DETROIT (12/12/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will start a three-game homestand with a Titan doubleheader on Saturday, Dec. 14, as the men confront Toledo at 3 p.m. in Calihan Hall. 

The day will start with the women facing Toledo at Noon followed by the men's game against the Rockets on Dick Vitale Court. 

Detroit Mercy will look to jump-start its season with three in a row at home after opening the season with eight away from the Motor City with trips to the Mountain and Pacific time zones. The Titans first nine non-conference opponents are 50-26 (65.7%) on the season as their schedule is currently ranked the 34th hardest in the NCAA.

Toledo is 7-2 on the season with wins over Horizon League-foes Oakland and Cleveland State, but the Rockets are 2-2 away from home with loses to Valparaiso and Notre Dame. 

The homestand will also feature Northeastern on Dec. 19 and SIU Edwardsville on Dec. 21.

ALL-TIME SERIES

• The match-up between the Titans and Rockets is the 60th in this rivalry that dates back to 1920 as Toledo leads the all-time series, 34-25.
• Detroit Mercy has won six of the last eight in Calihan Hall and is 18-11 all-time at home in the series.

NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE RANKED 34TH TOUGHEST

• 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 saw the Titans travel just under 10,000 miles round trip (9,980). 
• The seven-games away from home was 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 HL Tournament and a 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.
• The Titans non-conference schedule is ranked 33rd in the nation as the first nine teams have combined for a 55-30 (64.7%).

GETTING THE FREE ONES

• Detroit Mercy has done a good job at the line this year as the Titans are leading the HL and seventh in the country in free-throw percentage at 78.8 percent. 
• The Titans have connected on at least 20 free throws three times this season and are 96 of their last 118 (81.3%). 
• It helps to have one of the best at the line as sophomore Antoine Davis leads the league and is 35th in the nation (98.7%), while senior Justin Miller is second in the HL and 60th in the nation at 87.5 percent.

BACK IN THE 20'S

• Sophomore Antoine Davis now has 30 career 20-point game in just 39 career collegiate contests.
• He has now scored in double figures in all 39 games - reaching 17 points in 36 of them - and he also nailed a 3-pointer at Notre Dame to extend his three-point shooting streak to 39-straight games, the sixth-longest streak in the country.
• 1. Mack Smith (Eastern Illinois) – 59    
• 2. Justin Jaworski (Lafayette) – 57
• 3. Jaylen Minnett (IUPUI) – 47
• 4. Cameron Healy (Albany) - 43
• 5. Luke Frampton (Davidson) - 40
• 6. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) - 39

DAVIS PASSES DEBUSSCHERE FOR QUICKEST TO 1,000 POINTS 

• Sophomore Antoine Davis scored a team-high 27 points at Notre Dame, but it was his free throw for 26 that made history giving him 1,000 career points in just 39 games, passing 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 reach. 1,000.
• DeBusschere accomplished the feat in his 43rd collegiate on his way to 1,985. 
• Davis is the 43rd player in school history to eclipse 1,000 career points and just the third second-year player joining DeBusschere (who did it as a junior as freshman could not play) and sophomore Ray McCallum in 2010-11.

WATCH YOUR BACK

• Sophomore Antoine Davis tallied 28 steals as a freshman, but he already has 21 so far and is leading the conference and 34th in the nation at 2.3 per game.
• He has a steal in every game and a career-high four at Clemson. 

MILLER TIME

• The Titans got some good news as senior transfer Justin Miller was declared immediately eligible by the NCAA.
• Miller is also approaching 1,000 career points as he has 955 and is averaging 8.4 points and a team-high 6.4 rebounds. 
• He just had 11 points for his fourth double-digit scoring effort of the year to go with six boards at Notre Dame recorded six points and nine boards at Kent State and at Ohio
• 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.  
• 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. 

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 20-of-38 overall and 19-of-35 from three in his last seven games from behind the arc and is averaging 8.8 points in that span.
• He has also hit at least two 3-pointers in six of the first nine games and connected on four in three contests. 
• He was just 4-of-5 from the outside at Notre Dame for 12 points. 
• 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.

WHO WILL START?

• Detroit Mercy saw 13 players start a game last season, the most in the country. The Titans also used 15 different starting line-ups on the year. 
• Through the first nine games, Detroit Mercy has seen nine players start a game and six different starting 5's. 

MOORE, MOORE FOR MARQUIS

• Sophomore Marquis Moore tallied his second career double-double by tying his career best with 12 points and pulling down a team-high 10 rebounds against Eastern Michigan. 
• He posted eight points and nine rebounds at Wyoming and has grabbed at least four rebounds in five of the first nine games
• 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 started his freshman 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 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 at NC State. He was a big reason the Titans outrebounded the Wolfpack, 40-33.
• He tied his career high with six points and pulled down seven rebounds in the win over UC Irvine and 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. 

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. 
• He also has a block in five of the first eight games on the season. 
• 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.
• As a rookie, he shot 60.8 percent from the field, mostly on getting to the rim and putting back offensive rebounds. 

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 nailed five treys en route to 15 points at Ohio. 
• He just had 11 at Notre Dame and continued his prowess from three as 17 of his 19 field goals this season and 37 of 44 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 another strong game on the boards by tying his season-high with six for the second-straight game, while adding four points, three steals and a block at Kent State.
• He also pulled 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. 

LONE STAR TRANSFER

• Another graduate senior will don the red, white and blue is B.J. Maxwell. 
• He played three years with Abilene Christian University, seeing action in 72 games with 21 starts and averaging 5.4 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.0 assists, while shooting 48.3 percent from the field and 40.3 percent from behind the arc.
• He tallied 9.2 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 24 games in 2018-19 and shot 49.1 percent from the field and 40.5 percent from three.

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.