DETROIT (2/10/2023) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will look to halve the weekend as the Titans travel to Green Bay on Saturday.

Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. (EST) at the Kress Events Center 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.

Detroit Mercy is coming off a near comeback at Milwaukee as the Titans scored 58 second-half points and erased a 19-point deficit, but fell 94-89. The red, white and blue outrebounded the Panthers, 43-37, and the nation's leading scorer Antoine Davis tied his season high with 42 points. Davis now has 3,441 career points, 226 shy of Pete Maravich's NCAA record 3,667.

Senior Gerald Liddell was in double figures for the 13th time in 16 games with 17 points and graduate senior Buay Koka grabbed a career-high nine rebounds.

The Titans will need a win to stay in the hunt for a home playoff game as they are 10-16 overall and 6-9 in the Horizon League, while Green Bay is 3-23, 2-13 in the conference.

Following the game, the Titans will have one more regular season road game at Oakland next Friday before a three-game homestand to end the season. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• The Titans have won four of the last five, including the first match-up this year, but they trail the all-time series, 35-30. 
• The Titans have dropped nine in a row on the road in the series - all at the Resch Center - and 12 of their last 13 since 2008, with their last road win at Green Bay coming in 2012 as the red, white and blue is 8-21 all-time on the road in the match-up. 

VS. GREEN BAY

• Antoine Davis has had some great games against Green Bay in his career, averaging 26.7 points, 4.2 assists and 2.8 rebounds in nine games, shooting 45.0% overall and 36.8% from three. 
• He had 24 points in the first meeting. Last season, he had 25 on the road, but 38 at home in the playoffs, going 15-of-24 with six triples. He also had a 30-point game as a junior at home and a pair of 29-point games, also at home as a freshman and sophomore. 
• Gerald Liddell had a double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds, while Demazi Anderson scored 15 in the first game. 

WIN # 407 & 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 won his 400th career triumph in the 70-49 victory over Charlotte.
• He now has 407 career wins, tied for 144th in DI NCAA history with Tom Green and two behind Howard Cann and Danny Nee for 142nd place. 

BRINGING THE O

• Detroit Mercy has shot over 50.0% in seven games this season,
• Last week, it tallied 51.5% against Purdue Fort Wayne, hitting 35-of-68 from the field, and 50.9% against Cleveland State.
• The season high for the Titans is 52.7% against Robert Morris and at IUPUI, while they also shot 52.6% against Bryant, 52.0% at home versus Charlotte and 51.7% against Ohio. Detroit Mercy is 6-1 in games it has registered above 50.0% shooting. 
• The 35 field goals against Purdue Fort Wayne were the most since connecting on 39 at home against Green Bay in 2019. 
• Meanwhile, the red, white and blue's last four wins have seen the team score 85 or more points, and the Titans are 6-5 overall when notching at least 80 points.

HUSTLE & HARD WORK

• Detroit Mercy has outrebounded its opponents in 13 of the last 18 games and 17 times on the season as the Titans are fourth in the HL in rebounding at 36.1 per game and top the league and stand 22nd in the nation with 12.69 offensive rebounds per contest.  
• Detroit Mercy dominated the glass at Milwaukee, 43-27, with 25 offensive rebounds, as the +16 rebounding margin was the most since the +33 effort (53-20) at Youngstown State in 2016. 
• Detroit Mercy owned the boards against Purdue Fort Wayne, 43-32, which included 12 offensive rebounds. 
• The Titans outrebounded Youngstown State, 39-30, with 13 offensive caroms, on the road and 37-30 with 11 offensive boards in the home contest.  
• 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, while at Cleveland State, the Titans won the glass, 44-31, with 20 offensive caroms.

DAVIS RANKINGS

• Antoine Davis currently leads the nation in scoring (27.2 ppg.), total points (707), total 3-pointers (121), 3-pointers per game (4.65) and total field goals (234). His 37:19 minutes a game is second in the league and ninth in the country. 

FROM THREE

• The Titans have nailed 90 triples in the last eight games, highlighted by 13 at Robert Morris, 16 at IUPUI and 17 against Robert Morris at home, tying a season-high and one shy of the school record. 
• Detroit Mercy has now connected on double-digit 3-pointers in 15 games and is first in the Horizon League and ninth in the nation at 39.0% from three, as well as first in the HL and eighth in the country with 10.3 per game. 

TAKING WHAT YOU GIVE US

• The Titans have connected on double-digit free throws in 17 games on the season and had a 22-of-27 effort against Cleveland State, 21-of-24 at Milwaukee and a season-best 24-of-34 versus Rochester. 
• Detroit Mercy is third in the Horizon League and 30th in the nation in free-throw percentage at 75.9%. 

VALUE THE BALL

• Detroit Mercy posted a season-best 12 steals against Cleveland State, the most since taking 12 away from Purdue Fort Wayne in 2021, and are coming off 11 steals at Milwaukee. The 20 forced turnovers against the Vikings tied a season-high with the 20 at Purdue Fort Wayne earlier this season and the 20 at IUPUI. 
• On the flip side, the Titans are fourth in the HL and 87th in the nation averaging just 11.7 turnovers and have seven games on the season with less than 10 turnovers.  

NATIONAL NOTICE

• Antoine Davis has garnered some national attention on preseason watch lists. 
• He was recently named a top-10 finalist for the Bob Cousy Award (Point Guard of the Year Award) by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He is also on the Late Season Top 25 Watch List for the Wooden Award for the nation's Most Outstanding Player, the only mid-major player on the list, the Top 50 Watch List for the USBWA's Oscar Robertson Trophy for the National Player of the Year and on the midseason Naismith Trophy National Player of the Year and the Lou Henson Award for the top mid-major player.  
• Last season he earned the Lou Henson Award All-American, First Team USBWA All-District V and NABC First Team All-District 12 selection as well as the Co-HL Player of the Year, the first player in conference history to make All-League four times - with each of those a first-team selection. 

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 a career-best 27.2 points per game, ahead of Penn's Jordan Dingle's 24.0. 
• 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 27.2 points would be the third highest in school history and the second highest in HL history behind only the 27.6 by Hughes in 1983-84.

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 137 after his 42 points at Milwaukee.   
• He broke the 115-mark mark held by Chris Clemons (Campbell, 2015-2019) and Lionel Simmons (La Salle, 1987-90).
• Davis just broke the all-time mark for total games in double figures, passing Creighton's Doug McDermott's 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 543 career triples.

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Antoine Davis now has 98 career 20-point games, 35 career 30-point outings and seven 40-point contests in 137 games - reaching 17 points in 119 of them. 
• He is also the first player in more than 40 years to record a 40-point game in four different seasons.
• Davis became the first Titan to ever register back-to-back 40-point games when he had 41 against RMU and 42 at IUPUI, 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 21, 20-point games, nine 30-point outings and three 40-point outbursts. 

ABOUT 3,000 POINTS

• Antoine Davis is the highest active scorer in the country in total points with 3,441, second in NCAA history. 
• Only 11 players have reached 3,000 at the DI level and he is 226 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 third all-time in NCAA history with 4.01, three-point field goals per game and leading the nation this year at 4.65 per contest. 
• 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 550 to his name.  
• He has 15 games on the year with four or more 3-pointers, with some of the top games the 11 against RMU, 10 at Charlotte, nine at RMU, eight at IUPUI, seven at Milwaukee and six against Bryant and home versus Charlotte.
• Davis has made a three in 132 of his 137 collegiate games, with 75 career games with four or more triples, 30 with six or more, 15 games with seven or more, and has five times connected on 10 or more. 
• Davis' 121 triples on the season are third in school history, 11 shy of career single-season best of 132 as a freshman for second and 15 away from the Titan record of 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 second in the Horizon League and ninth in DI at 90.8%. 
• Davis owns the school record at 89.1% (591-of-663), seventh among active players and 21st all-time in NCAA history. His 591 free throws are also first in the Titan record book.
• 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 70 of his last 74 and 87 of his last 92. 

DAVIS DISHING IT OUT

• Antoine Davis can not only score, but he can get his teammates involved as he is third in Titan history with 566 assists, 45 behind second-place Wilbert McCormick (1977-80 - 611) and 49 in back of school-record holder Kevin McAdoo's (1983-86) 615.  
• He has 52 games with five or more assists and posted a nine-assist effort in the season opener against Rochester and eight against Oakland and six at YSU.  
• His career-best was 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 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, a season-high three blocks at Tulsa and against Green Bay.  
• He just had 17 points and seven rebounds at Milwaukee, 16 points, eight rebounds, a career-tying five assists with two steals and a block against Purdue Fort Wayne and that was after 17 points, eight rebounds, three steals and two assists against Cleveland State. A couple of weeks ago, he netted 24 points with six rebounds, two assists and two steals against Youngstown State.
• He has at least two steals in nine games and has blocked at least one shot in 10. 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 has now scored in double figures in six of the last seven games and 15 on the year after posting 13 points with seven rebounds, two assists and a steal against Purdue Fort Wayne.
• He recorded two-straight career-high games tallying his first 20-point outing with 20 points, along with a team-high seven rebounds, three assists and three steals at IUPUI, and then notched 22 points on a career-best 10-of-17 shooting with six boards and two helpers against Oakland.
• He also has 15 games with four or more rebounds, with a career-high nine against Rochester and at Cleveland State. 
• Anderson is now tallying 13.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists in his last seven games, shooting 54.4% overall (36-of-65) and 42.9% (18-of-42) 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 posted four points, four rebounds and a career-tying five assists with a block and a steal at Robert Morris. 
• LeGreair 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. 
• 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. 

IN THE BOOKS

• Sophomore Jamail Pink hit his first career three against Robert Morris this season, while sophomore Tobin Schwannecke scored his first Division I points on a basket in his Titan debut versus Purdue Fort Wayne.

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 13 games, tallying 6.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists after posting 4.0 points, 1.8 assists and 2.3 rebounds in his first 13. He has handed out at least three assists 13 times on the season and has eight games with five or more rebounds, including tying his career high for the fourth time with six boards at Robert Morris. 
• Moss recorded 11 points, five assists and two steals at IUPUI as he was in double figures for the third time in his last six.  
• 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.

A.J. LOOKING FOR ONE FINAL RUN

• A.J. Oliver scored in double figures for the seventh time with 12 points, along with two rebounds, two assists and a career-high three steals at Milwaukee. 
• He had 12 points at Youngstown State and eight points and seven boards against Purdue Fort Wayne. 
• He posted a season-high 18 points against Oakland on 7-of-13 shooting with four 3-pointers and a season-tying nine rebounds. 
• Oliver also had 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.
• 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.

TAKING YOU TO THE PARK

• Graduate senior Arashma Parks earned his first start as a Titan at Wright State and delivered with four points, eight rebounds and a block in 17 minutes. He finished that weekend with six caroms in 19 minutes at NKU.
• He was a presence in the middle in last week's win with five points and nine rebounds, a block and a steal against Cleveland State and four points, four rebounds a block against Purdue Fort Wayne. At Milwaukee his last time out, he had seven rebounds - five offensive - in only 10 minutes. 
• He just missed a double-double with a career-high 11 boards and a season-best eight points at Florida Atlantic. 
• He had three points and five boards against Bryant and grabbed a then career-high nine rebounds off the bench at BC. 
• On the year, he is tallying 3.8 rebounds per game and has hit on 17-of-28 shots.
• He played the last four years at Temple of the American Athletic Conference, appearing in 49 games with 14 starts.
• As a senior, he played in 19 games with 13 starts and averaged 1.1 points and 2.7 rebounds, along with tallying six assists.
• After missing his freshman year due to an injury, he came back as a sophomore to play in 22 games and posted 2.5 points and 2.4 rebounds, putting in a career-high 10 points against St. Joseph's.

A TALL GLASS OF KOKA

• Graduate senior Buay Koka - all 7-1 of him - is coming off a career-high nine rebounds with four points and a steal at Milwaukee. 
• He blocked a season-high two shots at Cincinnati and had rebounds against Ohio and six points at Robert Morris. 
• He came to the Titans as a mid-season graduate transfer from Tulane in 2020-21, and saw action in 11 games with four starts.