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DETROIT -- The summer is long over and the preseason is all done as the Detroit women's basketball team opens the 2011-12 campaign on the road when the Titans head to Indiana State on Friday for the first round of the Preseason WNIT. Game time is set for 8:05 p.m. (EST), inside the Hulman Center in Terre Haute, IN.

The winner of this game will face the winner of the Notre Dame-Akron match-up on the road on Sunday in the quarterfinals of the Preseason WNIT, while the loser will move into the consolation bracket with two games at a site to be determined next week.

Fans can follow all the action with a live stats feed through the Indiana State athletic  website, as well as watch a live webcast on Sycamore Vision on a paid subscription basis. Titan fan are also encouraged to join in and chat with a live blog on the Detroit Titans Blog by clicking here (link will appear at game time).

UDM tuned up for the regular season with a 93-46 exhibition victory over Madonna on Oct. 29, and a closed scrimmage the following week. Freshman Shareta Brown led the way in the preseason win over the Crusaders with 23 points and 13 rebounds. Junior Yar Shayok had 14 points and 10 boards, while junior Demeisha Fambro netted 17 points.

THE DETROIT-INDIANA ST. SERIES
Detroit and Indiana State have met five times, with the Titans owning the edge in the series, 3-2. ISU has claimed the last two meetings, 70-53 in Terre Haute in December of 2009 and 74-60 in the Motor City in 2008.

UDM is 2-1 on the road in the series and 1-0 on a neutral court in the program's first-ever match-up in 1979.

ABOUT INDIANA STATE
Indiana State was 16-16 a year ago and 8-10 in the Missouri Valley Conference. ISU was also very strong at home posting an 11-4 record, including a 5-1 mark in the non-conference season.

The Sycamores return eight letterwinners and four starters to a team that reached the semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament last season.

Indiana State was picked to finish fifth in the MVC preseason poll and has six of its top seven scorers from last season back. That group is led by senior Shannon Thomas, who was a preseason MVC selection after averaging 13.1 points and a conference-best 8.6 rebounds per game last year. Junior Taylor Whitley tallied 12.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game, while senior Brittany Schoen averaged 10.6 ppg.

THE Preseason WNIT
The Titans are playing in the Preseason Women's National Invitation Tournament for the first time in their program's history.

The WNIT is an annual tournament involving 16 of the nation's top women's Division I basketball teams. A team may participate no more than once in a four-year period.

Along with Detroit and Indiana State, the tournament will feature Akron, Baylor, Drexel, Eastern Tennessee State, Hartford, Howard, Long Island, Manhattan, McNeese State, Notre Dame, Tennessee Chattanooga, Tennessee Tech, UAB and UCLA.

The Fighting Irish finished last season as No. 2 in the nation advancing to the National Championship game. Another Final Four team, Baylor ended the year ranked No. 5, while UCLA was ranked No. 13 in the final poll. All told, nine of the 16 teams in the field made a postseason tournament in 2011.

The Preseason WNIT is a three-game guarantee format. The tournament opens on Nov. 11. Second-round games will be played Nov. 13-14; semifinals on Nov. 16-17; and the championship is set for Sunday, Nov. 20. Teams that lose in the first two rounds will play consolation games on the second weekend, Nov. 18-19. All games are hosted by participating schools.

WHAT'S NEXT?
The winner of the Titan-Sycamore battle will face the winner of Notre Dame-Akron on the road on Sunday.

The loser will return home and will be in the Preseason WNIT consolation bracket next weekend at a site that is still yet to be determined.

QUICK RECAP OF 2011
The Titans ended last season at 13-18, 6-12 in the Horizon League for seventh place. Detroit had a number of key wins - especially on the road - where UDM posted victories over three postseason WNIT teams in Butler, Eastern Michigan and Michigan.

Detroit also won a game in the Horizon League Tournament for the third-straight year upending Valparaiso at home before falling at Butler in the quarterfinals.

Yar Shayok ended the year among the nation's leaders in rebounding as the Titan forward led the Horizon League and was 27th in Division I with 10.2 per game.

UDM averaged 60.7 points per game, while giving up 63.1 - third in the Horizon League.

SEASON OPENERS
Detroit is entering its 35th season and has a record of 15-19 in season openers.

When opening the season away from the Motor City, UDM has compiled a 6-13 record, with a 1-2 mark on neutral courts. The last season-opening win on the road was just two years ago as the red, white and blue downed Oakland, 74-65, in Rochester Hills, MI.

In true road openers, the Titans are 13-21 all-time.

WINNING NON-CONFERENCE SLATE
Detroit posted a 6-5 mark in its non-conference schedule last year, the Titans first winning non-conference slate since going 7-6 to start the 2000-01 campaign.

The non-conference season also saw UDM go 5-1 against teams from the state of Michigan, including a dominating 67-48 tally at U-M.

AGAINST THE HOOSIER STATE
Detroit has done a fine job when it comes to taking on teams from the Hoosier State.

UDM is 66-45 all-time against schools from Indiana.

EARLY SEASON TOURNAMENTS
The Preseason WNIT marks the second-straight year that the Titans will take part in a regular season tournament. UDM competed in the Big Easy Classic at Tulane last season.

Detroit is 20-28 all-time in in-season tournaments. The last time the Titans won a regular season tournament was in 1999 when the red, white and blue downed South Alabama and host Florida A&M in the Rattler Classic.