From Detroit Mercy’s athletics web site:
DETROIT — Graduate senior Antoine Davis almost had a triple double and ended with a game-high 38 factors because the University of Detroit Mercy males’s basketball staff is transferring on within the Barbasol Horizon League Men’s Basketball Championship with an 81-68 victory over Purdue Fort Wayne on Tuesday.
The nation’s main scorer not solely scored 38 factors on 14-of-27 from the sphere and 6-of-13 from three, however tallied a career-high eight rebounds to go together with a team-high eight assists and 4 steals. He now has 3,642 factors, 25 factors away from tying and 26 shy of breaking Pete Maravich’s NCAA document 3,667. He additionally has 155, 3-pointers on the yr, tied for fourth in NCAA historical past and 7 away from the single-season mark of 162 by Stephen Curry in 2007-08.
The Titans (14-18, September 11 HL) will now head to top-seeded Youngstown State on Thursday within the quarterfinals.
Graduate senior Damezi Anderson scored 11 factors with 4 rebounds and graduate senior A.J. Oliver had 9 factors, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals. Freshman Marcus Tankersley scored a career-high 12 factors with 5 rebounds and three steals and senior Gerald Liddell had two factors, 4 rebounds, two blocks and a steal.
Detroit Mercy had a 41-36 lead simply 4 minutes into the second half, however blew the sport open with a 19-2 run over the subsequent 5 minutes. The protection held Purdue Fort Wayne (17-15, September 11 HL) to 0-of-7 from the sphere with two turnovers in that span, whereas the Titans have been 7-of-10 taking pictures with 4 of these from distance.
Oliver began the spurt with a 3 off a steal from Davis after which Tankersley and Oliver had back-to-back layups, the latter off a foul and he made the free throw for the three-point play for a 48-36 lead. Anderson then nailed back-to-back triples to increase the rin to 13-straight factors and a 55-26 benefit with 11:48 left. After Purdue Fort Wayne hit 1-of-2 on the line, Anderson knocked in one other three and as soon as once more the Mastodons break up a pair earlier than a Davis trey had the staff up 60-38 with 10:20 remaining.
Detroit Mercy would by no means see their lead fall to underneath double digits the remainder of the best way because the Mastodons pulled inside 12, 60-48, however Davis netted eight-straight factors to make it a 20-point lead once more at 68-48 with 5 minutes to go.
Both groups have been an enormous sluggish to begin as Detroit Mercy was 1-of-7 and Purdue Fort Wayne was 2-of-7 within the first couple of minutes.
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The recreation was tied at 16-16 halfway by way of the interval when the Titans went on an 8-0 run. Davis began it with a 3 after which Tankersley got here up with a steal and layup earlier than one other Davis triple made it 24-16 with 7:59 to go.
The Mastodons lower it to 3, 24-21, when Tankersley had one other layup and Davis adopted with one, and was fouled, changing on the free throw for a 29-21 benefit with 3:46 left. The lead rose to 10, 34-24, on one other Tankersley bucket and a 3 from Oliver with 2:09 left and the Titans took a 34-26 margin into the break.
Detroit Mercy shot 47.5% from the sphere (29-of-61), 10-of-25 (40.0%) from three and 13-of-16 (81.3%) on the free-throw line. The Titans additionally gained the rebounding whole 37-34 and had 10 steals, whereas holding Purdue Fort Wayne to 38.3% taking pictures.
The Titans and Penguins will tip off at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday on the Beeghly Center.
Game Notes:
- Detroit Mercy now leads the all-time collection, 5-4, and is 4-2 at house
- The Titans are 3-2 at house towards the Mastodons, dominating the house recreation this season, 85-52
- Detroit Mercy is now 38-39 all-time within the HL postseason, with eight journeys to the title recreation (1988, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2012) and three championships (1994, 1999, 2012)
- The Titans are an ideal 9-0 all-time in house playoff video games
- Detroit Mercy now has three wins over the identical staff for the eleventh time at school historical past
- The Titans gained their first-ever recreation as an eighth seed within the playoffs as they’re now 1-3 all-time
- The eighth seed within the Horizon League postseason is now 14-31 all-time, with two journeys to the title recreation in Wright State in 1994-95 and Cleveland State in 2017-18.
- The Titans had began the identical beginning 5 in 11-straight video games previous to tonight’s recreation, the longest streak underneath head coach Mike Davis and the longest by the Titans because the similar 5 of Juwan Howard Jr., Doug Anderson, Nick Minnerath, Jason Calliste and Ray McCallum in 26 straight in 2012-13
- Detroit Mercy has outrebounded its opponents 23 occasions on the season and in 11-straight video games because the Titans got here into the competition third within the HL in rebounding at 36.5 per recreation and tops the HL and tenth within the nation with 13.1 offensive rebounds per contest
- Detroit Mercy has linked on double-digit 3-pointers in 19 video games and is first within the HL and tenth within the nation at 39.1% from three, in addition to first within the HL and sixth in DI with 10.4 per recreation
- The Titans have linked on double-digit free throws in 21 video games on the season as they’re third within the Horizon League and twenty seventh within the nation in free-throw share
- The win was # 411 for head coach Mike Davis, 142nd in DI NCAA historical past and one away from 141st
- Davis presently leads the nation in scoring (28.3 ppg.), whole factors (908), whole 3-pointers (155), 3-pointers per recreation (4.89) and whole area objectives (296)
- The solely Titan to ever lead the nation in a NCAA statistic was Spencer Haywood, who averaged 22.1 rebounds in 1968-69, whereas his present fee of 28.3 factors can be the second-highest at school historical past behind Haywood’s 32.1 in 1968-69 and the very best in HL historical past
- Davis has now reached double figures in all 143 of his collegiate video games, NCAA data for whole and consecutive video games
- Davis now has 104 profession 20-point video games, 40 profession 30-point outings and eight 40-point contests in 143 video games – reaching 17 factors in 125 of them
- Davis got here into the sport third all-time in NCAA historical past with 4.07, three-point area objectives per recreation and main the nation this yr at 4.83 per contest
- He now has 21 video games on the yr with 4 or extra 3-pointers and has made a 3 in 138 of his 143 collegiate video games, with 81 profession video games with 4 or extra triples, 33 with six or extra, 17 video games with seven or extra, and has 5 occasions linked on 10 or extra
- Davis is third in Titan historical past with 592 assists, 19 behind Wilbert McCormick and 23 in again of document holder Kevin McAdoo’s 615 as he’s
- simply the second participant in NCAA historical past to amass 3,000 factors and 500 assists, becoming a member of St. Peter’s Keydren Clark (2002-06)
- Davis now has 1,212 profession area objectives, simply three away from Houston’s Elvin Hayes and 4 in again of Kansas’ Danny Manning to maneuver into the highest six in NCAA historical past
- Liddell has now blocked no less than one shot in 14 video games on the season
- Anderson has now scored in double figures in 9 of the final 13 video games and 18 on the yr
- Oliver has now grabbed no less than 5 rebounds in six-straight video games and 17 on the season together with his season better of 9 twice
- Tankersley’s earlier excessive in factors was 10 at Cleveland State
- It was sophomore Jamail Pink’s first profession begin
- Detroit performed with TJ Moss (leg) and Arashma Parks (sickness) who’re listed as everyday
