DETROIT (11/11/2018) -- The third leg of the season-opening four-game road trip will have the Titans in some familiar territory as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball teams visits old conference rival Butler on Monday.

Game time is set for 6:30 p.m. and will be televised live on FOX Sports 1. Fans can also watch online at FOX Sports Go or listen live on 910 AM Superstation with the Voice of the Titans Dan Hasty.

FOX Sports 1 is available on most cable packages. 

There will be a special Titan Fan Tailgate  at Binkley's Kitchen & Bar in downtown Indianapolis from 4-6:00 p.m and is being hosted by Bill Wales, a 1972 alum who earned both his Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University. The event will include appetizers and light drinks along with a cash bar.  The event is free, but you will have to purchase tickets to the game. For more information, contact Director of Development Jason Varlesi at varlesjm@udmercy.edu or at 313-993-1700 ext. 7327.

Detroit Mercy and Butler were once members of the MCC and Horizon League as the Bulldogs were a charter member of the conference in 1979 and the Titans joined the following year in 1980, making them the eldest member of the present league.

The Titans are coming off an 83-67 setback at Temple on Friday in the Gotprint.Com Legends Classic Presented By Old Trapper, while the Bulldogs just defeated Miami Ohio, 90-68, in their season opener.

Through two games, freshman Antoine Davis is leading the team in scoring at 31.0 points per game, topping 30 in both contests, while senior Josh McFolley is averaging 15.5 ppg., 4.5 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game.

Following the game, the Titans will be back on the road as they play at California on Thursday. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• Detroit Mercy were longtime rivals in the Midwestern City Conference, which turned to the Midwestern Collegiate Conference and eventually the Horizon League.
• The Titans trail the all-time series, 43-29, as Butler has won 12 of the last 15 meetings. The last time these teams played each other, Detroit Mercy swept both games in the regular season series in 2011-12 in a year that the Titans would win the Horizon League and reach the last time they made the NCAA Tournament. 
• The Titans are also 9-24 all-time at Hinkle Fieldhouse and have dropped 12 of the last 13 games in the historic building. 

PAST VS. THE PRESENT

• The Horizon League was founded on June 16, 1979, with six charter members and a focus on basketball excellence in Butler, Evansville, Loyola Chicago, Oklahoma City, Oral Roberts and Xavier.
• This is the 40th year of the Horizon League and the 39th with Detroit Mercy as a member of the conference as the Titans are the eldest program in the league. 

VS. THE BIG EAST

• Detroit Mercy has played all 10 current members of the BIG EAST and has posted a 122-178 career mark against those programs.
• Some of the more prominent meetings are against Butler (29-43), Marquette (27-61) and Xavier (43-51). 

ALL-AROUND TITANS

• Detroit Mercy's roster has 17 total players - 13 new - and the roster features players from 10 states and two countries in Georgia and Newfoundland.
• The team has players covering four time zones from the eastern standard time in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, and of course Michigan, central time in Alabama, Kansas, Texas and Wisconsin, mountain time in New Mexico and the pacific time zone of California. 

WHO IS THAT?

• Detroit Mercy will bolster one of the highest groups of newcomers in the nation at 13 (14 if you count walk-on Musial Gjysma who redshirted last season). 
• Among Division I teams with the highest number of newcomers are Tennessee Chattanooga and Duquesne at 13, while Florida Atlantic and Wichita State welcome 12. 

TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SLATE

• The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will have a challenging non-conference schedule with nine road games, including trips to California, Temple, Butler and Xavier as well as hosting the GotPrint.com Legends Classic subregional. 
• In total, the Titans will have four home games out of their 13 non-conference match-ups. The known opponents posted a 205-190 record (51.8%) last season, and four teams made the postseason with NCAA appearances by Butler and Xavier, a NIT team in Temple and one CIT opponent in Eastern Michigan. 

FAMILY FUN

• Nothing new for the Titans to have a family connection in the program and this season, Detroit Mercy will feature three Davis' in head coach Mike Davis, assistant coach Mike Davis Jr. and freshman guard Antoine Davis.
• From 2010-13, the Titans had head coach Ray McCallum and star guard Ray McCallum Jr., winning the Horizon League Championship in 2012 and earning a trip to the NIT in 2013.

COMING BACK

• Just four players return from last year's team and only three of those saw the court totaling 1,496 minutes in senior Josh McFolley (804), senior Gerald Blackshear Jr. (191) and junior Cole Long (501). 
• The 1,496 minutes represents just 23.2 percent of the total minutes returning. 
• The three players also posted 521 combined points (McFolley-354, Long-115, Blackshear Jr.-52), which is just 20.7 percent of the returning offense from last year.

MAKE SURE TO SEE US IN DETROIT

• The Titans' 13 scheduled home games in the regular season are the fewest since they had 12 in 2008-09 under then first-year head coach Ray McCallum. 
• The four non-conference home games are also the fewest since that season when the red, white and blue had just three.

LET IT FLY

• Detroit Mercy nailed 10 or more 3-pointers in 15 games last season and was second in the HL with 8.8 triples per game, 88th in the nation, as well as fifth in the HL in three-point field goal percentage (34.5%). 
• The Titans started the 2018-19 season hitting 11-of-33 from long range at Western Michigan and sank another nine at Temple. 

WHAT A DEBUT

• Freshman Antoine Davis had a collegiate debut to remember as he netted a team-high 32 points at Western Michigan. 
• He scored the team's first points and ended the contest 12-of-26 from the field and 6-of-14 from behind the arc.
• The 32 points was the most by a freshman since Jermaine Jackson Jr. had 32 against Youngstown State last season and just a point away from the Titan freshman record of 33 Corey Allen had against Fort Wayne in 2016.
• The 32-point outing is also the most ever by a Titan true freshman in his debut game and the second most ever by a Titan in their collegiate debut behind only junior college transfer Spencer Haywood's 36 he tallied against Aquinas in 1968, a game that was called with 6 1/2 minutes left after he broke the backboard with a dunk and the Titans up 105-40. 

THE ENCORE

• After going for 32 at Western Michigan, freshman Antoine became the first freshman in school history to post back-to-back 30-point games as he scored a team-high 30 at Temple.     
• Davis was 11-of-21 from the field and 6-of-13 from behind the arc.
• He reached 30 points for the second-straight game, the first Titan to record back-to-back 30's since Jon Goode did it during the 2007-08 season with 30 at Loyola and 35 at UIC. 
• His two 30-point games are the most since Corey Allen did it last year, while the last Titan to have three 30-point contests in a season was Willie Green, who had five straight during the 2002-03 campaign.

BRANDON SHOWING OFF

• Freshman Chris Brandon had five points and four rebounds in the season opener, but he earned his first collegiate start at Temple and had a stellar game
• Brandon finished 7-of-9 from the floor with a team-high nine rebounds and had some nice buckets off his four offensive caroms and came away with two blocks.
• The nine rebounds are the most by a true freshman since teammate Gerald Blackshear Jr. had 10 at Cleveland State in 2016
• On the season, he is 8-of-11 (72.7%) shooting and is averaging 6.5 boards a contest.

G CRASHING THE GLASS

• Senior Gerald Blackshear Jr. had some early foul trouble against Western Michigan, but he showed just how important he is registering eight points and a team-high 10 rebounds in just 23 minutes of court time.
• The 10 rebounds are the most since he pulled down a career-best 11 boards at Cleveland State as a sophomore. 

MCFOLLEY FOR 3

• Senior Josh McFolley connected on a 3-pointer in 25 of the Titans' 32 games last year, including a season-high six in the regular season finale against Green Bay, and started the season hitting a pair at Western Michigan and three more at Temple.  
• He now has 172 career 3-pointers, eighth in school history and chasing down the fifth spot held by Jon Goode's  202. 

PICKING YOUR POCKET

• Senior Josh McFolley has been a thief for all of his Titan career and came away with four at Temple.
• He has 152 career steals, moving him into a tie for seventh place with Roy Simms (1980-83), just two behind John Long (1975-78) and Terry Tyler (1975-78) for fifth
• He led the team and was tied for second in the Horizon League with 1.5 steals per game last year as his 49 steals was the second most in the league. 
• Had also had six games with at least three steals last season, including a career-best six steals against UIC, where he also scored 30 points. 
• In his career, he has recorded a steal in 71 of his 95 career games, including 33 multi-steal contests and 17 with at least three takeaways.

1,000 & COUNTING

• Senior Josh McFolley became the 42nd Titan in school history to reach 1,000 last year and he did so in dramatic fashion scoring Detroit Mercy's first 12 points and ending with a career-high 34 against Green Bay in the regular season finale. 
• With his 17 points at Temple, he passed Larry Salci (1965-68) and Ray Albee (1957-60) on the all-time points list and sits in 36th place in school history with 1,069, six shy of Carl Pickett and 13 behind former teammate Jaleel Hogan for 34th.

HAMRICK TIME

• Junior Lamar Hamrick made his Division I debut in the season opener at Western Michigan and had 13 points - 10 in the second half - to go with a team-high four steals. 

A LONG DAY

• Junior Cole Long learned to play in the paint a bit more last season and he grabbed at least five rebounds in five of the last nine games. 
• He posted a career-high 16 points connecting on 6-of-8 from the field with a pair of 3-pointers along with registering eight rebounds at Cleveland State. 
• He netted 12 points with a career-high seven assists along with five rebounds against IUPUI and then pulled down a career-best nine rebounds and tied his career mark with three blocks against UIC. 
• Long saw action in 30 games last year with 15 starts and averaged 3.8 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists and a team-best 21 blocks as he tied for 14th in the HL with 0.7 blocks per game

FOLLOWING HIS DAD

• The Davis family has always been close and when it came time to play college basketball, they both chose to play for their dad.
• Assistant coach Mike Davis Jr. played for his dad at both Indiana and UAB and Titan freshman guard Antoine Davis chose to come to Detroit Mercy.
• Antoine originally committed to Kelvin Sampson at Houston as a senior in high school, but changed that to Texas Southern in the spring and then followed his dad to the Titans.
• He was a 3-star recruit by ESPN and Rivals and was also ranked 28th in the region and 20th in the state of Texas and the 15th best recruit in the Houston area for the Class of 2018 by the Houston Chronicle
• As a senior with the Homeschool Christian Youth Association in Houston, he led his team with 23.0 points per game
• He played AAU on the Nike EYBL Summer Circuit with Houston Hoops in 2017 and averaged 13.3 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game.

HOLLAND, KING LOOKING TO BRING SENIOR LEADERSHIP

• The Titans have two graduate seniors on the roster in Jacob Holland and Derrien King.
• Holland spent last year at New Mexico Highlands University, where he started all 25 games he appeared in and led New Mexico University in scoring at 14.7 points per game to go with 2.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists
• His college career has also seen him play at Fresno State.
• Holland's dad played football at New Mexico University and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008 and he is also engaged to a former Fresno State softball player.
• King was at Angelo State last season, but did not play after transferring from Washington St.
• At WSU, he played all of his sophomore year and nine games as a junior before transferring and poured in a career-best 22 points going 6-of-12 from the field with three triples and a 7-of-9 effort at the free throw line against Montana State.