DETROIT (11/15/2019) -- The season-opening seven-game road trip to start the season has the Titans playing another ACC opponent as the University of Detroit Mercy heads to Clemson on Sunday, Nov. 17. 

Game time is set for 3 p.m. (EST) and will be broadcast live on the ACC Network Extra. Fans can also catch all the action on 910 AM Superstation with the Voice of the Titans Dan Hasty calling all the action.

This is the first career meeting between the Titans and Tigers, but the coaches know each other well as head coach Mike Davis has battled Clemson three times in the last eight years with his UAB and Texas Southern programs, while Tigers' head coach Brad Brownell led Wright State for four seasons from 2006-10. 

Detroit Mercy started the year last Sunday with an 84-65 setback at NC State, while Clemson is 2-1 on the season with home wins over Colgate and Presbyterian and a loss to Virginia Tech. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This will be just the first career meeting between Detroit Mercy and Clemson, but the two coaches are well versed in this weekend's foe.
• Head coach Mike Davis is 0-3 against Clemson as his first meeting came when he was coaching UAB in the First Four of the NCAA tournament, while the last two came on the road when he was at Texas Southern.
• Clemson head coach Brad Brownell is 9-0 all-time against the Titans from his time when he was a member of the Horizon League leading Wright State. 

LAST TIME OUT

• Sophomore Antoine Davis scored a game-high 28 points and sophomore Boe Nguidjol grabbed a game and career-high nine rebounds as Detroit Mercy dropped an 84-65 decision at North Carolina State in the 2019-20 season opener. 
• Davis also added six rebounds, four assists and two steals, while Nguidjol had two blocks and scored six points. Senior Justin Miller added nine points and sophomore Chris Brandon had eight points, three rebounds and two assists. 
• The Titans shot 40.0 percent from the field and won the battle of the glass, 40-33, while holding NC State to 10-of-29 from the outside with 11 turnovers.
• Detroit Mercy was an uncharacteristic 5-of-25 from outside the arc and 12-of-20 at the free-throw line.

TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SLATE

• Get your frequent flyer miles ready as Detroit Mercy has a number of power five schools on the non-conference schedule.
• In total, the red, white and blue will play 13 games in the non-conference with nine away from the Motor City, including trips to North Carolina State, Clemson, Wyoming, Notre Dame, Gonzaga and a two-game tournament in Las Vegas. 
• The first seven games on the road will see the Titans travel just under 10,000 miles round trip (9,980). 
• "This is the type of schedule that I like to play, one that I believe will really help prepare us for the Horizon League," said head coach Mike Davis. "We have a lot of big schools on the schedule and that is what I like to do, test our team against big competition."
• The home non-conference slate gets underway in December after seven road games in a row to start the season when the Titans host in-state rival Eastern Michigan on Dec. 7. 
• The opponents were a combined 258-176 (.594) a year ago with six teams earning postseason bids. 

AGAINST THE ACC

• Detroit Mercy is 20-70 all-time against current teams in the ACC, although most of that is the 12-41 record versus Notre Dame. 
• The Titans last win against a current ACC school was the Fighting Irish as Detroit Mercy won, 83-59, in the Motor City in 1992. 
• The season opener at NC State marked the fourth time in the last five years that the Titans have faced an ACC program as they were at Virginia Tech to start the 2017-18 campaign, at Florida State in 2016 and at Florida State in 2015. 

BASKETBALL BLOODLINES

• Not only do you have the family connections on the staff, but there are a few other family connections between Titans and college coaches, NBA players and former NBA stars:
• * Graduate student Brad Calipari is the son of Kentucky head coach John Calipari
• * Junior Dwayne Rose Jr. is the nephew of current Pistons' guard and 2011 NBA MVP Derrick Rose
• * Sophomore Chris Brandon is the nephew of former NBA player and head coach John Lucas and cousin to former NBA player John Lucas and former Texas standout Jai Lucas
• * Freshman Jamail Pink's uncle is NBA Hall-Of-Famer Clyde Drexler

MOVE OVER STEPHEN CURRY

• Antoine Davis nailed 132, 3-pointers last season to break the NCAA record for most 3-pointers by a freshman, passing Stephen Curry's 122 at Davidson in 2006-07.
• His record-breaking triple came at home against IUPUI early in the second half last season and his 132 treys on the year was a Titan freshman record and second in school history, trailing only legendary scorer Rashad Phillips' 136 in 2000-01. 

ANTOINE DAVIS EARNS JOHN R. WOODEN AWARD NOMINATION

• The sophomore year of Antoine Davis has already been filled with accolades - and the games have not even started yet - as the University of Detroit Mercy high-scoring guard was named to the Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 list.
• The John R. Wooden Award® presented by Wendy's® is chosen by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts and the list is comprised of 50 student-athletes who are the early front-runners for the most prestigious honors in college basketball, the Wooden Award All American Team™ and Most Outstanding Player Award. 

BOE BREAKOUT

• Sophomore Boe Nguidjol was one player that head coach Mike Davis has seen marked improvement and the season opener at NC State showed just that.
• Nguidjol finished with a career-best and game-high nine rebounds along with two blocks and six points, hitting his first 3-pointer in the process.
• He was a big reason the Titans outrebounded the Wolfpack, 40-33.

BACK IN THE 20'S

• Sophomore Antoine Davis had a game-high 28 points in the season opener at NC State, his 24th career 20-point game in just his 31st collegiate game.
• It was his seventh-straight game with 20 or more points dating back to last season, where he posted eight in a row at one point.
• He has now scored in double figures in all 31 games - reaching at least 17 points in all 31 - and he also nailed a pair of 3-pointers to extend his three-point shooting streak to 31-straight games, the eighth-longest streak in the country
• 1. Mack Smith (Eastern Illinois) – 51    
• 2. Justin Jaworski (Lafayette) – 50
• 3. Keaton Wallace (UT San Antonio) - 45
• 4. Jaylen Minnett (IUPUI) – 38
• 5. Luke Frampton (Davidson) - 35
• 6. Jaevin Cumberland (Cincinnati) – 34
• 7. Cameron Healy (Albany) - 33
• 8. Antonie Davis (Detroit) - 31

CAN HE UP DEBUSSCHERE 

• Sophomore Antoine Davis scored a Titan and Horizon League-freshman record 784 points last season in 30 games and started the year with 28 at NC State to give him 812 in his first 31 games. 
• He is trying to catch the great Dave DeBusschere - a NBA Hall-Of-Famer who was named one of the top 50 players in NBA history - as the fastest Titan to 1,000 points.
• DeBusschere accomplished the feat in his 43rd collegiate game and he did so in a big way with a then career-best 32 points in a 69-65 win over Toledo in 1961.
• By that count, Davis would need to average 18.0 points in his first 12 games to reach 1,000 in his 42nd game.  
• If he reaches that feat, he will become the 43rd player in school history to eclipse 1,000 career points. 

MOORE BOARDS

• Sophomore Marquis Moore really starting to come on last season, becoming a tough rebounder and hitting some shots from the outside.
• He grabbed at least five rebounds in eight games, including two in double figures with a season-best 11 rebounds at Milwaukee and 10 against IUPUI
• Moore also started the year 2-of-16 from three, but then hit 6-of-11 in his last three games
• He had his first collegiate double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds against IUPUI, a team-high on the boards, and posted a season-best 12 points and eight rebounds in the Horizon League Championship quarterfinals at NKU. 
• He started the season with four points, four rebounds, two assists and a steal. 

BIG WILLY STYLE

• Willy Isiani made his long-awaited debut midway through his freshman season and against NKU, he scored nine points, hitting three 3-pointers in just 11 minutes of action, until he suffered a head injury that kept him out for a few games. 
• He came back with four more 3-pointers at Oakland, finishing with 12 points. 
• He tallied a season-high 20 points nailing six more from downtown at IUPUI and finished the year with 14 in the Horizon League Championship quarterfinals at NKU.
• As a European, Isiani likes to showcase his long-range shooting as 21 of his 26 career field goals are from behind the arc. 
• A native of Tbilisi, Georgia, he is believed to be the first Titan from the country of Georgia.

BRANDON SHOWING OFF

• Sophomore Chris Brandon showed last season that he was one of the most athletic players in the Horizon League and did that just again in the season opener with a couple of dunks, finishing with eight points, three rebounds, two assists, a steal and a block. 
• Last year, he recorded 11 games on the season with at least five rebounds. 
• He earned his first collegiate start at Temple and had a stellar game going 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 tied his season high with nine boards and scored six points against Ohio and put together a 12-point, six-rebound game against Kent State, where he was 6-for-6 from the field. 
• On the season, he shot 60.8 percent from the field, mostly on getting to the rim and putting back offensive rebounds. 

MILLER TIME

• The Titans got some good news as another veteran transfer in senior Justin Miller, a 6-8, 268-lb forward, was declared immediately eligible by the NCAA.
• At NC State, he scored nine points with three rebounds in just 15 minutes. 
• He played the last three seasons for Louisiana Lafayette, seeing action in 97 games with 59 starts and averaging 9.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists, shooting 44.9 percent. 
• He tallied 11.1 points as a freshman starting 31 of 33 games and posted 9.0 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists last season, second on the team in rebounding and assists. 
• In his career, he has scored in double figures in 41 games - including 20 or more four times - with a career-high 22 points on the road at Kansas. He has also recorded seven career double-doubles with a career high in rebounds 15 at Arkansas State last season. 

FROM KENTUCKY BLUE TO TITAN RED

• Graduate student Brad Calipari transferred to Detroit Mercy and will have the rare two years of eligibility as a graduate student as he graduated from Kentucky in just three years with a degree in Business and is enrolled in the Liberal Studies masters program. 
• He spent three seasons at Kentucky and played in 27 games with the Wildcats, under the direction of his dad head coach John Calipari, and was part of 88 wins as the Wildcats advanced to the Elite 8 in 2017 and 2019 and the Sweet 16 in 2018. 
• According to stories in the Detroit Free Press, Kentucky has said they would be open to playing the Titans next season and that meeting could occur in Calihan Hall.