DETROIT (2/23/2018) -- It will be a busy Saturday inside historic Calihan Hall as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team welcomes Green Bay to the Motor City.

Game time is set for 2 p.m. and will be broadcast live on WADL-TV 38 as well as on ESPN3 with Van Earl Wright and Earl Cureton on the call. The game will also be on 910 AM Superstation with Denny Kapp providing the action. 

A number of special events are set for the regular-season finale, including Senior Day as the Titans honor their four-member class in DeShawndre Black, Jaleel Hogan, Isaiah Jones and Roschon Prince.

There will also be a US Army swearing-in ceremony before the game as well as a Detroit Mercy letter-winners reception. During the game, the winners of the annual Chilli Cook-Off will be announced, and at halftime, the 2018 Athletic Director's Honor Roll will be honored. 

The Titans already know they will open Motor City Madness next Friday at 5:30 p.m., but their opponent is still to be determined. Detroit Mercy can play a wide range of foes including Cleveland State, Green Bay, IUPUI and Youngstown State. 

Tickets to all Titan home games can be purchased online, over the phone (313-993-1700 ext. 7301) or in person at Calihan Hall. For more information on tickets, contact Director of Ticket Operations & Sales Justin Hairston at 313-993-1700 ext. 7301 or at hairstjj1@udmercy.edu.

Tickets for the 2018 Little Caesars Horizon League Men's and Women's Basketball Championship — to be played at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit — are also on sale at Calihan Hall, the HorizonLeague.com, the Little Caesars Arena Box Office, or the Little Caesars Arena Ticket Sales and Service Office (313-471-7575). Fans have the option to purchase tickets in their favorite school's fan section by visiting HorizonLeague.com or their campus box office.

ALL-TIME MATCH-UP

• Detroit Mercy has dropped nine of the last 10 to Green Bay and trails the all-time series, 29-25. 
• The Titans have won three of the last six in Calihan Hall and owns a 13-11 mark in the Motor City against Green Bay. 

CALIHAN HALL TURNS 65

• The 2017-18 season marks the 65th anniversary of historic Calihan Hall.
• The dedication of the University's Memorial Building, as it was known back then, took place May 25, 1952. The first basketball game was played Dec. 2 of that year when the U-D men beat Kalamazoo, 75-61. 
• In 1977, the name was changed to Calihan Hall in honor of the Titans' first basketball All-American, the late Bob Calihan.
• On Dec. 5, 2011, the floor of Calihan Hall was dedicated to former coach Dick Vitale.  

MOTOR CITY MADNESS TICKETS NOW ON SALE

• Tickets for the 2018 Little Caesars Horizon League Men's and Women's Basketball Championship — to be played at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit — are on sale now at HorizonLeague.com, the Little Caesars Arena Box Office, or the Little Caesars Arena Ticket Sales and Service Office (313-471-7575). Fans can also purchase tickets by calling or visiting their favorite school's box office.
• Ticket prices for Motor City Madness, which will take place March 2-6, begin at $15 per day
• Last season, 29,240 fans were in attendance, which ranked 12th out of 32 DI conferences.

TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SLATE

• The 11 Division I opponents on the Titan non-conference schedule are 198-108 (62.8%) already on the year and 10 of those 11 foes have winning records.
• The Titan non-conference schedule currently ranks 33rd overall in the nation.

ONE STRONG CHATMAN

• Kameron Chatman has been one of the most productive transfers in the NCAA. 
• Chatman leads the team and is:
• * 3rd in the HL in scoring at 18.0 ppg.
• * 3rd in the HL in rebounding at 8.6 rpg.
• * 3rd in the HL in free throw percentage at 85.9%
• * 3rd in the HL in 3-point shooting at 41.8%
• * T8th in the HL in 3-point FG per game at 2.1
• He is also second on the team and 11th in the HL shooting 47.1 percent on the season as well as second on the team and tied for sixth in the league with 1.3 steals per game. 
• He has a pair of 30-point games with a career-high 31 at Fort Wayne and 30 at UIC. 
• He started conference play with two-straight 20-point games netting 22 at Green Bay - along with 11 rebounds and a career-high five assists - and 20 at Milwaukee, while adding another double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds against Wright State. He also collected double-doubles with 13 points and 10 caroms against UIC and 26 points and 11 boards at Youngstown State. 
• His nine double-doubles are third in the conference.

CHATMAN ON TOP IN SCORING, REBOUNDING

• Redshirt junior Kameron Chatman posted his 13th, 20-point game of the season tallying a team-high 30 points at UIC. 
• The 13, 20-point games are the most by a Titan since Paris Bass posted 13 in 2015-16 as well as second in the Horizon League. 
• Chatman is also leading the team in rebounding at 8.6 per night and is trying to become just the sixth Titan since 1980 to lead the team in scoring and rebounding following:
• 2015-16 - Paris Bass - 18.4 ppg., 8.0 rpg. 
• 1988-89 - Darian McKinney - 16.1 ppg., 6.7 rpg.
• 1982-83 - Doug Chappell - 17.6 ppg., 8.1 rpg.
• 1981-82 - Joe Kopicki - 18.6 ppg., 10.5 rpg.
• 1979-1980 - Earl Cureton - 20.0 ppg., 9.1 rpg.

CHASING 1,000

• With his 11 points against Milwaukee, junior Josh McFolley now has 993 career points, just seven short of becoming the 42nd Titan in school history to reach 1,000. 

OUR ROYAL PRINCE

• Graduate senior Roschon Prince continues to shine in HL play as he was in double figures for the 10th time during league competition with 16 points and seven rebounds at Youngstown State. 
• That was after tallying a season-high 22 points and grabbing nine rebounds at Cleveland State, where he was 6-of-8 from the field and 6-of-7 at the line.
• Prince has now been in double figures in 12 games overall on the year. 
• After averaging 5.1 points and 3.2 rebounds in his first 12 games, Prince is tallying 10.8 points and 6.2 rebounds, while shooting 54.0 percent from the field in conference play. 
• He recorded his second double-double of the year registering 10 points and a season-high 13 boards at Oakland. His first Titan double-double came at Milwaukee when he had 11 points and 10 boards. 

RO DAMAGE

• Graduate senior Roschon Prince has been a man among boys when it comes to scoring in the paint as he currently ranks seventh in the Horizon League in field goal percentage at 53.7 percent. 
• Even when he is fouled, he is making teams pay going 32-of-38 (84.2%) at the charity stripe in the last six games and is shooting 72.4 percent overall at the line this season. 

MCFOLLEY FOR 3

• Junior Josh McFolley was in double figures putting in 11 against Milwaukee, hitting one from long distance. 
• He recorded a career-high 30 points against UIC at home hitting four triples in the process. 
• He now has 16, 3-pointers in his last seven games and has connected from distance in 23 of his 30 games on the year. He also has seven games with three or more triples. 
• McFolley now has 10 career 20-point games along with 159 career 3-pointers, eighth in school history and 10 away from seventh place and Greg Grays '02.

PICKING YOUR POCKET

• Junior Josh McFolley has been committing highway robbery at an alarming rate recently posting 18 steals in his last seven games.
• He had five at Oakland, his sixth game of the year with at least three steals, and that was after a career-best six steals against UIC. 
• He is currently third in the Horizon League with 1.5 steals per game, while his 45 total steals is 96th in the NCAA. 
• In his career, he has recorded a steal in 67 of his 91 career games, including 29 multi-steal contests and 16 with at least three takeaways.
• McFolley led the conference in steals per game (2.00) and total steals (62), ranking 26th and 35th in the NCAA, respectively, last season.
• His 142 career steals is tied for 10th in school history with assistant coach Jermaine Jackson and just two behind Terry Duerod '79 for ninth. 

HE CAN SCORE

• Sophomore Corey Allen has been in double figures in 20 of his 27 games with six 20+ contests and three 30+ games. 
• He tied for the team lead with 24 points on 8-of-13 shooting with five treys against Oakland.
• He poured in a game-high 25 points going 9-of-14 from the field with eight rebounds and had the game-winning layup as time expired over Cleveland State. He followed that up with a game-high 34 points on 8-of-16 shooting with five 3-pointers and a career-best 13-of-16 at the line against Youngstown State. 

JJJ FILLING UP THE STAT SHEET

• Rookie Jermaine Jackson Jr. posted stats all around as a true freshman on the road in his collegiate debut at Virginia Tech tallying 16 points with seven rebounds and three assists.  
• He tallied his third 20-point game of the season with a game-high 22 points at IUPUI. 
• Jackson Jr. had a monster game scoring a season-best 32 points against Youngstown State - one shy of a Titan freshman record - on 12-of-17 shooting with six 3-pointers. 
• He is the only freshman in the Horizon League this season with a 30-point game. 
• The rookie tallied 25 points at Green Bay - where he was 8-of-14 from the field with a season-high seven 3-pointers and has now scored in double figures in 16 games. 
• Jackson Jr. is currently third on the team averaging 11.0 points - 21st in the HL - to go with a team-best 2.7 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 1.2 steals. He also has 76 assists and just 53 turnovers for a 1.4 ratio.
• Jackson Jr. leads all league rookies in made 3-pointers (52) and free throw percentage (.859) and is second in assists and third in scoring.
• His 85.9 percent at the charity stripe is second in the conference and would be top 65 in the country, but he does not have enough made free throws to qualify nationally.

A LONG DAY

• Sophomore Cole Long has been a man on a mission lately. Long has posted at least five rebounds in four of the last seven games and is averaging 4.7 per game during that span. 
• He posted a career-high 16 points connecting on 6-of-8 from the field with a pair of 3-pointers along with registering eight rebounds at Cleveland State. 
• He netted 12 points with a career-high seven assists along with five rebounds against IUPUI and then pulled down a career-best nine rebounds and tied his career mark with three blocks against UIC. 
• In limited playing time at Oakland, he recorded three assists and six rebounds in just 13 minutes and at UIC, he totaled five assists and three blocks. 
• Long also has 19 blocks in his last 14 games and leads the team overall with 21 on the year.

DRE DAY

• Senior DeShawndre Black stepped into the starting role against IUPUI and he was a big reason for the Titan win as he finished with 13 points, three assists and three rebounds.
• He has now been in double figures in scoring three times in the last seven games with 11 points and four assists at Oakland and 11 points and three helpers at Youngstown State.
• He ran the point guard to precision against UIC tying a career-high with eight assists against just one turnover and had nine points, three rebounds, five assists with no turnovers at UIC this past week. 
• In fact, in his last 14 games, Black has 35 assists with just 15 turnovers, better than a 2.1-to-1 ratio. 

30X3

• Sophomore Corey Allen tallied his third 30-point game of the year - and fourth of his career - with a game-high 34 points against Youngstown State.
• He was 8-of-16 from the field, 5-of-9 from three and a career-best 13-of-16 at the free throw line, netting 22 in the second half. 
• Allen poured in 32 against Western Michigan on Dec. 9 going 12-of-21 overall with five treys and scored 19 points in the second half. 
• Earlier this season against Houston Baptist, he posted a game, career-high and Belmont Curb Event Center record with 39 shooting 12-of-20 from the field and 7-of-13 from long range to go with a career-tying five assists. 
• The 39 points were the most since Jaleel Hogan had 39 in a win at Oakland last year and are tied for the most by any player in the HL this year.
• His three 30-point games are tied for the second most in the conference and are the most by a Titan since Willie Green had five during the 2002-03 campaign.

ANOTHER 30 POINT GAME

• Redshirt junior Kameron Chatman tallied a 30 points at UIC, going 10-of-20 from the field with four 3-pointers. 
• It was his second 30-point game as he poured in a career-high 31 at Fort Wayne earlier this season. 
• The 30-point game marked the seventh on the season for the Titans and he is one of four players to register 30 following Corey Allen (39 vs. Houston Baptist, 34 vs. Youngstown State, 32 vs. Western Michigan) Josh McFolley (30 vs. UIC) and Jermaine Jackson Jr. (32 vs. Youngstown State). 

I SEE YOU CA

• Sophomore Corey Allen set a career high in rebounds with 13 against NKU and has tied his career best with five assists three times this season against Michigan-Dearborn, Houston Baptist and Cleveland State. 
• He posted 34 points against Youngstown State, where he was 8-of-16 from the field, 5-of-9 from three and a career-best 13-of-16 at the line.
• His 13 free throws were the most since Juwan Howard Jr. went 14-of-14 against South Alabama in 2014. 
• He had another game with five triples against Oakland, ending with 24 points. 
• Allen has also now connected on a 3-pointer in 43 of his 53 career games, including 21 with three or more and eight with five or more. 
• On the season, he is second on the team in scoring at 14.9 points per game - eighth in the HL - and ranks second on the team and ninth in three-point shooting (38.8%) as well as third on the team in overall shooting (43.8%). 

HIGH POWERED OFFENSE

• The Titans currently rank third in the Horizon League and 63rd in the nation in scoring offense at 77.9 points per game. 
• Detroit Mercy has scored at least 70 points in 23 games, including three 100+point efforts, five with 90 or more and 11 topping 80. 

LET IT FLY

• Detroit Mercy set a school record hoisting up 43 three-point attempts against Houston Baptist on Nov. 19, nailing 12 of them.
• The previous record was 36 against Dayton in 1991. 
• Against Siena Heights, Detroit Mercy was 17-of-28 from behind the arc, just one triple shy of tying the school record of 18 against Milwaukee on Feb. 26, 2000. 
• They have also nailed 10 or more 3-pointers in 14 games this season and lead the HL with 8.7 triples per game, 75th in the nation, as well as fifth in the HL in three-point field goal percentage (34.6%). 

TAKING ADVANTAGE

• Detroit Mercy has done a great job at the free throw line connecting on 75.8 percent, second in the HL and 37th in the country.
• The Titans had an outstanding effort at the line going 24-of-25 (96.0%) at Youngstown State and are 111-of-135 (82.2%) in the last seven games. 
• Detroit Mercy has hit 80.0 percent or more at the line in 12 games, including 16-of-20 versus IUPUI, 18-of-22 at Virginia Tech, 20-of-23 versus Seattle, 14-of-17 at Oakland and 17-of-20 against Western Michigan.  
• Some of the top free throw shooters include Jermaine Jackson Jr. (85.9%, 55-of-64), Kameron Chatman (85.9%, 85-of-99), Josh McFolley (79.5%, 62-of-78) and Corey Allen (78.7%, 74-of-94), all of whom are among the top 15 in the Horizon League. 

GIVE ME THAT

• The Titans set a school record with 25 steals - while forcing 36 turnovers - against Siena Heights on Nov. 25.
• Detroit Mercy has now forced 117 turnovers in the last eight games coming up with 12 steals against UIC, 11 at IUPUI, 10 at Youngstown State, nine at UIC and eight in both Oakland games. 
• The 12 steals versus UIC was the most against a DI opponent since posting 12 at Oakland in last year's road victory.

 

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