DETROIT (3/5/2019) -- The road to a championship for the Titans will begin in Northern Kentucky as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will travel to NKU in the quarterfinals of the Little Caesars Horizon League Championship on Wednesday.

Game time is set for 7 p.m. at BB&T Arena and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and carried over the airwaves on 910 AM Superstation with the Voice of the Titans Dan Hasty on the call. 

Detroit Mercy finished the regular season at 11-19, 8-10 in the Horizon League to tie for sixth place and is the seventh seed in the conference tournament. NKU was 23-8 on the season and 13-5 in the conference to earn a share of the regular-season title and a second seed in the postseason.

NKU won both meetings this year as Detroit Mercy will look for its first win over a team that swept them in the regular season since beating Cleveland State in the semifinals and Valparaiso in the championship in their magical title run of 2011-12. 

Detroit Mercy is 34-35 all-time in the Horizon League conference tournament with eight appearances in the title game and three conference championships (1994, 1999, 2012) and their last true road win in the playoffs was the conference championship game at Valpo in 2012. 

A win by the Titans and they would face #MetroSeries-rival Oakland or Youngstown State in the semifinals in the 9:30 p.m. game on March 11 at Little Caesars Arena. 

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.

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This is just the ninth career meeting between the two schools as NKU leads the all-time series, 7-1.
• NKU has won six in a row and is 3-1 against the Titans at BB&T Arena. 
• This will mark the first time these two teams will meet in the postseason. 

THE TITANS AS A #7 SEED

• This is the seventh time the Titans will be the seventh seed in the conference tournament and the red, white and blue is 2-6 when they get that seed.
• Both of those wins came in 2009-10 when Detroit Mercy made a run to the Horizon League Championship semifinals beating sixth-seeded Valparaiso on the road (89-82) and third-seeded Green Bay (62-53) before falling to the No. 2 seed Wright State (69-50), the last two games at Hinkle Fieldhouse.  

HISTORY OF THE 7 SEED

• The No. 7 seed has never made the Horizon League Championship and has posted a 14-34 overall record.

DAVIS NAMED HL FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR, FIRST TEAM

• The rookie season for Antoine Davis added another accolade to his already impressive resume as he was named the Horizon League Freshman of the Year and First Team All-HL.
• He is now the eighth Titan in school history to earn the league's Freshman/Newcomer of the Year honor and the fifth as a freshman following Rashad Phillips (1998), Ray McCallum (2011), Paris Bass (2015) and Corey Allen (2017).
• Davis is also just the second Titan in school history to garner First Team All-Conference honors as a true freshman joining Norm Swanson, who was First Team All-Missouri Valley Conference in 1950. 
• The rookie sharpshooter currently leads the Horizon League in scoring at 26.0 points per game and is on pace to be the first-ever freshman in league history to lead the conference in scoring as his current average is the fifth most in league history.
• He would also be the fifth Titan to lead the league in scoring and the first since McCallum's 18.7 in 2012-13. 
• Davis also set a NCAA freshman record with a HL-best 128, 3-pointers on the year and has 22, 20-point games, eight 30-point performances and two 40-point outings. 
• He also has 99 assists on the year and one more will make him the first Titan with 100 helpers in a season since McCallum's 147 in 2012-13. 

NATIONAL ATTENTION

• Antoine Davis was tabbed the Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Week on Jan. 8 after a week that saw him average 40.5 points against Wright State and NKU.
• The rookie shot 58.3 percent overall (28-of-48), 54.1 percent from three (13-of-24) and 92.3 percent at the free throw line (12-of-13) netting 48 against Wright State and 33 against NKU. 
• Davis was selected by CBSSports.com's Matt Norlander, in partnership with the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and he is the first Titan to ever win the accolade. 

AD GETTING BUCKETS

• Antoine Davis netted 25 points against UIC and has now led or shared the team lead in scoring in 28 of the 29 games he has played in. 
• He now has 22, 20-point games, eight 30+ performances and a pair of 40-point efforts in his first 29 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 22, 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 128, 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 (128) and total points (754).
• 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 (128) and points in a season (754) 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' 128 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 seven-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 third in the country with 128 triples behind Fletcher Magee of Wofford's 139 and Clemons' 129and is second in 3-pointers per game at 4.41, trailing only Magee's 4.63.
• Davis is fourth in total points (754) and fifth in field goals (252). 
• Davis is also fourth in the Horizon League and 84th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage (38.3%), third in the HL and 57th in DI in free throw percentage (85.3%) and first in the conference and 11th in the country in minutes per game (37:12). 

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 84th in the nation with 1.73 steals per game.
• McFolley's 198 thefts are also first in school history as he 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 123 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 13.1 points - 18th in the HL - 2.6 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 1.73 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 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 last week. 
• 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 a career-best 67.9 percent on the season and 61.6 in his career and is leading the team with 5.0 boards per game.  

KING ME

• Graduate senior Derrien King was in double figures for the 15th time this year scoring 10 points against IUPUI last week. 
• 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 12 points against UIC, senior Josh McFolley is now 17th in school history with 1,432 points, 14 shy of 16th place. 

MCFOLLEY FOR 3

• Senior Josh McFolley now has 229 career 3-pointers, third in school history. 
• 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. 
• 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 as he is coming off a weekend where he scored 10 points against IUPUI and 12 versus UIC and also had 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 had a season-high 16 points at Dayton with three steals. 

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. 

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. 

TAKE IT AWAY

• Detroit Mercy is second in the conference and 43rd in DI with 7.7 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 third 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 49th 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 fourth in the Horizon League with 9.3 triples per game, 44th in the country, and fourth in the HL and 123rd in DI in three-point field goal percentage (35.4). 
• The Titans have nailed a school-record 280 treys on the year, tying a school record with 17 against Loyola Maryland. 
• The 280 makes is 35th in the nation and just broke the school mark from the 2000-01 squad.