DETROIT (2/26/2019) -- All eyes will be in Calihan Hall on Thursday to see if a NCAA record is broken as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team welcomes IUPUI to the Motor City.

Game time is set for 8 p.m. and will be televised live on ESPN+ and locally on WADL-38 with Jeremy Otto and Earl Cureton on the call as well as over the airwaves on 910 AM Superstation with the Voice of the Titans Dan Hasty.

Freshman Antoine Davis comes into the contest with 121, 3-pointers on the season, just behind Stephen Curry's NCAA freshman mark of 122 at Davison in 2006-07. He is also sixth in school history with 709 points, 76 shy of Rashad Phillips' 785 in 2000-01. 

Detroit Mercy is 10-18 overall and 7-9 in the Horizon League as the Titans will look to end the year at .500 in league play for the first time in three seasons. The Titans can earn a share of fourth place in the standings with two wins and some help, but the red, white and blue already know that due to tiebreakers, they can't finish higher than sixth in the standings. 

IUPUI is still in the hunt to host a first-round game in the quarterfinals of #MotorCityMadness as the Jaguars are 16-13, 8-8 in the conference. They beat the Titans, 80-65, back in January ina game where Davis did not play due to an injury. 

Tickets to the game for fans start at just $10 and can be purchased at Detroittitans.com/tix.

It will also be Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day at both the men's and women's basketball games (women will start the action at 5 p.m.). All Titan faculty and staff. We will have snacks and beverages available to you between games in the Ed & Brooks Room where you can mingle with fellow faculty and staff members.  Associate AD for Student-Athlete Services, Holly Kerstner will host that reception and we will also honor the Athletic Director's Honor Roll during the men's game. The women's game begins at 5:00 pm and tickets are only $4.00!  This ticket will be valid for both games if you arrive before half-time of the women's game. 

#MOTORCITYMADNESS

• The 2019 Little Caesars Horizon League Men's and Women's Championships tickets are now on sale to the general public. 
• Tickets may be found at HorizonLeague.com, the Little Caesars Arena XFINITY Box Office, or by calling the Little Caesars Arena Ticket Sales and Service Office at 313-471-7575. Ticket prices for the semifinals and championship for Motor City Madness, which will take place March 11-12, begin at $15 per day. Semifinal and Championship combo tickets can be purchased beginning at $25.
• Quarterfinal games will take place on campus sites on March 5-6. Each campus site will separately announce their quarterfinal ticketing plans. 

ALL-TIME MATCH-UP

• Despite being just about a four and a half hour drive, the Titans and Jaguars had never faced each other before IUPUI joined the Horizon League last year. 
• IUPUI moved to Division I in 1998-98 and was independent for two seasons before joining the Mid-Continent (now the Summit League) in 2000-01.   
• The Titans split the series last year winning at home, 74-60, but the Jaguars have won both meetings in Indianapolis. 

TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SLATE

• Detroit Mercy's basketball non-conference schedule was one of the toughest in the country with nine road games and teams posting a 185-141 (56.7%) record so far. Eight of the 12 teams have winning records on the season. 
• The schedule was featured as the 14th hardest by ESPN's BPI standard in an article released on Dec. 17. 

AD GETTING BUCKETS

• Antoine Davis led the team with 20 points at Oakland and has led the team in scoring 26 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 27 games he has played in. He missed the game at IUPUI with an injury. 
• He now has 20, 20-point games, eight 30+ performances and a pair of 40-point efforts in his first 27 collegiate games, the only freshman in school history with two 40-point outings. 
• He is one of just three freshmen in Division I to score in double figures in every game they have played on the year (RJ Barrett-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 20, 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 121 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 (121) and total points (709).
• 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 (121) and points in a season (7099) as he passed former UIC standout Dikembe Dixson's 594 point total in 2015-16.
• In terms of overall league history, his current 26.3 ppg., is tied for second overall to Loyola's Alfredrick Hughes' 27.6 ppg., in 1983-84.
• Davis' 121 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 among the leaders in a few national categories. 
• Davis is third in the nation in scoring at 26.3 points, trailing Campbell senior Chris Clemons' 30.1 and Hofstra's Justin Wright-Foreman's 26.6.
• He is tied for second in the country with 121 triples with Clemons and behind Fletcher Magee of Wofford's 126, and is second in 3-pointers per game at 4.48, trailing only Magee's 4.50.
• Davis is fourth in total points (709) and seventh in field goals (238). 
• Davis is also fourth in the Horizon League and 81st in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (38.8%), fourth in the HL and 56th in DI in free throw percentage (85.5%) and first in the conference and 11th in the country in minutes per game (37:18). 

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 76th in the nation with 1.79 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 121 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 - 18th in the HL - 2.6 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 1.79 steals. 
• 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 had 19 points at Green Bay and scored 19 points with five assists at IUPUI. 
• McFolley scored 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. is coming off his seventh career double-digit rebounding game with 10 boards to go with eight points and two steals at Oakland.
• He 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 Kam 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. 
• He is now shooting 65.3 percent on the season and 60.6 in his career and is leading the team with 4.9 boards 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 an inside presence for the Titans as he is second on the team with 4.7 rebounds per night. 
• He is averaging 9.3 points and 5.8 rebounds hitting 49.2 percent from the field in his last 10 games, tallying his first career double-double with 11 points and a season-high 10 boards against Green Bay and scoring 13 points in just 17 minutes at Oakland. 
• 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. 
• 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. 

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 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 13 players start a game this season, the most in the country. 
• Detroit Mercy has also used 14 different starting line-ups on the year. 

ZONE PRINCIPLES

• The Titans have frustrated teams at times trying to shoot the three ball as they are holding teams to 34.1 percent from behind the arc, fourth in the Horizon League. 
• Last year, the Titans ended the season ranked 333rd in three-point field goal percentage defense (39.7%). 
• Overall, the defense has held teams to shooting 44.0 percent or less in 11 games on the year. 

1,397 & COUNTING

• After scoring 14 points at Oakland, senior Josh McFolley is now 19th in school history with 1,397 points, just seven shy of passing Juwan Howard Jr. for 18th place. 

TAKE IT AWAY

• Detroit Mercy is second in the conference and 37th in DI with 7.9 steals per game.
• The Titans tied a season high with 12 steals at UIC, matching the total they had against Green Bay and Ohio. 
• Detroit Mercy is fourth in the HL forcing 14.1 turnovers per game, including 19 against Green Bay, 18 at Youngstown State and versus Wright State and 17 against Milwaukee. 

TAKING CARE OF THE BALL

• Detroit Mercy has seen its offense struggle at times, but not because it is turning it over. 
• The Titans are first in the HL and 51st in Division I committing just 11.6 per game.
• Detroit Mercy had just six turnovers at Oakland and a season-low five turnovers on the road at Cleveland State and now has nine games with less than 10 turnovers on the year.

LET IT FLY

• Detroit Mercy is third in the Horizon League with 9.4 triples per game, 37th in the country, and fourth in the HL and 110th in DI in three-point field goal percentage (35.9). 
• The Titans have nailed 264 treys on the year, tying a school record with 17 against Loyola Maryland. 
• The 264 makes are 34th in the nation and just 15 shy of the school mark of 279 in 2000-01.