DETROIT (11/22/21) – The Detroit Mercy women's basketball team resumes non-conference play at Jesuit-rival Canisius on Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 7 p.m. The game will be broadcast live from the Koessler Athletic Center on ESPN3.
 
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A LOOK AT CANISIUS: Canisius is 1-3 so far after picking up the first win of the season against Colgate on Saturday. The Golden Griffins finished the 2020-21 campaign with a 0-5 overall record and 0-4 MAAC mark after the season was cut short due to COVID-19. Canisius is led by sophomore guard Dani Haskell who leads the team in scoring (13.8 ppg) followed by senior forward Kayla Jackson who leads the team on the boards averaging 8.3 rebounds per game.
 
SERIES BREAKDOWN: The all-time series between the two schools is tied 3-3 with Canisius winning the last meeting 77-67 on Nov. 8, 2013.
 
LAST TIME OUT: MAKE IT A DOUBLE-DOUBLE:
Sophomore Irene Murua tallied 12 points and a team-high 10 rebounds for her first career double-double. Graduate senior Daija Moses had 12 points and six rebounds and graduate senior Brandi Washington netted 10 points. with five boards, two assists, a block and a steal as Detroit Mercy put the pressure on all game long, coming away with 14 steals, as the Titans fell to Youngstown State, 64-56, on Saturday at Calihan Hall.
 
MURNA MAKING IT HAPPEN: Murua leads the team in scoring (10.3 ppg) and field goal percentage shooting a blistering 63.3% (19-for-30) from the field. She led the team in scoring with 12 points going 6-for-10 against YSU, had 14 points on 6-for-8 shooting against RMU (11/18) and posted 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting at Loyola (11/9).
 
I'LL TAKE THAT: Detroit Mercy ranks third in the Horizon League in steals (10.00). Against RMU, 9-of-12 players who entered the game recorded at least one steal led by Washington with three and McNeal with two for a total of 12. They also followed with 12 steals against YSU led by a career-high six from Searcy who also leads the league at 3.5 per game.

DEFENSIVE FOUNDATION: Detroit Mercy ranks fourth in the league in turnover margin (1.50) with opponents committing a league second-best 83 turnovers against the Titans.
 
CONSECUTIVE 3-POINTERS MADE STREAK: The Titans have made at least one 3-pointer in 360 consecutive games dating back to March 5, 2009. The last game the Titans didn't sink one 3-pointer from the field was against Wright State on Feb. 28, 2009, when the team went 0-for-11 from beyond the arc.
 
DYNAMIC SCORING DUO: Murua and Searcy are tops on the team in scoring at 10.3 ppg and 9.0 ppg respectively.
 
PRODUCTION FROM THE LINE: Imani McNeal leads the Titans from the free throw line at 72.7% (8-for-11) while Searcy is shooting at a 64.3% (9-for-14) clip.
 
PRUITT POURING IT IN: Senior Monique Pruitt poured in a game and career-high 23 points on 7-for-18 shooting and 9-for-11 from the free throw line at Eastern Michigan last (11/13).
 
SOLID DEBUT: Against Loyola, Murua led the way with a team-high 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting with four rebounds, three assists and three steals in her season debut for the Titans at Loyola.
 
VIVA ESPAÑA: Ana Cabañas Llorens will join the Detroit women's basketball team as part of the 2022-23 recruiting class marking the fifth student-athlete from Spain to be on the roster for next season.
 
SEASON REWIND:
Detroit Mercy 55 vs Robert Morris 46 (11/18/21)
Irene Murua scored a team-high 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting while grabbing a team-best seven rebounds. Sydney Searcy added nine points followed by Daija Moses with eight points and four rebounds as Detroit Mercy dropped the home and Horizon League opener to Robert Morris, 55-46, at Calihan Hall. Imani McNeal turned in a solid overall effort with six points, four assists, three rebounds and two steals while Brandi Washington chipped in with seven points, four rebounds and team-high three steals.
 
Detroit Mercy 66 at Eastern Michigan 76 (11/9/21)
Monique Pruitt poured in a game and career-high 23 points on 7-for-18 shooting and 9-for-11 from the free throw line. Sydney Searcy also reached in double figures with 13 points as Detroit Mercy battle before falling to a late fourth quarter run at Eastern Michigan last Saturday (11/13).
 
Detroit Mercy 40 at Loyola 63 (11/9/21)
Sophomore Irene Murua put together a solid performance scoring 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting with four rebounds, three assists and three steals while Sydney Searcy added seven points and two assists with a team-high six rebounds and four steals as Detroit Mercy fell 63-40 at Loyola in the season opener at Gentile Arena. Daija Moses had six points with five rebounds and three assists while Janna Lewis also added six points with three rebounds. Brandi Washington and Imani McNeal chipped in with five and four points respectively.
 
Detroit Mercy 66 vs Wayne State 73 OT (Exhibition 11/4/21)
The Detroit Mercy women's basketball team placed four players in double figures as senior Monique Pruitt scored a team-high 15 points followed by 14 points from graduate student Janna Lewis and 11 points each from graduate students Sydney Searcy and Tori Powell and the Titans fell 73-66 in overtime to cross-town foe Wayne State in exhibition action on at Calihan Hall.
 
NEW LOOK SQUAD: The Titans will take the floor this season with an entirely new team consisting of 14 newcomers with nine student-athletes from the US, four from Spain and one from Canada.
Florida (2) - Sydney Searcy, graduate student, A'Moni Waiters, junior
Georgia (1) – Imani McNeal, junior
Illinois (1) –Monique Pruitt, senior
Kentucky (1) - Janna Lewis, grad student
Louisiana (1) - Brandi Washington, grad student
New Jersey (1) – Akyia Baker, freshman
North Carolina (1) – Tori Powell, grad student
Pennsylvania (1) – Taylor Blunt, freshman
Canada (1) – Daija Moses, grad student
 
SPANISH CONNECTION: This year's squad features four players from Spain with sophomores Irene Murua and Lucia Fleta Robles and two freshmen, Sonia Pereda and Emma Trawally Porta.
 
LEADER OF THE PACK: LaTanya Collins was named an assistant coach for the Titans in June 2020 and then named the interim head coach for the program on June 15, 2021. Coach Collins joined the staff with more than 12 years of collegiate coaching experience. She enters her second season with the Titan program in 2021-22.
 
Collins has 69 head coaching victories across four seasons and has vast experience coaching at different levels, which includes stops at fellow Division I programs Coppin State, Marist, Radford and Virginia Tech, among others.
 
Prior to joining the program at Detroit Mercy, Collins was the head coach at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland, recording a mark of 22-4 and taking over a roster that had no players and building a team that began the year on an eight-game winning streak and received votes nationally in the Top-25 NJCAA Poll by season's end. Under Collins guidance, Harford led the NJCAA in points allowed per game (48.6), along with steals per game (16.9), while also finishing second in blocks per game (8.4).
 
Under the tutelage of Collins, Harford guard Kelvajha Foster earned NJCAA Division I All-American honors and she helped produce two All-Maryland JUCO Conference players in Foster and Tsahai Corbie.
 
COACHING STAFF: Coach Collins has added a brand-new coaching staff in Associate Head Coach Wanika Owsley, Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator Stephanie Edwards, Assistant Coach Damon Thornton and Director of Basketball Operations Dashia Chandler.
 
2021-22 HORIZON LEAGUE PRESEASON POLL: Detroit Mercy was picked to finish last in the 2021 HL Preseason Poll with 16 points.