VALPARAISO, Ind. (3/6/2015) – The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball season came to an end following a 70-53 loss to No. 4 seed Cleveland State in the quarterfinal of the Horizon League Championship.
 
The Vikings (18-13) took a 31-21 lead into halftime, before Detroit (15-18) scored the first three points of the second stanza to trim the lead to 31-24 with 18:32 left. But that was as close as the score would get as CSU used a 24-6 run over the next seven minutes to build its largest lead of the game 55-30 with 11:22 remaining.
 
The Titans would trim the lead back to 15, 61-46 with 5:44 left, before the Vikings closed the game with 9-4 run, until Juwan Howard Jr., made his only basket of the game and last as a Titan as time expired to make the final 70-53.
 
Sophomore Chris Jenkins led Detroit with 14 points, while his classmate Jarod Williams added 12 and Horizon League Freshman of the Year Paris Bass pitched in 10.
 
Charlie Lee scored a game-high 17 to lead CSU, while Trey Lewis added 16.
 
Cleveland State finished shooting 51 percent overall (25-of-49), including 60 percent (9-of-15) from downtown, while Detroit was held to just 40 percent overall (21-of-52) and 21 percent (5-of-23) from deep. The Titans also turned the ball over 17 times – 14 in the first half – while only dishing out seven assists.
 
Howard finished his Titan career with 1,404 points, which ranks 18th all-time at Detroit.
 
Detroit is set to have its 2015 Awards Banquet on Thursday, March 12 at the President's Ballroom on the campus of UDM and all are welcome to attend with registration beginning at 5:00 p.m.
 
Dan Leach, "The Voice of the Titans," will serve as the host for the evening. Registration begins at 5:00 p.m. with cocktails to be served at 5:30 p.m. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. The cost to attend is $35 and includes dinner and cocktails. Don't miss an opportunity to hear men's basketball head coach Ray McCallum talk about the past year and hand out player awards.
 
Kindly RSVP by emailing Clay Shaw, Director of Marketing, at clay.shaw@udmercy.edu.