YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (2/1/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team closes out a four-game road trip Saturday afternoon, visiting Horizon League foe Youngstown State for a 1 p.m. ET contest from the Beeghly Center in Youngstown, Ohio. The game may be seen live via ESPN3.com and the WatchESPN Application.
 

Game 22 // Detroit Mercy (3-18, 1-9 HL) vs. Youngstown State (16-5, 8-2 HL)
Dates / Time	Saturday, Feb. 2 // 1:00 PM ET
Location / Tickets	Youngstown, Ohio (Beeghly Center) // Tickets
Live Stats	YSU Live Stats
Live Stream	ESPN3.com & WatchESPN Applications
Social Media	Twitter (In-game Tweets): @Detroit_WBB | Facebook | Instagram
All-Time Series	Titans lead, 23-21 // Last Meeting: YSU 85, Titans 59 (12/28/18)

Quick Hits
• Senior guard Lola Ristovski tied her career-high with 17 points at Cleveland State on Thursday. She was 5-of-10 from the floor and 5-of-5 from the FT line. Her other 17-point game in her career came as a freshman against Valparaiso.

• Detroit Mercy's 176 steals on the season has tied for the single-season in head coach Bernard Scott's tenure with the Titans. The Titans also had 176 steals during the 2016-17 season. Junior Zoey Oatis has a team-high 42 steals.

• Freshman Alex Burr became the fifth Titan freshmen this season to score in double figures at Cleveland State on Thursday. Burr made all five field goals and had 10 points. Titan freshmen have 14 double-figure scoring games in 2018-19.

• The Titans lead all Horizon League teams in 3-point field goal defense, holding opponents to a 28.0 percent shooting clip.

Last Time Out
Senior guard Lola Ristovski tied her career-high with 17 points and freshman forward Alex Burr made all five field goal attempts and scored a career-best 10 points, but the Titans fell at Cleveland State on Thursday, 67-51.

Ristovski was 5-of-10 from the floor in the game and sank all five free throw attempts. She made two 3-pointers. Burr scored 10 points in 11 minutes played, adding five rebounds for the Titans. It was the first double-figure scoring game in her career.

Detroit Mercy, which trailed by double figures at the break, went on a 7-0 run to start the fourth quarter, scoring three buckets in the opening 45 seconds of the frame. Burr and Ristovski combined for 14 of Detroit Mercy's 20 points in the final stanza, but couldn't overcome the deficit in the setback to the Vikings. Freshman Sophia DiMilia added a team-high six rebounds.

Scouting Youngstown State
Youngstown State opened up the second half of Horizon League play Thursday evening with a 76-61 home victory over Oakland to improve to 8-2 in league play on the season. YSU is 6-0 in HL home contests and 12-1 at home overall this season. The Penguins are on a four-game win steak overall entering Saturday's game.

Four players average in double figures in a balanced scoring attack with Sarah Cash (13.5 ppg), Mary Dunn (13.4 ppg) and Alison Smolinski (13.1 ppg) all in the top-eight in the Horizon League in scoring. Chelsea Olson also averages in double figures and ranks seventh in the league in rebounding (7.4 rpg) and first in assists per game (4.3). As a team, YSU is first in 3-pointers made (172), assists (325), free throw percentage (76.3) and field goal percentage (41.7) in the Horizon League.

All-Time Series
Detroit Mercy holds a 23-21 mark against Youngstown State in the all-time series, dating back to 1983. The Titans are 8-14 in road contests and 3-4 under head coach Bernard Scott in the past four seasons.

The Titans have dropped the past three to YSU, falling 85-59 earlier this season in the HL opener on Dec. 28 to the Penguins. Detroit Mercy had won three-straight over YSU prior to the current three-game skid.

Up Next
Detroit Mercy returns home for five of its next seven games, including next Saturday's Metro Series contest with Oakland at 1 p.m. The following weekend, Detroit Mercy hosts UIC on Thursday, Feb. 14 and then IUPUI on Saturday, Feb. 16. Saturday's game will be the annual National Girls & Women's in Sports Day as well as the annual Pink Game.