SPOKANE, Wash. (12/30/2019) -- Senior Justin Miller had a special moment scoring his 1,000th career point and sophomore Antoine Davis netted a game-high 31 as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team fell, 93-72, on the road to top-ranked Gonzaga on Monday night.

It was the sixth time in school history that the Titans have played the No. 1 school in the country and the first since Michigan in the 1977 NCAA Tournament in Dick Vitale's final game as a head coach. 

Davis was 11-of-23 from the field and 5-of-11 from behind the arc with five rebounds. Sophomore Chris Brandon had his first career double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds to go with a career-best five blocks and Miller ended with a season-high 17 points, four rebounds and three assists. 

Detroit Mercy (2-12) shot nearly 50.0 percent in the first half of play as they battled Gonzaga (14-1) early on. It was 6-6 in the first two minutes of play before the Zags went on a run to open a double-digit lead. 

The Titans would go on a couple of 7-0 runs in the game and Davis was feeling it all around, hitting a couple of baskets with defenders around him.

Miller scored 11 of his 17 in the second half and got inside for his 1,000 point with just over three minutes to go.

Detroit Mercy finished the game shooting 42.2 percent with nine from the outside and were also 9-of-12 at the line. The Titans were also outrebounded by just five, 40-35.

The Titans will now get back into Horizon League play as they welcome NKU into Calihan Hall on Friday, Jan. 3, in a 7 p.m. tip. 

First Period:

• Miller had an early jump shot to make it 2-1
• Miller then fed Brandon for a layup to knot the score at 4-4
• Miller then added another basket to tie it at 6-6
• Gonzaga went on a 15-0 run until sophomore Alonde LeGrand ended that with a layup
• Off a steal by Brandon, he found Miller and the big man powered his way to a layup to cut it to 30-16 with 8:49 left
• Davis then buried a triple to make it 32-19 with 7:35 remaining
• Moore and sophomore Willy Isiani hit back-to-back 3-pointers and it was 39-27 with 5:17 remaining
• Junior Jordan Gorman nailed a trifecta to bring the Titans within 10, 40-30, at the 4:53 mark
• Isiani hit a 3-pointer and it was 50-35 with under two minutes to go

Second Period:

• Davis knocked down a 3-pointer to make it 65-40 with 15:42 left
• That was followed by a basket by Davis and a layup from Brandon for a 7-0 run
• Davis hit another three with a little more than 11 minutes left to cut it to 69-47
• Miller had a basket and a free throw down low and then Davis hit a three for a 77-58 game with 6:39 remaining
• Miller scored his 1,000 point at the 3:20 mark

Game Notes:

• Detroit Mercy still leads the all-time series, 2-1, with an 80-75 home win on Dec. 19, 1960, and a 49-48 win in the first round of the Hawkeye Classic on Dec. 4, 1998, played in Iowa City, Iowa
• The Titan non-conference opponents on the season are now 98-67 (59.3%) on the year
• Detroit Mercy is now 20-131 all-time against ranked teams, including dropping its last 27 games against top-25 squads with its last win on Jan. 10, 2002, when the Titans earned a 63-54 triumph over No. 23/24 Butler in Calihan Hall.
• Detroit Mercy is now 2-4 all-time against the top-ranked teams in the country with both wins coming in 1951-52 as the Titans defeated Bradley on the road, 70-65, and Oklahoma A&M - now Oklahoma State - at home, 62-52
• The last time the Titans played against #1 was in the second round of the 1977 NCAA Tournament against Michigan, an 86-81 setback in the final game coached by Dick Vitale before he took over the Pistons the following season
• The game marks a meeting between two of the 28 Jesuit Universities in the United States as the Titans and Bulldogs are also two of the 20 Jesuit programs that are Division I
• Detroit Mercy is 208-239 all-time against its fellow Jesuit brothers
• Davis came into the contest third in the country and leading the Horizon League in scoring at 25.2 points per game
• Davis now has 13 career 30-point outings in just 43 collegiate contests 
• Davis is now 30th in school history with 1,117 career points
• Brandon has now pulled down double-digit rebounds in three-straight games and is averaging 10.2 boards in his last five contests
• Miller's previous Titan high was 14 against UC Irvine and his career-high is 22 at Kansas