Game Notes (in pdf)

SERIES RECORD
These two teams have only met once in school history and Iowa State defeated the Titans by a score of 75-67 on Dec. 28, 2002 in Los Fresnos, TX.

ABOUT IOWA STATE
Iowa State owns a 6-2 overall mark heading into Sunday's contest, including a 65-52 win over Drake in Ames, IA, on Dec. 11. The last loss for the Cyclones came at Iowa by a score of 66-46 on Dec. 7 and the other loss came against Stanford (83-45) on Nov. 29. Senior forward Nicky Wieben leads ISU with 11.3 ppg, while junior guard Alison Lacey averages a team-best 6.8 rebounds per contest.

SIXTH SENSE
Sophomore Kealy McNally set a new career-high with six rebounds at Bowling Green on Dec. 3, which was also a team second-best.

LEADING THE WAY
Senior Sandi Brown grabbed a game-high nine rebounds at BGSU (Dec. 3), which is three shy of her personal-best. Brown also led the Titans with 11 points and three steals against the Falcons.

REBOUNDS GALORE
As a team, Detroit outrebounded Bowling Green, 41-38, on Dec. 3 in Ohio.

“ON THE ROAD, AGAIN...”
The Titans are in the middle of a four-game stretch playing away from Detroit and UDM will play the next five of six games away from Calihan Hall.

WHERE ARE THE TITANS?
As of Dec. 12, junior Brigid Mulroy is 16th among conference peers in scoring average (11.7 ppg) and is third in 3-point field goals made average (2.1). Senior Sandi Brown is tied for seventh with 2.0 steals per game, while Mulroy is also seventh in 3-point FG percent (.366).

SECOND IN A ROW
This marks the second-straight year in which Detroit has traveled to the Hawkeye State as the Titans played at Northern Iowa on Nov. 30, 2007 and fell by a score of 62-35. Detroit also played at Iowa two days later where the Titans dropped a 65-42 decision.

COULDN'T MISS
Senior Sandi Brown was perfect from the charity stripe at Albany on Dec. 1 as she made all six of her attempts to tie her career-high of made free throws.

FROM THE FIELD
Freshman Lauren Allen shot 60 percent from the field (6-of-10) at Albany on Dec. 1, which was a game second-best showing of made field goals.

SHE DID IT AGAIN
On Nov. 29 at Colgate, junior Brigid Mulroy led all scorers for the second game in a row as she poured in 16 points after shooting 7-of-16 from the field. In Detroit's match-up against Indiana State four days earlier, Mulroy scored a game-high and a personal-best 21 points.

LAST TIME OUT
    In its third game in five days, the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team faced Bowling Green State University and fell by a score of 72-42 on Dec. 3 at Anderson Arena in Bowling Green, OH.
    After being down by 12 in the opening minutes of the first half, Detroit pulled within three at the 11:34 mark after scoring nine unanswered points to put the score at 14-11. During the run, UDM junior Brigid Mulroy  converted a three-point play, while junior Chanica Hall scored four points. In addition, senior Sandi Brown, who ended with game-high nine rebounds, and freshman Lauren Allen each added a basket for the Titans.
    BGSU, which scored 12 treys on the night, poured in three straight 3-pointers at one point from three different players to take a 23-13 advantage with just over nine minutes remaining. Mulroy made a jumper at 6:36 to narrow BGSU's lead to 27-18, but in the next 5:20 neither team was able to score a basket. Falcon redshirt junior Niki McCoy ended the scoring drought as she made both free throw attempts at 1:26 and BGSU ended up going into the break with a 34-18 advantage.
    Junior Heather Hatter started the scoring for either team in the second stanza as she netted a 2-pointer in the opening minute. This put BGSU's lead at 34-20, which was the closest the Titans would get the rest of the contest. The Falcons went up by 20 with just under 10 minutes remaining and kept at least a 20 point lead the rest of the way.
    Brown scored a team-high 11 points, while Mulroy added eight more for the Titans. UDM sophomore Kealy McNally grabbed a career-high six caroms in 14 minutes of play, while Brown added three steals.
    BGSU sophomore Tracy Pontius led all scorers with 16 points, which included four made from long range, while McCoy added a team second-best 13 points.
    The Titans shot 30 percent on the night (16-of-54), while the Falcons had a 23-of-56 showing from the field. Detroit edged BGSU in rebounds, but the Falcons tallied 15 steals to UDM's nine. 

NO ALARMS WERE SET OFF
Senior Sandi Brown tallied a season-high and game-best five steals at Colgate on Nov. 29. Brown was one away from tying her career-high in this category, which was set on Jan. 4, 2007 against Green Bay.

VS. RANKED TEAMS
The Detroit Titans made history on Nov. 22 as UDM defeated #23 Georgia by a score of 70-66 at Calihan Hall. This marked the first time since the conference changed its name to the Horizon League (2001-02) in which the Titans defeated a ranked opponent. UDM now owns a 1-11 mark in this category.

GOING BACK IN TIME
Detroit's win over Southeastern Conference member school, Georgia, was the first win against an SEC school since Nov. 23, 1979 when the Titans defeated Louisiana State by a score of 84-76 in Detroit. Prior to Saturday's victory, the Titans had lost 13 straight to SEC schools.

COACHING DEBUT AT HOME
Autumn Rademacher coached her first game for the Titans on UDM's home court against #23 Georgia and Detroit came out on the winning end, 70-66. Since the start of UDM women's basketball (1977-78), Rademacher and the eight full-time head coaches prior, now own a collective 4-5 record in their coaching debut on Detroit's home court.

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Freshman Lauren Allen collected her first career double-double as she netted a team third-best 13 points and tied for a game-high 11 rebounds against Georgia (Nov. 22). Allen also dished out a team second-best five assists.

DETROIT INKS THREE
UDM head coach Autumn Rademacher announced that three student-athletes have signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Titans, beginning with the 2009-10 season. The signees are: Demeisha Fambro (G, 5-9, Detroit, MI/Crockett Tech), Kassandra Hooten (F, 6-0, Moorhead, MN/Moorhead) and Cherridy Thornton (F, 6-1, Detroit, MI/Frank Cody Senior).

FINAL FOUR IN DETROIT
The University of Detroit Mercy will serve as the host institution for the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Final Four, which will be held on April 4 & 6, 2009 at Ford Field in Detroit, MI.