DETROIT (11/18/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will make the long trek from ACC country to the mountain time zone as the Titans play at Wyoming on Tuesday night.

Game time is set for 9 p.m. (EST) and will be broadcast live on the Mountain West Network. 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 fourth career meeting between Detroit Mercy and Wyoming as the Titans leads, 2-1, and all three wins have come from the home team. The first meeting came in the 1975 Motor City Invite, won by the Titans as they defeated the Cowboys (74-66) and DePaul (74-67). 

Detroit Mercy is coming off an 87-65 setback at Clemson, while Wyoming is 1-3 on the year, beating Idaho State at home and dropping games to South Carolina, Cal State Fullerton and Oregon State. 

Following the game, Detroit Mercy will have a few days off before traveling to Las Vegas for games against Louisiana Lafayette and UC Irvine. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This is the fourth career meeting between the two schools with the Titans owning the advantage, 2-1.
• The first meeting happened back when Dick Vitale was patrolling the sidelines for the Titans as the red, white and blue defeated the Cowboys, 74-66, in the first game of the Motor City Invite. 
• The teams met in a home and home series in the early 2000's as Detroit Mercy won in Calihan Hall, 73-57, in 2001 and dropped a 74-60 contest in Laramie in 2002. 

LAST TIME OUT

• Senior Justin Miller tallied a double-double, sophomore Chris Brandon nearly had one and sophomore Antoine Davis posted another 20-point game as Detroit Mercy saw Clemson go on a second-half run to down the Titans, 87-65. 
• Davis posted a game-high 26 points and six assists to go with a career-high four steals and three rebounds. Miller ended with 13 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, while Brandon had 12 points and eight boards. 
• Clemson led by 11, 58-47, when Miller got inside again for a basket and, off a steal by Davis, he found freshman Sam Hofman and the Belgium product connected on a three for his first collegiate basket to pull the squad within six, 58-52, with 9:37 on the clock. Clemson then went on a 15-4 run to seal the game away. 

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 first home game will be against in-state rival Eastern Michigan on Dec. 7. 
• The non-conference opponents were a combined 258-176 (.594) a year ago with six teams earning postseason bids. 

AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN WEST

• Detroit Mercy is 7-5 all-time against current members of the Mountain West Conference with two wins over Wyoming and Colorado State and victories against New Mexico, San Jose State and Utah State.
• Head coach Mike Davis is 1-2 against the Cowboys with a 1-1 mark at Indiana and a loss with his Texas Southern team on the road in 2017.  

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

CRASHING THE BOARDS

• The Titans have done a good job of rebounding in their first two games against two ACC opponents in NC State and Clemson, owning a +3 margin on the glass.
• Detroit Mercy outrebounded the Wolfpack, 40-33, and led for much of the game against the Tigers, where the Titans were edged, 39-38. 

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. 

BACK IN THE 20'S

• Sophomore Antoine Davis had a game-high 28 points in the season opener at NC State and just posted a game-best 26 markers at Clemson, his 25th career 20-point game in just his 32nd collegiate game.
• It was also his eighth-straight game with 20 or more points dating back to last season, where he also posted eight in a row at one point.
• He has now scored in double figures in all 32 games - reaching at least 17 points in all 32 - and he also nailed a pair of 3-pointers to extend his three-point shooting streak to 32-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. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) - 32

CAN HE UP DEBUSSCHERE 

• Sophomore Antoine Davis scored a Titan and Horizon League-freshman record 784 points last season in 30 games and has started the year with 54 points in his first two games to give him 838 in his first 32 collegiate 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.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.
• Davis needs to average 18.0 points in his first 12 games to reach 1,000 in his 42nd game.  
• If he reaches that, he will become the 43rd player in school history to eclipse 1,000 career points. 

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 and really made his presence felt at Clemson, posting 13 points and a game-high 13 rebounds.
• It was his eighth career double-double, while the 13 rebounds were just two shy of his career high. 
• 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. 

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 at NC State.
• He came back with another athletic performance, finishing with 12 points and eight rebounds at Clemson. 
• 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. 
• As a rookie, he shot 60.8 percent from the field, mostly on getting to the rim and putting back offensive rebounds. 

WHO WILL START?

• Detroit Mercy saw 13 players start a game last season, the most in the country. 
• Detroit Mercy also used 15 different starting line-ups on the year. 
• Through the first two games, the Titans have used the same starting five. 

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 at NC State and had six points on a pair of 3-pointers with three boards at Clemson. 

JUST A KID FROM BELGIUM

• Freshman Sam Hofman will bring some much-needed muscle in the inside to go with some outside shooting.
• Hofman is believed to be the first Titan recruit from Belgium.
• He was a member of the U-20 and U-18 Belgium National Team and helped the squad to a bronze medal at the 2018 and 2019 European Championships.
• In his first game as a Titan, he was 1-of-3 from the floor, hitting a triple at Clemson.

A GID-JEWELL PERFORMANCE

• 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.