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The Titans three-game road swing continues as Detroit heads to Green Bay for a Horizon League battle with the Phoenix on Saturday. The ball is set to drop at 8:00 p.m. at the Resch Center.
Matt Dery will have the call on WDFN-AM 1130. For the fourth year in a row, the Horizon League Network will webcast all regular-season and post-season games. The game can also be viewed with a live stats feed through CSTV's gametracker.
Detroit (2-4, 0-1 HL) is coming off a tough 71-62 loss at Milwaukee. The Titans struggled shooting the ball ending the night 0-for-11 from three-point range and 12-of-23 from the free throw line.
Green Bay has won four straight, including a 57-46 home victory over Wright State on Thursday, despite making only 13 field goals. The Phoenix won the battle at the foul line making 27-of-32 free shots.
ABOUT GREEN BAY
The Phoenix are coming off a 57-46 home victory over Wright State on Thursday. Green Bay has rebounded from an 0-2 start, which included a loss to Division III Rollins College, to win four in a row by a margin of 12 points a game.
Three Green Bay players are averaging double figures in seniors Terry Evans and Mike Schachtner and junior Troy Cotton. Cotton leads the team at 13.2 ppg. He is also hitting 43-percent from the field and 89-percent from the free throw line. Schachtner is second on the squad in points (12.2), and is hitting 96-percent from the charity stripe (31-of-32), while Evans is posting 10.2 markers a night and is second on the Phoenix in rebounding with 5.5 per game.
The Phoenix are also getting major contributions from junior college transfer Chop Tang, who is netting 9.8 points and 5.2 boards per game.
As a team, Green Bay (4-2, 1-0 HL) is shooting 85-percent (127-of-148) from the free throw line.
Tod Kowalczyk is in his seventh season at the helm of the Green Bay program. He owns an overall record of 96-90 and is 5-8 lifetime again the Detroit Titans.
DETROIT VS GREEN BAY
This will be the 35th meeting between Detroit and Green Bay, with Titans owning the overall series 19-15. Detroit has won five of the last eight games, but suffered two losses to Green Bay last year, including a 78-52 defeat at Wisconsin on Jan. 3. UDM is 10-9 against the Phoenix on the road. Green Bay joined the Midwestern Collegiate Conference/Horizon League in 1994.
OFFENSIVE PAYNE
Junior Woody Payne has come alive from the field in the last two games. The guard has scored 17 points, a career-high, in back-to-back games shooting 52 percent (11-of-21) from the field and 78-percent (11-of-14) from the line. He has also grabbed 4.0 boards a game and has seven assists, seven steals and just two turnovers.
FOUL FEST
The Milwaukee-Detroit match-up on Dec. 4, featured a combined 50 fouls, including 30 on the Titans. That was the most fouls called on UDM in the last three years and the most combined fouls in a game since last year's contest at Eastern Michigan when both teams totaled 51 fouls (26-Detroit, 25-EMU).
48 IN THE PAINT
UDM did not a hit a three against Milwaukee, but it did dominate the post. The Titans scored 48 points in the paint, doubling the Panthers 24.
WHAT'S IN A NUMBER
The Titans have scored exactly 62 points in four straight games.
HARRINGTON GRABBING BOARDS
Junior Michael Harrington corralled double digit rebounds for the second time in his career when he collected 10 boards at Milwaukee on Dec. 4. His other effort also came against Milwaukee when he grabbed his career best 11 boards on Jan. 31, 2008.
