DETROIT (12/9/2019) -- It will be a throwback to an old Catholic showdown as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team visits the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame on Tuesday, Dec. 10.

Game time is set for 7 p.m., and will be broadcast live on the ACC Network and the Watch ESPN APP as well as over the air on 910 AM Superstation with Dan Hasty calling the contest. 

These two programs first met in 1912 and played consistently in the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 1950's and 1960's, but this will be just the sixth match-up since 1970. Overall, while Detroit Mercy has captured two of the last three meetings (1992, 1993), Notre Dame owns a 41-12 mark in the series. 

Detroit Mercy is looking for a big win as the Titans enter the game at 1-7 - with seven of those games on the road - while Notre Dame is 6-3 and coming off back-to-back losses at Maryland and at home versus Boston College. 

Following the game, Detroit Mercy will return home for three-straight games starting with Toledo in town on Dec. 14. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This is a battle of two Catholic rivals, which started in 1912 as Notre Dame leads the all-time series, 41-12, including 19-4 at home.
• The Titans have actually won two of the last three, but the last meeting was in 2011 as the Fighting Irish claimed a 59-53 win. 

NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE RANKED 36TH 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 36th in the nation as the first eight teams have combined for a 48-27 mark (64.0%).

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 seventh in the country in free-throw percentage at 80.0 percent. 
• The Titans have connected on at least 20 free throws three times this season and are 90 of their last 108 (83.3%). 
• It helps to have one of the best at the line as sophomore Antoine Davis and senior Justin Miller lead the league and are 42nd in the nation at 89.3 percent.

BACK IN THE 20'S

• Sophomore Antoine Davis now has 29 career 20-point game in just 38 career collegiate contests.
• He has now scored in double figures in all 38 games - reaching 17 points in 35 of them - and he also nailed four 3-pointers against EMU to extend his three-point shooting streak to 38-straight games, the sixth-longest streak in the country.
• 1. Mack Smith (Eastern Illinois) – 57    
• 2. Justin Jaworski (Lafayette) – 55
• 3. Jaylen Minnett (IUPUI) – 44
• 4. Cameron Healy (Albany) - 40
• 5. Luke Frampton (Davidson) - 39
• 6. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) - 38

CAN HE UP DEBUSSCHERE 

• Antoine Davis scored a Titan and HL-freshman record 784 points last season in 30 games, and he already has 190 points in his first eight games to give him 974 in 38 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.
• If he reaches that, he will become the 43rd player in school history to eclipse 1,000 career points and just the third second-year player joining DeBusschere and sophomore Ray McCallum in 2010-11.

WATCH YOUR BACK

• Sophomore Antoine Davis tallied 28 steals as a freshman, but he already has 19 so far and is leading the conference and 31st 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 944 and is averaging 8.1 points and 6.1 rebounds. 
• He has record six points and nine boards in his last two games and posted his third double-digit scoring outing of the season with 12 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. 
• 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. 

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 16-of-33 overall and 15-of-30 from three in his last six games from behind the arc and is averaging 8.3 points per game. 
• He has also hit at least two 3-pointers in five of the first eight games. 
• 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 eight games, Detroit Mercy has seen nine players start a game and five different starting 5's. 

MOORE, MOORE FOR MARQUIS

• Sophomore Marquis Moore is coming off 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 eight 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.