University of Detroit Mercy Athletics

CHESTNUTHILL, Mass, (11/10/2022) -- Junior Jayden Stone scored a career-high 22 points, but a late run by Boston College was too much to stop as the Titans fell, 70-66, to the Eagles on Friday afternoon in a Veteran's Day matinee.

The Titans (1-1) led, 60-52, with 10:34 left, but Boston College (2-0) closed the game with an 18-6 run despite going on a six-minute scoreless stretch.

Stone was 8-of-14 from the floor and 4-of-6 from three to go with six rebounds and two assists. 

Graduate senior Antoine Davis posted 15 points with three assists, two rebounds and two steals. With his 15 points, he moved to 20th all-time in NCAA history with 2,777 points, while the three 3-pointers he hit moved him to seventh in NCAA history with 436. 

Graduate senior Damezi Anderson had 11 points, nailing 3-of-7 from downtown, and four rebounds before fouling out early in the second half. Senior Jordan Phillips netted six points with seven rebounds and graduate senior Arashma Parks pulled down a career-best nine boards. 

Detroit Mercy led 34-33 at the break as Stone ended the half with an offensive rebound and putback. In the second half, the lead went back and forth when Phillips came up with an offensive rebound and fed Stone, who buried a three for a 43-40 lead at the 17:29 mark. A steal by Stone would later lead to a three by Anderson for a 49-43 advantage with just under 16 minutes remaining.

Stone would drive to the rim for a score to make it 57-50 and Davis would give the Titans their biggest lead at 60-52, connecting on a three with 10:34 left.

Boston College would cut the lead to 62-60 with 8:06 on the clock, but the Titan defense would hold the Eagles scoreless for the next six minutes. Unfortunately, the red, white and blue could not extend their lead past 64-60 with 5:41 remaining. A jumper by Stone had the team up 66-63 with under a minute to play, but BC ended the game with seven-straight points.

As a team, the Titans outrebounded the Eagles, 40-39, and forced 13 turnovers. Detroit Mercy shot 40.0% from the field and was 11-of-29 from three, while holding BC to just 11-of-33 in the first half. 

The Titans got off to a strong start as Phillips hit the game's first shot, a three and then had a layup for a 5-2 lead. Davis would give the team a three-point lead with a layup ay 7-4 and then a three for a 10-7 margin nearly six minutes into the game. 

The Eagles' biggest lead was 21-16 with 7:37 to go in the first, but the Titans started to chip away and graduate senior TJ Moss' layup and the foul had the team up 25-24 with 3:47 left. That was followed by a three from Stone for a four-point advantage and he gave the team a lead at the break with an offensive rebound and score. 

The Titans will be back at home on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 7:00 p.m., as they host the Ohio Bobcats. Tickets start at just $10 and ticket packages are available. For more information, click here.

Game Notes:

• The Titans lead the all-time series, 4-3, but the loss ended a three-game winning streak against the Eagles
• Detroit Mercy is now 20-74 all-time against current teams in the ACC, although most of that is against Notre Dame (12-43), with the last win against a current ACC school against the Fighting Irish, 83-59, in the Motor City in 1993
• The Titans are now 16-66 all-time in road openers since 1932 and have dropped 21-straight road openers, with the last win at Chicago State, 87-65, in 2000-01
• The game marked a meeting between two of the 28 Jesuit Universities in the United States as the Titans and Eagles are also two of the
• 20 Jesuit programs that are Division I with Detroit Mercy's record at 208-240 all-time against its fellow Jesuit brothers
• With his 15 points, Davis has now reached double figures for the 113-straight as is now in sole possession of third in NCAA history in that statistic and just two away from tying the NCAA record, held by Chris Clemons (Campbell, 2015-2019) and Lionel Simmons (La Salle, 1987-90)
• Davis passed Keydren Clark (Saint Peter's, 2002-06-435), Markus Howard (Marquette, 2016-20-434) and Damon Lynn (NJIT, 2013-17-434) for seventh in NCAA history with 436 career triples and is eight shy of sixth place
• Davis is now 24 points shy of 19th place in NCAA history and 137 shy of the Horizon League record of 1,914 by Loyola's Alfredrick Hughes
• Parks' previous career high in rebounds was six at Cincinnati last season
• Stone has now posted back-to-back games with career high in points

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