DETROIT (1/21/2021) -- Looking to end a three-game losing streak, the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will end a four-game road trip as the Titans battle the Panthers of Milwaukee on Saturday. 

Game time is set for 3:00 p.m. (EST) at UWM Panther Arena 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 (5-10, 3-3 HL) is coming off a 70-63 loss at Green Bay on Thursday as all three games in the losing streak have been on the road after last week's setbacks at Purdue Fort Wayne and Cleveland State.

Senior Antoine Davis scored 25 points against the Phoenix to reach 2,400 in his career as he now leads the nation in scoring at 24.0 points per game. Junior Madut Akec was in double figures for the 13th time this season with 16 and junior Noah Waterman was in double figures for the third time in four games with 10 points and a team-high seven rebounds. 

Milwaukee is 7-12 on the season and 5-5 in the conference as the Panthers have won two in a row, including handing Oakland its first HL loss on Thursday, 88-78. 

After the game, the Titans will return home for two games with UIC (Jan. 27) and IUPUI (Jan. 29). 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• The Titans swept the season series in 2018-19 and 2019-2020, and took the first game of the match-up this year at home giving them a five-game winning streak against the Panthers, although Milwaukee still leads the series, 29-28
• Detroit Mercy has won the last two on the road in the series and three of the last four, but Milwaukee also has the edge at home, 17-10. 

AGAINST MILWAUKEE

• Antoine Davis has had some great games against Milwaukee, including tying his season-high with 39 points and hitting eight 3-pointers in the meeting just two weeks ago. In five career games versus the Panthers, he is averaging 30.8 points, shooting 48.4% overall (46-of-95), 49.1% from three (27-of-55) and 92.1% at the line (35-of-38). He has tallied at least 27 points in all five meetings. 

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 at 24.0 ppg. 
• The Titans have had one national individual stats leader in school history in Spencer Haywood, who led the country in rebounding at 22.1 rpg. in 1968-69. 

ROLLING DOUBLES

• The Titans have had two games this season that have seen two players post double-doubles in the same game.
• Antoine Davis (20 pts., 10 ast.) and Madut Akec (18 pts., 12 rebs.) each had a double-double against WMU, the first time the Titans had two players post a double-double in the same game since 2018. 
• With that said, the Titans followed that with another pair as Akec (25 pts., 10 rebs.) and graduate senior DJ Harvey (12 pts., 14 rebs.) accomplished the task their against Central Michigan. 

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 28th in Division I in 3-point field goals per game (9.6) and 95th in three-point field-goal percentage (35.4%).

STAT RANKINGS

• The Titans currently rank 16th in free throw percentage (77.9%), 28th in the nation in 3-point field goals per game (9.6) and 95th in three-point field-goal percentage (35.4%).
• Individually, senior Antoine Davis is leading the nation in scoring (24.0) and 3-point field goals per game (4.3), while standing third in minutes played per game (38:05), sixth in total 3-pointers (65), 12th in total points (360), 18th in free-throw percentage (89.8%), 52nd in assists (4.9) and 73rd in three-point field goal percentage (38.7%), 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 31st nationally in double-doubles (6), third in the league and 46th in the country in rebounding (8.6) and seventh in the league and 98th in the nation in offensive rebounding (2.6). 

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis now has 68 career 20-point games, 23 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in just 97 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 97 games - reaching at least 17 points in 79 of them.
• Davis was in double figures for the 97th straight game with 25 points at Green Bay and is sixth in NCAA history in that category, 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 2,400, 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 2,400 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 3.93, three-point field goals per game.
• He has connected on a 3-pointer in 31-straight games and 93 of his 97 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 381 career triples as he passed former Titan All-American Rashad Phillips (348) for both records with his second trey at UIC.
• He is currently 31st in NCAA history in total 3-pointers and if he gets to 400, that would put him in the top 20. 

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 419 assists, three 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 15.1 points and team-highs with 8.6 rebounds, 26 steals and shooting 50.6% overall.
• He is third in rebounding, fourth in field goal percentage, fifth in steals, 10th in free-throw percentage (80.0%) and 11th in scoring in the Horizon League.  
• He has also scored in double figures in 13 games and is tied for third in the HL with six double-doubles and seven 10+ rebounding outings. 
• He just posted 16 points - 12 in the second half - at Green Bay.  
• 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 4-of-4 at the line.
• 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.

HIGH WATERMARK

• Junior Noah Waterman was injured early in the season and started out slow, but has started to come on in the last two weeks
• After averaging just 3.0 points in his first seven games played on 26.6% shooting (8-of-30), he has been in double figures three times in the last four contests and is averaging 9.5 points on 56.0% (14-of-25), including 7-of-18 (38.8%) from three, in that span.
• He just scored 10 points with a season-high seven boards with two blocks at Green Bay. He had 12 points with four boards against Milwaukee and 12 points, five boards and two blocks at Purdue Fort Wayne. 
• 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. 

BIG WILLY STYLE

• Senior Willy Isiani is back and as one of the most experienced Titans in his fourth year - all under coach Davis. 
• He had a then season-high 11 points at Kent State and then 15 points versus Western Michigan, the most since he netted 15 against the Golden Flashes last year. 
• He scored eight points with four rebounds against Milwaukee, eight points hitting a pair of three's at IUPUI and that was after six points on a pair of 3-pointers at Hofstra.
• He has also grabbed at least three boards in four games, including seven points and five rebounds at Northeastern. 
• Known as a shooter, he started to learn the post position grabbing a career-high 12 rebounds with eight points at Western Michigan last season, posting a career-high five assists with six rebounds and two steals at Michigan State and 10 boards with two blocks at Notre Dame last year. He also notched 15 points with seven boards and three assists against Kent State.  
• A native of Tbilisi, Georgia, who is believed to be the first Titan from the country of Georgia, has connected on the three ball on 81 of his 120 career field goals.