DETROIT (8/18/2022) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball roster is almost complete as the Titans announced that former four-star and SEC student-athlete TJ Moss (Memphis, Tenn./Findlay Prep (Nev.) has transferred to the program.

"He is another guy who started his career at a power five school," said head coach Mike Davis. "He can play a lot of different positions for us and he can really handle the basketball at 6-5 so that will give us some length in the backcourt."

Moss suited up in nine games last year at McNeese State and averaged 7.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game, while collecting eight steals. He scored a career-high 16 points at TCU, where he was 5-of-12 from behind the arc, and had five assists and three steals. He also netted 12 points against Samford and 10 versus St. Francis (NY).

The 6-4, 190-pound combo guard spent his first three seasons at South Carolina in the SEC, where he played in 55 games for the Gamecocks. He posted 3.3 points, 1.8 assists and 1.3 boards with 30 steals in his time. After playing in just seven games as a freshman before an injury ended his season, he saw action in 30 games and tallied 6.9 points, 5.0 assists and 2.9 rebounds as a sophomore, scoring a season-high 10 points against Kentucky. He came back the next year to play in 18 games and dropped a season-best 15 points at Tennessee and also had seven assists against Arkansas and six assists in the SEC tournament against Mississippi. 

As a prep, Moss was a four-star prospect on ESPN.com and was once hailed as the 26th-best prospect nationally in the Class of 2018 by 247Sports. He helped one of the top prep schools in the nation in Nevada's Findlay Prep to a 32-5 overall record in 2017-18, advancing to the semifinal round of the high school national tournament, where he averaged a team-high 6.2 assists per game to go with 7.7 points and 2.7 rebounds. That was after a successful high school career at Memphis East High School in Tennessee, where he led his team to a combined 65-5 record and two championships during his final two seasons. 

He joins a host of talented newcomers to the roster in Texas and Alabama State transfer Gerald Liddell, Temple transfer Arashma Parks, Loyola Chicago transfer Damezi Anderson, Grand Canyon transfer Jayden Stone, and former Titan Jamail Pink along with incoming freshmen Isaiah Jones, Sonny Johnson and Marcus Tankersley.  

The Titans are led by graduate senior Antoine Davis, the four-time All-Horizon League First Team selection and the 2021-22 Horizon League Co-Player of the Year, who led the league in scoring for the fourth-straight season at 23.9 points per game. He is the first player in HL history to accomplish that feat and enters the year with a chance at attacking the Horizon League and NCAA record books even more as his 2,734 career points are the most in Titan history, second all-time in conference history (180 away from first) and 22nd in NCAA history (266 away from becoming the 11th player in NCAA history to score 3,000 points). He has also made 429 career 3-pointers, first in Horizon League history and 12th in NCAA history, while his 3.86, three-point field goals per game is currently fifth all-time in the NCAA record book.