DETROIT (2/21/2019) -- It is rivalry week and that means another #MetroSeries showdown as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team visits Oakland on Saturday. 

Game time is set for 3 p.m. at the O'Rena and will be broadcast live on ESPN3 and on TV-20 or you can listen to the Voice of the Titans Dan Hasty on 910 AM Superstation.

The game is another pivotal one and one that could decide who gets a home playoff game in the first round of #MotorCityMadness. Detroit Mercy is 10-17 on the season and 7-8 in conference play, while Oakland is 12-16, 8-7 in league action. 

The Titans have not clinched a playoff spot, but can with a win or one Milwaukee loss in its final four games (at IUPUI, at UIC, vs. NKU, vs. WSU). 

The game could also be a record-breaking one for freshman Antoine Davis as he enters the contest with 118, 3-pointers, tied for the second most in NCAA history by a freshman with Trae Young last year and four in back of Stephen Curry's freshman record 122 in 2006-07.

ALL-TIME MATCH-UP

• This is the 24th career meeting between the two schools, located roughly 26 miles apart.
• Detroit Mercy leads the overall series, 13-10, but Oakland has won nine of the last 11 since joining the Horizon League in 2013-14. 
• The Titans are also 1-5 on the road with their lone win in 2017, 93-88. 

DAVIS LOOKING FOR FIRST WIN VS. KAMPE

• This is the first year head coach Mike Davis is part of the #MetroSeries, but the second-straight year he has faced Oakland as his Texas Southern team fell, 97-87, at the O'Rena last season.
• His TSU squad also dropped a 71-69 contest at home in 2012. 

FAMILY FUN

• Nothing new for the Titans to have a family connection in the program and this season, Detroit Mercy will feature three Davis' in head coach Mike Davis, assistant coach Mike Davis Jr. and freshman guard Antoine Davis.
• From 2010-13, the Titans had head coach Ray McCallum and star guard Ray McCallum winning the Horizon League Championship in 2012 and earning a trip to the NIT in 2013.

AD GETTING BUCKETS

• Antoine Davis led the team with 22 points at Green Bay and has led the team in scoring 25 times, while sharing the team high with 29 alongside Josh McFolley at home against Green Bay, giving him a lead or share of the top effort in all 26 games he has played. 
• He now has 19, 20-point games, eight 30+ performances and a pair of 40-point efforts in his first 26 collegiate games, the only freshman in school history with two 40-point outings. 
• He is one of just four freshmen in Division I to score in double figures in every game they have played on the year (RJ Barrett & Zion Williamson-Duke, Lamine Diane-Cal State Northridge)
• To start the year, he posted eight-straight 20-point games, the first Titan to have eight-straight games with 20 or more since Willie Green's 10 in a row as a senior in 2002-03.
• His 19, 20-point games are the most by a Titan since Green tallied 22 in 2002-03. 
• His eight 30-point games on the season are the most since Archie Tullos had 10 in 1987-88.

ABOUT THAT 48-POINT GAME

• Antoine Davis' season-high 48 points against Wright State was the fourth most in league play in Horizon League history and the most since LaSalle's Kareem Townes had 52 against Loyola (Ill) in 1995. 
• The 48 points is the sixth most by a league player against any competition in the 40 years of the Horizon League.
• He is also the third freshman since 1996-97 to score at least 48 points joining Oklahoma's  Trae Young's 48 points against Oklahoma State last season and St. Peter's Keydren Clark's 48 against Northern Arizona in 2002.

SHOOTING HIS WAY TO RECORDS

• Antoine Davis already has 118 triples on the season, a Titan freshman record and second in school history, trailing only legendary scorer Rashad Phillips' 136 in 2000-01. 
• He is currently second in NCAA history for the most 3-pointers by a freshman as he is chasing the NCAA record for most 3-pointers by a freshman, held by Stephen Curry, who had 122 at Davidson in 2006-07.

DAVIS ALREADY WITH 3 TITAN FRESHMAN RECORDS

• Freshman Antoine Davis has already taken down three Titan freshman records this season in points in a game (48), 3-pointers in a season (118) and total points (689).
• He passed former Titan great Ray McCallum (446 in 2009-10) in the total point category and Corey Allen for points in a game (33) and 3-pointers (79).

ANTOINE OWNS THREE HORIZON LEAGUE MARKS, LOOKING FOR MORE

• Freshman Antoine Davis also owns a few Horizon League freshman records for points in a game (48), 3-pointers in a season (118) and points in a season (689) as he passed former UIC standout Dikembe Dixson's 594 point total in 2015-16.
• In terms of overall league history, his current 26.5 ppg., is second overall to Loyola's Alfredrick Hughes' 27.6 ppg., in 1983-84.
• Davis' 118 triples are the fifth most behind  Butler's Darrin Fitzgerald's 158 in 1986-87, Oakland's Travis Bader's 147 in 2013-14, Detroit Mercy's Rashad Phillips' 136 in 2000-01, and Oakland's Kendrick Nunn's 134 last year.

DAVIS AMONG NATION'S LEADERS

• Freshman Antoine Davis - the six-time HL Freshman of the Week and two-time Player of the Week - comes into the contest leading the nation in three national categories and among the leaders in a few others.
• Davis is second in the nation in scoring at 26.5 points, trailing Campbell senior Chris Clemons' 29.8, and second with 118 triples, behind Fletcher Magee of Wofford's 121. 
• He leads the nation in 3-pointers per game (4.54), fourth in total points (689) and fifth in field goals (232). 
• Davis is also fifth in the Horizon League and 79th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (39.1%), sixth in the HL and 57th in DI in free throw percentage (85.6%) and first in the conference and 10th in the country in minutes per game (37:14). 

PICKING YOUR POCKET

• Senior Josh McFolley has been a thief all of his Titan career and posted a season-high five steals against Green Bay at home in January. 
• He also has registered four steals at Xavier, at Temple and against Kent State. 
• He now has 50 steals on the year and is second in the Horizon League and 70th in the nation with 1.85 steals per game.
• McFolley's 196 thefts is also first in school history as he just passed Jerry Davis' 195 (1978-82). 
• He led the team and was tied for second in the HL with 1.5 steals per game last year as his 49 steals was the second most in the league. 
• In his career, he has recorded a steal in 92 of his 120 career games, including 46 multi-steal contests and 27 with at least three takeaways.

NO JOSHING AROUND

• Senior Josh McFolley - who was named the HL Player of the Week on Jan. 14 - scored 22 points at Milwaukee- his 14th career 20-point game 
• He is now averaging 12.8 points - 17th in the HL - 2.7 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.85 steals per game. 
• His best scoring game this year came against Green Bay at home as he netted a season-high 29 points hitting 10-of-16 from the field and 6-of-9 from three with five steals. 
• He just had 19 points in the road game at Green Bay and scored 19 points with five assists at IUPUI. 
• He had 19 points with a season-high seven rebounds off the bench at Akron and tied his season high with six assists at Xavier. 
• In the HL opener at Youngstown State, McFolley ended with 14 points, while tallying 15 points, five rebounds, three assists and three steals at Cleveland State. 

G CRASHING THE GLASS

• Senior Gerald Blackshear Jr. had a pair of career games against Cleveland State and Youngstown State.
• He tallied his first career double-double with a career-best 14 points and 11 rebounds versus the Penguins, going 6-of-8 from the field.
• Two days before, he pulled down a career-high 14 rebounds with a career-tying three blocks against Cleveland State and that was just one week after scoring a then career-best 13 points at UIC with eight rebounds and a career-tying three steals.
• The 14 boards was the most since Kameron Chatman's 16 against Houston Baptist last year.
• He pulled down eight rebounds in 21 minutes against Oakland and recorded a game-high eight rebounds against Wright State, doing a good job of helping the Titans contain the Raiders' big guys in a win. 
• In the season opener at Western Michigan, he registered eight points and a team-high 10 rebounds in just 23 minutes of court time.
• He is now shooting 64.3 percent from the field on the season and 60.6 in his career and is second on the team with 4.7 rebounds per game.  

WE GOT OUR CURRY

• It was a long road for junior Harrison Curry to get back on the court, but he has added a much-needed inside presence for the Titans, leading the team at 4.9 rebounds per night. 
• He is averaging 9.0 points and 6.2 rebounds hitting 48.2 percent from the field in his last nine games, tallying his first career double-double with 11 points and a season-high 10 boards against Green Bay.
• Curry tied his season high with 16 points, going 7-of-11 from the field with eight rebounds at Wright State and had 16 points at Milwaukee. 
• He missed two games against Cleveland State and Youngstown State with an injury, but before that, he registered nine points and tied for the team lead with seven boards, swatting a career-high three blocks at IUPUI.
• Curry also had seven points and tied for the team lead with eight boards against Milwaukee and had six points and seven boards versus Oakland. 
• In his Titan debut, he scored 16 points with three rebounds and two blocks at Toledo. 
• After playing just one game at Louisiana Tech last year before an injury in the season opener forced him to miss the year, he transferred to Detroit Mercy and applied for a waiver to play immediately.
• He missed the first nine games this year before it was approved by the NCAA. 

1,383 & COUNTING

• After scoring 19 points at Green Bay, senior Josh McFolley is 20th in school history with 1,383 points, just four shy of passing Chase Simon for 19th in school history. 

MCFOLLEY FOR 3

• Senior Josh McFolley now has 222 career 3-pointers, fourth in school history and three away from Dwayne Kelly's third-place mark. 
• He tied his season high going 6-of-9 from three against Green Bay as he was 6-of-10 from distance at Eastern Michigan. 

MOORE BOARDS

• Freshman Marquis Moore has given some quality minutes this season and was huge on the boards at Milwaukee, pulling down a season-high 11.
• He had seven rebounds against Youngstown State and at IUPUI and netted a season-best 11 points with five rebounds versus Oakland. 

KING ME

• Graduate senior Derrien King was in double figures for the 14th time this year scoring 14 points at Green Bay and that was after netting 12 at Milwaukee - 10 in the second half. 
• He has been in double figures in nine Horizon League games and the Titans are 7-2 in those contests. 
• King scored 13 points, grabbed a career-high nine rebounds and handed out three assists against Cleveland State.
• He posted 16 points against Milwaukee at home, his second highest output of the season.
• He had 11 points and five rebounds against Green Bay and scored 15 at Cleveland State, 11 versus Wright State and 14 against NKU. 
• He also grabbed eight rebounds at Xavier and had six boards at Cleveland State. 
• He was named to the Legends Classic Subregional All-Tournament Team after recording 15.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists, while nailing eight triples in wins over Loyola Maryland and Bowling Green. 
• He had 14 points and a career-tying seven rebounds in the title game versus BGSU and that was after scoring a season-high 17 points - hitting four 3-pointers - with four rebounds, two assists a steal and a block.

WHO WILL START?

• Detroit Mercy has seen 12 players start a game this season, the most in the country. 
• Detroit Mercy has also used 13 different starting line-ups on the year.