DETROIT (12/20/2025) -- All 11 Titans who suited up scored as the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team headed into Christmas break with a 91-60 win over Siena Heights on Saturday.
Sophomore
TJ Nadeau led the team with 20 points, going 6-of-7 from the field and 3-of-4 from three. Sophomore
Nate Johnson had 12 points, six rebounds, and two steals, and freshman
Keshawn Fisher added 12 points, six boards, two steals, a block, and an assist.
Detroit Mercy shot a season-high 53.4% (31-of-58) and outrebounded the Saints, 51-18, its biggest rebounding margin in nearly 10 years, with 17 of those on the offensive glass.
After a bit of a slow start, the Titans (5-7) led 7-5 before scoring 10 in a row as Fisher and Johnson had four points apiece.
That run was part of a 25-4 spurt over 14 minutes as the red, white and blue took a 32-9 lead with less than five minutes to go in the first half. UDM hit 8-of-14 shots in that stretch and held Siena Heights to just 1-of-13 with five turnovers.
Detroit Mercy had a 38-19 lead at the break, but Siena Heights hit a couple of shots and made it a 40-25 game.
That is when the Titans put any chances of a comeback away, going on a 17-4 charge for a 57-29 advantage at the 13:53 mark. Nadeau nailed a couple of 3-pointers, and senior
Orlando Lovejoy scored his 1,000th collegiate point in that run.
From there, Detroit Mercy would maintain a lead in the 20's and finish with the 31-point triumph.
Lovejoy ended with 10 points, three rebounds, three assists, and two steals, while senior
Legend Geeter had seven points and six boards. Redshirt freshman
Tyler Spratt had nine points, while freshman
Lance Stone added eight.
The Titan big men also saw sophomore
Ryan Kalambay grab a season-best and team-high seven. Junior
London Maiden had five rebounds and four points, and freshman
Xavier Istomin-Monroe pulled down five.
Detroit Mercy will have a few days off for Christmas before returning to conference play and visiting Youngstown State on Dec. 29.
Game Notes:
- This was the third career meeting between the two schools as the Titans won both previous contests at home, taking an 80-71 decision in 2000 and a 131-69 rout in 2017
- Detroit Mercy has won 38 in a row against non-DI schools, with the last loss coming against Wayne State in 1993, as the Titans are 263-67 (.792) all-time against non-Division I foes
- The Titans are 298-181 (.615) all-time against other schools in the state of Michigan, including 278-106 against programs outside the two Big Ten schools
- Detroit Mercy got 42 points off its bench as it came into the game second in the Horizon League and 42nd in the nation, tallying 32.9 points from the bench per game
- The 51 rebounds were one off its season high of 52 against Cleary, while the +33 rebounding margin was the biggest since outworking Youngstown State, 53-20, in 2016
- UDM has hit the glass all season long, coming into the game second in the conference at 38.7 rebounds per game, as well as second in the league and 46th in the country with 13.6 offensive rebounds per game
- The 53.4% from the field was the best since shooting 54.8% at Eastern Michigan last year, while it was the best mark at home since connecting on 56.0% against EMU in 2023
- The Titans came into the game fourth in the HL with 15.1 made free throws per game and have now reached double-digit made free throws in 10 games this year, with four of those in the 20's
- Nadeau now has four career 20-point games with a season-high 26 at Cleveland State and 24 at Notre Dame this season, and 20 at Purdue Fort Wayne last year
- Lovejoy tallied 392 points at Eastern Michigan and now has 611 with the Titans for 1,003 in his career
- Lovejoy now has at least two steals in seven of his 11 games and 168 in his career
- Johnson now has 14 career double-digit scoring efforts, while his 12 points were the most since netting 13 at Milwaukee last season
- Geeter now has at least five rebounds in seven games this season
- After scoring 15 points in seven games, Fisher now has back-to-back games in double figures with 14 at Purdue Fort Wayne and 12 today, hitting 10-of-17 shots
