DETROIT (2/8/2022) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will have a busy week ahead of them with three road games as the Titans will start it off at Robert Morris on Wednesday.

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. at the UPMC Events Center and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and the Watch ESPN App. 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.

Detroit Mercy is coming off a big road win at NKU and is still looking at a first-round bye as the Titans stand at 9-11 overall and 6-4 in the Horizon League, good for fifth. With the postseason seedings this year based on winning percentage, four teams are between .571 and .615 with that range holding fourth to seventh place between NKU, Detroit Mercy, Purdue Fort Wayne and Youngstown State. 

Senior Antoine Davis comes into the game leading the nation in scoring at 23.3 points and has a school-record 2,482 points, third in HL history. He is trying to become just the second Titan to lead the NCAA in a statistical category with the other in Spencer Haywood, who led the country in rebounding at 22.1 rpg. in 1968-69. 

Two graduate seniors have stepped up their play recently as DJ Harvey is averaging 15.3 points and 8.0 rebounds, shooting 59.5% shooting (22-of-37) and 45.5% from three (10-of-22) in his last four games, going in double digits in all four with a career-high 20 at Wright State. Meanwhile, Kevin McAdoo is averaging 12.4 points on 40.8% shooting (20-of-49) and 40.0% from three (10-of-25) in his last five games. 

Robert Morris is 6-17 on the year and 4-10 in the conference, but has played better recently with three wins in the last four games. In conference play, five of the Colonials' 10 losses have been by six points or less. 

Following the game, the red, white and blue will play at Youngstown State on Friday night before ending the week on Super Bowl Sunday at rival Oakland. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• Despite being just 208 miles apart, this will be the fifth career meeting between the two schools as the Titans are 4-0 all-time with three of those wins coming last year with a regular-season sweep and a win in the first round of the HL Championship.
• It is the first meeting at RMU as the first match-up back in 2009 was in upstate New York in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic.

AGAINST RMU

• Senior Antoine Davis tallied 33.7 points, 7.0 assists and 3.3 rebounds last year against the Colonials. He shot 47.0% (31-of-66) overall, 41.5% (17-of-41) from three and a perfect 22-of-22 at the line. He had 26 points and eight assists in game one, 29 points and eight assists in game two, and a HL Tournament record 46 points - two shy of his career-high - and 10 triples to go with six assists in the postseason. 
• Junior Noah Waterman averaged 15.7 points and 4.7 rebounds last season on 64.-% shooting (16-of-25) and 56.3% from three (9-of-16). He netted a career-high 22 points in the regular-season finale. 

ROAD WARRIORS

• The Titans began the season with nine-straight road games and now, due to cancellations, they will play 13 of their first 16 and 18 of their first 23 on the road.
• In fact, if there are no other additions or subtractions to the schedule, Detroit Mercy will play just nine of their 27 overall games at home as well as six of their 17 HL games.

SHARING A HALL-OF-FAMER

• Titan Hall-of-Famer Earl Cureton holds the honor of also being inducted in the Robert Morris Hall Of Fame. 
• He played two seasons at RMU, the second of which (1976-77) was the first as an NCAA Division I institution. That year he scored 446 points and pulled down a single-season school record 274 rebounds and remains the only RMU player in program history to average a double-double, posting averages of 17.2 points and 10.5 rebounds per contest in 1976-77.
• He transferred and helped the Titans to a 36-19 in his two years, advancing to the NCAA Tournament in 1979. He averaged 20.0 points and 9.1 rebounds to lead the team in 1980. He also sits in ninth on the all-time Titan list in blocks with 79.
• He was selected in the third round
• of the 1979 NBA Draft by Philadelphia and played 12 years, earning rings with Philadelphia in 1983 and Houston in 1994.

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 currently leads the nation in scoring at 23.3 ppg. 
• The Titans have had one national individual stats leader in school history in Spencer Haywood, who led the country in rebounding at 22.1 rpg. in 1968-69. 

ROLLING DOUBLES

• The Titans have had two games this season that has seen two players post double-doubles in the same game.
• Antoine Davis (20 pts., 10 ast.) and Madut Akec (18 pts., 12 rebs.) each had a double-double against WMU, the first time the Titans had two players post a double-double in the same game since 2018. 
• With that said, the Titans followed that with another pair as Akec (25 pts., 10 rebs.) and graduate senior DJ Harvey (12 pts., 14 rebs.) accomplished the task their against Central Michigan. 
• Davis also picked up his third double-double of the season and his career with 18 points and a career-tying 10 assists against UIC and Harvey added his second with 15 points and 12 boards versus UM-Dearborn. 

LONG RANGE TITANS

• The Titans have connected on at least nine 3-pointers in 12 games this season and connected on 18 against Milwaukee, tying a school record and tied for the ninth most this season against DI competition. 
• Detroit Mercy also had 18 triples against Milwaukee in 2000. 
• The team currently ranks 14th in Division I in 3-point field goals per game (10.2) and 34th in three-point field-goal percentage (37.2%), tops in the HL in both statistics. 

WHERE WE RANK

• Outside of the long-distance shooting, the Titans are 19th in free throw percentage (77.1%), 89th in fouls per game (15.4) and 99th in turnovers per game (12.1), top four in the HL in all three. 
• Individually, senior Antoine Davis is leading the nation in scoring (23.3), fourth in 3-point field goals per game (4.0), fifth in minutes played per game (37:51), ninth in total 3-pointers (76), 19th in total points (442), 31st in free-throw percentage (88.3%), 34th in assists (5.1) and 75th in three-point field goal percentage (37.6%).
• He leads the HL in scoring, three-point field goals per game, three-point field-goal percentage, and free-throw percentage, while standing second in assists and total points.
• His 39 points at Hofstra and against Milwaukee is a conference-high and tied for the 13th-most in the country and the eight triples in both contests is tied for the ninth most. 
• Junior Madut Akec is tied for fourth in the HL and 54th nationally in double-doubles (6), fourth in the HL and 88th in the nation in field-goal percentage (50.5%) and fifth in the league in rebounding (7.5).

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 88.8% (436-of-491).
• He is 31st in the nation in free-throw percentage at 88.3% (68-of-77) this year. 
• He saw his school record and active NCAA-best 57-straight free throw streak come to an end at Louisville. As a sophomore, he had a streak of 37 in a row at one point. 
• His career 88.8% is also fifth among active returning players in the nation and tied for 22nd all-time in NCAA history. 

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis now has 69 career 20-point games, 24 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in 101 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 101 games - reaching at least 17 points in 82 of them.
• Davis was in double figures for the 101st straight game with 19 points at NKU and is sixth in NCAA history in that category, just one behind Keydren Clark (St. Peters, 2003-06) for fifth. 
• He entered the season with a chance at the NCAA record, held by La Salle's Lionel Simmons (1986-90) and Campbell's Chris Clemons at 115 (2015-19). 
• 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. 
• The 46 points was tied for the league and nation high with Cleveland State's D'Moi Hodge (vs. Purdue Fort Wayne). 
• Last season he reached at least 23 points in 13-straight, the best 20-point streak by a Titan since Spencer Haywood's 16-straight in 1968-69 - but to Haywood's resume, most of those were 30-point games.

ABOUT 2,000 POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis has 2,482 career points, the highest active scorer in the country in total points.
• At the moment, 608 NCAA players have amassed over 2,000 career points at the DI level and he is just 18 points shy of 2,500, something only 75 players have achieved.
• Only 12 players have reached 2,000 career points in the Horizon League as he is third in conference history in that category, 432 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 year fifth all-time in NCAA history with 3.88, three-point field goals per game.
• He has connected on a 3-pointer in 35-straight games and 97 of his 101 collegiate games. He has 53 career games with four or more triples, 20 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. 
• 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 391 career triples as he passed former Titan All-American Rashad Phillips (348) for both records with his second trey at UIC.
• He is currently 24th in NCAA history in total 3-pointers and if he gets to 400, that would put him in the top 20. 

DAVIS DISHING IT OUT

• Antoine Davis can not only score, but he can get his teammates involved as he is eighth in school history with 441 assists, 10 away from Ray McCallum and seventh place.  
• He has 45 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.

MADUT DOING IT ALL

• Junior Madut Akec is having a breakout season averaging 14.0 points and team-highs with 7.6 rebounds, 32 steals and shooting 50.5% overall.
• He is fourth in field goal percentage, fifth in rebounding, seventh in steals and free-throw percentage (80.0%) and 13th in scoring in the Horizon League.  
• He has also scored in double figures in 17 games and is tied for fourth 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 the past two seasons, redshirting as a freshman, and tallied 2.3 points and 1.4 rebounds, while shooting nearly 50.0% (14-of-31).  
• 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.

DJ COLLECTS DOUBLE-DOUBLE

• Graduate senior DJ Harvey 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 was 4-of-7 from the field with a pair of 3-pointers and 4-of-4 at the line.
• After battling COVID and some injuries, he has turned in on in the last four games averaging 15.3 points and 8.0 rebounds, shooting 59.5% (22-of-37) and 45.5% from three (10-of-22) going in double digits in all four 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 streak with 11 points at UIC followed by 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 and is coming off a 15-point, nine-rebound effort at NKU.
• That was after 11 points, four rebounds and two assists against UIC. 
• 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.
• He has been in double figures seven times this season, but has picked up his play in the last five games, averaging 12.4 points on 40.8% shooting (20-of-49) and 40.0% from three (10-of-25). 
• In the last five, he has netted double figures three times with 13 points against UIC, 19 points, eight assists and five boards against Michigan-Dearborn and 15 points at NKU.  
• 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.