DAYTON, Ohio (1/25/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team closes out the first-half of the Horizon League slate Sunday afternoon, visiting league foe Wright State for a 2 p.m. contest at the Nutter Center in Dayton. The game may be seen live via ESPN-Plus.

Detroit Mercy is coming off a 68-56 setback at Northern Kentucky on Friday. Senior guard Brittney Jackson scored a career-best 20 points for the Titans.
 

Game 19 // Detroit Mercy (3-16, 1-7 HL) vs. Wright State (14-5, 6-1 HL)
Dates / Time	Sunday, Jan. 27 // 2:00 PM ET
Location / Tickets	Daytong, Ohio (Nutter Center) // Tickets
Live Stats	Sidearm Live Stats
Live Stream	ESPN-Plus
Social Media	Twitter (In-game Tweets): @Detroit_WBB | Facebook | Instagram
All-Time Series	Titans lead, 28-26 // Last Meeting: WSU 85, Titans 55 (Feb. 8, 2018)

Quick Hits
• The Titans rank third in the Horizon League in steals per game (8.9) after swiping 13 balls at NKU on Friday. Detroit Mercy's 170 steals on the season is the second-most under head coach Bernard Scott. The Titans had 176 in 2016-17.

• Junior Zoey Oatis ranks third in the Horizon League in steals per game (2.2) and has a career-best 41 steals after her four steals at NKU. Freshman Paige Bellman leads all HL freshmen in steals (29) and steals per game (1.5).

• Senior guard Brittney Jackson had a career-best 20 points at NKU. She hit three 3-pointers and shot 8-of-14 from the floor. She is averaging 15.7 points per game in her past three.

• Freshman guard Jess Bicknell ranks fifth among Horizon League freshmen in scoring at 8.3 points per game. Bicknell has 74 points in seven HL games (10.6 points per game).

Last Time Out
Senior guard Brittney Jackson hit three 3-pointers and scored a game and career-high 20 points and Zoey Oatis added 12 points, six rebounds and four steals, but the Titans fell on the road at Wright State, 68-56, on Friday morning. Jackson scored 15 of her 20 points after the halftime break to help bring the Titans within single-digits several different times in the second half.

The Titans had 13 steals in the contest, the third most all season, also shooting 40-percent from the floor (20-for-50). Detroit Mercy also had five blocks -- three by freshman Paige Bellman and two from Oatis. Freshman Jess Bicknell added nine points, while Bellman added eight points for the red, white and blue. Detroit Mercy had just 12 turnovers in the contest, which was also the third-fewest in the 2018-19 season.

Scouting Wright State
Wright State is at the top of the Horizon League at 7-1 and has an overall record of 15-5 on the season. The Raiders lead all Horizon League teams in scoring offense (71.5 points per game) and rebounding (43.5 caroms per contest). WSU is coming off a victory over Oakland on Friday and only dropped a HL contest to Youngstown State earlier this season.

Michal Miller leads the team in scoring (13.5 ppg), while Mackenzie Taylor averages 12.5 points per game. The duo have combined for 79 3-pointers on the season. Symone Simmons leads the team and ranks second in the league in rebounding at 8.7 boards per game. Freshman Angel Baker is tops on the team with 64 assists, averaging 3.2 helpers per game. Emily Vogelpohl has a team-best 33 steals.

All-Time Series
The Titans lead in the all-time series with Wright State, 28-26, which includes an 11-14 mark in road games. Detroit Mercy has dropped the last two against WSU, but are 3-4 against Wright State under head coach Bernard Scott.

Last season, Wright State earned 88-60 and 85-55 victories over the Titans. Detroit Mercy won in Dayton in 2016 in a 95-93 overtime thriller.

Up Next
Detroit Mercy is back on the road next weekend, playing a pair of games in Ohio against Cleveland State on Thursday, Jan. 31 and then Youngstown State on Saturday, Feb. 2. After the finish of a four-game road swing, Detroit Mercy has five of seven contests at home to finish the regular season, starting with a Feb. 9 game against Metro Series rival Oakland.