CHARLOTTE, N.C. (12/10/2022) -- University of Detroit Mercy graduate senior
Antoine Davis made NCAA history reaching 3,000 career points and tying his own and the school record with 10-pointers en route to a game-high 36 in an 82-80 overtime setback at Charlotte on Saturday.
It was the 27th career 30-point game for Davis, who was 12-of-27 from the field and 10-of-17 from distance. He now has 3,001 career points, 11th in NCAA history, seven away from the top 10, while his 10, 3-pointers put him at 476 in his career, 33 away from the NCAA record.
Senior
Gerald Liddell had 13 points and a career-high 18 rebounds, the most by a Titan since Eli Holman '12 had 18 against Milwaukee in 2020, while graduate senior
Damezi Anderson posted 14 points.
Detroit Mercy (5-6) and Charlotte (8-2) each had 10-point leads in the game, but Anderson's jumper with 1:15 left tied the contest at 73-all. The Titans had a chance to go ahead in regulation but turned it over while the 49'ers had a couple of shots to win the game, but they didn't fall.
In overtime, the Titans took a 77-75 lead on back-to-back baskets by Liddell and graduate senior
TJ Moss with 3:30 left and then led 80-78 with 1:37 remaining as Anderson nailed a trifecta. Detroit Mercy had one final chance to win the game or send it to another overtime down 82-80 with 40 seconds left, but could not get a pair of 3-pointers to fall.
Detroit Mercy drained a season-high 17-of-36 from three, one away from the school record, as well as 42.4% overall (28-of-66). The Titans won the rebounding battle, 33-32, including 13 on the offensive glass.
Liddell also tallied three assists, two blocks and a steal. Junior
Jayden Stone posted six points, four assists and three rebounds and graduate senior
A.J. Oliver had four points and four boards.
Charlotte got off to a hot start, connecting on six of its first nine shots for a 16-4 lead five minutes in when Davis ended that spurt with a three. The 49'ers maintained their lead for much of the first half and led by 12, 38-26, with 6:03 left when the Titans started chipping away, eventually taking the lead on an 18-3 charge. Liddell split a pair of free throws and then Davis and freshman
Isaiah Jones nailed back-to-back treys to make it 38-33. After a three by Charlotte, Liddell went inside for a layup before Stone and Anderson registered 3-pointers to knot the game at 41-41 with 1:47 left.
After the Titans forced a turnover, Stone found Davis, who buried one from behind the arc for a 44-41 advantage and another three from Anderson sent the Titans into the break up 47-43.
The Titans extended their lead to nine early in the second half as Davis hit two more 3-pointers, the latter for a 54-45 score at the 17:46 mark. A few minutes later, another three-ball from Davis gave the Titans their biggest margin at 57-47 with 14:57 on the clock.
Charlotte would slowly start to trim the lead and jumped out in front, 63-61, with eight minutes left when Davis hit again from distance for a 64-63 advantage. The 49'ers would push the lead to five, 69-64, at the 4:10 mark when Oliver and Davis had back-to back baskets and Davis would tie the game at 71-71 with his 10th triple of the contest with two minutes remaining.
Detroit Mercy will have a week off for finals before returning to action next Sunday, Dec. 18, at Eastern Michigan in a game that will tip at 3:00 p.m.
Game Notes:
- The series is now tied at 1-1 as Detroit Mercy hosted Charlotte back on Nov. 23 and won 70-49
- The Titans are now 13-6 all-time against current members of Conference USA
- The last overtime game for the Titans was against Oakland at home on Dec. 26, 2020
- Detroit Mercy has topped 80 points four times this season after doing so just seven times all of last year
- The Titans' school record for 3-pointers is 18 against Milwaukee in 2000 and against the Panthers at home last season, when Davis broke the school scoring record
- The red, white and blue have connected on double-digit triples in eight games and came into today 49th in the nation at 37.9% from three, as well as second in the league and 29th in the country with 9.7 triples per game
- Detroit Mercy has outrebounded its opponents in its last three games and six times on the season and came into the game leading the HL and 67th in the nation with 12.4 offensive rebounds per game
- Davis now has 86 career 20-point games, 27 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in 122 games as he extended his NCAA record to 122-straight games in double figures
- Davis is now seven points shy of Hersey Hawkins (Bradley, 1984-88 - 3,008) for 10th in NCAA history and 666 behind Pete Maravich's NCAA-record 3,667
- Davis has now made a three in 117 of his 122 collegiate games with 67 career games with four or more triples, 24 with six or more, 11 games with seven or more, and four times connected on 10 in his career, tying a school record as well as breaking a conference tournament record
- Davis is now 28 away from Oakland's Travis Bader for second and 33 away from Fletcher Magee's NCAA-record 509
- Liddell just had his career-high in rebounds with 16 in his Titan debut at Purdue Fort Wayne
- The 18 rebounds are the most by a Titan since Eli Holman had 18 versus Milwaukee in 2010
- The last Titan to have four-straight double-doubles was current NBA G-Leaguer Paris Bass had four- straight in the 2015-16 season
- Anderson was in double digits in scoring for the fifth time this year
