PULLMAN, Wash. (11/25/2022) -- Junior Jayden Stone scored 20 points, but Washington State started hot and never looked back as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team dropped a 96-54 contest on the road on Friday afternoon.

It was the third 20-point game of the season for Stone, who was 5-of-8 from the field, 2-of-3 from three and a career-best 8-of-9 at the free throw line to go with five rebounds.

Graduate senior Antoine Davis had 15 points and a team-high and career-tying seven rebounds with two assists. He now has 2,897 points, moving to 14th in NCAA history and just 18 shy of 13th place and Loyola Chicago's Alfredrick Hughes's 2,914 (1981-85), which would also be the Horizon League record. 

Detroit Mercy (3-4) saw Washington State (3-2) score the first four points and took a 13-2 lead just four minutes into the game. A three by Stone made it 13-5, and later on, a basket by graduate senior Buay Koka had the team down 16-7 with 13:39 left.

The Cougars would then go on a 17-3 run to take control of the contest at 33-10 with 9:26 left in the half, and WSU led 56-23 at the break. In the second half, the Titans could not get in a rhythm as Washington State ran its lead to as many as 49.

Senior Jordan Phillips had nine points, three rebounds and two assists and Koka posted four points and two boards. 

Detroit Mercy shot 38.3% (18-of-47) from the field, but was just 5-of-12 (41.7%) from three and 13-of-20 (65.0%) at the free throw line. 

The Titans will now head into Horizon League play as the red, white and blue visit preseason favorite Purdue Fort Wayne on Thursday with game time set for 7:00 p.m. 

Game Notes:

• This was the first career meeting between the two schools
• It was the fifth game in 10 days for the Titans that saw them go from a home game against Ohio last Wednesday to Florida for a pair of games, back home to take on Charlotte and then off to the west coast, covering over 3,500 miles in the process
• The Titans are now 7-11 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 and have dropped six straight to the league, with the last win against UCLA in the 1999 NCAA Tournament
• Detroit Mercy came into the day 19th in the NCAA with 10.6 3-pointers per game
• Davis has now made a 3-pointer in 113 of his 118 collegiate games with 64 career games with four or more triples, 23 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 and his 454 career triples are three shy of moving into the top three and 52 behind Fletcher Magee's NCAA record of 509.
• Davis has had seven rebounds on five other occasions, with the last against Milwaukee at home last season
• Davis now has 500 career assists 115 behind Kevin McAdoo's (1983-86) school-record 615
• Stone had 22 at Boston College and a career-high 24 versus Bryant
• Koka has scored four points in back-to-back games

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