DETROIT (1/22/2023) -- It will be a good old fashion showdown in historic Calihan Hall on Monday as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team welcomes #MetroSeries rival Oakland on Dick Vitale Court. It will be a red out and the first 500 fans will receive a Titan red shirt courtesy of Alliance Credit Union. 

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.) and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and the Watch ESPN App with Jeremy Otto 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 start at just $10 and can be purchased here. 

The Titans are coming off an 89-77 victory at IUPUI and are 8-12 on the season and 4-5 in the Horizon League. 

Graduate senior Antoine Davis scored a season-high 42 points at IUPUI and that came after his 41-point outing against Robert Morris as he became the first Titan ever to register back-to-back 40-point games and the first player to do it at DI since Marquette's Markus Howard during the 2019-2020 season. He is the nation's leading scorer at 27.0 points per game and is second in NCAA history in points with 3,274, 393 shy of Pete Maravich's NCAA record 3,667. 

Graduate senior Damezi Anderson tallied his first career 20-point game with 20 at IUPUI, hitting three 3-pointers, as the Titans have knocked down 33 triples in the last two games. 

Oakland has won six of the last seven, including an 83-77 overtime victory at IUPUI its last time out, as the Golden Grizzles are 8-12 overall and 6-3 in the conference. 

Detroit Mercy and Oakland branded an annual rivalry called the Metro Series in 2013. Separated by just 26 miles, Detroit Mercy and Oakland are the only Division I schools located in the Metro Detroit area and are both members of the Horizon League as they battle for the Metro Rivalry Cup. 

Following the game, the Titans will be on the road at Robert Morris and at Youngstown State. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• This is the 32nd meeting between the two schools, located about 26 miles apart.
• Oakland leads the series, 17-14, and has won 11 of the last 12 and 16 of the last 18 since joining the Horizon League in 2013- 14. 
• The Titans are 12-8 at home in the match-up, but have dropped six straight. Last year's home game was canceled due to health and safety protocols and the year before, Oakland took two games at Calihan Hall in the COVID campaign of 2020-21. 

VS. OAKLAND

• Antoine Davis is tallying 22.2 points, 4.8 assists and 2.0 rebounds in nine career games against Oakland, shooting 38.1% overall (62-of-163), 33.6% (33-of-98) from three and 91.4% (43-of-47) at the line. He has five games with 20 or more, with his high game of 30 at Oakland in 2021. 
• Meanwhile, Buay Koka has 11 of his 64 career points against Oakland and had a career-high eight rebounds against the Golden Grizzlies in 2021.  

WIN # 405 & COUNTING

• Head coach Mike Davis earned his first triumph as a head coach on Nov. 14, 2000, when his Indiana Hoosiers defeated Pepperdine, 80-68, in Bloomington.
• This season, he registered his 400th career triumph in the 70-49 victory over Charlotte.
• He now has 405 career wins, tied with Nat Holman and Dave Odom for 145th in NCAA history. 

HUSTLE & HARD WORK

• Detroit Mercy has outrebounded its opponents in eight of the last 12 games and 12 times on the season as the Titans are fourth in the HL in rebounding at 35.7 per game and top the league and stand 39th in the nation with 12.3 per contest.  
• Detroit Mercy outrebounded Youngstown State 37-30 with 11 offensive boards. 
• The Titans had a +15 effort (43-28) against Green Bay, which included a 19-8 margin on the offensive glass. 
• In the win at Tulsa, the Titans won the battle of the boards, 41-39, on the strength of 18 offensive rebounds, which led to a 23-13 second-chance points advantage.
• At Cleveland State, the Titans won the glass, 44-31, with 20 offensive caroms for a 19-10 second-chance points margin.

WHERE WE RANK

• Antoine Davis currently leads the nation in scoring at 27.0 points per game and total points (540). He also tops the HL and is second in DI in total 3-pointers and 3-pointers per game (4.60) and first in the league and third overall in field goals (181). His 37:31 minutes a game is also first in the league and fourth in the country. 
• Damezi Anderson is 12th in the HL with 1.95 triples per game, and senior Gerald Liddell's seven double-doubles are second in the league and 35th in the nation.

FROM THREE

• The red, white and blue have nailed 33 triples in the last two games, with 16 its last time out at IUPUI and 17, 3-pointers against Robert Morris, tying a season-high and one shy of the school record. 
• The Titans have now connected on double-digit 3-pointers in 13 games.
• The Titans are second in the Horizon League and 13th in the nation at 38.9% from three, as well as first in the HL and seventh in the country with 10.6 per game. 

TAKING WHAT YOU GIVE US

• The Titans have connected on double-digit free throws in 15 games on the season and just made 15 at IUPUI, the most since the 15 they had at Tulsa and the sixth most on the season.
• Detroit Mercy is second in the Horizon League and 37th in the nation in free-throw percentage at 75.4%. 

VALUE THE BALL

• Detroit Mercy had a season-best 10 steals at IUPUI, the most since posting 10 at Cleveland State last season, while the 20 forced turnovers against the Jaguars tied a season-high with the 20 at Purdue Fort Wayne earlier this season.
• On the flip side, the Titans are third in the HL and 60th in the nation averaging just 11.5 turnovers per contest. 

WEARING THE SCORING CROWN

• Antoine Davis owned the scoring crown in the Horizon League last year at 23.9 points per game, third in the nation, as he became the first player in HL history to top the league in scoring four times, passing Loyola Chicago's Alfredrick Hughes, who did it in three-straight seasons (1983-85).
• He also finished top-four nationally for the fourth-straight year (26.1 for third in 2019, 24.3 for fourth in 2020 and 24.0 for third in 2021). 
• Davis is currently leading the country at 27.0 points per game, ahead of UAB's Jordan Walker's 23.8. 
• The only Titan to ever lead the nation in a NCAA statistic was Spencer Haywood, who averaged 22.1 rebounds in 1968-69, while his current rate of 27.0 points would be the third highest in school history behind Haywood's 32.1 in 1968-69 and Bill Ebben's 27.8 in 1956-57. 

ANOTHER NCAA RECORD FOR DAVIS

• Antoine Davis scored 29 points against Bryant, but it was his 3-pointer in the first half that got him to 11 points and secured the NCAA record for the most consecutive games in double figures with 116-straight and he has now extended that to 131 after his season-high 42 points at IUPUI.   
• He broke the 115-mark mark held by Chris Clemons (Campbell, 2015-2019) and Lionel Simmons (La Salle, 1987-90).
• Davis is approaching the all-time mark for double figures, held by Creighton's Doug McDermott (2010-14) at 135. 
• As a freshman, Davis broke the NCAA record for 3-pointers in a season by a rookie with 132, passing Stephen Curry's 122 he had at Davidson in 2007-08 and recently broke the all-time 3-point mark, passing Wofford's Fletcher Magee's 509 and now has 521 career triples.

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Antoine Davis now has 94 career 20-point games, 32 career 30-point outings and six 40-point contests in 131 games - reaching 17 points in 115 of them. The Titans are 6-0 in the games where he has netted 40 or more. 
• He is also the first player in more than 40 years to record a 40-point game in four different seasons.
• Davis is the first Titan to ever register back-to-back 40-point games and the first player to do it at DI since Marquette's Markus Howard had 40 against Davidson and 51 versus USC on Nov. 28 and 29, 2019. 
• This year, he has a league-best 17, 20-point games, six 30-point outings and two 40-point outbursts. He has scored 20 or more in seven-straight games, his longest streak since posting 13-straight in 2020-21, while the three-straight games with 30 or more is the first of his career. 

ABOUT 3,000 POINTS

• Antoine Davis is the highest active scorer in the country in total points with 3,274, second in NCAA history. 
• Only 11 players have reached 3,000 at the DI level and he is 393 behind Pete Maravich's NCAA-record 3,667
• It was his 18th point at Robert Morris last season on a three that put him at 2,500 career points, which was just 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). 
• Davis and the Titans have seen 15 games canceled and not made up in the last two seasons - seven of those being at home - due to the pandemic, at least one game missed due to the Titans not being eligible for the postseason in 2019-20 and one game canceled at California in his freshman year due to smoke from wildfires.

DAVIS FROM THREE 

• Antoine Davis comes into the game fourth all-time in NCAA history with 3.97, three-point field goals per game. 
• He set a school record with 11 triples against Robert Morris - eight in the first half alone - and his eighth was the record-breaking trifecta as he became the all-time leader in college basketball with his 510th trey, passing Wofford's Fletcher Magee's (2015-19), and now has 521 to his name.  
• He has 12 games on the year with four or more 3-pointers with some of the top games the 11 against RMU, 10 at Charlotte, eight at IUPUI, six against Milwaukee and back-to-back games of six against Bryant and home versus Charlotte and is currently second in the NCAA this season with 4.60 per contest. 
• Davis has made a three in 126 of his 131 collegiate games, with 72 career games with four or more triples, 27 with six or more, 13 games with seven or more, and has five times connected on 10 or more. 
• Davis is already the school career record holder as he passed former All-American Rashad Phillips (348). 

CASHING IN ON THE FREE ONES

• Graduate senior Antoine Davis led the HL and was 23rd in the nation in free-throw percentage (88.2%) last year, good for sixth in school history as he is also first with 91.7% in 2021, 90.1% for fourth in 2020 and 85.7% for ninth in 2019. 
• He is currently third in the Horizon League and 20th in DI at 89.6%. 
• Davis owns the school record at 88.9% (559-of-629), seventh among active players and tied for 22nd all-time in NCAA history. His 559 free throws are also first in school history.   
• He has had numerous streaks of 10 or more in his career as he has currently made 54 of his last 58. Davis had a career-best of 57-straight between the end of his junior and the start of his senior year.

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

• With his 39 points at home against Milwaukee as a senior last season, Antoine Davis became the Titans' all-time leading scorer passing Rashad Phillips (2,319) with his 36th point and now has a HL record 3,274 points, passing Loyola Chicago's Alfredrick Hughes' (1981-85) 2,914.
• 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). 

DAVIS DISHING IT OUT

• Antoine Davis can not only score, but he can get his teammates involved as he is fifth in Titan history with 538 assists, 10 shy of Rashad Phillips and fourth place. 
• The all-time record is 615 by Kevin McAdoo as he is now 77 behind that mark. 
• He has 50 games with five or more assists and posted a nine-assist effort in the season opener against Rochester.  
• His career-best is 10 at IUPUI and against Western Michigan and UIC last season. 
• He is just the second player in NCAA history to amass 3,000 points and 500 assists, joining St. Peter's Keydren Clark (2002-06), who recorded 3,058 points with 501 career helpers. 

WHAT A START FOR LIDDELL

• Senior Gerald Liddell - who missed the IUPUI game - returned after missing two prior games with an injury and had 24 points with six rebounds, two assists and two steals against Youngstown State and 15 points versus Robert Morris. 
• He had to wait seven games to play as his eligibility was cleared by the NCAA, but it might have been worth the wait as the senior transfer has posted seven double-doubles in his first nine games. He was the first Titan to have seven-straight since Ryvon Covile registered seven in a row to end the 2006-07 season. 
• vs. Green Bay 19 points, 11 rebounds
• at Cincinnati 18 points, 13 rebounds
• at EMU 18 points, 14 rebounds
• at Charlotte 13 points, 18 rebounds 
• at Tulsa 25 points, 12 rebounds
• at Cleveland St. 18 points, 13 rebounds
• at Purdue Fort Wayne 16 points, 16 rebounds
• His all-around game has seen him tie his career-high with four steals at EMU, three rebounds, two blocks and a steal, playing all 45 minutes at Charlotte, a season-high three blocks and two steals at Tulsa and three more blocks against Green Bay.  
• He has at least two steals in six games and has blocked at least one shot in eight. He is currently not eligible for statistical leaders due to games played, but if he was, he would be fifth in the nation in rebounding at 11.1, fourth in the HL in scoring at 17.3, second in the league with 1.3 blocks and sixth with 1.7 steals. 
• The 18 rebounds at Charlotte were the most by a Titan since Eli Holman had 18 versus Milwaukee in 2010.  
• He came into the year with a high in boards of 14 against Alabama A&M, while his previous high in points was 22 against NC Central, both done last year as a member of Alabama State.
• Liddell started his career at Texas before transferring to Alabama State. 
• At ASU, he played in 25 games with 19 starts and averaged 10.3 points, a team-high 5.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists to go with 24 steals and 24 blocks. He shot 43.8 % overall and 37.0 % from three, reaching double figures in 13 games and posting five double-doubles.
• In his three years with Texas, he saw action in 35 games with 10 starts and averaged 2.9 points and 2.3 rebounds. 
• As a prep at Steele HS in Cibolo, Texas, he was ranked No. 41 in the nation by 247Sports and No. 47 by ESPN.

HOOSIER IN THE MOTOR CITY

• Graduate senior Damezi Anderson has scored in double figures in nine games on the year as he just posted a career-high 20 points with a team-high seven rebounds, three assists and three steals at IUPUI. He was 5-of-8 overall, 3-of-5 from behind the line and a perfect 7-of-7 at the line. 
• Some other big games he has had include 12 points and eight rebounds at Wright State, 15 points and six rebounds against Green Bay, 15 points versus over Ohio,16 with seven boards at Purdue Fort Wayne and 14 at Charlotte.
• He also has 11 games with four or more rebounds, with a career-high nine against Rochester and at Cleveland State. 
• On the season, he is tallying 9.1 points and 4.6 rebounds shooting 39.4% from the field and 33.3% from three and ranking 12th in the HL with 1.95, 3-pointers per game.
• He started his career at Indiana before ending up at Loyola.
• He did not play in 2021-22 at Loyola and saw action in four games the year before. Prior to that, he played for Indiana for two seasons, appearing in 39 games and averaged 2.1 points and 1.6 rebounds, including 2.8 points and 2.2 rebounds in 18 games as a sophomore. 
• Coming out of high school, he was ranked #92 in the country by 247Sports and No. 114 in the nation by Rivals and was the No. 2 player in the state of Indiana.

MOTOR CITY PRIDE

• Junior Kyle LeGreair - known as one of the toughest Titans - has started to shine on the court and has recently been inserted into the starting line-up.
• He just had three points, three rebounds, two assists and a career-high five steals at IUPUI, the most steals by a Titan since Madut Akec had five at Louisville last year.
• LeGreair has one of his best games in his career with four points, a career-high seven rebounds and a career-tying five assists and two steals against Robert Morris. Before that, he tallied a career-best nine points with four assists at NKU and scored seven points with six boards and three assists against Youngstown State. 
• In his last four games, he is averaging 5.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.5 steals and 1.0 steals, hitting 8-of-11 shots after posting just 0.8 points, 1.4 rebounds and 1.1 assists in his first 16 games. 
• LeGreair came into his own last season, appearing in 22 games and was 7-of-9 from the floor, hitting his only 3-pointer, and tallied 12 steals. He tied his career-high with five helpers and added a career-best four rebounds at NKU and recorded a career-high five points with three rebounds and a steal against UIC, recording his first two career field goals. 
• As a freshman, he saw action in just two games and a total of just five minutes. 

NO MOSSING AROUND

• TJ Moss joined the Titans after a successful prep career in high school and playing at South Carolina and McNeese State and has flashed his ability to be an all-around player.
• He has turned it on in his last eight games, tallying 7.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists after posting 4.0 points, 1.8 assists and 2.3 rebounds in his first 12. He has also handed out at least three assists 10 times on the season and has seven games with five or more rebounds.
• Moss just recorded 11 points, five assists and two steals at IUPUI as he was in double figures for the third time in the last six games.
• He had 12 points, five rebounds and three assists against Milwaukee and a season-high 15 points with six boards at Wright State, where he was 6-of-9 shooting.
• He had a season-best six assists and six rebounds at Cincinnati and eight points with a career-high four steals, three assists and two blocks at Purdue Fort Wayne.
• He played in 64 games with eight starts at South Carolina and McNeese State prior to transferring to Detroit Mercy.
•  Last year, he suited up in nine games at McNeese State and averaged 7.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game, scoring a career-high 17 points at TCU, where he was 5-of-12 from behind the arc, and had five assists and three steals. 
• As a prep, he was a four-star prospect on ESPN.com and was once hailed as the 26th-best prospect nationally by 247Sports.

A.J. LOOKING FOR ONE FINAL RUN

• A.J. Oliver - who has missed four games on the season - had one of his best efforts with a season-high 14 points, hitting 5-of-8 shots with four 3-pointers, and five rebounds against Robert Morris. He just netted nine points with five rebounds at IUPUI and also had 12 points with nine boards at Eastern Michigan.
• He played in 95 games at Clemson and at Old Dominion from 2017-22 and averaged 6.2 points and 2.7 rebounds per game, shooting 35.0 % from the field, 37.1% from three and 79.1% at the line.
• Last season at ODU, Oliver saw action in all 32 games with 11 starts and tallied 2.5 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.0 assists.
• In 2020-21, he started all 21 contests he appeared in and ranked third on the team with 9.7 points and led the squad with an 88.6 free-throw percentage and 33 triples.
• In his first year, he played in 22 games with 21 starts and was third on the team with 11.3 points per game, led the team with 51, 3-pointers while also pulling down 4.9 rebounds, pouring in a career-high 21 points against FAU and grabbing a career-high 12 boards versus UTSA. 
• Oliver joined Clemson mid-season in 2016-17 and did not play, but then got in 19 games for the Tigers in 2017-18, posting 2.1 points and 1.4 rebounds per game.