DETROIT (1/19/2022) -- Two more road games are on deck for the Titans this week as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will travel to Wisconsin for a pair of games, starting with Green Bay on Thursday. 

Game time is set for 8:00 p.m. (EST) at the Resch Center will be broadcast live on ESPN+, while fans can also listen to all the action on WLQV 92.7 FM & 1500 AM FaithTalk Detroit with the Voice of Detroit Mercy basketball Dan Hasty.

With four home contests canceled due to health and safety protocols in either the Titans' or opponents program, Detroit Mercy - who started the year with nine-straight road games - will now play 13 of its first 16 and 18 of its first 23 games away from Calihan Hall

Detroit Mercy had a pair of close games not go it's way last week as the Titans dropped a pair of two-point games at Purdue Fort Wayne (62-60) and at Cleveland State (72-70) to fall to 5-9, 3-2 in Horizon League play. 

Senior Antoine Davis scored 35 points his last time out at Cleveland State - his third 30-point game of the season and the 23rd in his career - and is now tied for first in the country in scoring at 23.9 points per game. The HL career leader in total 3-pointers, his 379 career triples is now tied for 31st in NCAA history, while his 3.95 3-pointers per game is fourth in NCAA laurels at 3.95 per game. 

Green Bay enters the game at 3-13 overall and 2-5 in the Horizon League as the Phoenix ended a seven-game slide last week with a home win over IUPUI before falling to UIC. 

After the game, the Titans will get on the bus to Milwaukee for a Saturday 3:00 p.m. tip. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• Detroit Mercy has dropped 14 of the last 18 to Green Bay, but swept last year's match-up at home and trails the all-time series, 34-28.
• The Titans have also dropped eight in a row at the Resch Center and 12 of their last 13 since 2008 with their last win coming in 2012 as the red, white and blue are 8-20 all-time on the road in the series.

AGAINST THE PHOENIX

• Senior Antoine Davis is averaging 25.5 points, 4.8 assists and 2.8 rebounds in six career games against Green Bay, while shooting 43.8% (53-of-21) overall and 40.0% (24-of-60) from distance. 
• He has scored 20 or more points in five of the six games with a 30-point and 26-point performance last season (20-of-35 FG, 12-of-20 3FG) and a pair of 29-point games with one as a freshman and one as a sophomore. 
• Senior Matt Johnson averaged 5.5 points and 4.0 rebounds against Green Bay last year, while junior Noah Waterman tallied 9.0 points and 3.5 rebounds. 

TOUGH SCHEDULE

• A nine-game road trip started the season for the Titans, with seven of those during the non-conference slate. 
• The nine-straight away from Calihan Hall was the second-longest streak away from the Motor City since the end of the 2000-01 when the Titans played 10-straight with two road games to end the season, three neutral site games in the conference tournament, and then five games in the NIT as they made a run to the semifinals. Meanwhile, the nine non-conference foes on the docket are 81-68 (.531) on the year with Wyoming at 13-2, Mississippi State at 12-4, Toledo at 14-4, Louisville 10-7, Hofstra at 11-7, Kent State 9-8, Northeastern 6-11, Western Michigan 4-13 and Central Michigan 2-12.

LONG RANGE TITANS

• The Titans have connected on at least nine 3-pointers in eight games this season and connected on 18 against Milwaukee, tying a school record and tied for the seventh most this season against Division I competition. 
• Detroit Mercy also had 18 triples against Milwaukee in 2000. 
• The team currently ranks 25th in Division I in 3-point field goals per game (9.7) and 91st in three-point field-goal percentage (35.5%).

AMONG THE BESTS

• Senior Antoine Davis ended last year leading the Horizon League and ranking third in the country in scoring at 24.0 points per game, marking the third-straight season he finished in the top four nationally in scoring (26.1 for third in 2019 and 24.3 for fourth in 2020).
• He also became just the second player in HL history to lead the conference three times joining Loyola's Alfredrick Hughes (1983-85) as he could put just himself on that pedestal if he were to lead the league again this year as he currently sits on top again tied for first in the country at 23.9 ppg. with Iowa's Keegan Murray.

STAT RANKINGS

• The Titans currently rank 13th in free throw percentage (78.4%), 25th in the nation in 3-point field goals per game (9.7) and 91st in three-point field-goal percentage (35.5%).
• Individually, senior Antoine Davis is tied for first in scoring (23.9) and leads the nation in 3-point field goals per game (4.50), while standing fourth in minutes played per game (37:57), sixth in total 3-pointers (63), 11th in free-throw percentage (91.2%), 16th in total points (335), 41st in assists (5.0) and 51st in three-point field goal percentage (40.6%), while his 39 points at Hofstra and against Milwaukee is a conference high and tied for the fifth-most in the country and the eight triples he made in both contests is tied for the seventh most. 
• Junior Madut Akec is third in the HL and 28th nationally in double-doubles (6), third in the league and 36th in the country in rebounding (8.9) and sixth in the league and 83rd in the nation in offensive rebounding (2.71). 

CASHING IN ON THE FREE ONES

• Senior Antoine Davis, who claimed fourth in DI in free-throw percentage with a league-best and school-record 91.7% (88-of-96) last season, currently owns the school record at 89.2% (420-of-471).
• He is 11th in the nation in free-throw percentage at 91.2% (52-of-57) on the year. 
• Going back to last season after he was just 3-of-6 in the second game against Wright State, he has made 113 of his last 120 attempts (94.1%), spanning 29 games. He saw his school record and active NCAA-best 57-straight free throw streak come to an end at Louisville. As a sophomore, he had a streak of 37 in a row at one point. 
• His career 89.2% is also tied for the third-highest among active returning players in the nation and 19th all-time in NCAA history. 

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis now has 67 career 20-point games, 23 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in just 96 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 96 games - reaching at least 17 points in 78 of them.
• Davis was in double figures for the 96th straight game with 35 points at Cleveland State as he is now tied with former Oregon State star Tres Trinkle (2016-20) for sixth place in NCAA history, just six games shy of Keydren Clark (St. Peters, 2003-06) for fifth. 
• He entered the season with a chance at the NCAA record, held by La Salle's Lionel Simmons (1986-90) and Campbell's Chris Clemons at 115 (2015-19). 
• Last year, he recorded a HL-best 15, 20-point games, five 30-point outings and a conference high-tying 46 points, just two off his career-high and a HL Tournament record with his 46 coming against Robert Morris in the first round of the playoffs. 
• The 46 points was tied for the league and nation high with Cleveland State's D'Moi Hodge (vs. Purdue Fort Wayne). 
• Last season he reached at least 23 points in 13-straight, the best 20-point streak by a Titan since Spencer Haywood's 16-straight in 1968-69 - but to Haywood's resume, most of those were 30-point games.

AD THE QUICKEST TO 1,000 & 2,000 & NOW OWNS THE SCHOOL RECORD

• With his 39 points against Milwaukee, senior Antoine Davis became the Titans all-time leading scorer passing Rashad Phillips (2,319) with his 36th point and now has 2,375, third in Horizon League history. 
• Davis scored 27 points at Notre Dame in the 2019-20 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 as the fastest Titan to reach 1,000.
• DeBusschere accomplished the feat in his 43rd collegiate game.
• 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.
• Last year, he passed DeBusschere again (1,978) for third in Titan history as he crossed the 2,000-point plateau in his 81st game, quicker than the other two 2,000-point scorers in John Long (2,167 total - 2,000 in game 102) and Rashad Phillips (2,319 total - 2,000 in game 116). 

ABOUT 2,000 POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis has 2,375 career points, the highest active scorer in the country in total points.
• At the moment, 608 NCAA players have amassed over 2,000 career points at the DI level and if he is able to get to 2,500, only 73 players have achieved that mark.
• Only 12 players have reached 2,000 career points in the Horizon League as he is third in conference history in that category, 539 shy of the all-time mark.
• Imagine that mark with the idea that Davis and the Titans have seen 11 games canceled in the last two seasons due to the pandemic.

ONE LETHAL SHOT

• Antoine Davis comes into the year fifth all-time in NCAA history with 3.95, three-point field goals per game.
• He has connected on a 3-pointer in 30-straight games and 92 of his 96 collegiate games. He has 52 career games with four or more triples, 20 with six or more, 10 games with seven or more, and has thrice connected on 10 in his career, tying a school record as well as breaking a conference tournament record. 
• He was the league leader and second in the nation in 3-point field goals per game (3.77) last season, and that marked the third-straight year that he has been top 10 nationally in 3-point field goals per game. 
• Davis is already the school and career 3-point record holder at 379 career triples as he passed former Titan All-American Rashad Phillips (348) for both records with his second trey at UIC.
• He is currently tied for 31st in NCAA history in total 3-pointers with a familiar name to head coach Mike Davis in Robert Vaden, who was recruited and played for coach Davis at Indiana and at UAB. 

DAVIS DISHING IT OUT

• Antoine Davis can not only score, but he can get his teammates involved as he is now ninth in school history with 416 assists, sixth away from eighth place.  
• He has 43 games with five or more assists - including eight this season - and as he set his career-best with 10 at IUPUI and against Western Michigan.

MADUT DOING IT ALL

• Junior Madet Akec is having a breakout season averaging 15.0 points and team highs with 8.9 rebounds, 25 steals, four blocks and shooting 49.4% overall.
• He is third in rebounding, fourth in field goal percentage, fifth in steals, 10th in free-throw percentage (81.4%) and 11th in scoring in the Horizon League.  
• He has also scored in double figures in 12 games and is tied for third in the HL with six double-doubles and seven 10+ rebounding outings.  
• Akec posted 15 points and a career-high 15 boards with four steals and two assists at Purdue Fort Wayne. 
• He netted a career-high 25 points - 20 in the second half - with 10 rebounds against Central Michigan for his fifth double-double of the year, where he was 7-of-12 from the field and a career-best 10-of-11 at the free-throw line. 
• Akec had a double-double with 18 points and a team-high 12 rebounds against WMU the week before.  
• He scored a then career-high 20 points with seven rebounds at IUPUI and added 19 points - 17 in the second half and 10 in a row at one point - and eight boards at UIC.  
• He made an immediate impact with the Titans at Wyoming, posting his first career double-double with a then career-high 14 points and then career-best 13 rebounds.
• He came back upping his then career-high to 15 points with seven boards, two assists, two blocks and a steal at Toledo and exceeded his career-high with 19 points and five steals to go with a team-high 10 boards at Louisville. 
• He competed in 33 games at USF the past two seasons, redshirting as a freshman, and tallied 2.3 points and 1.4 rebounds, while shooting nearly 50.0% (14-of-31).  
• A native of Tonj, South Sudan, he grew up in Melbourne, Australia, before prepping at Victory Rock in Florida.
• His brother, Deng Adel, played basketball at Louisville and played in the NBA with Toronto, Cleveland and Brooklyn and is currently playing overseas in Wales.

DJ COLLECTS DOUBLE-DOUBLE

• Graduate senior DJ Harvey battled an undisclosed injury to start the season but had one of his collegiate games ever posting his first career double-double with a season-high 14 points and career-best 12 rebounds against Central Michigan.
• He was 4-of-7 from the field with a pair of 3-pointers and made all four of his free throws. 
• He tied his season-high with 14 points his last time out, adding four boards and two steals at Cleveland State. 
• He netted seven points with eight boards versus Western Michigan, tied his then career-high pulling down nine boards at Toledo and then had six points with five boards at Mississippi State.  
• He started his collegiate career playing two seasons at Notre Dame before playing the last two years at Vanderbilt. 
• After sitting out his first season with the Commodores, saw action in 23 games with 10 starts in 2020-21 and tallied 6.3 points and 2.8 rebounds per game and that jumped to 14.5 points and 5.0 rebounds in the SEC Tournament. 
• He shot 38.9 % overall, 36.8 % from three and 88.9 % from the free-throw line with 11 assists and 11 steals, netting double figures eight times, including a season-high 17 points and five rebounds in a win over Texas A&M in the SEC Tournament. 
• Before that, he played 47 games with Notre Dame averaging 8.6 points and 3.7 rebounds, shooting 38.5 % with 47 triples.
• Some of his big games as a member of UND included 18 points at Florida State, 18 points and a season-high eight rebounds against Georgia Tech, 19 points on a career-best four 3-point field goals against Jacksonville and a career-high 19 points with six rebounds and a steal at Illinois.

A MCADOO IS BACK

• Kevin McAdoo had the distinction of making the first basket of the season, hitting a triple at Wyoming and then had a career game, tying his career-high with 23 points and hitting five 3-pointers at Toledo. 
• At Mississippi State, he scored 13 points and handed out four assists and then had 10 points at UIC.  
• He was back in double figures for the first time in four games with 10 points and four assists in the win over Milwaukee. 
• The name McAdoo is special in Titans' history as his father, Kevin McAdoo Sr., is the school's all-time assist leader with 615 earning four letters between 1982-86.
• He played last year at Bradley after playing his first two at Eastern Michigan. 
• Last season, he saw action in 17 games with eight starts and averaged 6.0 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game, while posting a 1.5 assist-to-turnover ratio. 
• He tallied a season-best 13 points at Missouri State and notched 10 points and a career-best five assists at Valparaiso.
• In his first two years at EMU, he played in 59 games with 21 starts and recorded 6.7 points and 1.0 assists, shooting 42.4% overall and 34.4% from behind the arc. 
• As a sophomore, he netted 8.6 points and 1.5 assists along with 30 steals and knocking down 40 triples, second on the squad. He scored a personal-best 23 points in the 2017-18 season finale against Sam Houston State and 20 points at Central Michigan in 2018-19.

HL'S SIXTH MAN RETURNS 

• Matt Johnson was selected the HL Sixth Man of the Year last season and returns to the Titans for another year. 
• He has been a steady contributor again netting seven points with five rebounds, three assists and three steals at Cleveland State and a season-high 11 points with five rebounds, two assists and two steals versus Western Michigan. 
• He started the season with nine points and five boards at Wyoming and tied for the team-high with four assists at Mississippi State before scoring 10 points with five rebounds, two assists and two steals at Louisville
• He added 10 points at Hofstra and seven points, four rebounds and two assists at Northeastern and 10 points at UIC.  
• He saw action in all 22 games with eight starts last season and averaged 8.5 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists, while shooting 43.2% from the field, 39.2% from three and 94.4% at the free-throw line (17-of-18).
• He ended the year fourth on the team in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals, scoring in double-digits eight times with three 20-point performances.
• Johnson posted a then career-high 20 points (7-14 FG, 4-6 3FG) along with five rebounds, three assists, a block and a steal in his Titan debut at Michigan State and followed that up with 15 points and five boards at Notre Dame. 
• He grabbed a career-high eight rebounds and scored 10 points against Wright State in game one and then tied his then career-best with 20 points with six caroms in game two. 
• Later in the season, he recorded a career-high 24 points on a career-best 9-of-14 from the field with six 3-pointers to go with six rebounds against Purdue Fort Wayne.
• Prior to Detroit Mercy, he played at St. Bonaventure and also at two junior colleges, Pensacola State and Howard College. 

HIGH WATERMARK

• Junior Noah Waterman - who missed four-straight games after the opener with an undisclosed injury at Northeastern - was a great addition to the Titans last year.
• He has started to regain his form scoring 12 points with four boards against Milwaukee and 12 points, five boards and two blocks at Purdue Fort Wayne. 
• That was after netting six against Central Michigan.
• He has connected on 18 field goals this season with 10 from distance.
• He became eligible mid-season last year and played in 15 games with 12 starts and was third on the team in scoring (11.9), fourth in rebounding (4.5) and tied for the team lead with 10 blocks. 
• He shot 55.5% from the field and 52.8% from the outside (38-of-72), scoring in double figures in eight games.
• In the second meeting with Oakland on the road, he posted 12.0 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game recording 18 points and a career-high eight rebounds and two blocks in the win, hitting 7-of-11 shots and 4-of-8 from three.
• He netted 17 points with five rebounds and two blocks in the win at HL champions Cleveland State, going a career-best 5-of-7 from three with three of those in the final three minutes to seal the win and ended the regular season against Robert Morris netting 19 points in game one and a career-high 22 in game two, where he was a career-best 8-of-11 from the field with a career-tying five triples. 
• He then had 19 points and pulled down five rebounds in the Horizon League Championship quarterfinals at NKU. 
• A transfer from Niagara, Waterman played in seven games with five starts until an injury ended his freshman year.
• In high school, he was 6-2 but hit a growth spurt and is now almost seven feet allowing him to play as a guard with his shooting skills.