DETROIT (1/26/2022) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will return home for a quick homestand as the Titans welcome UIC to Calihan Hall on Thursday. 

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. and will be broadcast live 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 WLQV 92.7 FM & 1500 AM FaithTalk Detroit with the Voice of Detroit Mercy basketball Dan Hasty.

The Titans - who have played 13 of their first 16 games on the road - come into the game at 6-10 overall and 4-3 in the Horizon League as they are battling for one of the top four seeds in the conference tournament. Detroit Mercy is coming off a 71-58 victory on the road at Milwaukee for the series sweep.

Senior Antoine Davis - the Titan and Horizon League record holder with 385 career 3-pointers, which is tied for 29th in NCAA history - now has a school-record 2,430 points, third in HL history and is leading the nation in scoring at 24.4 ppg. Meanwhile, after being held scoreless in his first four games and missing all six shots he took, senior Willy Isiani is averaging 7.0 points in his last 12, shooting 54.9% overall (28-of-51) and 52.7% (19-of-36) from the outside.

UIC is 7-10 on the year and 3-5 in league play, but the Flames just dropped a two-game homestand fall in overtime to NKU (74-70) as well as 97-81 to Wright State. 

After the game, the Titans are set to play IUPUI on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Any changes to the schedule will be announced as soon as they are known. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• UIC had won seven of the last nine, but the Titans did capture the first game this season on the road, 64-56, and now lead the overall series, 33-22.
• Last season, the teams did not meet due to the pandemic. 
• The other win in that span was at home in 2020 as Detroit Mercy won on a buzzer-beater by Alonde LeGrand for a 70-69 victory.
• The Titans have won eight of the last 11 at home against the Flames and lead the series in the Motor City, 18-8. 

AGAINST UIC

• Antoine Davis has had some good games against UIC, averaging 22.2 points, 3.4 assists and 3.0 rebounds in five career games, shooting 39.3% (33-of-84) overall and 40.5% (17-of-42) from three. 
• He has scored 20+ points three times with 28 and 25 as a freshman and a 26-point performance as a sophomore. 
• Madut Akec posted 18 points and eight rebounds in the first meeting, while Kevin McAddo added 10 points and Matt Johnson nine.
• Willy Isiani has struggled against UIC averaging 2.2 points shooting 21.1% (4-of-19) and 16.7% (3-of-18) from distance. 

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 leads the nation in scoring at 24.4 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. 

LONG RANGE TITANS

• The Titans have connected on at least nine 3-pointers in nine 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 22nd in Division I in 3-point field goals per game (9.9) and 77th in three-point field-goal percentage (36.0%).

STAT RANKINGS

• The Titans currently rank 17th in free throw percentage (77.8%), 28th in the nation in 3-point field goals per game (9.8) and77th in three-point field-goal percentage (36.0%).
• Individually, senior Antoine Davis is leading the nation in scoring (24.4) and 3-point field goals per game (4.3), while standing third in minutes played per game (38:12), sixth in total 3-pointers (69), 13th in total points (390), 15th in free-throw percentage (90.2%), 50th in assists (4.9) and 69th in three-point field goal percentage (38.8%), while his 39 points at Hofstra and against Milwaukee is a conference high and tied for the 11th-most in the country and the eight triples he made in both contests is tied for the eighth-most. 
• Junior Madut Akec is third in the HL and 35th nationally in double-doubles (6), third in the league and 53rd in the country in rebounding (8.4) and eighth in the league and 100th in the nation in offensive rebounding (2.5). 

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% (423-of-475).
• He is 15th in the nation in free-throw percentage at 90.2% (55-of-61) 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 116 of his last 124 attempts (93.5%), spanning 31 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 89.1% is also fourth among active returning players in the nation and 20th all-time in NCAA history. 

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis now has 69 career 20-point games, 24 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in just 98 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 98 games - reaching at least 17 points in 80 of them.
• Davis was in double figures for the 98th straight game with 30 points at Milwaukee and is sixth in NCAA history in that category, just four 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.

ABOUT 2,000 POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis has 2,430 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, 484 shy of the all-time mark.
• Imagine that record 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 32-straight games and 94 of his 98 collegiate games. He has 53 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 385 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 29th 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 eighth in school history with 424 assists, 27 away from Ray McCallum and seventh pace.  
• He has 44 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 14.8 points and team-highs with 8.4 rebounds, 27 steals and shooting 50.0% 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 14 games and is tied for third in the HL with six double-doubles and seven 10+ rebounding outings. 
• He had 11 points at Milwaukee and 16 - 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.

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 with 10 points and four assists in the home win over Milwaukee and added seven points, three rebounds, two assists and two steals at 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. 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 five contests and is averaging 8.8 points on 50.0% (15-of-30), including 8-of-22 (36.8%) from three, in that span.
• He 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. 
• His play this year has been steady as he is known to his some deep shots as well as play tough and smart inside. 
• 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 86 of his 127 career field goals
• After being held scoreless in his first four games and missing all six shots he took, Willy Isiani is averaging 7.0 points in his last 12, shooting 54.9% overall (28-of-51) and 52.7% (19-of-36) from the outside.
• He has also pulled down three or more rebounds on 10 occasions and is coming off a season-high six with nine points at Milwaukee. 
• 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.
• 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. 

 
SHAW MAKING AN IMPACT

• Junior Jeramy Shaw has started to shine after a standout junior college career.
• He scored a season-high five points and grabbed six rebounds at IUPUI. 
• He scored his first DI point on a free throw at Toledo and netted his first basket at Hofstra, where he was fouled on the play and converted the and one at the line.  
• Shaw was a NJCAA Second Team All-American last season at North Central Missouri College after averaging 16.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists, shooting 55.9-percent from the field, 34.6-percent from three and 72.4% from the line.