DETROIT (1/6/2022) -- After an 18-day layoff between the holiday break and COVID-19 issues, the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will return to action when the Titans welcome Milwaukee to Calihan Hall on Friday night. 

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. and can be seen live nationally on ESPN2 and the Watch ESPN App with Jordan Bernfield and David Padgett 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 had won two in a row and four of the last five, before they saw their last three games canceled and deemed a no-contest by the Horizon League as the red, white and blue, are 4-7 overall and 2-0 in league play.

The contest will feature a family rivalry as well as a battle of two of the top players in the country in Titan senior Antoine Davis and Panthers' freshman Patrick Baldwin Jr. Milwaukee is coached by Baldwin's dad, Pat, while Detroit Mercy has Antoine's dad Mike Davis as the head coach and son Mike Davis Jr. as the assistant coach. 

The match-up has 14 NBA scouts who will be in attendance. 

It could also be a record-setting day as Davis - the Titan and Horizon League record holder with 365 career 3-pointers - enters the game with 2,284 career points, 35 behind Rashad Phillips for the school record, which would put him in the top five in HL history. 

Davis is currently second in the nation in scoring (22.2), while leading in 3-point field goals per game (4.45) and minutes played (38:35) and standing 11th in free-throw percentage (92.5%). 

Milwaukee has won two in a row and three of the last four as the Panthers come to the Motor City at 5-9, 3-2 in the conference. Baldwin is currently averaging 13.4 points and 6.8 rebounds on the season in eight games. He was the top shooting forward recruit in the country for the Class of 2021 and was a consensus five-star recruit and a McDonald's All American. 

Following the game, the Titans' Sunday game against Green Bay was canceled due to health and safety protocols in the Phoenix program. Detroit Mercy is currently exploring opponents for Sunday, but nothing has been scheduled. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• The Titans swept the season series in 2018-19 and 2019-2020, but last year's match-up was canceled due to COVID as the Panthers lead the all-time series, 29-27.
• The Titans have won six of the last nine meetings in Calihan Hall and have a 15-10 advantage at home in the series.

HOME SWEET HOME

• Detroit Mercy was set to be on a seven-game homestand - which followed nine straight on the road - but COVID has canceled the last three games.
• With wins over Western Michigan and Central Michigan, the Titans have now won nine in a row at home dating back to last season. 
• The winning streak is the longest at home since the red, white and blue won 12 in a row with three to end the 2014-15 season and the first nine home games of 2015-16.

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 games away from Calihan Hall was the second-longest streak away from the Motor City since the end of the 2000-01 campaign 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 65-51 (.561) on the year with Wyoming at 11-2, Mississippi State at 10-3, Louisville and Toledo at 9-4, Hofstra at 8-6, Kent State 6-6, Northeastern 6-7, Western Michigan 4-9 and Central Michigan 2-10. 

TITANS' CONTESTS DEEMED NO-CONTEST

• Detroit Mercy saw its last three games canceled due to COVID-19 implications resulting from positive cases within the program.
• All three games were deemed a no-contest by the Horizon League. 

IS 3 BETTER THAN 2

• The Detroit Mercy-Milwaukee match-up will feature a family rivalry as well as two of the top mid-major players in the country in the Titans' Antoine Davis and Panthers' Patrick Baldwin Jr.
• Milwaukee is coached by Baldwin's dad, Pat, while Detroit Mercy has Antoine's dad Mike Davis as the head coach and son Mike Davis Jr. as the assistant coach. 

DAVIS LOVES MILWAUKEE

• Antoine Davis is undefeated against Milwaukee in his career with a 4-0 mark and has put up some great numbers averaging 28.8 points, shooting 44.0% overall (33-of-75), 45.2% from three (19-of-42) and 90.0% at the line (30-of-33).
• He had 32 points and seven assists in his first meeting at Milwaukee as a freshman and has netted 27, 29 and 27 in the other three games. 

ROLLING DOUBLES, AGAIN

• 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 last time out against Central Michigan. 

LONG RANGE TITANS

• The Titans have connected on at least nine 3-pointers in seven games this season, tying a season-high with 15 at Hofstra and against Western Michigan.
• The team currently ranks 37th in Division I in 3-point field goals per game (9.6), 94th in three-point field-goal percentage (35.6%).

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 and second in the country at 22.2 ppg. 
• Davis trails only Iowa's Keegan Murray (23.7) for the nation's lead at the moment. 

STAT RANKINGS

• The Titans currently rank 14th in free throw percentage (78.1%), 37th in the nation in 3-point field goals per game (9.6), 94th in three-point field-goal percentage (35.6%) and 97th in least turnovers per game (12.1).
• Individually, senior Antoine Davis leads the nation in 3-point field goals per game (4.5) and minutes played per game (38:35), second in scoring (22.2), sixth in total 3-pointers (49), 11th in free-throw percentage (92.5%), 43rd in total points (244), 36th in assists (5.2) and 74th in three-point field goal percentage (39.8%), while his 39 points at Hofstra is tied for the fifth-most in the country and the eight triples he made in the contest is tied for the seventh most. 
• Junior Madut Akec is 32nd in double-doubles (5), 52nd in rebounding (8.5), 82nd in offensive rebounding (2.8) and 92nd in field goal percentage (51.6%).

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% (405-of-454).
• He is 11th in the nation in free-throw percentage at 92.5% (37-of-40) 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 98 of his last 103 attempts (95.1%), spanning 26 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 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 65 career 20-point games, 21 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in just 93 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 93 games - reaching at least 17 points in 75 of them.
• Davis was in double figures for the 93rd straight game with 25 points against CMU as he is now three behind Oregon State's Tres Trinkle (2016-20) for sixth place as 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, ON A QUEST FOR SCHOOL RECORD

• Antoine 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). 
• He now has 2,284 career points and is now just 35 in back of Phillips for the all-time school mark. 

ABOUT 2,000 POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis has 2,284 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 sixth in conference history in that category, 630 shy of the all-time mark.

ONE LETHAL SHOT

• Antoine Davis comes into the year fifth all-time in NCAA history with 3.92, three-point field goals per game.
• He has connected on a 3-pointer in 89 of his 93 collegiate games and also has 51 career games with four or more triples, 19 with six or more, nine 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 365 career triples as he passed former Titan All-American Rashad Phillips (348) for both records with his second trey at UIC.
• The NCAA record book registers the top 30 for all-time 3-pointers and No. 30 stands at 379 by 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 NAMED TO BOB COUSY, LOU HENSON AWARD WATCH LIST

• The Bob Cousy - given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame - annual honor is now in its 19th year and recognizes the top point guards in Division I men's college basketball. 
• The Lou Henson National Player of the Year award is presented annually to the top mid-major player in Division I.

DAVIS DISHING IT OUT

• Antoine Davis can not only score, but he can get his teammates involved as he is 10th in school history with 403 assists. 
• He has 41 games with five or more assists - including six this season - and as he set his career-best with 10 at IUPUI and against his last time out against WMU.

MADUT DOING IT ALL

• Junior Madet Akec is having a breakout season averaging 15.9 points and a team-best 8.5 rebounds, 18 steals, four blocks and shooting 51.6% overall.
• He is third in field goal percentage and rebounding, seventh in scoring, eighth in free-throw percentage (81.4%) and tied for sixth in steals in the HL.  
• He has also scored in double figures in 10 games and is tied for second in the HL with five double-doubles and five 10+ rebounding outings.  
• He just 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. 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.  
• Akec 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 he is coming off one of his nest collegiate games ever posting his first career double-double with a season-high 14 points and career-best 12 rebounds. He was 4-of-7 from the field with a pair of 3-pointers and made all four of his free throws. 
• He tallied eight points and five rebounds at Kent State and then netted seven points with eight boards versus Western Michigan. 
• Harvey tied his then career-high pulling down nine boards at Toledo and then netted 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.