DETROIT (11/22/2019) -- It's back to the road for the Titans as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball will visit the bright lights of Las Vegas by playing in the MGM Resorts Main Event Middleweight Bracket.

The Titans will face UC Irvine on Sunday, Nov. 24, at 3 p.m. (EST) and Louisiana Lafayette on Monday, Nov. 25, at 4 p.m. Both games will be web streamed live by Flo Hoops and fans can listen to all the action on 910 AM Superstation with the Voice of the Titans Dan Hasty.

The event will be held at Ed Clark High School. 

Detroit Mercy is searching for its first win on the season as the red, white and blue have dropped road games to NC State, Clemson and Wyoming. Sophomore Antoine Davis leads the team in scoring at 21.7 points and 4.3 assists per game, while senior Justin Miller is pulling down a team-high 7.0 rebounds a night. 

UC Irvine is coming off a tough 59-58 setback at TCU and is 3-3 on the year, while Louisiana Lafayette suffered a 69-61 overtime loss at Wyoming, 69-61, to move to 3-2 on the season. 

Following the game, Detroit Mercy will come back to close out its season-opening road trip with games at Ohio and at Kent State. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This will be the first career meeting between Detroit Mercy and UC Irvine, while the Titans are 0-1 all-time against Louisiana Lafayette.
• The one match-up came in 2002 at the Cable Car Classic in California as Detroit Mercy fell, 68-62. 

LAST TIME OUT

• Graduate senior Brad Calipari nailed four triples and sophomore Antoine Davis had 11 points, but Wyoming went on an 18-0 run to post a 76-49 win over Detroit Mercy.
• Calipari finished with a team and career-high 13 points going 4-of-6 from behind the arc. Sophomore Marquis Moore had eight points and nine rebounds and sophomore Willy Isiani netted eight points.
• Detroit Mercy scored the first eight points of the game and led 31-28 late in the first half, but Wyoming scored 18-straight to take control of the game.
• Sophomore Chris Brandon ended with four points and five rebounds and sophomore Boe Nguidjol had three points and three caroms. 
• The Titans had just 11 turnovers in the game, but were just 2-of-5 at the free-throw line, compared to Wyoming's 15-of-16.

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). 
• The seven-games away from home is the longest stretch since the Titans played 10 in a row away from the Motor City at the end of the 2000-01 season, which included two regular-season games, the Horizon League Tournament and the run to the NIT Final Four.
• "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 BIG WEST

• Detroit Mercy is 3-3 all-time against the conference going 1-1 versus Hawaii, Long Beach State and UC Sanata Barbara. 
• The last win was on the road at UC Santa Barbara, 75-59, in 2002. 

AGAINST THE SUN BELT

• Detroit Mercy is 4-3 against current members of the league, with a 3-1 record against Georgia State, 1-1 against South Alabama and the one loss to Louisiana. 
• The last win was over South Alabama, 66-53, in 2014. 

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 posted a game-best 26 markers at Clemson, his 25th career 20-point game in just 33 collegiate game.
• He just saw a run of eight-straight games of 20 or more come to an end as he had 11 at Wyoming, the second time in his career he has scored at least 20 points in eight straight contests. 
• He has now scored in double figures in all 33 games - reaching at least 17 points in 32 of them - and he also nailed a 3-pointer to extend his three-point shooting streak to 33-straight games, the eighth-longest streak in the country.
• 1. Mack Smith (Eastern Illinois) – 53    
•  Justin Jaworski (Lafayette) – 53
• 3. Keaton Wallace (UT San Antonio) - 46
• 4. Jaylen Minnett (IUPUI) – 41
• 5. Luke Frampton (Davidson) - 38
• 6. Jaevin Cumberland (Cincinnati) – 37
• 7. Cameron Healy (Albany) - 36
• 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 65 points in his first three games to give him 849 in his first 33 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 three games, the Titans have used the same starting five. 

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 is coming off a big game with a career-high 13 points hitting 4-of-6 from long range. 
• 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.

GOING AFTER YOU DAD

• Head coach Mike Davis is quick to point out that Antoine Davis is not the defender that he was in college, but in terms of offense, the son is winning that battle.
• Coach Davis starred at Alabama from 1979 to 1983 and totaled 1,211 points in 121 career games, going 478-of- 1003 (47.7%) from the field with 238 assists.
• Last season, Antoine posted 784 points, was 263-of-657 (40.0%) shooting with 107 assists in 30 games, and now has 849 career points. 
• For Brad Calipari, he has already nearly matched his dad's, John Calipari, stats at Division I.
• Coach Cal played three seasons of college ball, one at UNC Wilmington and two at Clarion. At UNC Wilmington in 1978-79, he posted 29 points hitting 4-of-17 from the field and 21-of-25 at the line. 
• At Clarion, Calipari scored 202 points, but ran the offense with 19 career helpers.

MOORE BOARDS

• Sophomore Marquis Moore really starting to come on last season, becoming a tough rebounder and hitting some shots from the outside.
• He just posted eight points and nine rebounds at Wyoming and is now averaging 6.0 points and 5.3 rebounds shooting 6-of-12 from the field and 4-of-5 from behind the arc. 
• He grabbed at least five rebounds in eight games last season, 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. 

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 in the season opener at NC State. 
• He was a big reason the Titans outrebounded the Wolfpack, 40-33.