DETROIT (1/13/2021) -- It will be back to work for the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team as the Titans return to the hardwood when Green Bay comes to town this Friday and Saturday, Jan. 15-16.

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. on Friday and 5:00 p.m. on Saturday and will be streamed online on ESPN+ and the Watch ESPN App with Jeremy Otto and Earl Cureton on the call. Fans can also listen to the action on the radio on the new home of the Titans WLQV 92.7 FM & 1500 AM FaithTalk Detroit with the Voice of Detroit Mercy basketball Dan Hasty.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Detroit Mercy has not played since Dec. 27 as the team did not travel to UIC as it was on a mental wellness pause and then was on a positive test pause last week, canceling its games at Milwaukee. 

The 19 days between gamedays is the longest stretch in school history, surpassing a slew of 12-day droughts, with the last being in 2001-03 when the Titans visited Michigan State in the Preseason NIT on Nov. 12 and then played Alabama A&M at home 12 days later.

Detroit Mercy (1-7, 0-4 HL) is looking to right the ship with this homestand, while Green Bay (3-9, 3-5 HL) started the year with nine-straight losses, but has caught fire by winning three in a row. 

Senior Antoine Davis leads the team and is seventh in the Horizon League in scoring at 16.8 points per game and he is looking to move up even higher in history as he stands eighth in school history with 1,647 points, just two shy of seventh place and Terry Tyler and 43 behind Terry Duerod and sixth place. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• Detroit Mercy has dropped 14 of the last 16 to Green Bay and trails the all-time series, 34-26. 
• The Titans have won four of the last nine in Calihan Hall and owns a 14-13 mark on campus against the Phoenix.
• In the last five seasons spanning 12 games, the teams have had some strong offensive displays as Green Bay is averaging 86.7 points to the Titans' 81.6, which includes a Titan 101-83 win in 2019, the 107-97 Green Bay victory at Calihan Hall in 2018, a 93-92 Titan buzzer-beater victory in 2017 in Detroit and a 115-108 overtime Phoenix triumph in 2016.  

HONORING SMOKEY & DUEROD

• The Titans will honor their late coach Smokey Gaines and former All-American Terry Duerod with a commemorative patch on their jerseys this season. It will be located on the top of their right shoulder. 

CHECK OUT THESE GRADES

• The Titan student-athletes had one of the best semester GPA's in recent history.
• The Titans recorded a 3.45 GPA spanning over 250 student-athletes with over 220 tallying a term GPA of 3.0. All 17 programs were above a 3.0 with four programs over a 3.5 and 10 exceeding 3.4. 
• The men's basketball team registered a 3.09 team GPA, the second-straight semester the program has tallied a 3.0. 

IMPRESSIVE # VS. THE PHOENIX

• Junior Antoine Davis is averaging 24.3 points and 4.2 assists in four career games against Green Bay, which includes three 20-point games.
• In the two home games, he has posted 29 points in both contests. 
• Junior Chris Brandon is averaging 5.5 points and 10.5 rebounds, which includes a 15-rebound performance on the road last year, while senior Dwayne Rose Jr. tallied 12.5 points and shot 57.1% (8-of-14, 2-of-3, 7-of-11) last season, scoring 13 on the road and 12 at home. 

AT THE TOP

• Detroit Mercy led the HL and was ninth in the NCAA in free-throw percentage at 78.2 percent last season and are currently eighth in the nation and tops in the league again in that category hitting 80.0% on the year (96-of-120) 
• The Titans hit all 11 at the charity stripe at Michigan State and were 18-of-20 against Kent State, 16-of-19 at Western Michigan and 15-of-18 in the final game versus Wright State. 
• Part of that success is junior Antoine Davis, who is second in the league and 44th in the country hitting 88.5 % (23-of-26) and owns a career 88.1%, tied for first in school history and the sixth highest among all active Division I players. 

KEEPING THE BALL & STAYING OUT OF TROUBLE

• The Titans currently rank 59th in the nation and fourth in the HL averaging just 11.9 turnovers per game. 
• They also rank 65th in the country and third in the league averaging just 16.2 fouls per game. 

EXTRA SESSION BLUES

• The Titans played their first overtime game of the season in a 77-75 setback to Oakland. 
• Detroit Mercy has now lost six-straight overtime games with its last win coming in 2015, 93-87 over Youngstown State.

EVERYONE MUST HELP OUT

• The Titans had five players pull down at least five rebounds at Notre Dame and three players also recorded three assists. 
• In the win at Western Michigan, the Titans played just seven players and five scored in double figures. 
• Against Oakland in both games, nine Titans took the court and all nine scored in the games. 
• Overall on the season, five times in eight games have the Titans had four players reach double figures in scoring and three different players have netted a pair of 20-point games. 

DAVIS 2ND LEADING RETURNING SCORER IN D1

• After finishing third in the nation in scoring as a freshman (26.1), Antoine Davis was right back on top of the nation's leaders as a sophomore finishing fourth in the country at 24.3 points per game, trailing only Marquette's Markus Howard (27.8), UTSA's Jhivvan Jackson (26.8) and Hampton's Jermaine Marrow (24.8).
• He entered the season as the second leading returning scoring behind Jackson as Howard and Marrow both graduated. 
• Davis' career 24.2 points per game is tops among all active players and his 1,647 career points is 15th most among active players and the highest by any junior in DI.
• He is currently seventh in the HL and leading the team in scoring at 16.8 points and also tops the team and is 10th in the league with 3.2 assists per game.

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Junior Antoine Davis now has 46 career 20-point games, 15 career 30-point outings and three 40-point contests in just 68 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 68 games - reaching at least 17 points in 53 of them.

ONE LETHAL SHOT

• Antoine Davis hit a season-high seven 3-pointers against SIUE last season en route to 14 games with four or more triples. 
• He started the season a bit slow from the outside, but is coming off an 18-point performance where he was 4-of-8 from three against Oakland. 
• He now has 32 games with four or more triples, 11 with six or more and has twice connected on 10 in his young career.
• Davis currently has 244 career 3-pointers, second in school history, while his career 3.59 triples per game is the second-highest among all active players in DI trailing only Dru Kuxhausen of McNeese State (3.93). 
• The 3.59 mark is also 14th all-time in NCAA history. 
• His uncharacteristic 0-of-9 effort at Michigan State, 0-of-6 game at Western Michigan and 0-of-7 versus Wright State marked just the second, third and fourth time in 68 collegiate games that he failed to hit a three. The other was an 0-of-5 mark against Cleveland State last season.

AD THE QUICKEST TO 1,000, NOW LOOKING AT 2,000

• Antoine Davis scored 27 points at Notre Dame last season, 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 - as the fastest Titan to reach 1,000.
• DeBusschere accomplished the feat in his 43rd collegiate on his way to 1,985. 
• Davis became 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.
• He now has 1,647 career points, eighth in school history and two shy of seventh, and is 353 points shy of 2000 - something only two Titans have done (John Long and Rashad Phillips).

DAVIS DISHING IT OUT

• Junior Antoine Davis does not just score, but he also does a good job of helping his team and he handed out 4.5 assists per game, fourth in the HL and 89th in the nation, last season. 
• He has 267 career assists, good for 3.9 per game. 
• Davis has at least three assists in six of the first eight games with a season-high six against Wright State. 

HIGH WATERMARK

• Redshirt freshman Noah Waterman made his Titan debut against Oakland and showed the fans what they have to look forward to.
• After posting eight points with three rebounds in 23 minutes in his first game, he came back to score 19 points with three rebounds, three assists and two steals in game two. 
• A transfer from Niagara, Waterman played in seven games with five starts until an injury ended his season last year. 
• He averaged 7.0 points and 3.3 rebounds, shooting 48.6 percent from the field and 42.9 percent from three. 
• As a prep, he was selected MVP of the Empire State Christian Athletic League in 2017 and 2018. He posted 33.9 points, 12.6 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 3.9 blocks in his senior season.
• In high school, he was 6-2 but hit a growth spurt as a junior and is now almost seven feet tall. 
• With the NCAA waiver that was announced in mid-December, Waterman became immediately eligible to play. 

SOMETHING TO PROVE

• A transfer from St. Bonaventure with one year of eligibility, Matt Johnson has been a key factor, scoring in double digits and grabbing at least five rebounds in five of his first eight games as a Titan. 
• He certainly made a name for himself in his debut tallying a career-high 20 points going 7-of-14 from the field and 4-of-6 from three with five rebounds, three assists, a block and a steal at No. 8 Michigan State.
• He came right back to score 15 at Notre Dame with five rebounds and an assist at Notre Dame, pulled down seven rebounds with a career-best five steals against Kent State and just tied his career high with 20 points and recorded a collegiate-best eight boards in the two games against Wright State. 
• His previous career-high in scoring was just 12 points at George Washington last season as a member of St. Bonaventure. 
• He scored just 37 points all of last season, which included just four total 3-pointers, but through eight games, he already has 96 points and has knocked down 16 triples. 
• Johnson played in 22 games with one start last year with the Bonnies, averaging 1.7 points and 1.1 rebounds. 

A LONG JOURNEY FOR KUOL

• Graduate senior transfer Bul Kuol has already made a major impact on the team. 
• A native of the Sudan, Kuol has posted double digits in scoring seven times already, while also setting career high in points, 3-pointers, blocks and steals. 
• Last week, he tallied a career-high 28 points going 7-of-14 from the field, 6-of-12 from three and 8-of-8 at the line against Oakland. 
• Kuol netted a then career-best 21 points - hitting 7-of-15 shots and 4-of-8 from three, against Wright State to go with a high watermark of four thefts.
• He also handed out a career-high five assists in the first game with three swats.  
• He netted 18 points with six caroms at Notre Dame and was active in the season opener on defense, ending the game with 12 points and four boards at MSU. 
• He is now second on the team and 10th in the Horizon League averaging 15.1 points, hitting 40.4% at the field - 11th in the league - and 40.0% from behind the line. 

FRASER DID WHAT?

• Graduate senior Marquell Fraser accomplished something no Titan has done in 24 years and that was post a double-double in his Titan debut.
• Fraser had 11 points and a career-high 12 rebounds at nationally-ranked Michigan State, the first Titan to record a double-double in their first game since Derrick Hayes notched 14 points and 10 boards against Wayne State on Nov. 23, 1996. 
• It was the third career double-double for Fraser, who came back with an all-around game of 12 points, seven rebounds, two assists and two steals at Notre Dame, a season-best 19 points hitting 8-of-12 shots in the first game versus Wright State and 10 points with seven boards and five helpers in the second game.  

ROSE RAISING HIS GAME

• Senior Dwayne Rose Jr. had a strong game at Notre Dame finishing with six points, six rebounds and three assists.
• He came back with 15 points and four boards against Kent State and netted 10 points with a key 3-pointer late in the game in a win at Western Michigan. 

CLEANING THE GLASS

• Junior Chris Brandon returned to the team against Wright State after missing the first four contests of the season due to a wrist injury.
• After playing just 10 minutes in the first game, he started to return to fashion in game two scoring six points with six rebounds and two blocks. One of his dunks was No. 3 on ESPN's SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays of the game on Dec. 20. 
• He elevated his game to another level last year as he saw action in all 31 games with 18 starts and had career highs posting a team-high 8.1 rebounds and 44 blocks to go with 6.3 points and 20 steals. He also shot a career-best 63.4 percent from the field, a team-high and second in school history. 
• Brandon was fourth in the HL with 3.13 offensive rebounds per game (44th in DI) and fifth in total rebounding at 8.1 (110th in DI) as he recorded a team-high four double-doubles on the year and pulled down at least 10 rebounds in 12 contests, including 10 times in conference action. 
• He posted his first career double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds along with four blocks at #1 Gonzaga. He scored a career-high 18 points (9-10 FG) and blocked a career-best six shots with 12 rebounds against IUPUI and pulled down a career-high 18 rebounds - the most boards by a Titan since 1992 - with six points, three blocks and two assists at Oakland.