DETROIT (3/15/2022) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will play its first postseason game since 2013 as the Titans head to the Sunshine State to battle Florida Gulf Coast in the first round of The Basketball Classic presented by Eracism on Wednesday.

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. at Alico Arena 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.

The event features 21 teams and will be bracketed after the first round of play.

Detroit Mercy is 14-15 on the season as the Titans fell at NKU in the quarterfinals of the Keeps Horizon League Championship. Senior Antoine Davis - the Titan and Horizon League record holder with 426 career 3-pointers for 13th in NCAA history - now has a school-record 2,710 points, 23rd in NCAA history and second in the HL record book and is currently third in the nation in scoring at 23.9 ppg.

He was named to the HL All-Academic Team and became the first Titan to ever be selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District® Team as well as a CoSIDA Academic All-American.

Florida Gulf Coast is 21-11 on the year and finished 10-6 in the Atlantic Sun, good for third in the East Division. The Eagles fell to Bellarmine in the quarterfinals of the ASUN Championships.

A win by either team would put them in the second round and that opponent will be announced after the conclusion of the entire first round.

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This is the first career meeting between the two schools.
• Detroit Mercy does have some familiarity with the Eagles as assistant coach Donnie Marsh He spent the last three seasons prior to his arrival in the Motor City at Florida Gulf Coast as the associate head coach.  

ABOUT THE BASKETBALL CLASSIC

• The Basketball Classic presented by Eracism is a 22-team tournament with first-round games on campus sites starting March 14. 
• This creates another bracket to follow and gives student-athletes across the country an opportunity to participate in the postseason and compete for a championship.

POSTSEASON SUCCESS

• Detroit Mercy is 8-14 all-time in the postseason with a 3-6 record in the NCAA Tournament and a 5-8 mark in the NIT.
• The Titans have dropped five-straight postseason games with their last win in 2001 in the NIT as they beat Bradley, Connecticut and Dayton on the road to earn a trip to Madison Square Garden for the NIT Final Four. 

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 10 of its 29 games at home as well as just six of its 17 HL regular-season 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. 

DAVIS NETS HIGHEST ACADEMIC HONOR

• Senior Antoine Davis received one of the highest honors for his work off the court as he was named to the Academic All-America® Second Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
• Just like his selection to the Academic All-District Team by the organization a few weeks ago, he is the first men's basketball player in school history to earn the honor and just the 19th Titan student-athlete overall to receive the prestigious accolade. 
• He was one of just two players in the Horizon League on the academic lists as Kahliel Spear of Robert Morris was also a Second Team honoree. 
• He is set to graduate this spring and holds a 3.39 GPA in Communications. He is a two-time member of the Athletic Director's Academic Honor Roll and is a member of the Horizon League Honor Roll. He was also named to the HL All-Academic Team just a few weeks ago.
• The Academic All-America® program is comprised of divisional teams for NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. Added for the 2018-19 academic year was a separate at-large program for two-year schools and Canadian institutions. 

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.  

ALL-NABC AGAIN

• For the fourth-straight year, Antoine Davis was recognized as one of the top players in college by the National Association of Basketball Coaches as he was named to the NABC All-District 12 Team. 
• He was selected First Team for the third-straight year to go with his Second Team nod as a freshman. 
• Davis leads the Horizon League in a number of statistical categories and ranks third in the nation in scoring (23.9). 
• He scored in double figures in the 28 games he played in and posted 20 or more points 17 times with six 30-point outings. He netted a season-high 39 points at home against Milwaukee and on the road at Hofstra. 

KEEPING THE BALL

• Detroit Mercy committed just nine turnovers against NKU and is second in the HL and 94th in the nation with 11.7 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 23.9 ppg.

LONG RANGE TITANS

• The Titans have connected on at least 10, 3-pointers in five of the last seven 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 (10.4) and 28th in three-point field-goal percentage (37.3%), tops in the HL in both.

WHERE WE RANK

• Outside of the long-distance shooting, the Titans are second in the league and 13th in the nation in free throw percentage (79.2%). 
• Individually, senior Antoine Davis is third in the nation in scoring (23.9), second in 3-point field goals per game (3.93), sixth in total 3-pointers (110), 10th in total points (670) 13th in minutes played per game (36:58), 22nd in free-throw percentage (88.1%), 56th in three-point field goal percentage (37.9%) and 72nd in assists (4.5). 
• He leads the HL in scoring, three-point field goals per game, three-point field-goal percentage and free-throw percentage and is 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 88.7% (472-of-532).
• He is 22ndin the nation in free-throw percentage at 88.1% (104-of-118) this year. 
• He had a streak of 57-straight free throws come to an end at Louisville.
• His career 88.1% is also 13th among active returning players in the nation and tied for 29th all-time in NCAA history. 

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Senior Antoine Davis now has 76 career 20-point games, 26 career 30-point outings and four 40-point contests in 110 collegiate games and has also scored in double figures in all 110 games - reaching at least 17 points in 91 of them.
• Davis was in double figures for the 110th straight game with 17 points at NKU and is now fourth in NCAA history in that category, just two in back of Danny Ainge (BYU, 1971-88) for third. 
• This year, he has 17, 20-point games, second in the HL, and a conference-best six 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 2,710, second 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 2,710, 23rd 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 second in conference history in that category, 204 shy of the all-time mark by Alfredrick Hughes of Loyola. 
• 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 3.87, three-point field goals per game.
• He has connected on a 3-pointer in 44-straight games and 106 of his 110 collegiate games. He has 60 career games with four or more triples, 22 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 110 triples on the season is 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 fifth.
• 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 426 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 426.

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 470 assists, four away from Bill Wood and sixth.
• 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.

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 14, tallying 10.3 points on 47.5% (49-of-103), including 31-of-74 (41.8%) from three in that span.
• He tallied 13 points with a career-tying eight boards 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 14 games, he is averaging 10.1 points and 5.1 rebounds, shooting 47.3% (53-of-112) overall and 34.4% from three (21-of-61), going in double figures eight 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.
• In the first round of the HL playoffs, he had 10 points, a team-high seven rebounds and a career-tying three steals against Green Bay and added five points with six boards at NKU.  
• 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 year with six double-figure games in his last 13, netting a team-high 19 points in the HL quarterfinals at NKU. He also had 14 points with a career-tying three steals, three rebounds and two assists against Green Bay in the first round.
• 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.  
• 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.
• 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 missed seven games with an injury at the end of the season- came back to grab six rebounds against Green Bay in the first round of the HL Championship.
• He is having a breakout year averaging 12.5 points and team-highs with 7.0 rebounds, 33 steals and shooting 50.7%.
• 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 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.