DETROIT (11/14/2018) -- With its fourth game in 10 days, the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will end its season-starting road swing by flying out west to take on California in the second game of the Gotprint.Com Legends Classic, presented by Old Trapper, on Thursday.

Game time is set for 10 p.m. (EST) and will be televised live on the Pac-12 Network – available online through various cable packages – as well as on fuboTV and Sling TV subscriptions. 

Detroit Mercy is looking for its first win against a Pac 12 school since beating UCLA in the 1999 NCAA Tournament.

Freshman Antoine Davis has posted three-straight 20+ point performances to start his collegiate career and ranks in the top 15 in the nation in scoring (27.3) and made 3-pointers (15). Senior Josh McFolley is averaging 16.0 points and 3.7 assists, while senior Gerald Blackshear Jr. and freshman Chris Brandon are tied for the team lead with 5.7 rebounds per game. 

Cal is 1-1 on the year with a loss to Yale to start the season – in a game played in China – and a home victory over Hampton.

Following the game, the Titans will return home to host the Gotprint.Com Legends Classic Subregional, presented by Old Trapper, and will battle Loyola Maryland on Monday, Nov. 19, and then either Bowling Green or Hampton on Tuesday, Nov. 12. Tickets are set for as low as just $10 per day to see both games. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This will be the third career meeting between Detroit Mercy and California and the first since the 2009-10 season opener, where the Bears rolled past the Titans, 95-61, in 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. 
• The teams also met back in 1938 with Cal pulling out a 32-28 victory in the Motor City. 

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 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 in 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

• 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 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. 

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.

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.

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. 

JUST THE NORM NOW

• Freshman Antoine Davis led the team for the third-straight game with 20 points at Butler - 18 in the second half.
• He is the first Titan to have three-straight games with 20 or more since Corey Allen tallied four in a row as a freshman during the 2016-17 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 averaging 5.7 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. 
• After being shut out on the boards at Temple, he came back with six points, a team-high seven rebounds and two steals at Butler. 

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 he has started the season hitting a pair at Western Michigan, three at Temple and two at Butler. 
• He now has 174 career 3-pointers, eighth in school history.

PICKING YOUR POCKET

• Senior Josh McFolley has been a thief for all of his Titan career and came away with four steals at Temple and three at Butler and at WMU.
• He now has 10 steals on the year and 155 in his career to move into fifth place in school history, just 20 behind Ray McCallum. 
• 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 72 of his 96 career games, including 34 multi-steal contests and 18 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 Butler, he moved into 34th place in school history with 1, 086 points, just 27 outside the top 30. 

KING ME

• Graduate senior Derrien King came into his own at Butler scoring 10 points on 4-of-8 shooting and grabbing three rebounds in a season-high 30 minutes.

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. 

GETTING THE BOARDS

• After getting outrebounded by 18 at Western Michigan and 11 at Temple, the Titans fought hard on the glass at Butler finishing the contest with an even 30-30 mark in rebounds. 

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.