DETROIT (12/1/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will look for a split on the Ohio road portion in its seven-straight away from home as the Titans battle the Kent State Golden Flashes on Tuesday. 

Game time is set for 7 p.m., at Kent State's M.A.C Center and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ as well as over the air on 910 AM Superstation with Jeremy Otto calling all the action.

The Titans come into the game at 1-5 with the big win over UC Irvine in Las Vegas, while Kent State is 6-1 with a win over Wright State in the Horizon League. This will be just the sixth career meeting between the two teams as KSU owns a slim 3-2 advantage. 

After seven-straight away from Calihan Hall to start the year, Detroit Mercy will return home to face Eastern Michigan on Saturday, Dec. 7, in a 1 p.m. tip on Dick Vitale Court. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• These two campuses are separated by just 200 miles and are three hours apart, but this will be just the sixth career meeting between the two squads as Kent State leads it, 3-2. 
• Last year, Detroit Mercy rallied out of a 9-0 hole to start the contest and a 12-point deficit in the first half, but Kent State used a 14-2 run - including ending the contest on an 11-0 spurt - in the game's final 1:22 to edge the Titans, 76-72 behind 30 points from Antoine Davis. 

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.
• The non-conference opponents were a combined 258-176 (.594) a year ago with six teams earning postseason bids. 

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

ANTOINE 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. 

GETTING THE FREE ONES

• Detroit Mercy has done a good job at the line this year as the Titans are leading the HL and 27th in the country in free-throw percentage at 77.7 percent. 
• The Titans have connected on at least 20 free throws three times this season and are 60 of their last 74 (81.0%). 

BACK IN THE 20'S

• Sophomore Antoine Davis had a game-high 33 points at Ohio his last time out, his 11th career 30-point game and 28 career 20-point game in just 36 career collegiate contests.
• He has now scored in double figures in all 36 games - reaching 17 points in 35 of them - and he also nailed four 3-pointers versus the Bobcats to extend his three-point shooting streak to 36-straight games, the seventh-longest streak in the country.
• 1. Mack Smith (Eastern Illinois) – 57    
• 2. Justin Jaworski (Lafayette) – 55
• 3. Keaton Wallace (UT San Antonio) - 48
• 4. Jaylen Minnett (IUPUI) – 43
• 5. Luke Frampton (Davidson) - 40
•  Cameron Healy (Albany) - 40
• 7. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) - 36

CAN HE UP DEBUSSCHERE 

• Antoine Davis scored a Titan and HL-freshman record 784 points last season in 30 games and he already has 151 points in his first six games to give him 935 in 36 career contests. 
• 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 10.8 ppg., in his next six 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.
• He is coming off his third double-git scoring outing of the season with 12 at Ohio and now has 032 career points. 
• 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 before tallying a season-high 14 knocking down a pair of triples in the win over UC Irvine. 
• 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 and 7.4 rebounds, second on the team on the glass. 
• In his career, he has scored in double figures in 44 games - including 20 or more four times - with a career-high 22 points on the road at Kansas. He has also recorded eight career double-doubles with a career-high in rebounds of 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. 
• After starting the season 0-for-7 from the field and 0-of-5 from three, Calipari is 12-of-23 overall and 11-of-22 from three in his last four games from behind the arc and is averaging 9.5 points per game. 
• He had 13 points hitting 4-of-6 from long range at Wyoming and came back with a career-high 16 points with four more triples in the win over UC Irvine. 
• 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.
• Antoine now has 935 career points, 138 assists and 42 steals.  
• For Brad Calipari, he has already surpassed his dad's, John Calipari, point totals at Division I as he has 49 at DI.  
• 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 193 assists. 

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 six games, the Titans have used three different starting 5's. 

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 at NC State. He was a big reason the Titans outrebounded the Wolfpack, 40-33.
• He then tied his career-high with six points and pulled down seven rebounds in the win over UC Irvine and just had a career-high seven points with five rebounds, two blocks and a steal at Ohio.
• He played in 20 games last year and pulled down at least five rebounds in three games with season highs of six at Akron, at Wright State and against NKU. 
• He gets his athleticism and footwork from his dad, who played professional soccer in England and China. 

BIG WILLY STYLE

• Sophomore Willy Isiani had his best game of the season scoring 13 points and grabbing a career-high seven rebounds in the win over UC Irvine and just nailed five treys en route to 15 points at Ohio. 
• He also continued his prowess from three as 13 of his 14 field goals this season and 33 of 39 in his career have been from behind the arc. 
• 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.
• A native of Tbilisi, Georgia, he is believed to be the first Titan from the country of Georgia.

ROSE BACK AT DI

• Junior Dwayne Rose Jr. is back playing at the Division I level after suiting up for Southwestern Illinois College last season, where he averaged 7.6 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game.
• He had a career-high 8 points against Louisiana Lafayette and that was after scoring six in the over UC Irvine. 
• The Chicago native played in 14 games off the bench at Toledo as a freshman in 2017-18 and scored a season-high seven points at Kansas. 

I WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY

• Sophomore Alonde LeGrand transferred to the Titans from State Fair Community College in Vermont and will have three years of eligibility.
• He is coming off a strong game on the boards, pulling down a team-high six boards at Ohio. 
• Originally from Harlem, New York, he enrolled at Fairfield as a freshman, but did not appear in any games, therefore, allowing him three years of college basketball.