MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (2/9/2022) -- Senior Antoine Davis put his name in the top 75 in NCAA history in scoring and the Titans used two big runs to cruise to a victory as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team dominated Robert Morris on the road, 79-62, on Wednesday night.

Davis finished with a game-high 26 points to go with a team-high five assists and three rebounds, shooting 9-of-22 from the field with six 3-pointers. He netted 18 in the first half as his final triple of the period put him at 2,500 career points and he now has 2,508 in his career, 70th in NCAA history. 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). 

Meanwhile, his six 3-pointers has him at 398 in his career, two shy of the top 20 in that statistic. 

Graduate senior DJ Harvey had 14 points and a game-high nine rebounds, hitting six of his 12 shots, while junior Noah Waterman returned and added 11 points and three boards.

The Titans (10-11, 7-4 HL) led for most of the game, but were down early as Robert Morris (6-18, 4-11 HL) built a 16-9 six minutes in. Detroit Mercy took that away going on an 18-2 spurt with the defense holding RMU to 1-of-7 shooting with five turnovers as the Titans climbed on top, 27-18, the last six courtesy of 3-pointers from senior Matt Johnson and Harvey.

Davis hit a three and Harvey had a basket for the first double-digit lead at 34-23 and later on, Davis helped build a 12-point advantage as his triple for 18-first half points and 2,500 in his career gave the red, white and blue a 37-25 advantage with a little less than a minute to go.

In the second half, a layup from senior Willy Isiani and a three by Harvey had the squad up by 16, 47-31. The Titans would go on and end all dreams of a Colonials' comeback with a 13-0 run to increase their lead to 21, 63-42, with seven minutes left to go.  

Johnson scored nine points with four rebounds, four assists and two steals and Isiani scored five points and grabbed seven boards.

Detroit Mercy over 50.0% for the second-straight game ending at 50.9% with 13 of its 27 field goals from distance and owned the glass to the tune of a 35-22 advantage. 

The Titans will now head to Youngstown State the battle the Penguins on Friday night with opening tip set for 7:00 p.m.

First Half:

• Davis got the Titans on the board with an early three
• Akec had a three-point play and Davis made another from distance to get within one, 10-9, at the 14:42 mark
• RMU took a 16-9 lead, but Detroit Mercy then went on an 18-2 run over the next six minutes, holding RMU to 1-of-7 shooting with five turnovers
• Johnson made two free throws and graduate senior Kevin McAdoo drove to the rim for a basket to make it a 16-13 game with 10:32 left
• Harvey and Davis made two from the line before a Davis jumper gave the team a 19-16 lead
• Johnson had a jumper and then he and Harvey drilled a pair of treys for a 27-18 advantage with five minutes to go
• Another three by Davis and a basket by Harvey as the Titans upped their lead to 32-23 with 1:19 left
• Davis drilled his fourth trifecta that gave him 18 first-half points - and 2,500 in his career -for a 37-25 lead with under a minute to play
• The Titans took a 37-27 lead at the break

Second Half:

• After RMU started the half with a bucket, Johnson had a basket and Waterman banged one in from distance for a 42-29 lead
• Isiani had a layup and then Harvey knocked one down from three for a 47-31 advantage with 16:37 remaining
• Waterman hit from behind the arc and Davis buried his fifth three of the game for a 53-42 lead with 13:41 to go, which started a 13-0 spurt
• Off an offensive rebound from graduate senior Buay Koka, he found sophomore Kyle LeGreair open for a layup and then Davis landed another three for a 58-42 lead
• Waterman nailed another long one for the Titans and junior Jeramy Shaw got inside for a layup and it was 63-42 with 7:22 remaining
• Davis and Harvey had back-to-back jumpers for a 72-53 lead at the 3:30 mark
• Junior Mohamed Sylla had his first DI basket off an offensive rebound for a 74-56 lead with 2:39 to go

Game Notes:

• The Titans lead the all-time series, 5-0, and this was the first-ever road game in the match-up
• Titan Hall-of-Famer Earl Cureton holds the honor of also being inducted in the Robert Morris Hall Of Fame as he played two seasons at RMU, the second of which (1976-77) was the first as an NCAA Division I institution 
• 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
• The Titans have connected on at least nine 3-pointers in 13 games this season and rank 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
• It was the ninth time this year the Titans have won the rebounding total, while the +13 margin is tied for the biggest on the season with the game against Western Michigan
• Davis now has 2,508 career points, 70th in NCAA history as he passed Elgin Baylor (Col. of Idaho/Seattle), Jeff Grayer (Iowa St.), Caleb Green (Oral Roberts), Bill Bradley (Princeton) and Terry Taylor (Austin Peay) on the night and is just 14 points away from entering the top 65
• Davis comes into the game leading the nation in scoring at 23.3 points as 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
• Davis tallied 33.7 points, 7.0 assists and 3.3 rebounds last year against the Colonials, shooting 47.0% (31-of-66) overall, 41.5% (17-of-41) from three and a perfect 22-of-22 at the line with games of 26, 29 and 46 points
• Davis now has 70 career 20-point games, 24 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in 102 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 102 games - reaching at least 17 points in 83 of them
• The 102-straight games in double figures is now tied for sixth in NCAA history with Keydren Clark (St. Peters, 2003-06) for fifth, 13 shy of the NCAA record, held by La Salle's Lionel Simmons (1986-90) and Campbell's Chris Clemons at 115 (2015-19)
• Davis came into the game fifth all-time in NCAA history with 3.88, three-point field goals per game as he has connected on a 3-pointer in 36-straight games and 98 of his 102 collegiate games with 54 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
• Davis now has 46 games with five or more assists - including 10 this season - and is eighth in school history with 446 assists, five away from Ray McCallum and seventh place
• Harvey is averaging 15.1 points and 8.2 rebounds, shooting 57.1% (28-of-49) overall and 42.8% from three (12-of-28) in his last five games, going in double digits in all five
• Waterman - who had missed the last three games due to health and safety protocols - averaged just 3.0 points in his first seven games on 26.6% shooting (8-of-30), but now been in double figures four times in his last six games, tallying 9.1 points on 51.4% (18-of-35), including 11-of-26 (42,3%) from three in that span