DETROIT (2/28/2022) -- The calendar has finally turned to March and the stakes are as high as can be - win or go home - as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will start its run to a title by hosting Green Bay in the first round of the Keeps Horizon League Championship on Tuesday.

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and the Watch ESPN App with Jeremy Otto and Earl Cureton 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.

Tickets are set at $10 for adults and $5 for children (12 and under), seniors (60+), and season ticket holders.Tickets can be purchased by clicking here and you must use "STH" in the promo code to get the discounted price for adults. If purchasing for kids and seniors, you must call Assistant Business & Ticket Manager Paige Zmudczynski '14 at 313-320-8873 or email her at zmudczpa@udmercy.edu.

Detroit Mercy opens the postseason as the sixth seed at 13-14 overall and 10-7 in the Horizon League, while Green Bay is the 11th seed at 5-24, 4-16 in league play. 

It is the second-straight year the Titans have hosted a conference tournament game as last season as the fifth seed, they beat 12th-seeded Robert Morris, 83-73. Detroit Mercy is a perfect 7-0 at home when it has hosted a conference tournament game in its history. 

Overall, Detroit Mercy is 36-37 all-time in the HL postseason with eight trips to the title game (1988, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2012) and three championships (1994, 1999, 2012).

The Titans have won three of the last four and five of the last eight games as well as 15 of their last 16 at home as they will look to avenge an early-season loss at Green Bay, 70-63. The home game between the two was canceled due to health and safety protocols in the Phoenix program. 

Senior Antoine Davis leads the team and the Horizon League in scoring at 23.7 points per game, while junior Madut Akec is second on the squad tallying 13.5 points and a team-high 7.2 rebounds per game. Junior Noah Waterman is third on the team in scoring (8.3) and graduate senior DJ Harvey is fourth (8.0). 

Green Bay ended an 11-game slide with a 67-41 victory at IUPUI on Saturday. Prior to that, the Phoenix last win was actually against the Titans back on Jan. 20. 

With a win and the tournament reseeding after every round, the Titans would either play at #3 NKU or #4 Wright State on Thursday in the quarterfinals and that game will be at 7:00 p.m. A Green Bay triumph would send the Phoenix to either #1 Cleveland State or #2 Purdue Fort Wayne. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• With a loss on the road earlier this season, the Titans have dropped 15 of the last 19 to Green Bay and trail the all-time series, 35-28.
• Detroit Mercy did sweep the Phoenix last year at home, but this year's home contest was canceled due to health and safety protocols in the Green Bay program. 
• The Titans have won six of the last 11 in Calihan Hall and own a 16-13 mark on campus against the Phoenix.

AGAINST THE PHOENIX

• Senior Antoine Davis is averaging 25.4 points, 4.6 assists and 2.7 rebounds in seven career games against Green Bay, while shooting 43.5% (64-of-147) overall and 35.6% (26-of-73) from distance. 
• He has scored 20 or more points in six of the seven games with a 30-point and 26-point performance last season (20-of-35 FG, 12-of-20 3FG) and a pair of 29-point games with one as a freshman and one as a sophomore. Earlier this season, he led the way with 25 points. 
• Junior Noah Waterman has tallied 9.3 points and 4.7 rebounds in three games. Senior Matt Johnson averaged 5.5 points and 4.0 rebounds against Green Bay last year, but missed the first game this season, while junior Madut Akec had 16 in that game.

ROAD WARRIORS

• The Titans began the season with nine-straight road games and, due to cancellations, played 13 of their first 16 and 18 of their first 23 on the road.
• In fact, Detroit Mercy played just nine of its 27 regular-season games at home as well as just six of its 17 HL games.

ALL IN THE FAMILY

• Nothing new for the Titans to have a family connection in the program and this season, Detroit Mercy will once again feature three Davis' in head coach Mike Davis, assistant coach Mike Davis Jr. and senior guard Antoine Davis.
• From 2010-13, the Titans had head coach Ray McCallum and star guard Ray McCallum, winning the HL title in 2012 and earning a trip to the NIT in 2013.
• Also, the legendary Bob Calihan coached his son, Bob Calihan Jr., for one season as he transferred to U-D from Loyola for his senior season in 1968-69. 

TITANS AS THE 6TH SEED

• Detroit Mercy is 4-4 all-time as the sixth seed with the last time coming in 2015-16 when the Titans downed Youngstown State and fell to Wright State.
• In 1987, Detroit Mercy reached the finals with a high-scoring guard in Archie Tullos leading the way as the sixth seed upsetting third-seeded Saint Louis (69-66) and second-seeded Evansville (75-75) before dropping the title game to top-seeded Xavier (122-96). 

HISTORY OF THE HL 6TH SEED

• The sixth seed in the Horizon League postseason is 26-41 all-time with two trips to the title game, including one championship. 
• In fact, the #6 seed has won a game in four of the last five and nine of the last 11 conference tournaments.
• UIC won it all as the six in 2002, while the Titans reached the title game in 1987. 

DAVIS NETS ACADEMIC HONOR

• Antoine Davis was named to the 2021-22 CoSIDA Academic All-District® 5 Team, the first Titan men's basketball player to take home the honor in school history.
• He was one of two Horizon League student-athletes to make the list joining Robert Morris' Kahliel Spear in District 2.  
• The 2021-22 Academic All-District® teams, selected by CoSIDA, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot and will be announced in mid-March.
• Davis holds a 3.39 GPA as a Communications major. In his time, he has also been a member of the Detroit Mercy's Athletic Director's Honor Roll and the Horizon League's Fall and Spring Academic Honor Rolls.  

DAVIS HL ALL-ACADEMIC

• Senior Antoine Davis was also named to the Horizon League All-Academic Team, the first Titan on the HL All-Academic Team since Evan Bruinsma and Ugochukwu Njoku in 2013-14.  

PLAYING SOME DEFENSE

• The Titans have held 14 foes under 70 points this year, including five under 60 points with four of those in HL play. 

KEEPING THE BALL

• Detroit Mercy committed 12 turnovers against Purdue Fort and is second in the HL and 97th in the nation with 11.9 turnovers per game. 

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 is currently third in the nation in scoring at 23.7 ppg.

LONG RANGE TITANS

• The Titans have connected on at least 10, 3-pointers in five-straight games and 16 times this season, including a season-high 18 against Milwaukee, tying a school record and tied for the 11th most this season against DI competition. 
• The team currently ranks seventh in Division I in 3-point field goals per game (10.6) and 29th in three-point field-goal percentage (37.5%), tops in the HL in both.

WHERE WE RANK

• Outside of the long-distance shooting, the Titans are second in the league and 17th in the nation in free throw percentage (77.4%). 
• Individually, senior Antoine Davis is third in the nation in scoring (23.7), second in 3-point field goals per game (3.96), sixth in total 3-pointers (103), 10th in minutes played per game (37:09) and total points (615), 31st in free-throw percentage (87.3%), 59th in assists (4.6) and 61st in three-point field goal percentage (37.7%).
• He leads the HL in scoring, three-point field goals per game, three-point field-goal percentage and free-throw percentage and second in total points and third in assists. 
• His 39 points at Hofstra and against Milwaukee is a HL and tied for the 22nd-most in the country and the eight triples in both are tied for the 25th most. 

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 88.5% (464-of-524).
• He is 31st in the nation in free-throw percentage at 87.3% (96-of-110) this year. 
• He had a streak of 57-straight free throws come to an end at Louisville.
• His career 88.5% is also 13th among active returning players in the nation and tied for 27th all-time in NCAA history. 

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis now has 75 career 20-point games, 25 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in 108 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 108 games - reaching at least 17 points in 89 of them.
• Davis was in double figures for the 108th straight game with 26 points against Purdue Fort Wayne and is now tied for fourth in NCAA history in that category, with former Arizona standout Sean Elliott (1985-89), just four in back of Danny Ainge (BYU, 1971-88) for third. 
• This year, he has 16, 20-point games, second in the HL, and a conference-best five 30-point contests.  
• 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. 

AD THE QUICKEST TO 1,000 & 2,000 & NOW OWNS THE SCHOOL RECORD

• With his 39 points at home against Milwaukee, Antoine Davis became the Titans' all-time leading scorer passing Rashad Phillips (2,319) with his 36th point and now has 2,655, third in HL history. 
• 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). 

ABOUT 2,500 POINTS

• Antoine Davis is the highest active scorer in the country in total points with 2,655, tied for 30th in NCAA history. 
• At the moment, only 76 players have reached 2,500 at the DI level.  
• It was his 18th point at Robert Morris on a three that put him at 2,500 career points.
• It was the fourth time that a student-athlete has posted 2,500 with his dad as head coach following Pete Maravich (Press Maravich), Doug McDermott (Greg McDermott) and Allan Houston (Wade Houston). 
• Only 12 players have reached 2,000 career points in the Horizon League as he is third in conference history in that category, 41 out of second and 259 shy of the all-time mark.
• Imagine that record with the idea that Davis and the Titans have seen 11 games canceled and not made up in the last two seasons due to the pandemic.

ONE LETHAL SHOT

• Antoine Davis comes into the game fifth all-time in NCAA history with 3.88, three-point field goals per game.
• He has connected on a 3-pointer in 42-straight games and 104 of his 108 collegiate games. He has 59 career games with four or more triples, 21 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. 
• His 103 triples on the season are third in the school record book, the third time in his career he has tallied at least 100 following the 132 as a freshman for second and 101 as a sophomore for fourth.
• In a COVID shortened season, he tallied 83 last year and the school record is 136 by Rashad Phillips in 2001. 
• 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 419 career triples as he passed former Titan All-American Rashad Phillips (348) for both records with his second trey at UIC.
• He is currently tied for 13th in NCAA history in total 3-pointers at 419.

DAVIS DISHING IT OUT

• Antoine Davis can not only score, but he can get his teammates involved as he is seventh in school history with 465 assists, nine away from Bill Wood and sixth place. 
• He has 47 games with five or more assists - including nine this season - and as he set his career-best with 10 at IUPUI and against Western Michigan.

PLAYING ALL 40

• Senior Antoine Davis led the Horizon League and was second in the country in minutes per game (38:34) last year.
• Davis played every minute at Oakland and has now played 40 or more minutes 29 times in his career, including nine times this season, and is currently 10th in the nation averaging 37:09 minutes per game.

WHO IS STARTING TODAY?

• Detroit Mercy has used 13 different starting line-ups this season, but the same five have started the last four games. 

HIGH WATERMARK

• Junior Noah Waterman - who missed time early with an injury and then again from health and safety protocols - tallied just 3.0 points in his first seven games on 26.6% shooting (8-of-30), but now been in double figures nine times in his last 12, tallying 11.3 points on 48.4% (46-of-95), including 30-of-69 (43.4%) from three in that span.
• He tallied 13 points with a career-tying eight boards his last tie out against Purdue Fort Wayne. 
• He just had 12 points, five rebounds and two steals versus Wright State and 15 points, four rebounds and a career-best 13 boards against Cleveland State
• That was after back-to-back season highs with 18 points (7-11 FG, 4-7 3FG), five rebounds, two assists, a block and a steal against NKU and 16 points with six rebounds at Oakland, going 5-of-13 with four 3-pointers. 
• He became eligible mid-season last year and played in 15 games with 12 starts and was third on the team in scoring (11.9), fourth in rebounding (4.5) and tied for the team lead with 10 blocks. 
• He shot 55.5% from the field and 52.8% from the outside (38-of-72), scoring in double figures in eight games.
• At Oakland in the win, he recorded 18 points and a career-high eight rebounds and two blocks.
• He netted 17 points with five rebounds and two blocks in the win at Cleveland State, going a career-best 5-of-7 from three with three of those in the final three minutes to seal the win. He had a career-high 22 in game two against Robert Morris, where he was a career-best 8-of-11 from the field with five triples. 
• He then had 19 points and pulled down five rebounds in the Horizon League Championship quarterfinals at NKU. 
• A transfer from Niagara, Waterman played in seven games with five starts until an injury ended his freshman year.
• In high school, he was 6-2 but is now almost seven feet allowing him to play as a guard with his shooting skills. 

DJ ON THE REQUEST LINE

• Graduate senior DJ Harvey has come alive in the second half of the year after dealing with some early injuries and health and safety protocols.
• In his last 12 games, he is averaging 10.6 points and 5.0 rebounds, shooting 49.4% (47-of-95) overall and 37.2% from three (20-of-54), going in double figures seven times with a career-high 20 at Wright State. 
• Prior to that, he was tallying just 4.8 points and 5.0 rebounds on 32.1% shooting and just 9-of-27 (33.3%) from distance.
• He started his hot play with 11 points, four rebounds and two assists against UIC and followed that with a double-double against Michigan-Dearborn with a then season-high 15 points and career-tying 12 rebounds, hitting 4-of-8 from three. 
• He netted a career-high 20 points with seven rebounds at Wright State, a 15-point, nine-rebound effort at NKU, 14 points and nine rebounds at Robert Morris, 14 points at Youngstown State and just flirted with a triple-double with 13 points, nine rebounds and a career-high seven assists at Oakland.He also scored 15 points with four rebounds against Purdue Fort Wayne.
• Earlier in the season, he had one of his best collegiate games posting his first career double-double with a season-high 14 points and career-best 12 rebounds against Central Michigan.
• He started his collegiate career playing two seasons at Notre Dame before playing the last two years at Vanderbilt. 
• He was one of the top recruits in the nation coming out of high school. 

A MCADOO IS BACK

• Kevin McAdoo had the distinction of making the first basket of the season, hitting a triple at Wyoming, and then had a career game, tying his career-high with 23 points and hitting five 3-pointers at Toledo.
• McAdoo has been consistent in the second half of the season with four double-figure games in his last 11. 
• He had a strong weekend with eight points, five rebounds and four assists against NKU, where he hit a couple of big triples in the second half, and 11 points with three helpers versus Wright State. 
• He had a great game with 15 points at NKU. Recently, he had 13 points against UIC and 19 points, eight assists and five boards against Michigan-Dearborn.
• Earlier this season at Mississippi State, he scored 13 points and handed out four assists and then had 10 points at UIC.  
• He had 10 points and four assists in the home win over Milwaukee and added seven points, three rebounds, two assists and two steals at Milwaukee. 
• The name McAdoo is special in Titans' history as his father, Kevin McAdoo Sr., is the school's all-time assist leader with 615 earning four letters between 1982-86.
• He played last year at Bradley after playing his first two at Eastern Michigan and is the rare graduate senior who will have two years of eligibility after the NCAA granted an exception last season due to COVID.
• In high school, he earned First-Team All-State honors from the BCAM, while collecting second-team accolades from the Detroit Free Press at West Bloomfield.

HL'S SIXTH MAN RETURNS 

• Matt Johnson was selected the HL Sixth Man of the Year last season and once again has been a steady contributor going for a season-high 21 points with five rebounds, four assists and a block against Purdue Fort Wayne. Before that, he had 12 points, three rebounds and two assists against Cleveland State. 
• He had a great all-around weekend tallying nine points, a career-high nine rebounds, three assists and three steals against Wright State and six rebounds, two assists and a steal against NKU. 
• Johnson tallied 15 points, seven rebounds and a career-best six assists against Michigan-Dearborn. He scored a season-high 16 points and tied his then career-best with eight boards against UIC.
• He had seven points with five rebounds, three assists and three steals at Cleveland State and scored 10 points with five rebounds, two assists and two steals at Louisville.
• He saw action in all 22 games with eight starts last season and averaged 8.5 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists.
• Johnson posted a then career-high 20 points (7-14 FG, 4-6 3FG) along with five rebounds, three assists, a block and a steal in his Titan debut at Michigan State and followed that up with 15 points and five boards at Notre Dame. 
• He recorded a career-high 24 points on a career-best 9-of-14 from the field with six 3-pointers to go with six rebounds against Purdue Fort Wayne.

MADUT DOING IT ALL

• Junior Madut Akec - who has missed the last seven games with an injury - was having a breakout season averaging 13.5 points and team-highs with 7.2 rebounds, 33 steals and shooting 50.7% overall.  
• He had also scored in double figures in 17 games and is tied for fifth in the HL with six double-doubles and seven 10+ rebounding outings. 
• He tallied 15 points with four boards and three steals at NKU. He also had 11 points at Milwaukee and 16 - 12 in the second half - at Green Bay.  
• Akec posted 15 points and a career-high 15 boards with four steals and two assists at Purdue Fort Wayne. 
• He 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, where 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.  
• He 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 redshirting as a freshman, and tallied 2.3 points and 1.4 rebounds. 
• 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.

BIG WILLY STYLE

• Senior Willy Isiani is back and as one of the most experienced Titans in his fourth year - all under coach Davis. 
• His play this year has been steady as he is known to hit some deep shots as well as play tough and smart inside as he leads the team with 21 drawn charges and just recorded his season-high with eight boards against Cleveland State.  
• A native of Tbilisi, Georgia, who is believed to be the first Titan from the country of Georgia, has connected on the three ball on 97 of his 149 career field goals.
• He is coming off a nine-point, four-assist, three-rebound, two-steal effort against Wright State. 
• He had a season-high seven boards at Robert Morris and a season-high 15 points against UIC, going 5-of-6 from the field and 4-of-5 from three. 
• He had a then season-high 11 points at Kent State and 15 points versus Western Michigan.
• He scored eight points with four rebounds against Milwaukee, eight points hitting a pair of three's at IUPUI and that was after six points on a pair of 3-pointers at Hofstra.
• Known as a shooter, he started to learn the post position grabbing a career-high 12 rebounds with eight points at Western Michigan last season, posting a career-high five assists with six rebounds and two steals at Michigan State and 10 boards with two blocks at Notre Dame last year.