DETROIT (12/18/2018) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will meet one of its oldest rivals in its final non-conference game of the season as the Titans travel to former league foe Xavier on Friday, Dec. 21. 

Game time is set for 7 p.m. at the Cintas Center and will be broadcast live on FOX Sports 2 and the FOX Go APP as well as over the airwaves on 910 AM Superstation with the Voice of the Titans Dan Hasty on the call. 

Detroit Mercy and Xavier were in the Midwestern City and Midwestern Collegiate Conference from 1980-1995 as the Musketeers were an original member of the MCC in 1979-80, now known as the Horizon League, and the Titans joined the conference the following season (1980-81) and are now the eldest program in the conference. 

Detroit Mercy last played Xavier in 2006 and the game will be the 95th match-up, second-most in Titan history trailing only the 121 career contests against Loyola Chicago, while 43 wins are the third most in school history against an opponent trailing the 59 victories against Eastern Michigan and 57 versus Loyola Chicago.

The match-up also continues the tough non-conference slate for the Titans as Detroit Mercy's non-conference schedule has been one of the toughest in the country with nine road games and teams posting an 81-47 (63.2%) record so far. The schedule was featured as the 14th hardest by ESPN's BPI standard in a recent article released on Dec. 17. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This will be the 95th career meeting between these two private, religious institutions that were longtime rivals and former conference rivals as Xavier leads the all-time series, 51-43.
• The 43 wins are the third most in school history against an opponent trailing the 59 wins against Eastern Michigan and 57 versus Loyola Chicago. 
• Xavier has won nine in a row at home against the Titans and are 31-14 all-time at home versus Detroit Mercy.
• The Titans last win against Xavier was in the 1994 MCC championship semifinals as they upset the top-seeded Musketeers, 79-75, in Indianapolis, en route to a conference title, while the last win on the road was on Jan. 11, 1986, by a 76-72 margin at the Cincinnati Gardens. 

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.
• The Titans are 280-224 (.560) all-time against programs that reside in the state of Ohio. 

JESUIT SPOTLIGHT

• The game at Xavier marks a meeting between two of the 28 Jesuit Universities in the United States. 
• The Titans and Musketeers are also two of the 20 Jesuit programs that are Division I.
• Detroit Mercy is 208-238 all-time against its fellow Jesuit brothers.

I SAW YOU LAST YEAR

• Head coach Mike Davis is 1-1 all-time against Xavier, falling to the Musketeers, 102-83, in the NCAA Tournament last season in Nashville, Tennessee. 
• Coach Davis recorded a win against Xavier in 2003 as a member of Indiana in an 80-77 overtime victory in Bloomington.

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.

AD GETTING BUCKETS

• Freshman Antoine Davis led the team for the 11-straight game finishing with 19 points against Ohio. 
• He now has eight 20-point games, five 30+ performances and the 42-point barrage in his first 11 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 as he is an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors as they held a practice at Calihan Hall. 

DAVIS AMONG NATION'S LEADERS

• Freshman Antoine Davis - three time HL Freshman of the Week - 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' 31.0.
• His 57, three-pointers and 5.18, 3-pointers per game both lead the nation and he is third in total points (293) and fifth in total field goals (101). 
• Davis is also second in the Horizon League and 63rd in three-point field goal percentage (42.9%), fourth in the HL and 89th overall in free throw percentage (85.0%) and leading the conference and 10th in the country in minutes per game (37:27). 

WE GOT OUR CURRY

• It was a long road for junior Harrison Curry to get back on the court, but he has added a scoring punch for the Titans. 
• He scored 16 points with three rebounds and two blocks in 27 minutes of action, getting a start in just his second collegiate game, at Toledo and just had 12 points with four rebounds, a block and a steal against Ohio. 
• 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 by the NCAA. 

LET IT FLY

• Detroit Mercy has started the season on fire from the outside as it is second in the Horizon League with 10.1 triples per game, 22nd in the country, while ranking third in the HL and 61st in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (37.9). 
• The Titans have nailed 111 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 111, 3-pointers are 25th in the nation.

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.
• He just tied his season high with nine boards and scored six points against Ohio. 
• 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 19-of-28 (67.9%) shooting and averaging a team-high 4.7 boards and 1.0 blocks per game. 

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. 

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. 
• Against Ohio its last time out, Detroit Mercy held the Bobcats to 43.1 percent for the game and 35.7 percent from the outside. 
• The first three opponents on the season (Western Michigan, Temple, Butler) shot at least 46.8 percent overall, while Dayton and Toledo were over 50.0 percent. 

ZONE PRINCIPLES

• The Titans have 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 134th overall holding teams to just 32.4 percent from behind the arc. 
• Last year, the Titans ended the season ranked 333rd in three-point field goal percentage defense (39.7%). 

TAKE IT AWAY

• Detroit Mercy is second in the Horizon League and 70th in the country with 7.8 steals per game.
• The Titans are coming off a season-high 12 steals against Ohio and had 11 versus Kent State.

1,174 & 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 seven points against Ohio, he now has 1,174 points, 27th in school history, just 14 in back of Frank Russell for 26th place. 

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 and against Ohio
• He now has 22 steals on the year and is second in the Horizon League and is 63rd in the nation with 2.0 steals per game.
• The 168 thefts in his career is fifth in school history, just seven 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 78 of his 104 career games, including 38 multi-steal contests and 20 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 and almost had another one his last time out with eight points and a career-high three steals versus Ohio. 
• 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.