DETROIT (11/23/2018) -- Fresh of its Legends Classic Subregional championship, the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday and will make the short trip to Ypsilanti to meet the Eastern Michigan Eagles on Saturday, Nov. 24. 

Game time is set for 2 p.m. at the EMU Convocation Center and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ or fans can listen over the airwaves on 910 AM Superstation with Dan Hasty on the call.

The Titans have won two in a row and both by double digits as they crushed Loyola Maryland (91-63) before dispatching Bowling Green (82-67) at home to move to 2-3 on the season and capture the Gotprint.Com Legends Classic, presented by Old Trapper, title. 

Freshman Antoine Davis – the second leading scorer in the country at 31.2 points per game – was named the subregional MVP after averaging 37.0 points, 5.5 assists and 4.5 rebounds, while shooting 59.5 percent from the field and 69.2 percent from three. Graduate senior Derrien King was selected to the All-Tournament Team after tallying 15.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists, nailing eight triples in the two wins. 

Eastern Michigan is one of the longest and oldest rivals in school history with this being the 77th career meeting between the two schools, located just about 35 miles away from each other. 

The 77th meeting marks the fourth-most against any opponent in Titan history and Detroit Mercy has dominated the series winning nine of the last 11 for a 58-18 overall advantage, including 26-14 on the road. The 58 wins against Eastern Michigan is the most in Titan history over any opponent, while the 77th meeting is the fourth most against any foe trailing only Loyola Chicago (121), Xavier (94) and Marquette (88).

Following the contest, Detroit Mercy will return home to battle Kent State on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 7 p.m. in Calihan Hall.

A TITAN IN THE GREEN & WHITE

• Kevin Mondro is in his eighth year as a member of the Eastern Michigan men's basketball program and his first as the as the Associate Head Coach in 2018-19. 
• Mondro is a 1997 graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy, where he earned three basketball letters while playing for the Titans.
• After graduation, Mondro joined the Titan basketball staff as a director of basketball operations for four years before being promoted to assistant coach in 1998-99. He was on the staff for 11 years, the final five as the associate head coach.  He was also the interim head coach for the second half of the 2007-08 season when Head Coach Perry Watson took a leave of absence.

COACH HAS SEEN EMU BEFORE

• Head coach Mike Davis is 1-0 against Eastern Michigan with that win coming on Dec. 3, 2005, when he was leading Indiana, a 79-63 win at IU. 

IN-SEASON TOURNAMENTS

• Detroit Mercy is coming off a title in the Legends Classic Subregional with victories over Loyola Maryland and Bowling Green.
• The Titans are now 16-19 in in-season tournaments in the last eight years, with three subregional titles (2009 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer Albany Subregional, 2010 Progressive Legends Classic Detroit Subregional)

AGAINST THE GREAT LAKES STATE

• The Titans are 286-162 (.645) all-time against other schools from the state of Michigan. 

VS. THE MAC

• Detroit Mercy is 179-113 all-time against current members of the Mid-American Conference and just snapped a seven-game slide to the league with a win over Bowling Green its last time out. 
• The game is the third on the year against the conference on a schedule that will see the Titans face seven teams from the MAC during the non-conference slate. 

LET IT FLY

• Detroit Mercy has started the season on fire from the outside as it ranks 10th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (45.0%) and 13th with 11.6 triples per game.
• The Titans have nailed 32, 3-pointers in the last two games, tying a school record with 17 against Loyola Maryland and then connecting on 15 versus Bowling Green.
• They started the 2018-19 season hitting 11-of-33 from long range at Western Michigan. 

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 on the glass.
• In the win over Loyola Maryland, Detroit Mercy won the battle of the glass, 40-33, before Bowling Green got the best of the Titans with a 47-35 margin.

BIG WIN

• Detroit Mercy's 91-63 victory over Loyola Maryland was not only the first Titan win for head coach Mike Davis, but the 28-point margin was the most by the Titans over a Division I school since they downed Florida Atlantic, 77-44, at home in the 2K Sports Classic benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project.

BACK-TO-BACK DOUBLE DIGIT VICTORIES

• Detroit Mercy has won back-to-back games by double digits for the first time since 2015 when it beat Milwaukee, 83-67, and Oakland, 74-54. 
• The last time the Titans won three-straight games was last season with triumphs over Houston Baptist (116-109), at Saint Louis (72-70) and against Siena Heights (131-69), while the last time they won three in a row by double digits was in 2009 when they won the 2K Classic Albany Subregional with wins over Robert Morris (71-59), Albany (66-54) and Alcorn State (79-59). 

PLAYING SOME D

• The Titan defense was a big reason it won the Legends Classic Subregional as they held Loyola Maryland to 36.5 percent shooting from the field and 5-of-25 from behind the arc with 14 turnovers before limiting Bowling Green to 36.5 percent shooting and 5-of-23 from the outside with 11 miscues. 
• Prior to those games, the first three opponents shot at last 46.8 percent. 

BLOCK PARTY

• The Titans swatted away eight shots against Bowling Green their last time out, the most since they had 10 against NKU in 2016. 
• Six Detroit Mercy players had a rejection, led by freshman Chris Brandon's three in just nine minutes of action. 

OH LORDY HE WENT FOR 40

• Antoine Davis set the Titan freshman with 42 points in the win over Loyola Maryland.
• The 42 points are the most by a Titan since Willie green had 43 at UIC in 2003 and the sixth most in school history.
• Davis was 14-of-21 from the field and 10-of-14 from the outside to go with five assists, three rebounds and two steals. The 10 treys tied him with Desmond Ferguson, who had 10 against Milwaukee in 2000.
• The freshman record was 33 points by Corey Allen against Fort Wayne in 2016. 

DAVIS AMONG NATION'S LEADERS

• Freshman Antoine Davis comes into the contest ranked in the top five in a few national categories.
• Davis is now second in the nation in scoring at 31.2 points per game, trailing only Campbell senior guard Chris Clemons' 31.6.
• His 33 three-pointers lead the nation, while his 55 total field goals is tied for the nation lead with South Dakota State's Mike Daum.
• His 156 total points is second behind Clemons' 158 and his 6.60, 3-pointers per game is second in the country to Northern Colorado's Trent Harris' 7.50.
• Davis is also 47th in three-point field goal percentage (53.2%) and 15th in minutes per game (36:59). 

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-point outing was the most ever by a Titan true freshman in his debut game - and one off the Titan freshman record of 33 points that he would eventually break - 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 fifth-straight game with 32 points against Bowling Green, going 11-of-21 from the field and 8-of-12 from three along with a season-high six rebounds and six assists. 
• That was of course after his monster game with 42 points - 26 in the second half - against Loyola Maryland.
• He now has five 20-point games, four 30+ performances and the 42-point barrage in his first five collegiate games. 
• He is the first Titan to have five-straight games with 20 or more since Paris Bass did it in six straight in 2016.

JOSH SAVING HIS BEST FOR LAST

• Senior Josh McFolley is off to a great start and is posting career numbers through the first five games.
• He is averaging 15.6 points, 3.2 assists and 2.8 rebounds, while shooting 42.6 percent overall and 45.8 percent from three, all above his career marks coming into the season. 
• McFolley has scored in double digits in all five games this season - and 10 straight dating back to last year - and is coming off a season-high 18 points against Bowling Green. 

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
• He now has 10 steals on the year and 156 in his career to move into fifth place in school history, just 19 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 73 of his 99 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 18 points against Bowling Green, he moved into a tie for 29th in school history with 1, 116 points, just nine away from 28th and Michael Jackson '95. 

 
KING ME

• Graduate senior Derrien King has come on strong in the last three games, tallying double digits in all three contests.
• He was named to the Legends Classic Subregional All-Tournament Team after recording 15.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists, while nailing eight triples in wins over Loyola Maryland and Bowling Green. 
• He had 14 points and a career-tying seven rebounds in the title game versus BGSU and that was after scoring a season-high 17 points - hitting four 3-pointers - with four rebounds, two assists a steal and a block.
• The 17 points was the second most in his career behind the 22 he registered as a junior while at Washington State against Montana State in 2016. 
• He started coming into his own at Butler netting 10 points on 4-of-8 shooting. 

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, at Temple and against Bowling Green and three at Butler. 
• He now has 178 career 3-pointers, sixth in school history. 

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, a team-high nine boards in the win against Loyola Maryland and four points with six caroms against BGSU. 
• He currently leads the team with 6.2 rebounds per game. 

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.
• He just posted a season-high three blocks against Bowling Green in just nine minutes. 
• On the season, he is 9-of-13 (69.2%) shooting and averaging 4.4 boards a contest.

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. 
• Against Loyola Maryland, he scored five points and grabbed six rebounds with two blocks and a steal.