DETROIT (2/8/2023) -- The Titans will hit the road for three-straight games, starting with a trip to Wisconsin as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team visits Milwaukee on Thursday.

Game time is set for 8:00 p.m. (EST) at UWM Panther 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 Titans are coming off a sweep of Cleveland State and Purdue Fort Wayne at home to vault back into the race for a home playoff game as they stand at 10-15 overall and 6-8 in the Horizon League. The Panthers come into the contest at 16-8, 10-4 in league play as they are in third place in the conference.

In the first meeting, graduate senior Antoine Davis scored 31 points and the Titans erased a 15-point first-half deficit to take a five-point second-half lead, only to fall 84-81 as a pair of last-second shots to tie the game fell short. 

Davis was just named the #HLMBB Player of the Week for the fourth time this season and the 13th time in his after recording 33.5 points, 3.5 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals in wins over Cleveland State and Purdue Fort Wayne. He shot 51.2% from the field (22-of-43), 56.3% (9-of-16) from three and 93.3% (14-of-15) at the line as he tallied 25 points against the Vikings and 32 versus the Mastodons. 

The nation's leading scorer at a career-high 26.6 points per game, he currently leads the nation in scoring, total points (665), total 3-pointers (114), 3-pointers per game (4.56) and total field goals (221) and ranks 11th in the Horizon League with 3.5 assists per game. He is second all-time in NCAA history with 3,399 points, 268 behind Pete Maravich's NCAA record 3,667. 

Senior Gerald Liddell tallied 16.5 points and 8.0 rebounds in the two wins, while graduate senior Damezi Anderson has scored in double figures in six-straight games. 

Following the game, the Titans will head to Green Bay for a 7:00 p.m. (EST) tip at Green Bay. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• The Titans swept the season series the last three years these teams have met in 2018-19, 2019-2020 and last year, with the 2020-21 series canceled, but Milwaukee took the first meeting at Calihan Hall and now leads the all-time series, 30-29.
• Detroit Mercy has won the last three on the road in the series and four of the last five, but Milwaukee owns the advantage at home, 17-11.

VS. MILWAUKEE

• Antoine Davis has had some of his biggest games against the Panthers as he is averaging 30.7 points and 5.0 assists in seven career games, shooting 48.2% (68-141) from the field, 47.4% (37-78) from three and 93.3% (42-45) at the line. He has four 30-point games, with 31 in the first meeting and 39 last year at home on a national broadcast on ESPN when he broke the school points record. He scored 30 on the road last season and had a 32-point effort at home as a freshman, 29 on the road as a sophomore and a pair of 27-point games in the other two contests.  
• TJ Moss tallied 12 points with five rebounds and three assists in the first meeting, while Jayden Stone scored 16 points.

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 shot over 50.0% for the second-straight game and the seventh time this season, going for 51.5% against Purdue Fort Wayne, hitting 35-of-68 from the field.
• The Titans posted 50.9% against Cleveland State in the game before. 
• 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 6-4 overall when notching at least 80 points.

HUSTLE & HARD WORK

• Detroit Mercy has outrebounded its opponents in 12 of the last 17 games and 16 times on the season as the Titans are fourth in the HL in rebounding at 35.9 per game and top the league and stand 42nd in the nation with 12.20 offensive rebounds per contest.  
• 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 season-best +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.

WHERE WE RANK

• Antoine Davis currently leads the nation in scoring (26.6 ppg.), total points (665), total 3-pointers (114), 3-pointers per game (4.56) and total field goals (221). His 37:17 minutes a game is second in the league and ninth in the country. 
• Damezi Anderson is ninth in the Horizon League with 2.12 triples per game, and senior Gerald Liddell's seven double-doubles are fourth in the league and 56th in the nation.

FROM THREE

• The Titans have nailed 78 triples in the last seven 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 14 games and is first in the Horizon League and 10th in the nation at 38.9% 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 16 games on the season and had a 22-of-27 effort against Cleveland State, the second most on the year behind the 24-of-34 versus Rochester. 
• Detroit Mercy is third in the Horizon League and 39th in the nation in free-throw percentage at 75.2%. 

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. 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 third in the HL and 77th 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, and the Top 50 Watch List for the USBWA's Oscar Robertson Trophy for the National Player of the Year. 
• Davis can be found on the watch list for the 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 every one 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 26.6 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 26.6 points would be the fourth highest in school history.

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 136 after his 32 points against Purdue Fort Wayne.   
• 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 most 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 97 career 20-point games, 34 career 30-point outings and six 40-point contests in 136 games - reaching 17 points in 118 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 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 20, 20-point games, eight 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 3,399, second in NCAA history. 
• Only 11 players have reached 3,000 at the DI level and he is 268 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 3.99, three-point field goals per game and leading the nation this year at 4.56 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 543 to his name.  
• He has 14 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, six against Milwaukee and back-to-back games of six against Bryant and home versus Charlotte.
• Davis has made a three in 131 of his 136 collegiate games, with 74 career games with four or more triples, 29 with six or more, 14 games with seven or more, and has five times connected on 10 or more. 
• Davis' 114 triples on the season are third in school history. 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 second in the Horizon League and 10th in DI at 90.8%. 
• Davis owns the school record at 89.1% (582-of-653), seventh among active players and 21st all-time in NCAA history. His 582 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 61 of his last 64 and 78 of his last 82. 

DAVIS DISHING IT OUT

• Antoine Davis can not only score, but he can get his teammates involved as he is fourth in Titan history with 562 assists, one out of third place. 
• The all-time record is 615 by Kevin McAdoo as he is now 53 behind that mark. 
• 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 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, a season-high three blocks at Tulsa and against Green Bay.  
• He just had 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 and 16 points with seven caroms at Robert Morris. 
• 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-straight 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 15.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists in his last six games, shooting 54.0% overall (34-of-63) and 41.5% (17-of-41) 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. 

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 12 games, tallying 6.7 points, 3.5 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 12 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.
• 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 scored in double figures for the sixth time with 12 points at Youngstown State and just had 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.

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.