CLEVELAND (12/29/2018) -- It was an early start to Horizon League play at Youngstown State, but it will be a late Sunday finish as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team visits Cleveland State in a 7 p.m. tip.

The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and also over the airwaves on 910 AM Superstation with Jeremy Otto on the call.

Detroit Mercy started the conference slate with a 78-66 victory at Youngstown State as five players scored in double figures, led by freshman Antoine Davis' 27.

Davis nailed on seven more triples and leads the NCAA with 67 total 3-pointers, while standing third in the nation in scoring at 26.1 points per game.

Junior Harrison Curry tallied 12 points and a season-high six rebounds and junior Lamar Hamrick added 10 points and a game-high eight boards, one off his season best.

The Titans forced 19 YSU turnovers and are now fourth in the Horizon League in that category at 14.38 per game.

Cleveland State started league play with an 89-77 setback to Oakland and is 5-9 overall on the year.

After the game, the Titans will return home for five in a row started with the defending league conference champion Wright State Raiders on Thursday, Jan. 3, in a 7 p.m. tip at Calihan Hall, and the defending HL regular season champion NKU Norse on Saturday, Jan. 5, in a 1 p.m. match-up.

Tickets start at just $10 and can be purchased online at DetroitTitans.com/tix. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• The Titans won the first eight career meetings and despite splitting the last 10 games, Detroit Mercy is 42-24 all-time against Cleveland State.
• Detroit Mercy is 12-18 all-time on the road in the series, but has dropped seven of the last eight (2016) at the Wolstein Center. 

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 281-225 (.560) all-time against programs that reside in the state of Ohio. 

TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SLATE

• Detroit Mercy's basketball non-conference schedule was one of the toughest in the country with nine road games and teams posting a 90-53 (62.9%) record so far. Nine of the 12 teams have winning records and one is .500 on the season. 
• The schedule was featured as the 14th hardest by ESPN's BPI standard in a recent article released on Dec. 17. 
• In total, the Titans' 12 non-conference opponents posted a 213-182 record (53.9%) last season, and four teams making 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 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 13th-straight game - every game this season - finishing with 27 points at Youngstown State.
• He now has nine 20-point games, five 30+ performances and the 42-point barrage in his first 13 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 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 two national categories and among the leaders in a few others.
• Davis is third in the nation in scoring at 26.1 points per game.
• His 67 triples and 5.15, 3-pointers per game top the country and he is fourth in total points (339) and sixth in field goals (119). 
• Davis is also second in the Horizon League and 70th in three-point field goal percentage (41.9%), third in the HL in free throw percentage (82.9%) and leading the conference and 11th in the country in minutes per game (37:14). 

SHOOTING HIS WAY TO RECORDS

• Freshman Antoine Davis already has 67 triples on the season, just seven shy of moving into the top 10 for a single season for a Titan and 12 in back of the Detroit Mercy rookie record of 79 by Corey Allen in 2016-17. 
• If he keeps up his prolific outside shooting, he could find himself holding the NCAA record for most 3-pointers by a freshman, currently held by Stephen Curry as he hit 122 at Davidson in 2006-07.

LET IT FLY

• Detroit Mercy has started the season on fire from the outside as it is tied for third in the Horizon League with 9.9 triples per game, 27th in the country, while ranking third in the HL and 68th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (37.3). 
• The Titans have nailed 129 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 129, 3-pointers are 21st in the nation.

TAKING CARE OF THE BALL

• Detroit Mercy has seen its offense struggle at times, but not because it is turning it over. 
• The Titans lead the conference and are 31st in Division I committing just 11.3 per game.
• They have five games on the season with less than 10 turnovers and after turning it over a season-high 19 times at Temple and following that up with 18 at Butler, Detroit Mercy has just 101 in its last 10 games (10.1 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 tied his season high with nine boards and scored six points against Ohio and grabbed six more caroms on the road at Xavier and at Youngstown State. 
• He also put together a12-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. 
• On the season, he is 20-of-33 (60.6%) from the field and averaging a team-high 4.9 boards and 0.9 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 eighth highest 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 for the school record, who had 10 against Milwaukee in 2000, and are tied for the fourth most in the country this season. 
• 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. 

ZONE PRINCIPLES

• The Titans have used a zone defense this year and have frustrated teams at times trying to shoot the three ball as they are holding teams to just 33.0 percent from behind the arc. 
• Last year, the Titans ended the season ranked 333rd in three-point field goal percentage defense (39.7%). 
• Overall, the defense has held teams to shooting 44.0 percent or less in eight games on the year and under 40.0 percent on four occasions, including YSU to just 37.5 percent its last time out. 

TAKE IT AWAY

• Detroit Mercy is second in the Horizon League and 42nd in the country with 8.3 steals per game.
• The Titans posted a season-high 12 steals against Ohio and had 11 versus Kent State and in their last two games at Xavier and at Youngstown State.  
• A lot of that is due to one of the Horizon League's top burglars in senior Josh McFolley as he is second in the conference and 58th in the nation with 2.1 steals per game. 

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 - first as a Titan at Toledo. 
• He then had 12 points with four rebounds, a block and a steal against Ohio and just posted 12 points, six rebounds, three steals and two blocks at Youngstown State. 
• 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. 

1,197 & 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 14 points at Youngstown State, he now has 1,197 points, 26th in school history and 16 in back of Titan Hall-Of-Famer Dick Dzik for 25th place. 

PICKING YOUR POCKET

• Senior Josh McFolley has been a thief for all of his Titan career and came away with four steals against at Xavier, matching his season high that he had at Temple and against Kent State. 
• He now has 27 steals on the year and is second in the Horizon League and 58th in the nation with 2.1 steals per game.
• The 173 thefts in his career is fifth in school history, just two 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 80 of his 106 career games, including 39 multi-steal contests and 21 with at least three takeaways.

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 191 career 3-pointers, sixth in school history, 11 away from the fifth spot. 

JOSH SAVING HIS BEST FOR LAST

• Senior Josh McFolley 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 12.2 points - 17th in the HL - 2.9 assists and 2.7 rebounds, while shooting 40.0 percent overall and a career-high 37.5 percent from three.
• He had 19 points with a season-high seven rebounds off the bench at Akron and tallied nine points and tied his season high for the third time this year with six assists at Xavier. 
• In the HL opener at Youngstown State, McFolley ended with 14 points. 

KING ME

• Graduate senior Derrien King has come tallying double digits in scoring in six of the last 10 contests and is coming off back-to-back 13-point outings at Xavier and at Youngstown State.
• He also grabbed a career-high eight rebounds at Xavier and tied a career high with three 3-pointers at YSU. 
• 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. 

HAMRICK TIME

• Junior Lamar Hamrick was a spark off the bench at Youngstown State finishing with 10 points and a game-high eight rebounds along with four assists and two steals. 
• He had 13 points - 10 in the second half - to go with a team-high four steals at WMU. 
• Against Loyola Maryland, he scored five points and grabbed six rebounds with two blocks and a steal and just pulled down a team and season-high nine boards with four assists and three points against Kent State. 
• He hit three from distance and finished with nine points at Akron and had a season-high 16 points at Dayton with three steals.