DETROIT (11/8/2022) -- Graduate senior
Antoine Davis scored a game-high 28 points as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team took care of Rochester, 93-65, on Tuesday night on Dick Vitale Court in Calihan Hall.
It was the 78th career 20-point outing for Davis as he tied Danny Ainge (BYU, 1971-88) for third in NCAA history with 112 consecutive games in double figures, just three behind Chris Clemons (Campbell, 2015-2019) and Lionel Simmons (La Salle, 1987-90) for the NCAA record.
Davis was 8-of-20 from the field with four triples to go with a game-high nine assists. The four 3-pointers gave him 433 in his career for 10th in NCAA history and he now has 2,762 points, 21st in the NCAA record book.
Senior
Jordan Phillips tied his career high with 18 points and 10 rebounds for his second career double-double, while junior
Jayden Stone posted a career-high 15 points and 12 rebounds for his first career double-double.
Graduate senior
Damezi Anderson scored a career-best 17 points and pulled down a career-high nine rebounds and three assists and graduate senior
A.J. Oliver netted 12 points with five caroms.
The Titans got off to a quick start hitting eight of their first 10 shots from the field, and four of those were from downtown to take 20-4 just five minutes in. Phillips had the first basket of the year, a three off a Davis pass, and Oliver had eight early points with two triples himself.
Detroit Mercy led 22-13 when it went on a 9-2 spurt to more than double Rochester, 31-15, with 7:51 left. Phillips had two baskets inside and Anderson nailed a three for the 16-point advantage and the red, white and blue would lead by 11 at the break, 46-35.
In the second half, the Titans were 6-of-10 to start as they had a 62-49 lead at the 13:48 mark as Phillips nailed a 3-pointer. Rochester would cut the lead to nine on two occasions, the latest at 65-56 with 9:10 left, but the Titans pushed it to double figures for good after that, ending the contest on a 28-9 spurt.
Detroit Mercy shot 48.3% (28-of-58) and was 13-of-36 (36.1%) from behind the arc and 24-of-34 (70.6%) at the line. The Titans also outrebounded the Warriors, 42-27, and had 15 assists to just five turnovers.
The Titans will now get on a plane as they face fellow Jesuit institution Boston College on Friday in a 1:00 p.m. game on ACC Network Extra and ESPN+.
Game Notes:
- The Titans lead the all-time series, 5-0
- Detroit Mercy is now 82-34 all-time on opening day, with two years in the early 1900's unknown due to record keeping
- The Titans are also 78-13 in home openers dating back to the 1932-33 campaign, including winning 27 of their last 29
- Detroit Mercy has won 17 of their last 18 at home with the lone blemish coming in an 81-78 loss to Purdue Fort Wayne late last season
- Detroit Mercy has won 35 in a row against them during the regular season, with the last loss against Wayne State in 1993 and are now 260-67 all-time against non-division one foes
- The Titans are 293-171 all-time against other schools from the state of Michigan, including 273-97 versus programs outside of the two Big Ten institutions
- Davis now has 78 career 20-point games, 26 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in 112 collegiate games, reaching at least 17 points in 93 of them
- Davis now has 433 career 3-pointers for 10th in NCAA history, passing Chris Lofton (Tennessee, 2004-08), Kevin Foster (Santa Clara, 2009-13) and Tyler Hall (Montana St., 2015-19) and is one behind Markus Howard (Marquette, 2016-20) and Damon Lynn (NJIT, 2013-17) for eighth place
- Davis now has 2,762 career points passing Howard to move to 21st in NCAA history
- The last time the Titans had two players record double-doubles was last year against Central Michigan (DJ Harvey - 14 points, 12 rebounds and Madut Akec - 25 points, 10 rebounds)
- The 24 free throws were the most since hitting 28-of-31 at Milwaukee on Jan. 16, 2020
- Phillips also scored 18 points at Little Rock and grabbed 10 rebounds against Little Rock as a member of UT-Arlington
- Stone's previous career high was 14 against Abilene Christian last season and his bests for boards was four versus Mississippi Valley
- Anderson's career high in scoring was 14 against Troy as a member of Indiana in 2019, while his best in rebounding was six against Nebraska
- Oliver and Phillips were in double figured for the 21st time in their career
