DETROIT (2/6/2019) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will be away from Calihan Hall for a few weeks as the Titans start a five-game road swing on Thursday when they visit first-place NKU.

Game time is set for 7 p.m. at BB&T Arena and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ as well as over the airwaves on 910 AM Superstation.

NKU is coming off a pair of road losses at IUPUI and at UIC, but still stands in first place in the Horizon League at 18-6 overall and 8-3 in the conference, while the Titans are currently tied for fourth at 9-14, 6-5 in the league. 

Senior Gerald Blackshear Jr. is coming off a career week averaging 10.0 points and 12.5 rebounds, posting a career-high 14 rebounds against Cleveland State and his first career double-double with a career-best 14 points and 11 rebounds against Youngstown State.

Freshman Antoine Davis comes into the game second in the nation in scoring at 27.1 points, trailing Campbell's senior guard Chris Clemons' 29.2. He also leads the nation with 102 triples and 4.64, 3-pointers per game and is third in total points (597) and fifth in field goals (200). 

Davis' 102 triples on the season is already a Titan freshman record and tied for second in school history. He is currently 13th in NCAA history for 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.

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This is just the eighth career meeting between the two schools as NKU leads the all-time series, 6-1.
• NKU has won five in a row and is 2-1 against the Titans at BB&T Arena. 

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 153-111 (57.9%) 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. 
• In total, the Titans' 12 non-conference opponents posted a 213-182 record (53.9%) last season, and four teams making the postseason with NCAA appearances by Butler and Xavier, a NIT team in Temple and one CIT opponent in Eastern Michigan. 

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 topped the team with 23 points against Youngstown State and has led the team in scoring 21 times, while sharing the team high with 29 alongside Josh McFolley against Green Bay, giving him a lead or share of the top effort in all 22 games he has played. 
• He now has 16, 20-point games, eight 30+ performances and a pair of 40-point efforts in his first 21 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 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.

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 (102) and total points (597).
• He passed former Titan great Ray McCallum (446 in 2009-10) and John Long (445 in 1974-75) in the total point category and Corey Allen for points in a game (33) and 3-pointers (79).

DAVIS OWNS THREE HORIZON LEAGUE MARKS

• Freshman Antoine Davis also owns a few Horizon League freshman records for points in a game (48), 3-pointers in a season (102) and points in a season (597) as he recently passed former UIC standout Dikembe Dixson's 594 point total in 2015-16.

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 27.1 points, trailing Campbell's senior guard Chris Clemons' 29.2. 
• He leads the nation with 102 triples and 4.64, 3-pointers per game and is third in total points (597) and fifth in field goals (200). 
• Davis also leads the Horizon League and 62nd in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (40.6%), fourth in the HL and 47th in DI in free throw percentage (86.4%) and first in the conference and eighth in the country in minutes per game (37:22). 

SHOOTING HIS WAY TO RECORDS

• Freshman Antoine Davis already has 102 triples on the season, a Titan freshman record and already tied for second in school history. 
• He is currently 13th in NCAA history for 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.

ZONE PRINCIPLES

• The Titans have frustrated teams at times trying to shoot the three ball as they are holding teams to 32.9 percent from behind the arc, third 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. 

ANOTHER FOREIGN TITAN

• Detroit Mercy freshman Willy Isiani made his long-awaited debut against NKU and scored nine points, hitting three 3-pointers in just 11 minutes of action, until he suffered a head injury that kept him out for a few games. 
• He came back with four more 3-pointers at Oakland, finishing with 12 points. 
• He tallied 20 points nailing six more from downtown at IUPUI and finished with 11 points, six rebounds and four assists against Cleveland State. 
• A native of Tbilisi, Georgia, Isiani, was at ASI Prep in California last year and averaged 8.4 points and 4.0 rebounds, while shooting 40.0 percent from three. 
• Prior to that, he suited up overseas for CB Gran Canaria and Gran Canaria B in Spain and MIA Academy Tbilisi and played in the 2017 FIBA U-20 European Championship Division B for Georgia. 
• He was also the MVP in the 16-U Georgia National Championship and the U-18 Tbilisi Championship
• He is believed to be the first Titan from the country of Georgia. 

NO JOSHING AROUND

• Senior Josh McFolley - who was named the HL Player of the Week on Jan. 14 - scored a season-high 29 points - his 13th career 20-point game - hitting 10-of-16 from the field and 6-of-9 from three with five steals against Green Bay and came back with 18 points against Milwaukee. 
• He is now averaging 12.3 points - 19th in the HL - 3.0 assists, 2.1 rebounds and an HL best 1.9 steals per game. 
• He netted 19 points with five assists at IUPUI. 
• He had 19 points with a season-high seven rebounds off the bench at Akron and tallied nine points and tied his season high for the third time this year 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 last week 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 is now shooting 64.6 percent from the field on the season and 60.6 in his career and leads the team with 5.3 rebounds per game. 
• 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.

1,322 & COUNTING

• After scoring 11 points against Youngstown State, senior Josh McFolley is 22nd in school history with 1,322 points, 19 shy of 21st place.

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.
• He also has registered four steals at Xavier, at Temple and against Kent State. 
• He now has 44 steals on the year and leads the Horizon League and is 59th in the nation with 1.91 steals per game.
• The 190 thefts are tied for third in school history, just six away from the school record. 
• 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 88 of his 116 career games, including 44 multi-steal contests and 27 with at least three takeaways.

KING ME

• Graduate senior Derrien King was back in double figures with 13 points, while grabbing a career-high nine rebounds and handing out three assists against Cleveland State.
• He has now reached double figures in scoring 12 times on the year.
• He posted 16 points against Milwaukee, 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.

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.
• He is averaging 6.6 points and 6.4 rebounds in his last five  games tallying his first career double-double with 11 points and a season-high 10 boards against Green Bay.
• 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 posted six points and seven boards versus Oakland. 
• In his Titan debut, he scored 16 points with three rebounds and two blocks at Toledo. 
• He then had 12 points with four rebounds, a block and a steal against Ohio, 12 points, six rebounds, three steals and two blocks at Youngstown State and 10 points at CSU. 
• 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. 

HAMRICK TIME

• Junior Lamar Hamrick has been effective on defense and is second on the team with 27 total steals and tied for fourth in the Horizon League with 1.4 steals per game. 
• He has also had his moments on offense as he is coming off an 11-point, seven-rebound, three-assists effort against Youngstown State.
• He scored 14 points with four rebounds and four steals hitting 6-of-8 from the field at UIC. 
• He posted a season and game-high 11 rebounds with six points, three steals and two assists at Cleveland State and that was after recording 10 points and a game-high eight rebounds along with four assists and two steals at Youngstown State.
• He started the season with 13 points - 10 in the second half - to go with a team-high four steals at WMU and pulled down a team-high nine boards with four assists against Kent State. 
• He had a season-high 16 points at Dayton with three steals.