DETROIT (1/26/2023) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will head out of town for a pair of road games this weekend, starting with Robert Morris on Friday.

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m., at the UPMC Events Center and will be aired live on ESPN+, while the Voice of Detroit Mercy basketball Dan Hasty and Earl Cureton '11 have the action on WLQV 92.7 FM & 1500 AM FaithTalk Detroit.

It will be a pivotal game in the standings for a home playoff game as Detroit Mercy is 8-13 on the year and 4-6 in the Horizon League and RMU comes in at 9-12 with an identical 4-6 ledger in league play. 

The nation's leading scorer at 26.4 points per game, graduate senior Antoine Davis comes into the game with 3,288 career points, tops in school and HL history and second in NCAA history, 379 shy of Pete Maravich's NCAA record 3,667. 

Meanwhile, graduate senior Damezi Anderson has tallied back-to-back career highs, netting his first-ever 20-point game with 20 at IUPUI and then posting 22 against Oakland his last time out. 

Robert Morris ended a three-game slide with a 72-38 victory at Green Bay its last time out. 

The Titans will wrap up the quick trip out of town with a game at Youngstown State on Sunday. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• Despite being just 208 miles apart, this will be just the seventh career meeting between the two schools as the Titans are 6-0 all-time, 5-0 since the Colonials joined the Horizon League.
• Four of the six meetings have taken place in the Motor City, while the Titans won at RMU last year in its first-ever trip to Moon Township.  
• The first match-up was back in 2009 in upstate New York in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. 
• The Titans have shot over 50.0% as a team in each of the last five meetings against Robert Morris posting 50.8%, 50.9% and 55.6% in 2021, 50.9% last year and 52.7% in the match-up two weekd ago, while also totaling 63 from three in that span, an average of 12.6 per game

VS. ROBERT MORRIS

• Antoine Davis has averaged more points against Robert Morris than any other Horizon League school as he is tallying 33.6 points, 5.8 assists and 3.8 rebounds in five career games, shooting 48.2% (55-of-114), 44.9% from three (34-of-74) and a perfect 24-of-24 at the free-throw line. He netted 41 points in the meeting two weeks ago, hitting a school-record 11, 3-pointers.
• Davis scored 26 points with six assists on the road last year and had 26 and eight assists and 29 and eight assists in the two regular season games in 2021 and a Horizon league tournament record 46 points hitting 10 triples in that same postseason.  

SHARING A HALL-OF-FAMER

• Titan television and radio announcer Earl Cureton '11 has the honor of being in both the Titan and Robert Morris Athletic Hall Of Fames. He played two seasons at Robert Morris, 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 Colonial player in program history to average a double-double at 17.2 points and 10.5 rebounds per contest. 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 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 the 76'ers in 1983 and Houston in 1994.

TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SLATE

• The non-conference foes are 112-90 (.544), with three teams in the NET top 100 and five in the top 150, led by Florida Atlantic at 19-1, Cincinnati at 14-7 and Charlotte and Bryant at 13-7. 
• Ken Pomeroy has the Titans' non-conference strength of schedule ranked 49th in Division I, the second toughest in the HL behind Oakland's 32.  

HUSTLE & HARD WORK

• Detroit Mercy has outrebounded its opponents in eight of the last 13 games and 12 times on the season as the Titans are fourth in the HL in rebounding at 35.5 per game and top the league and stand 42nd in the nation with 12.2 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 26.4 points per game and total points (554). He also tops the HL and is second in DI in total 3-pointers (94), 3-pointers per game (4.48) and field goals (184). His 37:38 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 37th in the nation.

FROM THREE

• The red, white and blue have nailed 41 triples in the last three games, with eight against Oakland, 16 at IUPUI and 17 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 19th in the nation at 38.5% from three, as well as first in the HL and seventh in the country with 10.5 per game. 

TAKING WHAT YOU GIVE US

• The Titans have connected on double-digit free throws in 15 games on the season and recently 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 29th in the nation in free-throw percentage at 75.9%. 

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 56th in the nation averaging just 11.4 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 26.4 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 26.4 points would be the fourth highest in school history behind Haywood's 32.1 in 1968-69, Bill Ebben's 27.8 in 1956-57 and Dave DeBusschere 26.8 in 1961-62. 

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 132 after his 14 points against Oakland.  
• 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 523 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 132 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. 

ABOUT 3,000 POINTS

• Antoine Davis is the highest active scorer in the country in total points with 3,288, second in NCAA history. 
• Only 11 players have reached 3,000 at the DI level and he is 379 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 3.96, 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). He now has 523 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 with 4.48 per contest. 
• Davis has made a three in 127 of his 132 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 has 94 triples on the season, seventh in school history, one out of sixth and seven away from tying his fifth-place mark of 101 in 2019-20. His career single-season best is 132 as a freshman, good for second place, and the Titan record is 136 by Rashad Phillips in 2000-01. 

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 19th in DI at 90.2%. 
• Davis owns the school record at 89.0% (565-of-635), seventh among active players and tied for 21st all-time in NCAA history. His 565 free throws are also first in school history.   
• Davis hit a career-best 57 in a row between the end of his junior and the start of his senior year and has currently made 10 straight, 44 of last 46 and 61 of last 64. 

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 3,288 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 546 assists, two shy of Rashad Phillips and fourth place. 
• The all-time record is 615 by Kevin McAdoo as he is now 69 behind that mark. 
• He has 51 games with five or more assists and posted a nine-assist effort in the season opener against Rochester and eight against Oakland.  
• 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. 

PLAYING ALL 40

• Graduate senior Antoine Davis played 43 minutes in the overtime game at NKU and all forty against Milwaukee at Florida Atlantic, at Cleveland State and against Oakland. 
• He has now played 40 or more minutes 34 times in his career and is currently leading the Horizon League and fourth in the nation with 37:38 minutes a game. 

WHAT A START FOR LIDDELL

• Senior Gerald Liddell - who has missed a few games with an undisclosed injury - 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 seven 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.  
• More recently, he had 24 points with six rebounds, two assists and two steals against Youngstown State and 15 points versus Robert Morris. 
• He has at least two steals in six games and has blocked at least one shot in nine. He is currently not eligible for statistical leaders due to games played.
• 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 is coming off two-straight career-high games posting his first 20-point outing with 20 points, along 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. In his last time out against Oakland, he notched 22 points on a career-best 10-of-17 shooting with six boards and two helpers. 
• He has now scored in double figures in 11 games on the year with some other big games a 12-point, eight-rebound effort 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 12 games with four or more rebounds, with a career-high nine against Rochester and at Cleveland State. 
• In the last two games, he is averaging 21.9 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists, shooting 60.0% overall (15-of-25) and 5-of-12 from three. 
• 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 registering 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 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 with four points, a career-high seven rebounds, 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 five games, he is averaging 4.6 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.9 steals, hitting 8-of-12 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 6.9 points, 3.4 rebounds and 4.0 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 11 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.
• 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 posted a season-high 18 points against Oakland on 7-of-13 shooting with four 3-pointers and a season-tying nine rebounds. 
• He had one of his best efforts with a then season-high 14 points, hitting 5-of-8 shots with four 3-pointers, and five rebounds against Robert Morris and then netted nine points with five rebounds at IUPUI.
• In the last three games, he is averaging 13.6 points and 6.3 rebounds, shooting 57.6 % (15-of-26) overall and 58.8% from three (10-of-17). 
• 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.

TWO WITH DOUBLES

• Graduate senior Antoine Davis and senior Gerald Liddell did something no Titan teammates have done since 2003.
• Davis was 11-of-22 and Liddell was 10-of-19 from the field against Youngstown State. 
• The last time the Titans had a game where two players registered at least 10 field goals was on Dec. 22, 2003, with James Thues (13-of-16) and Jimmy Twyman (11-of-18) reaching the mark in a 95-61 win over Western Illinois.