Game Notes vs. Marygrove

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DETROIT -- Back on the court following a festive Christmas holiday, the Detroit women's basketball team returns home on Monday for the first time Nov. 19 as the Titans welcome Marygrove into Calihan Hall. Game time is set for 5:00 p.m., a change from the originally scheduled tip of 7:00 p.m.

Fans can catch the game on the Horizon League Network with Dan York calling all of the action. A live stats feed through gametracker will also be available. Both links are located on top of the page.

It is Detroit's first game since Dec. 18, when the red, white and blue went into Ann Arbor and Crisler Arena to down Michigan, 67-48. Sophomore Dominique Dixon led the Titan upset with a career-high 20 points, earning Horizon League Player of the Week accolades.

Marygrove, located less than a mile away from UDM, heads into the game at 2-10 overall, but it will be the Mustangs first game since Dec. 8.

DETROIT VS. MARYGROVE
This is the first career meeting between the two teams despite the fact that the schools are just 0.9 miles apart from each other.

ABOUT THE MUSTANGS
A member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), where it is an independent on the Division II level, Marygrove comes into the contest at 2-10 overall. The game will be the first of the year for the Mustangs against a NCAA Division I opponent, but they are no stranger to games against DI programs with contests at Eastern and Central Michigan and Oakland in the past two seasons.

Marygrove is averaging 57.4 points per game, but is giving up 73.6, due in large part to a 121-40 loss against the University of Indianapolis.

Junior Kayla Corrothers leads the team in scoring at 13.3 points per game, while sophomore Keara Marks is tallying 11.8 ppg.

UDM VS. NON DIVISION I SCHOOLS
Detroit is 36-5 all-time against non-Division I schools, but the match-up with Marygrove is the first versus a non-D I opponent since the 1987-88 season. In that year, the Titans played two non-Division I teams defeating U-M Dearborn, 72-69, on Feb. 6, 1988, and falling to Lake Superior State, 84-53, in the season opener on Nov. 30, 1987.

THE VICTORY AT MICHIGAN
The Titans 67-48 win over Michigan on Dec. 18 was a long time coming. With the victory, UDM stopped a six-game losing streak to its in-state rivals.

Here is what else Detroit accomplished in the game:

- Detroit's defense held Michigan to just 30 percent from the field, then a season low for the Wolverines

- Detroit also held Michigan to 6-of-30 (20%) from three, a season best for the UDM defense

- The Titans earned their first win over their in-state rivals, as well as against the Big Ten, since 1994

- The win was also Detroit's first on the road against Michigan since Dec. 21, 1983

- First win - in five tries - over a Big Ten team in head coach Autumn Rademacher's tenure

DID YOU MISS US
Detroit started the season with three straight homes games, but since beating Western Michigan, 66-53, on Nov. 19, the Titans have been on the road playing seven straight away from Calihan Hall.

The game in front of its home fans will be short lived as Detroit will once again hit the road for two games in Wisconsin later this week as the Titans open conference play at Green Bay and at Milwaukee.

In 33 years of play at Calihan Hall, the Titans have enjoyed a 248-134 (.646) home court record. Last season, UDM went 10-6 at home, including 8-1 in conference play.

Away from Calihan, Detroit has posted a 241-327 all-time record.

LOOKING FOR A 4-0 START AT HOME
Detroit started the year with three straight wins at home (Oakland, Ball State, Western Michigan) and with a victory over Marygrove, the Titans will have their first 4-0 start in Calihan Hall since the 2000-01 campaign.

In that year, UDM downed Western Michigan, Valparaiso, Miami (OH) and Central Michigan in its first four home games.

THORNTON BACK TO HER SCORING WAYS
Sophomore Cherridy Thornton has come off the bench to net double figures in scoring in her last two games with a team-high 16 points at IPFW and 11 points at Michigan.

Thornton, who has a 20-point game under her belt this season against Ball State, had been held scoreless in her prior three games going 0-for-7 from the field in that span.

In her last two games, Thornton is averaging 13.5 ppg., shooting 10-of-22 (45%) from the field and a perfect 4-of-4 from the free throw line. She is also averaging 5.0 rebounds per game, which includes a career-high six boards at Michigan.

DIXON LIGHTING IT UP
After scoring a total of 17 points in the first six games of the year (2.8 ppg), sophomore Dominique Dixon has started to heat up tallying career-highs in her last three games, including her first career 20-point outing with 20 markers at Michigan.

She started her scoring spurt with 11 points at Tulane and surpassed that at Eastern Michigan with 13 points.

In her last three games, Dixon is averaging a team-best 14.7 points, going 15-of-37 (40%) from the field and 7-of-16 (44%) from behind the arc.