DETROIT (3/1/2023) -- Win and keep playing was alive and well as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball will now take on top-seeded Youngstown State in the Barbasol #HLMBB Championship Second Round On Thursday.

Game time is set for 8:00 p.m. 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 and Earl Cureton '11.

The Titans are 14-18 on the season after their 81-68 first-round win over Purdue Fort Wayne. 

It could be a historic day in NCAA history as graduate senior Antoine Davis has 3,642 career points, tops in school and Horizon League history and second in NCAA history, just 26 away from breaking Pete Maravich's NCAA record 3,667. The two-time Horizon League Player of the Year and two-time HL All-Academic Team member also has 155 triples on the year and is eight away from breaking the single-season mark of 162 by Stephen Curry in 2007-08. 


Davis leads the NCAA in scoring at 28.4 points per game after he had 38 points, a career-high eight rebounds, a team-high eight assists and four steals in the first round. Graduate senior Damezi Anderson had 11 points, including hitting some key 3-pointers in the second half to blow the game open, and freshman Marcus Tankersley scored a career-high 12 points with five rebounds and three steals. 

Youngstown State earned the top seed after winning the conference for the first time in its tenure in the Horizon League as the Penguins were 23-8 overall and 15-5 in league play. YSU also swept the season series with an 84-79 win in Calihan Hall and a 73-63 decision at the Beeghly Center.

A win would put either team in the semifinals and a trip to Indianapolis as the event will move to the Indiana Farmers Coliseum on Monday. 

ALL-TIME SERIES

• Detroit Mercy has dominated the all-time series, 40-15, but Youngstown State has won six of the last eight.
• The Titans are 17-9 all-time on the road, winning seven of the last 10 trips to the Beeghly Center.
• Detroit Mercy is 3-1 against YSU in the playoffs, with neutral site wins in 2016 and 2012 and a home win in 2015, while the loss was on the road in 2007.

VS. YOUNGSTOWN STATE

• Antoine Davis is averaging 24.7 points, 4.3 assists and 2.8 rebounds in nine career games against Youngstown State, shooting 42.4% overall, 35.4% from three and 83.9% at the line. He has six games with 20 or more points, four games with 25 or more and a 34-point effort as a sophomore at home and 32 when the teams met the first time this season. 
• In the first game, Gerald Liddell had 24 points, while Kyle LeGreair had seven points and six rebounds and Isaiah Jones had eight. On the road, Davis had 15 and six assists and Damezi Anderson scored 14. 

LOOKING FOR THE UPSET

• Detroit Mercy is 3-7 all-time against the top seed in the Horizon League playoffs, with the last win at Valparaiso in the title game in 2012, where the Titans were a #3 seed. 

3RD TIMES THE CHARM

• The last time the Titans defeated a team after losing both games in the regular season was in the 2011-12 season when the red, white and blue ousted Cleveland State in the semifinals and Valparaiso in the championship game to reach the NCAA Tournament. 

TITANS AS THE 8TH SEED

• Detroit Mercy is now 1-3 all-time as the eighth seed in the playoffs after the first-round win.  
• The Titans lost top top-seeded Xavier in 1990-91, to Youngstown State in a 5-8 match-up in 2006-07 and to Milwaukee in another 5-8 affair in 2013-14. 

HISTORY OF THE HL 8TH SEED

• The eighth seed in the Horizon League postseason is now 14-31 all-time with two trips to the title game.
• Wright State made the championship game in 1994-95 and Cleveland State in 2017-18. 
• The eighth seed has also won a game in the last three postseasons.

DAVIS THE HL PLAYER OF THE YEAR

• Antoine Davis was tabbed the Horizon League Player of the Year for the second-straight year. 
• Davis - who won the Nike #HLMBB Player of the Week accolade six times on the season and a record 15 times in his career - earned the award after sharing the honor last year.
• He joins Jermaine Jackson (1999), Rashad Phillips (2000, 01), Willie Green (2003) and Ray McCallum (2013) as the sole winner of the award. He is the seventh player in league history to win the honor a second time and the sixth to be named in back-to-back years. 
• His selection to the All-League First Team is the fifth of his career as he already came into the season as the only player in HL history with four First Team nods.
• Davis leads the nation in scoring at 28.4 points as he has led the league in scoring in all five of his collegiate campaigns.
• In conference play, he tallied 30.1 points and 3.8 assists - fifth in HL only games - while shooting 42.3% from the field and 42.1% from three. He scored at least 20 in 18 conference games and 30+ in 11.

10 DIFFERENT 5's

• Detroit Mercy has now used 10 different starting line-ups on the season after the 10th one started against Purdue Fort Wayne in the first round.
• The Titans had started the same five in 11-straight games prior to Tuesday's game, the longest streak under head coach Mike Davis and the longest by the Titans since the same five started 26 straight in 2012-13.

BRINGING THE O

• Detroit Mercy has shot over 50.0% in eight games on the year and recorded a season-best 58.3% (35-of-60) at Oakland.
• The 58.3% was the highest since shooting 66.0% (31-of-47) against Green Bay in 2001 and the best on the road since hitting 68.2% (30-of-44) at Youngstown State in 2015. 
• Meanwhile, the 35 field goals tied a season-high with the 35 against Purdue Fort Wayne earlier in the year. 
• It tallied 51.5% against Purdue Fort Wayne, hitting 35-of-68 from the field, and 50.9% against Cleveland State.
• The Titans shot 52.7% against Robert Morris and at IUPUI, 52.6% against Bryant, 52.0% at home versus Charlotte and 51.7% against Ohio. 
• Detroit Mercy is 7-1 in games it has registered above 50.0% shooting. 

HUSTLE & HARD WORK

• Detroit Mercy has outrebounded its opponents 23 times on the season and in 11-straight games - by an average of 9.6 in that span with five games of +11 or more in the last eight - as the Titans are third in the HL in rebounding at 36.6 per game and top the HL and stand 10th in the nation with 13.0 offensive rebounds per contest.  
• The Titans had a 40-33 advantage against Wright State and a 40-26 ownership against NKU in the final two games. Last week, they won the glass 36-26 against IUPUI and 38-20 at Oakland, with the +18 rebounding margin the most since the +33 effort (53-20) at Youngstown State in 2016. 
• Detroit Mercy dominated the glass at Milwaukee, 43-27, with 25 offensive rebounds and dominated the boards against Purdue Fort Wayne, 43-32.

FROM THREE

• Detroit Mercy has connected on double-digit 3-pointers in 19 games and is first in the HL and 10th in the nation at 39.2% from three, as well as first in the HL and sixth in DI with 10.4 per game. 
• The Titans have nailed 153 triples in the last 14 games, highlighted by 16 at IUPUI and 17 against Robert Morris at home, tying a season-high and one shy of the school record. 

TAKING WHAT YOU GIVE US

• The Titans have connected on double-digit free throws in 21 games on the season and made at least 20 five times - four of those in the last nine games with a 21-of-24 effort against IUPUI, 20-of-23 at Green Bay, 21-of-24 at Milwaukee and 22-of-27 against Cleveland State. The season best for makes and attempts were 24-of-34 versus Rochester in the opener.  
• Detroit Mercy is third in the HL and 27th in DI in free-throw percentage at 76.6%. 

VALUE THE BALL

• Detroit Mercy posted a season-best 13 steals against IUPUI, the most since posting a school-record 25 against Siena Heights in 2017. They now have five games this season with double-digit steals after getting 10 in the first round against Purdue Fort Wayne. Meanwhile, the Titans have nine games on the season with less than 10 turnovers.  

WIN # 411 & 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 411 career wins, 142nd in DI NCAA history, one away from 141st and Mike Deane. 

RETIRING #0

• Following the Senior Day game against Wright State, the Titans retired Antoine Davis' #0 jersey as became the 11th retired jersey in men's basketball history.
• #3 - Rashad Phillips
• #17 - Bob Calihan
• #22 - Dave DeBusschere
• #24 - Earl Cureton
• #32 - Eli Holman
• #34 - Willie Green
• #42 - Terry Duerod
• #44 - Terry Tyler
• #45 - Spencer Haywood
• #50 - John Long

DAVIS RANKINGS

• Antoine Davis currently leads the nation in scoring (28.4 ppg.), total points (908), total 3-pointers (155), 3-pointers per game (4.84) and total field goals (296). His 37:21 minutes a game is second in the league and ninth in the country. 

NATIONAL NOTICE

• Antoine Davis 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.

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 28.4 points per game, ahead of Penn's Jordan Dingle's 23.3. 
• 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 28.4 points would be the second-highest in school history behind Haywood's 32.1 in 1968-69 and the highest in HL history, ahead of the 27.6 by Hughes in 1983-84.

ANOTHER NCAA RECORD FOR DAVIS

• Antoine Davis scored 29 points against Bryant, but his 3-pointer in the first half 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 143 after his 38 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 also broke the all-time mark for total games in double figures, passing Creighton's Doug McDermott's 135.
• As a freshman, Davis set 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 584 career triples.

RACKING UP THE POINTS

• Antoine Davis now has 104 career 20-point games, 40 career 30-point outings and eight 40-point contests in 143 games - reaching 17 points in 125 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 in 2019. He has two separate back-to-back 40-point games on the season with 41 at Milwaukee and 41 at Green Bay, the first player to register that feat since LSU's Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf in 1989-90.
• This year, he has a league-best 27, 20-point games, 14, 30-point outings and four 40-point outbursts, with the four 40-point games the most since Campbell's Chris Clemons' four in 2018-19. If he nets 40 again, it would be the most since Gonzaga's Adam Morrison's had five during 2005-06. 
• He had a streak of five-straight games with 30 or more snapped against NKU, which was the longest 30-point streak in his career and by anyone in the NCAA in the last 25 years.

ABOUT 3,000 POINTS

• Antoine Davis is the highest active scorer in the country with 3,642 points, second in NCAA history. 
• Only 11 players have reached 3,000 at the DI level and he is 25 away from tying 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.
• Also, at 143 games played, he is still four away from the top 30 all-time in NCAA history for games played for NON-COVID years. 

DAVIS FROM THREE 

• Antoine Davis comes into the game third all-time in NCAA history with 4.08, three-point field goals per game and leading the nation this year at 4.84 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 584 to his name.  
• He has 21 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 and eight at IUPUI and at Green Bay. 
• Davis has made a three in 138 of his 143 collegiate games, with 81 career games with four or more triples, 33 with six or more, 17 games with seven or more, and has five times connected on 10 or more. 
• Davis' 155 triples on the year is a new school record, passing Rashad Phillips' 136 in 2000-01, and is now tied for fifth in NCAA history, seven away from tying the single-season mark of 162 by Stephen Curry in 2007-08.

 
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 90.4%. 
• Davis owns the school record at 89.2% (634-of-711), fifth among active players and 21st all-time in NCAA history. His 634 free throws are also first in Titan history.
• Davis hit a career-best 57 in a row between the end of his junior and the start of his senior year.

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 592 assists, 19 behind Wilbert McCormick and 23 in back of record holder Kevin McAdoo's 615.  
• He has 55 games with five or more assists and posted a nine-assist effort in the season opener against Rochester and eight against Oakland and Purdue Fort Wayne.  
• 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. 

PLAYING ALL 40

• 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 second in the Horizon League and ninth in the nation with 37:21 minutes a game.

DAVIS NETS ACADEMIC HONOR

• For the second year in a row, graduate senior Antoine Davis earned a spot on the Horizon League men's Basketball All-Academic Team.
• Davis graduated with a 3.35 in Communications and registered a 3.90 in his first semester in graduate school as part of the Master of Science for Information Assurance. 
• Last year, he received one of the highest honors for his work off the court as he was named to the Academic All-America® Second Team by CoSIDA, the first men's basketball player in school history to earn the honor and just the 19th Titan student-athlete to receive the prestigious accolade.

ANTOINE OWNS THE DINNER TABLE

• Head coach Mike Davis is quick to point out that Antoine Davis is not the defender that he was in college, but in terms of offense, the son has won the battle.
• Coach Davis starred at Alabama from 1979 to 1983 and totaled 1,211 points in 121 career games, going 478-of-1003 (47.7%) from the field with 238 assists.
• Antoine now has 3,642 career points, 592 assists and 179 steals.  
• Compared to his brother, current assistant coach Mike Davis Jr., Antoine has him beat as well as he recorded 143 career points, 33 assists and 25 steals in three seasons at UAB from 2006-09.  

G IS BACK

• 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 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
• He tallied his eighth double-double with 13 points and a career-tying 18 rebounds and five assists at Oakland and his ninth with 13 points and 15 rebounds against Wright State his last time out.
•  The nine double-doubles are the most by a Titan since Kameron Chatman's nine in 2017-18. Prior to that, the most was 13 by Eli Holman in 2010-11. 
• The 18 rebounds at Charlotte and at Oakland were the most by a Titan since Holman had 18 versus Milwaukee in 2010.
• 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 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. At league-champion Youngstown State, 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 14 games. He is currently not eligible for national statistical leaders due to games played, but in Horizon League play, he was fourth in rebounding (8.9), 16th in scoring (13.9), 12th in field-goal percentage (45.7%) and 24th in steals (1.1).  
• 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. 

HOOSIER IN THE MOTOR CITY

• Graduate senior Damezi Anderson has now scored in double figures in nine of the last 13 games and 18 on the year after netting 11 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 17 games with four or more rebounds, with a career-high nine against Rochester and at Cleveland State and posted a career-best three blocks against IUPUI at home.  
• 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. 

NO MOSSING AROUND

• TJ Moss - who missed the game against Purdue Fort Wayne due to an undisclosed leg injury - 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 scored in double figures for the fifth time this season with 11 points and tied his season and career high with four steals against IUPUI. He also had 11 points, six assists and four rebounds at Oakland. The weekend prior, he scored just two points, but registered a career-high eight assists and a career-tying six rebounds and two blocks at Green Bay and that was after six points, four rebounds, three assists and three steals at Milwaukee. 
• He has 41 assists and just 29 turnovers in his last 12 games, with five of those games with four or more assists.
• Moss has handed out at least three assists 16 times on the season and has nine games with five or more rebounds, including tying his career high with six five times. 
• He recorded 11 points, five assists and two steals at IUPUI. 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.
• Moss recorded 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.

MOTOR CITY PRIDE

• Junior Kyle LeGreair has started to shine on the court.
• 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. 

A.J. LOOKING FOR ONE FINAL RUN

• A.J. Oliver has scored in double figures in six of the last seven games and 12 times on the year. He started the HL playoffs with nine points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals against Purdue Fort Wayne.
• He had 10 points and five rebounds against Wright State and 16 points and six rebounds against NKU, going 5-of-9 from the field and 4-of-8 from three.
• The weekend before, he recorded 12 points and eight rebounds against IUPUI, and that was after a career-best 25 points on 9-of-15 shooting at Oakland. 
• In his last nine games - where he has scored in double figures seven times - he is posting 13.2 points and 5.7 rebounds, hitting 48.7% from the field (37-of-76), 17-of-38 (44.7%) from three and 28-of-33 (84.8%) at the line. 
• Over a longer stretch, in his last 14 games, Oliver is averaging 12.3 points and 5.8 rebounds, shooting 47.8% from the field (57-of-119), 42.4% from three (28-of-66) and 85.7% at the line (30-of-35) and that was after tallying just 5.7 points and 4.1 rebounds in his first 14 games, shooting 43.5% overall (27-of-62) and 29.7% from three (11-of-37).
• He had 15 points and six rebounds at Green Bay and 18 points against Oakland at home on 7-of-13 shooting with four 3-pointers and a season-tying nine rebounds. 
• 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.
• In 2020-21 at ODU, he started all 21 contests he played in and ranked third on the team with 9.7 points and led the squad shooting 88.6% at the line 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.

PINK TURNING HEADS

• Sophomore Jamail Pink has become an important part of the Titans' rotation in the second half of the season and made his first collegiate start in the first round.
• He has played double-digit minutes six times in the last seven games and had a career-best seven points and two rebounds against NKU.
• Pink came to the University in 2019-20 but did not see any games. He played in two games in 2020-21, scoring his first basket against Green Bay, but was not enrolled in Detroit Mercy last season.