DETROIT (12/13/2018) -- Finals week will be over and its time to hit the hardwood again as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will match-up with Ohio on Saturday, Dec. 15, at Calihan Hall.

Game time is set for 1 p.m. and will be streamed live on ESPN+ and televised by WADL-TV 38, with Jeremy Otto and Earl Cureton on the call, as well as over the airwaves on 910 AM Superstation as the Voice of the Titans Dan Hasty will have the action.

It will be Community Day and Christmas in Calihan Hall with all upper bowl tickets just $5, a savings of 50.0 percent.

Detroit Mercy freshman Antoine Davis is still second in the country in scoring at 27.4 points per game, while his 54, three-pointers and 5.40, 3-pointers per game both lead the nation. He was featured in an online article by Sports Illustrated this week and is listed as the No. 6 freshman in the country by CBS Sports' Matt Norlander.

Tickets can be purchased at the game or online at DetroitTitans.com/tix.

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This is just the fourth career meeting between the two schools and the second that has occurred in the Motor City.
• The Titans defeated Ohio, 84-77, on Dec. 21, 1971 in Ann Arbor during a tournament held at Michigan.
• The Bobcats claimed a 66-65 victory in a BracketBusters game at Calihan Hall in February of 2005 and followed that up with a 56-55 win in Athens in December of 2005.

AGAINST THE MAC

• The game against Ohio is the seventh versus a program from the Mid-American Conference this season as Detroit Mercy is 180-116 all-time against current members of the MAC.

THE OHIO TITANS

• Detroit Mercy has seen and will continue to see a lot of Ohio in this six-week span as the game is in the midst of a nine-game swing against teams from the Buckeye State.
• Six of those contests will be on the road. 
• The Titans are 280-223 (.561) all-time against programs that reside in the state of Ohio. 

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  winning the Horizon League Championship in 2012 and earning a trip to the NIT in 2013.

DAVIS EARNS ANOTHER HL ACCOLADE

• For the third time this season, Detroit Mercy men's basketball star guard Antoine Davis earned an honor from the Horizon League as he was named HL Freshman of the Week, announced the conference office on Dec. 10.
• Davis averaged 18.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game last week in two tough road contests at Dayton and at Toledo last week. He also hit eight more 3-pointers in the two games.
• Davis tallied 18 points with four rebounds and four assists against the Flyers and 19 points with six boards and four helpers versus the Rockets.
• He was the Freshman of the Week on Nov. 12 and the Freshman and Player of the Week on Nov. 26. just the second player in league history to win both awards. 

AD GETTING BUCKETS

• Freshman Antoine Davis led the team for the 10-straight game finishing with 19 points on the road at Toledo. 
• He now has eight 20-point games, five 30+ performances and the 42-point barrage in his first 10 collegiate games. 
• To start the year, he posted eight-straight 20-point games, the first Titan to have eight-straight games with 20 or more since Willie Green's 10 in a row in 2002-03.
• His five 30-point games on the season are the most since Green had five in 2003 and another would be the most since Tony Tolbert's six in 1993-94.
• Green was just in town on Dec. 2 he is an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors as they held practice at Calihan Hall. 

DAVIS AMONG NATION'S LEADERS

• Freshman Antoine Davis comes into the contest leading the nation in a few national categories.
• Davis is second in the nation in scoring at 27.4 points per game, trailing only Campbell senior guard Chris Clemons' 31.4.
• His 54, three-pointers and 5.40, 3-pointers per game both lead the nation and he is third in total points (274) and fifth in total field goals (95). 
• Davis is also second in the Horizon League and 53rd in three-point field goal percentage (44.3%), fourth in the HL and 116th overall in free throw percentage (83.3%) and leading the conference and seventh in the country in minutes per game (37:38). 

WE GOT OUR CURRY

• It was a long road for junior Harrison Curry to get back on the court, but he showed the Titan fans a glimpse of what he can do at Toledo.
• He scored 16 points with three rebounds and two blocks in 27 minutes of action, getting a start in just his second collegiate game. 
• After playing just one game at Louisiana Tech last year before an injury in the season opener forced him to miss the year, he transferred to Detroit Mercy and applied for a waiver to play immediately.
• He missed the first nine games this year before it was approved. 

JOSH SAVING HIS BEST FOR LAST

• Senior Josh McFolley is off to a great start in his senior year. 
• He scored a season-high 20 points - his 12th career 20-point game - hitting 6-of-12 from three and registering six rebounds and six assists at Eastern Michigan. 
• He is averaging 12.9 points - 20th in the HL - 2.9 assists and 2.7 rebounds, while shooting 39.2 percent overall and a career-high 37.5 percent from three.
• McFolley started the season scoring in double figures in six-straight games - 11 straight dating back to last year - but saw that streak end as he had two points against Kent State.
• He had 19 points with a season-high seven rebounds off the bench at Akron. 

1,167 & 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 five points at Toledo, he now has 1,167 points, 28th in school history, just two behind Doug Chappell for 27th and 21 in back of Frank Russell for 26th place.

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 tied for the eighth most in school history as well as the seventh most by a player in NCAA DI this year. 
• 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. 

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 Davis 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. 

MCFOLLEY FOR 3

• 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.
• He has brought those sharp shooting to his senior, showcased by his 6-of-10 performance at Eastern Michigan. 
• He now has 188 career 3-pointers, sixth in school history, 14 away from the fifth spot. 

LET IT FLY

• Detroit Mercy has started the season on fire from the outside as it leads the Horizon League with 10.4 triples per game, 15th in the country, while ranking third in the HL and 50th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (38.4). 
• The Titans have nailed 104 treys on the year, tying a school record with 17 against Loyola Maryland and then connecting on 15 versus Bowling Green and at Eastern Michigan. 
• The 104, 3-pointers are fourth in the Horizon League and 19th in the nation.
• Detroit Mercy has 144 regular field goals on the year. 

GETTING THE D BACK

• The Titan defense was a big reason it won three in a row and nearly had a fourth against Kent State.
• Detroit Mercy held KSU to 37.1 percent shooting - 28.1 percent in the second half - and just 10-of-31 from the outside with 14 turnovers in the tough 78-74 setback.    
• Detroit Mercy forced Loyola Maryland to 36.5 percent shooting from the field and 5-of-25 from behind the arc with 14 turnovers before slowing down Bowling Green to 36.5 percent shooting and 5-of-23 from the outside with 11 miscues. 
• At Eastern Michigan, EMU shot 41.8 percent but just 6-of-27 (22.2%) from behind the arc. 
• At Akron, the Titans held the Zips to 34.5 percent in the first half and were around 36.0 percent until the last 10 minutes of the game when they went on a run to take control of the game. Akron did end the game just 8-of-24 from the outside. 
• The first three opponents on the season (Western Michigan, Temple, Butler) shot at least 46.8 percent overall, while the last two at Dayton and Toledo were over 50.0 percent. 

TAKE IT AWAY

• Detroit Mercy is third in the Horizon League and 97th in the country with 7.4 steals per game.

ZONE PRINCIPLES

• The Titans have primarily used a zone defense this year and they have frustrated teams trying to shoot the three ball as they are fifth in the Horizon League and 138th overall holding teams to just 32.2 percent from behind the arc. 
• Last year, the Titans ended the season ranked 333rd in three-point field goal percentage defense (39.7%).

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 against Kent State as well as three at Butler. 
• He now has 19 steals on the year and is third in the Horizon League and is 88th in the nation with 1.9 steals per game.
• The 165 thefts in his career is fifth in school history, just 10 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 77 of his 103 career games, including 37 multi-steal contests and 19 with at least three takeaways.

KING ME

• Graduate senior Derrien King has come tallying double digits in scoring in four of the last eight contests. 
• He scored 13 points with six rebounds against Kent State, hitting a big three with just over six minutes to go as the Titans took the lead and built an eight-point advantage against the Golden Flashes. 
• 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. 

BLOCK PARTY

• The Titans swatted away eight shots against Bowling Green, 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. 

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 4.6 rebounds per game, including 2.0 offensive rebounds per contest, tied for eighth in the HL.

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 is coming off a 12-point, six-rebound game against Kent State, where he was 6-for-6 from the field. At one point in the first half, he scored eight-straight points for the Titans, using his athleticism to corral two offensive boards for tip-ins during the spurt. 
• He posted a season-high three blocks against Bowling Green in just nine minutes and had five rebounds, two assists, two steals and a block at Eastern Michigan. 
• On the season, he is 16-of-23 (69.6%) shooting and averaging 4.3 boards a contest.