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GAME 29
Youngstown State (8-17, 2-13 HL) at Detroit (14-14, 8-8)
Date:  Feb. 16, 2011 - 7:00 pm EST
Location: Detroit, Mich.
Arena: Calihan Hall (8,295)
Live stats: detroittitans.com
Live video: horizonleague.tv
Series:  Titans lead, 21-7
Last year:  Detroit, 2-0
@UDM 82, YSU 71 (12/3/09)
UDM 62, @YSU 54 (2/27/10)
This year: Detroit, 1-0
UDM 73, @YSU 69 (1/22/11)

ON TAP
The Titans will play their regular season home finale on Wednesday when they welcome Youngstown State to Calihan Hall.  Detroit is in good position to grab another home game in the Horizon League tournament as it currently sits in sixth-place with the No. 3-6 seeds hosting HL First Round match-ups.

ABOUT YOUNGSTOWN STATE
The Penguins are 8-17 overall, 2-13 in league play heading into Wednesday's game.  YSU has won just one of its last nine contests, but it was a big one.  Kendrick Perry's triple with 21 seconds left gave the Penguins a 62-60 win over Butler on Feb. 3.  YSU is 0-12 away from home this season and has not won a Horizon League game on the road since Feb. 5, 2009 (20 straight).  Vytas Sulskis leads YSU with 13.4 points per game average while Damian Eargle leads with 5.9 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game.

LAST MEETING
The Detroit Titans hung-on for a 73-69 win over host Youngstown State at the Beeghley Center on Jan. 22.  Junior Chris Blake netted a career high 20 points and junior center Eli Holman grabbed a season-most 16 boards in the win.
Detroit's offense got going quickly, running up 18 points in the first 5:12 to mount a 10-point cushion.  It would be the largest lead of the night for either school as the Penguins tallied seven first-half triples to get back into the game and the Titans held a slim 41-40 lead at the break.  Eli Holman nearly had a double-double in the first period alone, scoring nine points and grabbing nine boards in the opening 20 minutes.
Coming out of halftime, the Penguins scored the first eight points to grab their biggest lead at seven points.  Detroit immediately answered with eight straight of its own, part of a 15-4 run.  It was a closely-contested affair throughout the remainder of the game as it remained a one-possession game for most of the stretch run.

NEARING MILESTONES
With three games remaining in the regular season, milestones are approaching.  Here's a look at a few in range by season's end.
Career
Chase Simon    926 pts (74 shy of 1,000)
Eli Holman    681 pts  (19 shy of 700)
Eli Holman    551 rbs (49 shy of 600)
Eli Holman    122 blks (32 shy of 2nd)
LaMarcus Lowe    119 (4 shy of 4th)

Season
Ray McCallum    138 asst     (7 shy of top 10)
Ray McCallum    47 stls    (7 shy of top 10)
Ray McCallum    123 FTs    (26 shy of top 10)

WHAT'S NEXT?
Detroit will hit the road for its final two regular season games.  The Titans travel to Des Moines, Iowa for the ESPN BracketBuster game on Saturday against Drake and finish-out the slate at Wright State next Friday (Feb. 25).   The Horizon League tournament begins Mar. 1 on campus sites with the No. 3 through 6 seeds hosting.

AMONG THE NATIONAL LEADERS
Several Titans have their names appear among the NCAA Division I leaders in the Feb. 15 report.  As the time of the release, junior Eli Holman had 11 double-doubles, which ranked 25th.  He also was 28th in rebounds per game (9.8).  LaMarcus Lowe was 19th in the NCAA with his 2.5 blocks per game clip.  Ray McCallum's 4.9 assists per game is 52nd while Nick Minnerath cracked the report with his .820 free-throw percentage (112th).

MAC OF DIMES
Freshman Ray McCallum is among the top freshmen in the country, ranking second in NCAA D-I in total assists at the time of the last national stats report (Feb. 15).  McCallum's 4.9 per game average ranks third among all Horizon League players.  A look at those freshman with at least 100 assists (through Feb. 6).

NCAA D-I Freshman Assist Leaders
1. Juwan Staten, Dayton    152
2. Ray McCallum, Detroit    138
3. Brian Voelkel, Vermont    123
4.  Jason Brickman, Long Is.    121
5. Kendall Marshall, UNC    119
6. Aaron Craft, Ohio State    117
7. Tyreek Duren, LaSalle    112
    Kendall Williams, New Mex.112
9. Sean McGonagill, Brown    110
10. Luke Davis, Gardner-Webb109

Evan Roquemore, Santa Clara103
Jake Odum, Indiana State    103
Rodney Glasgow, VMI    103
D.J. Irving, Boston        102
T.J. McConnell, Duquesne    102
Rakeem Brookins, Siena    101


LEADING THE LEAGUE
Eli Holman leads the Horizon League in both offensive (3.4 rpg) and defensive (6.3 rpg) rebounds per game (9.8 total).  He is also second in field goal percentage, connecting on 59.6 percent of his shots (118-of-198) and is fourth in blocks (1.7 bpg).

THE LOWE DOWN
Junior LaMarcus Lowe blocked a pair of shots at Butler Saturday, giving him 71 for the season.  Lowe's block total ranks second in the Horizon League and he now has 17 games with multiple rejections this season. 

Single-season block records at UDM
1. Terry Tyler, 1978 .....................      172
2. Terry Tyler, 1976 ......................     107
3. Terry Tyler, 1977 ......................       86
4. Eli Holman, 2010 ......................      77
5. LaMarcus Lowe, 2011 ..............      71
    Greg Grant, 1992......................       65
7. Stacy Johnson, 1988 .................      63
     Brian Humes, 1986 ...................      63
9. Keith Jackson, 1979 ..................      61
10. Alan Renner-Thomas, 1994 ......      56
       Brian Alexander, 1998 ...............     56
(*block records not kept before 1976)