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The college basketball season officially starts for the Detroit Titans men's basketball team as UDM travels to the West Coast to face No. 12 California in the regional round of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer on Wednesday.
The contest, set to start at 11 p.m. (EST), will be broadcast live on ESPNU with Carter Blackburn handling the play-by-play and Mark Gottfried adding the color. Fans can also follow all the action on CSTV's gametracker by
clicking here.
Detroit fans can enjoy watching the contest with fellow Titan supporters as Rosie O'Grady's in Ferndale host the “Season Opener Watch Party”, beginning at 10 p.m. For more information
click here.
UDM TO PARTICIPATE IN 2009 2K SPORTS CLASSIC
Detroit will kick-off its season early this year by participating in the 2009 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. UDM will open the season on the west coast against nationally- ranked California in the regional round, and then head to Albany, NY, for the subregionals where they will face Robert Morris, Albany and Alcorn State.
TITANS EARNING PRE-SEASON HONORS
Detroit has already garnered a number of pre-season accolades from the various media outlets and their college basketball previews. Below is a list of the publications that have already printed their 2009-10 outlook.
The Sporting News selected
Eli Holman as the league's Top Newcomer, while ranking the Titans' current recruiting class second in the conference.
Lindy's pre-season magazine tabbed
Thomas Kennedy to the Horizon League second team.
USA Today named Holman to the pre-season second team and regarded the newcomers as one of the top recruiting classes in the league.
Blue Ribbon named Holman as Newcomer of Year and
Xavier Keeling to the first team.
GOING OUT WEST
The match-up at Cal has the Titans going out West for the first time since 2003, when Detroit played at UC Santa Barbara in the first year of BracketBusters. UDM came back from “The Golden State” with a 75-59 victory over the Gauchos.
AGAINST CAL
Detroit's history against California is very brief as the two schools have only hooked up once, a 32-28 win by the Golden Bears in the Motor City during the 1937-38 season.
RICH TITAN HISTORY AGAINST THE PAC-10
UDM owns a winning record against schools from the Pac-10 at 6-4, which includes one of its' biggest wins in program history when the 12th-seeded Titans shocked fifth-seeded UCLA, 56-53, on March 12, 1999, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Jermaine Jackson scored 17 and Rashad Phillips had 16, including two free throws with 1:19 to help propel the upset. The Titans entered the game second in the nation in scoring defense at 54.7 points per game and held UCLA to just 21 points in the second half.
That was also the last time Detroit played a school from the Pac-10. The last time UDM played at a Pac-10 school was in 1995, when Detroit won the Sun Devil Classic beating Pennsylvania, 77-65, and host Arizona State, 71-66.
All-time, Detroit is 3-0 against Oregon, 1-0 versus UCLA, 1-2 with Arizona State, 1-1 against Arizona and 0-1 versus California.
