season.
 
Reynolds had a game-high 26 points at Toledo on Dec. 14 going 8-of-15 from the field with seven more treys and also netted a game-high with 22 points on 7-of-11 shooting versus Delaware State on Dec. 18.
 
On the year, she is currently leading the team and fifth in the HL with 15.6 ppg.
 
ALL-AROUND GAME
Sophomore Haleigh Ristovski continues to show her full basketball skills this season on both the offensive and defensive end of the floor.
 
She might not be the typical frontcourt player, but she has grabbed at least eight rebounds in 10 of UDM's 15 games, including five of the last 10 with 10 or more.
 
She also has a team-high four double-doubles on the season and recently tied her career high with 20 points and 12-rebounds at Eastern Michigan on Dec. 30.

Ristovski had 13 points and 10 rebounds at Toledo, 13 points and 11 rebounds at IPFW and 20 points and 12 caroms versus Madonna.
 
Her game against Madonna also saw her post nearly a triple-double as she handed out a career-high six assists.
 
She has also recorded at least five assists five times this year and is leading the team and ninth in the Horizon League at 3.3 per game.
 
Ristovski has also scored in double figures six times this season and is fourth on the team - and 22nd in the HL - in scoring at 9.5 ppg., as well as leading the team and ranking fifth in the conference in rebounding at 7.9 per contest.
 
MORE THAN JUST SCORE
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds has done more than just score on the season.
 
She has recorded five assists or more in four games and is second on the team and 11th in the Horizon League at 2.9 per game.
 
She also has a pair of double-doubles with 33 points and 11 rebounds at IPFW and 19 points and 10 boards at Eastern Michigan.
 
GETTING TO 70
The Titans are 54-20 when they score 70 or more points as well as 20-5 when they score 80 or more under head coach Autumn Rademacher. UDM has also eclipsed 90 seven times under Coach Rad, with a season-high 96 against Eastern Michigan last year.
 
A TRIPLE THREAT
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds has become one of the deadliest long-range shooters in the Horizon League.
 
She is currently first in the HL - and 42nd in the country - in three-point field goals per game (2.71) as well as fourth in the league in three-point field goal percentage (41.7%), which is 38th in the nation.
 
Reynolds has twice nailed seven 3-pointers in a game - one away from the school record of eight that Daphne Smith (8-of-11) had versus Butler on Jan. 10, 1987.

She had seven treys (7-of-10) in a 33-point outburst at IPFW on Dec. 2 and also had seven (7-of-12) in a 26-point effort at Toledo.
 
Reynolds has at least one 3-pointer in 14 of the Titans' 15 games on the year - only at Cincinnati did she not have one - and has an HL-best 40 triples on the year, a new career high passing the 25 she had as a freshman in 34 games in 2012-13.
 
In fact, 40 of her 83 total field goals (48.6%) on the year are from three.
 
BOMBS AWAYS IN RECORD FASHION
The Titans connected on 15, 3-pointers at Toledo on Dec. 14, breaking the school mark of 13 at Butler on Jan. 30, 1999.
 
UDM finished the game 15-for-32 from behind the arc, including 12-of-21 in the first half alone.
 
The game marked the fourth time this season that Detroit has made 10 or more threes in a contest (15 at Toledo, 11 at IPFW, 10 vs. Madonna), while the 33 three-point attempts tied a school record with the 33 UDM had against Ball State last season.
 
LITTLE D BRINGS BIG O
Freshman Darianne Seward might have been making her first collegiate start in her first career game at Michigan, but you would never know by the way the rookie played.
 
The 5-4 guard from Ohio ended the day with a game-high 19 points - 17 in the first half - along with three rebounds and three assists.
 
The 19 points in a collegiate debut was the most by a Titan true freshman since the 2011-12 season and the most by a Titan true freshman guard since Titan Hall-Of-Famer and the school's all-time leading scorer Cassandra Pack netted 23 at home against Bowling Green to open the 1983-84 campaign.
 
Seward has continued to be a force on offense recording her 11th game in double figures with 10 points at Milwaukee. She recently also tied her season high with 19 against Western Michigan on Dec. 20.
 
The two-time Horizon League Freshman of the Week is currently second on the team in scoring and tied for 14th in the Horizon League at 11.8 ppg., the second highest freshman average in the HL behind Valparaiso's Dani Franklin's 12.5.

She is also ninth in the league in free throw percentage (71.4%) connecting on 50-of-70, the fifth most free throws and attempts among conference peers.
 
STRONG DEFENSE
The Titans have played some tough defense to start the 2014-15 season, holding teams to just 66.9 points per game, down from last season's 80.5 ppg.
 
UDM has held four opponents to 60 or less on the season and twice to under 50.
Detroit had one of its best defensive games in school history in defeating Marygrove, 88-46, in the home opener on Nov. 16.
 
The 46 points allowed were the fewest since Detroit downed Youngstown State at home, 62-48, during the 2012-13 campaign.
 
The 25.0% (16-of-64) shooting by Marygrove was the lowest UDM has held a team since Milwaukee's 22.8% on Mar. 2, 2013.
 
Detroit held IPFW to just 29.7% shooting, including 28.5% (12-of-42) in the second half and overtime and 16.7% (2-of-12) in the extra session alone, while limiting Madonna to 29.4% (15-of-51). The 15 made field goals by Madonna were the fewest by an opponent since Youngstown State had just 15 in that 62-48 win.
 
Against Toledo, the Titans held an offensive Rockets team to 32.5% (26-of-80) overall and 27.5% (11-of-40) from three, while Delaware State shot just 37.7% (21-of-56) and 1-of-15 from distance. 
 
HALEIGH HITS 6
Sophomore Haleigh Ristovski came into the Eastern Michigan game just 15-of-57 (26.3%) from three-point range, but she showed off her shooting touch by knocking down a career-best six triples in nine attempts.
 
In fact, Ristovski has 11 treys in the last three games alone (11-of-24).
 
KEEPING THE BALL
The Titans are averaging just 13.5 turnovers per game, second in the Horizon League to Wright State's 13.4
 
Detroit has turned it over 10 or fewer times in four games this year, including a season-low nine against St. Bonaventure, at Niagara and its last time out against Milwaukee.
 
CANADIAN IMPACT
Senior Brie Wilcox received her most extensive court time of the season playing 32 minutes off the bench at Eastern Michigan on Dec. 30 and came right back with 26 minutes against Milwaukee.
 
The London, Ontario, native has made the most of her time netting a career-high 12 points with two rebounds and two blocks versus the Panthers.
 
Against EMU, she tied her career high with four blocks and totaled five points, five rebounds, and two assists.
 
RECORD-SETTING WIN NO. 94 FOR COACH RAD
Head coach Autumn Rademacher '97 accomplished something that many coaches don't even get a chance to attempt as she became the all-time wins leader at her alma mater with victory No. 94 on Dec. 18 against Delaware State.
 
UDM used an early run in dominating DSU, 74-52, for the record-breaking win, surpassing her coach in college Fred Procter (1990-96).
 
Coach Rademacher did it inside Calihan Hall where as a player she scored over 1,600 points and helped lead the Titans to their only NCAA bid as a senior in 1997.
Her first coaching win was also on the very same floor as she guided UDM to a 70-66 upset victory over No. 23 Georgia on Nov. 22, 2008.
 
It is not like Coach Rademacher took over a top of the line program as Detroit was coming off back-to-back last-place finishes and just 11 total wins from 2006-08.
 
In her first six years, Detroit has recorded three winning seasons, a pair of 20-win campaigns, five years with a conference tournament victory, a trip to the WNIT in 2012 - the first postseason action for UDM since 1997 - and the school's first postseason title since 1981 when the Titans won the WBI in 2013. 
 
ELLICIOUS
Senior Ellisha Crosby missed four-straight games with an injury, but she returned in a big way with a team-high 24 points at Wright State.
 
The 24 points matched a season high and it was the fifth time in her career - just 23 games at the Division I level - that she has reached the 20-point plateau.
 
Before the injury against Delaware State - she was beginning to find her offensive rhythm with fourth-straight games in double figures. 
 
She tallied 12 points in just 16 minutes versus Delaware State, handing out a career-high six assists in that contest.
 
Against Toledo, she posted 24 points and was tabbed the Glass City Classic Tournament MVP after tallying 18.5 points, 9.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and shooting 46.7 percent from the field in the two games against Southeast Missouri and the host Rockets.
 
Crosby started the weekend event with her first double-double of the year and the sixth of her career with 13 points and a season-high 10 rebounds against the Redhawks.
 
She now has 19 double-digit scoring games in her 23 career Division I contests, and in her Titan career, Crosby is tallying 15.2 ppg., including 12.6 ppg., this year.
 
GOOD DECISIONS
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds and sophomore Haleigh Ristovski are both among the most trustworthy ball handlers in the HL.
 
Ristovski is third in the Horizon League - and 68th in the nation - with a 1.98 assist-to-turnover ratio (49 A, 25 TO). As a freshman, Ristovski recorded a 2.7 mark (47 A, 17 TO) last season.
 
Meanwhile, Reynolds is just a few assists shy of the minimum number needed to rank second in the Horizon League with a 2.16 assist-to-turnover ratio totaling 44 assists and just 21 turnovers.
 
NO "MINNIE ME" HERE
Sophomore Minisha Frederick-Childress might stand just 5-4, but she can crash the boards witnessed by her three game this season with seven rebounds; including back-to-back against Southeast Missouri and at Toledo at the Glass City Classic. She also had seven caroms at IPFW.
 
In the close setback to SEMO, she also had a season-best five assists, the most since her career high of seven at Oakland last year.
 
The seven boards are two away from her career high of nine.
 
Frederick-Childress also recorded her second double figure scoring outing of the season with 10 points, five rebounds and three assists at Eastern Michigan on Dec. 30.