INDIANAPOLIS (12/22/2021) -- The Detroit Mercy-Milwaukee men's basketball game scheduled for Friday, Jan. 7, has been selected to be televised on ESPN2, the League office was informed by ESPN this week.
Game time is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET and is the first home national ESPN telecast for the red, white and blue since the 2017-18 season. Last year on ESPNU, Detroit Mercy went on the road and beat first-place Cleveland State, 89-83.
The matchup features two of the top mid-major players in the country in Detroit Mercy's
Antoine Davis and Milwaukee's Patrick Baldwin Jr.
Davis was named the Preseason Player of the Year prior to the season and currently ranks third in the country with 22.2 points per game and first in the country in 3-pointers per game with just under 4.5 per contest. Earlier this season, Davis set the League's career 3-point record and is currently 189 points shy of the HL's all-time scoring record in League play.
He has 2,284 career points and is now just 35 in back of Rashad Phillips for the all-time school mark, which would also be fifth in total points in conference history.
Baldwin Jr. was named to the Preseason All-Horizon League First Team as an incoming freshman and is the highest-ranked high school recruit to ever sign with a Horizon League program, was a consensus five-star recruit and was considered the No. 4 player nationally in the class of 2021.
This is the second of five regular-season games that will be televised on ESPN's linear networks and is a part of the League's "Anything Can Happen on Friday" campaign that fans can follow along on social media by using #HLMBBonESPN.
Continuing a relationship that began during the 2014-15 season, ESPN+ will be the home for the League's live streaming game content. The Horizon League has scheduled to stream every conference basketball game for an industry-best 15 consecutive seasons, beginning its streak in 2007 with the groundbreaking Horizon League Network. In addition, ESPN has aired every men's basketball championship game dating back to the 1988 Midwestern Collegiate Conference Championship.
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Detroit Mercy is currently on a seven-game homestand with wins over Western Michigan and Central Michigan and will now get ready for HL play with Youngstown State (Dec. 30), Robert Morris (Jan. 1), Oakland (Jan. 5), Milwaukee (Jan. 7) and Green Bay (Jan. 9).
