DETROIT (3/1/2019) -- It will be a day of celebration and one final tune-up before the postseason begins as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team welcomes the UIC Flames into Calihan Hall on Saturday.

Game time is set for 4 p.m. and will be part of a Titan doubleheader on ESPN+ and WADL as the women hosts NKU at 1 p.m. The men's game can also be heard over the air on 910 AM Superstation.

The game is also the final home contest for the Titans as they already know the quest for a championship will start on the road as they can't earn higher than a sixth seed in #MotorCityMadness.  

Detroit Mercy and UIC will actually both start on the road in the playoffs, but their opponents are still to be decided as a log jam all over the conference has a number of scenarios that can play out, with the red, white and blue going anywhere between a sixth and eighth seed and also traveling to Green Bay, NKU, Oakland or Wright State. 

Before the game, the Titans will honor their five-man senior class in Gerald Blackshear Jr., Musial Gjysma, Jacob Holland, Derrien King and Josh McFolley as well as graduating junior Cole Long. 

Detroit Mercy saw one long-range record fall as freshman Antoine Davis broke the NCAA freshman single-season mark for 3-pointers with his 123rd to overtake Stephen Curry's 122 that he had at Davidson in 2006-07, and he is now up to 125 on the year, 11 away from the school record.

Detroit Mercy has also nailed 274 treys on the year,  just five shy of the school high of 279 in 2000-01. 

Tickets to the game start at just $10 and can be purchased by clicking here.

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

• UIC has won five in a row and six of the last eight games, but Detroit Mercy leads the overall series, 31-20.
• The Titans also own the all-time series at home to the tune of a 19-7 advantage.

LAST TIME OUT

• Freshman Antoine Davis netted 20 points and broke the NCAA's freshman 3-point record, senior Josh McFolley scored a game-high 23 points and the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team edged IUPUI, 87-85. 
• Three minutes into the second half, Davis broke Stephen Curry's NCAA single-season record for freshman 3-pointers, sinking his 123rd triple of the year. Davis entered the contest needing just two 3-pointers to break the mark.
• McFolley shot 9-of-15 from the field and added a game-high two steals, while Davis dished a game-high six assists. Freshman Marquis Moore posted the first double-double of his career with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
• The Titans and IUPUI traded the lead multiple times in the second half, but the red, white and blue went up for good after McFolley drained a triple with 45 seconds left.
• Detroit Mercy won all three phases of the rebounding battle — 32-29 overall, 13-12 offensive and 19-17 defensive — and had the edge in fast break points (10-7), steals (7-6) and points off turnovers (18-12).
• In all, six Titans were in double figures scoring, as senior Gerald Blackshear Jr. (12 points), junior Lamar Hamrick (10 points) and graduate student Derrien King (10 points) joined McFolley, Davis and Moore.
• Blackshear shot 5-of-5 from the field and grabbed six rebounds. Hamrick totaled four steals and went 6-for-8 from the charity stripe, leading the Titans 17-for-20 effort.

POSTSEASON POSSIBILITIES?

• Detroit Mercy has already clinched a top-eight finish in the Horizon League, but with just one more game left in the regular season, Horizon League playoff seedings are still wide open.
• The Titans can't get higher than a sixth seed so they will be on the road in the first round at either Wright State, NKU, Oakland or Green Bay. 
• For those thinking about a third #MetroSeries, here is what has to happen and all have to involve a Titan and Golden Grizzlies win and then:
• 1 - NKU beats Green Bay and Cleveland St. beats Youngstown St.    
• 2 - NKU beats Green Bay, Youngstown State beats Cleveland State and Wright State beats Milwaukee           

 
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 netted 20 points against IUPUI - the first game this season that he has played and did not lead or share the team lead in points in the 28 games he has seen action in.
• He now has 21, 20-point games, eight 30+ performances and a pair of 40-point efforts in his first 28 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 21, 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.

MOVE OVER STEPHEN CURRY

• Antoine Davis nailed four triples against IUPUI, but his second was the history maker as he set the NCAA record for most 3-pointers by a freshman passing Stephen Curry's 122 at Davidson in 2006-07.
• He now has 125, 3-pointers on the season, a Titan freshman record and second in school history, trailing only legendary scorer Rashad Phillips' 136 in 2000-01. 

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 (125) and total points (729).
• 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 (125) and points in a season (729) as he passed former UIC standout Dikembe Dixson's 594 point total in 2015-16.
• In terms of overall league history, his current 26.0 ppg., is fifth overall. 
• Davis' 125 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 26.0 points, trailing Campbell senior Chris Clemons' 30.1 and Hofstra's Justin Wright-Foreman's 26.6.
• He is second in the country with 125 triples behind Fletcher Magee of Wofford's 131, and is second in 3-pointers per game at 4.48, trailing only Magee's 4.52.
• Davis is fourth in total points (729) and fifth in field goals (245). 
• Davis is also fourth in the Horizon League and 80th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (38.6%), third in the HL and 52nd in DI in free throw percentage (85.7%) and first in the conference and 12th in the country in minutes per game (37:17). 

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 52 steals on the year and is second in the Horizon League and 73rd in the nation with 1.8 steals per game.
• McFolley's 198 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 93 of his 122 career games, including 47 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 23 points against IUPUI- his 15th career 20-point game 
• He is now averaging 13.2 points - 17th in the HL - 2.6 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 1.8 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 just led the team with 23 points against IUPUI and 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. tallied his seventh career double-digit rebounding game with 10 boards to go with eight points and two steals at Oakland and just scored 12 points with six rebounds against IUPUI. 
• 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 boards 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 67.5 percent on the season and 61.6 in his career and is leading the team with 4.9 boards per game.  

KING ME

• Graduate senior Derrien King was in double figures for the 15th time this year scoring 10 points against IUPUI.
• He had a good weekend in Wisconsin with 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 10 Horizon League games and the Titans are 8-2 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.

1,420 & COUNTING

• After scoring 23 points against IUPUI, senior Josh McFolley is now 17th in school history with 1,420 points, 14 shy of passing Terrell Riggs for 16th place. 

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 just had his first collegiate double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds against IUPUI, a team-high on the boards. 
• Moore recorded seven points, seven rebounds and a season-high five assists at Oakland.
• He also had seven rebounds against Youngstown State and at IUPUI and netted a season-best 11 points with five rebounds versus Oakland. 

HAMRICK TIME

• Junior Lamar Hamrick has been effective on defense and is second on the team with 31 total steals and tied for 12th in the Horizon League with 1.2 steals per game. 
• He just picked IUPUI's pocket four times, the third game this year he has had four steals. 
• He has also had his moments on offense, highlighted by his 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 had a season-high 16 points at Dayton with three steals. 

TAKE IT AWAY

• Detroit Mercy is second in the conference and 37th in DI with 7.8 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 14.0 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 44th in Division I committing just 11.4 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 10 games with less than 10 turnovers on the year.

LET IT FLY

• Detroit Mercy is tied for 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 274 treys on the year, tying a school record with 17 against Loyola Maryland. 
• The 274 makes are 32nd in the nation and just five shy of the school mark of 279 in 2000-01.