DETROIT (2/13/2020) -- Looking to split the first weekend of its four-game homestand, the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will entertain Cleveland State on Saturday at Calihan Hall on Hero's Day. All first responders and military will receive free tickets for themselves and their family to the game. 

Game time is set for 1 p.m., on Dick Vitale Court in Calihan Hall and will be broadcast live on ESPN3 and locally on WADL-38 with Jeremy Otto on the call as well as over the air on 910 AM Superstation with Dan Hasty providing the action. 

The Titans are looking to end a four-game slide and get back into the middle of the pack in the Horizon League. Detroit Mercy is 4-9 in league play, while Cleveland State is 5-8. 

Detroit Mercy is actually just 11 points away from having eight wins in the HL as it had a double-digit lead late in a one-point loss to Wright State and had the ball at the buzzer for a game-winning shot at Youngstown State, a game-tying shot at Green Bay and suffered just a five-point loss at Cleveland State.

Tickets start at just $10 and can be purchased by visiting detroittitans.com/tix. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• The Titans have won six of the last nine meetings to take a 44-25 lead in the series.
• Detroit Mercy won the first 20 games against the Vikings at home and are on a five-game winning streak in the Motor City as the red, white and blue are 28-4 all-time in Calihan Hall versus the green and white. 
• Cleveland State's last win at Calihan Hall was 86-78 in 2014. 

DAVIS 4th IN NATION IN SCORING

• After finishing third in the nation in scoring last season, sophomore Antoine Davis has his name right back on top of the nation's leaders as he ranks fourth in the country and leading the Horizon League in scoring at 23.5 points per game. 
• He trails Marquette's Markus Howard (27.3), UTSA's Jhivvan Jackson (27.0) and Hampton's Jermaine Marrow (24.1). 
• He has 17 games with 20 or more points and five 30-point outings on the year.
• Davis had a season-high 35 against SIUE, 34 versus Youngstown State, 31 at #1 Gonzaga and 33 at Ohio. 
• Last year, he topped the HL at 26.1 ppg. and he is the second active leading scorer in Division I in at 25.0 ppg. 

DAVIS' LETHAL SHOT

• Sophomore Antoine Davis hit a season-high seven 3-pointers against SIUE and made six at Milwaukee and against Youngstown State and five from long range at #1 Gonzaga and against IUPUI.
• He now has 30 games with four or more triples, 10 with six or more and has twice connected on 10 in his young career.
• Davis currently has 219 career 3-pointers and is already fifth in school history, just five away from fourth place, while his career 3.99 triples per game is the second-highest among all active players in DI. 

GETTING THE FREE ONES

• Detroit Mercy leads the HL and is third in the country in free-throw percentage at 79.1 percent, connecting on at least 20 or more free throws six times this season.
• Some of the best games have included:
• 20-of-22 at Clemson
• 25-of-30 vs. UC Irvine
• 20-of-24 vs. Louisiana Lafayette
• 21-of-24 at Oakland
• 28-of-31 at Milwaukee
• 21-of-26 at Green Bay
• 14-of-15 vs. UIC
• It helps to have two of the best at the line as sophomore Antoine Davis leads the league and is fourth in the nation (90.2%) as he has hit 120-of-133 on the year, while senior Justin Miller is fourth in the HL and 116th in the nation at 82.4 percent.

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Antoine Davis now has 40 career 20-point games and 14 career 30-point outings in just 55 collegiate contests.
• He has now scored in double figures in all 55 games - reaching at least 17 points in 45 of them - and he also nailed six 3-pointers against YSU to extend his three-point shooting streak to 55-straight games, the fourth-longest streak in the country.
• 1. Mack Smith (Eastern Illinois) – 74    
• 2. Jaylen Minnett (IUPUI) – 63
• 3. Cameron Healy (Albany) - 57
• 4. Antoine Davis (Detroit Mercy) - 55

DAVIS QUICKEST TO 1,000 POINTS 

• Sophomore Antoine Davis scored a team-high 27 points at Notre Dame, but it was his free throw for 26 that made history giving him 1,000 career points in just 39 games, passing the great Dave DeBusschere - a NBA Hall-Of-Famer who was named one of the top 50 players in NBA history - as the fastest Titan to reach 1,000.
• DeBusschere accomplished the feat in his 43rd collegiate on his way to 1,985. 
• Davis is the 43rd player in school history to eclipse 1,000 career points and just the third second-year player joining DeBusschere (who did it as a junior as freshmen could not play) and sophomore Ray McCallum in 2010-11.
• With his 34 points versus Youngstown State, Davis is now 22nd in school history with 1,371 points, two points shy of Brian Humes and 21st place and 15 in back of Chase Simon and 20th place.

DAVIS TABBED TOP 10 FINALISTS FOR JERRY WEST AWARD

• Antoine Davis received some great news today as the high-scoring guard was named a top-10 finalist for the Jerry West Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Named after Class of 1980 Hall of Famer and 1959 NCAA Final Four Most Valuable Player Jerry West, the annual honor in its sixth year recognizes the top shooting guards in Division I men's college basketball. A national committee of top college basketball personnel narrowed down the watch list from 20 to just 10 candidates.
• Starting Five Fan Voting presented by Dell Technologies will go live on Friday, February 7, via hoophallawards.com. In March, five finalists will be presented to Mr. West and the Hall of Fame's selection committee. The winner of the 2020 Jerry West Award will be presented at The College Basketball Awards presented by Wendy's in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, April 10, 2020, along with the other four members of the Men's Starting Five. 
• Previous winners of the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award include RJ Barrett, Duke (2019), Carsen Edwards, Purdue (2018), Malik Monk, Kentucky (2017), Buddy Hield, Oklahoma (2016) and D'Angelo Russell, Ohio State (2015). 

2020 Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award Candidates 

• Antoine Davis, Detroit Mercy
• Isaiah Joe, Arkansas
• Kamar Baldwin, Butler
• Ty-Shon Alexander, Creighton 
• Anthony Edwards, Georgia 
• Joe Wieskamp, Iowa
• Tyrese Maxey, Kentucky 
• Skylar Mays, LSU 
• Myles Powell, Seton Hall 
• Desmond Bane, TCU

CLEANING THE GLASS

• Sophomore Chris Brandon has been a beast on the glass in his last 15 games, pulling down at least 10 rebounds in nine contests and is averaging 11.1 in that span with four double-doubles. He also has at least four offensive rebounds in eight of those games with nine at Oakland and seven at Cleveland State and at Green Bay.
• He tallied 12 points and 14 boards at Wright State and five points with 14 rebounds at NKU. He had a huge game with a career-best 18 points - hitting 9-of-10 shots - and 12 rebounds and a career-high six blocks against IUPUI.
• He posted nine points and 15 rebounds at Green Bay and that followed 12 points and 14 boards at Milwaukee. 
• He posted his first career double-double with 10 points and 12 boards along with four blocks at #1 Gonzaga. 
• Brandon had a day to remember at Oakland as he grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds, the most since Eli Holman had 18 against Milwaukee in 2010.
• On the season, he leads the team in rebounding at 7.9 per night - fourth in the HL - while his 3.00 offensive rebounds is fourth in the HL and 60th in the NCAA. 

BRANDON SHOWING OFF

• Chris Brandon has come alive, showing off his high energy and athleticism to grab rebounds, score and block shots.
• Brandon leads the HL with 1.42 blocks per game and 37 total swats on the year. 
• He posted career highs with 18 points (9-10 FG) and six blocks along with 12 rebounds at IUPUI. 
• He had a game and career -high 18 rebounds at Oakland and posted four blocks at #1 Gonzaga to go with 10 points and 12 rebounds for his first career double-double.
• He had three blocks and two steals along with his 18 boards at Oakland, and against Toledo, he finished with nine rebounds and four blocks, two of which were coming down the court and breaking up a Rockets' fast-break attempt. 
• One of the most athletic players in the Horizon League, he finished with 12 points and eight rebounds at Clemson and just had 12 points and 14 rebounds at WSU.  
• He is now averaging 6.5 points and 7.9 rebounds, while shooting 65.5 percent (74-of-113) on the season, although he does not have enough field goals to qualify for the leaderboard (need 5 made per game).
• Last year, he shot 60.8 percent from the field, mostly on getting to the rim and putting back offensive rebounds.  

BRADLEY BUCKETS GOES FOR 20

• Brad Calipari has been in double figures five times this season as he posted 11 points off the bench at Cleveland State and added nine against IUPUI and eight at Youngstown State and at NKU. 
• He had a career-high 20 points, hitting a career-best five 3-pointers against Toledo.
• That was after draining four triples and ending with 12 points at Notre Dame. 
• Calipari has hit at least two 3-pointers in 13 games - including six times in HL play - and connected on four or more in four contests. 
• He had 13 points hitting 4-of-6 from long range at Wyoming and came back with a then career-high 16 points with four more triples in the win over UC Irvine. 
• Calipari transferred to Detroit Mercy and will have the rare two years of eligibility as a graduate student as he graduated from Kentucky in just three years with a degree in Business and is enrolled in the Liberal Studies masters program. 
• He spent three seasons at Kentucky and played in 27 games with the Wildcats, under the direction of his dad head coach John Calipari, and was part of 88 wins as the Wildcats advanced to the Elite 8 in 2017 and 2019 and the Sweet 16 in 2018. 

MILLER TIME

• Senior transfer Justin Miller had a special moment with a little more than three minutes to go at top-ranked Gonzaga as he posted his 1,000 career collegiate point.
• He ended the contest with 17 points, five caroms and three assists.
• He has reached double figures in 11 of the last 16 games.
• He had 15 points against Oakland. He registered 16 points with six boards at Youngstown State and that was after 14 points with seven caroms and a season-high three steals at Cleveland State.
• He posted his second Titan double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds versus Wright State.
• Before that, he had a season-high 18 points, six rebounds, season-best five assists and two steals against NKU. 
• At Clemson, he made his presence felt with 13 points and a game-high 13 rebounds before tallying 14 vs. UC Irvine. 

MOORE FOR MARQUIS

• Sophomore Marquis Moore finally got over his high watermark of 12 points by scoring a career-best 15, hitting three 3-pointers with six rebounds and three assists at Youngstown State and then raised that to 18 points at Milwaukee, where he was 9-of-10 at the line with nine rebounds and a career-best five steals. 
• Moore is coming off his second double-double of the season and third of his career with 15 points and career-tying 11 rebounds against the Penguins. 
• He scored 16 points against UIC and tallied a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds against Eastern Michigan.
• He now has 10 games on the year with five or more rebounds with nine double-digit scoring efforts. 

ROSE RAISING HIS GAME

• Junior Dwayne Rose Jr. has started to pick up his scoring, netting double figures in five of the last eight games, including back-to-back games of 20 or more. 
•  He had a then career-high of 20 points and eight rebounds at Wright State and followed that up with 21 points, five rebounds and three assists at NKU. 
• He was in double figures in both games in Wisconsin with 16 points, five rebounds and two assists at Milwaukee and 13 points at Green Bay.
• He also had 13 points, six rebounds and two steals against Oakland. 
• In the last eight games, he is averaging 11.3 points and 2.7 rebounds.

WATCH YOUR BACK

• Antoine Davis already has a career-high 43 steals on the season as he leads the team and is fourth in the conference and 100th in the nation at 1.71 per game.
• He has a steal in 22 of the 25 games this year with a career-high four at Clemson and against Oakland.