GAMEDAY CENTRAL
STAR WARS NIGHT
ROUNDBALL LUNCHEON

DETROIT (12/3/12) –The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will begin a four-game homestand on Wednesday, Dec. 5 when the Titans host Toledo on Star Wars Night at Calihan Hall. The game is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be streamed live on the Horizon League Network. The first 500 fans in attendance will receive a mini light saber.

STAR WARS NIGHT
Star Wars fans dress up as your favorite character as the Detroit Titans will welcome a host of Star Wars characters to the game against Toledo. Star Wars characters scheduled to be at the game are Chewbacca, Tarfful, R2D2, Stormtroopers, X Wing Pilots, Lando Calrissian, and from the dark side, Darth Vader himself. The first 500 fans in attendance will receive a mini light saber.

TOYS FOR TOTS
The Titans will also be collecting Toys for Tots for this game. Adults can bring a new toy to the game and purchase a game ticket for just $5. Any kids 12 and under with a paying adult can also get into the game for FREE.

GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Titan fans can follow every UDM game this season through men's basketball GAMEDAY CENTRAL page located on the Titans Athletic Website that will keep fans one click away from all the action. This page will feature links for live stats (audio and video when applicable) as well as links for all the latest info while also making it easy to find the Titans on social media and to purchase photos and game tickets. The Game Day Central page also carries all the information on each opponent from who is leading the all-time series to who won the last game.

LAST TIME OUT
Junior Ray McCallum scored a game-high 24 points, but it wasn't enough as the Titans fell, 74-61, to Pittsburgh Saturday night at the Petersen Events Center. Detroit (2-4) held a 37-29 lead at halftime, before the Panthers outscored the Titans 45-24 in the second half.

McCallum shot 7-for-13 from the field to record his fifth 20-point performance of the season, the 19th of his career, while also grabbing a team-high seven rebounds. Junior Evan Bruinsma scored a season-high 14 points, with six rebounds, while classmate Jason Calliste pitched in 12 points and three assists.

Pitt (7-1) outrebounded Detroit, 31-30, and forced 13 Titan turnovers to 11. The Panthers also shot 48.0 percent for the game, 63.6 percent in the second half, while holding Detroit to 38.8 percent overall and just 32.1 percent in the second half.

SERIES WITH TOLEDO
This will be the 51st meeting between Detroit and Toledo, with the Rockets owning a 27-23 lead. Toledo won the last meeting, 73-63, during the 2006-07 season. Detroit's last win in the series came during the 2005-06 season, when the Titans topped the Rockets, 65-63, in Calihan Hall.

ABOUT THE ROCKETS
Toledo (2-5) led for the first 39 minutes, but Cleveland State capitalized on four UT turnovers in the final four minutes to rally for a, 78-73, victory over the Rockets on Saturday afternoon at the Wolstein Center.

Toledo shot 52.1 percent in the contest and received season-best scoring performances from junior forward Matt Smith (20 pts.), junior forward Reese Holliday (16 pts.) and freshman center Nathan Boothe (15 pts.). Junior forward Rian Pearson also was in double figures with13 points in addition to registering a team-high six rebounds and three steals.

Toledo was tabbed to win the West Division in the 2012-13 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Preseason Poll. The Rockets received 20 first-place votes and 143 points, while Ohio was tabbed as the East Division winner with 19 first-place votes and 141 points.

Head Coach Tod Kowalczyk is entering his third season at UT's helm and orchestrated a dramatic turnaround in the 2011-12 campaign. The Rockets registered the second-largest turnaround in NCAA Division I Basketball last year by compiling a 19-17 win-loss mark and advancing to post-season play for the first time in five years.

UT returns its entire starting lineup, including second-team All-MAC honoree Pearson and 2011-12 MAC Freshman of the Year Julius Brown, who were both named to the West Division preseason All-MAC squad.

TITANS LOVE CALIHAN
Detroit is 2-0 this year at home and has won 10-straight in Calihan Hall dating back to last season. The Titans have averaged 75.2 points per game over that stretch, while only allowing opponents to score 64 points on Dick Vitale Court. Detroit's last loss at home came on Jan. 6, 2012 against Valparaiso, 73-71.

DETROIT LOVES THE 80's
This season the Titans are a perfect 2-0 when scoring 80 or more points and have extended their winning streak to 16 games when doing so. Last year Detroit finished undefeated (9-0) when reaching the 80-point mark. The Last time the Titans lost a game when scoring 80 points or more came at Milwaukee during the 2010-11 season, when the Panthers won in overtime 84-81.

LEADING THE LEAGUE
Ray McCallum currently leads the Horizon League in scoring with 21.2 points per game, which is nearly four points higher than second place. He is also among the top-10 in steals (1.7 spg, second), assists (3.7 apg, seventh) and field goal percentage (50.6 percent, eighth). Doug Anderson also ranks fourth in the HL in rebounds with 7.2 per game, while also sitting eighth with a 42.9 three-point field goal percentage.

CLIMBING THE CHARTS
Detroit junior Ray McCallum currently leads the Titans in three categories this season scoring (21.2 ppg), assists (3.7 apg) and steals (1.7 spg) and is also climbing up the career record board in all three. McCallum has 1,128 points (26th), 326 assist (13th) and 121 steals (16th) in his career. The last Titan to rank among the top-10 in all three of those categories was Rashad Phillips '01. Phillips finished his spectacular career with 2,319 points (1st), 548 assists (4th) and 190 steals (2nd). McCallum needs 474 points, 15 assists and 19 steals to reach that plateau.

TITANS ON REGIONAL/NATIONAL TELEVISION
The Titans 2012-13 men's basketball television schedule recently grew with the addition of three FOX Sports Detroit broadcasts. FSD, the same station that carries the “Detroit Titan Court Report” along with Detroit Pistons, Tigers and Red Wings games, will once again partner with the Titans to strengthen one of the more impressive television packages in the Horizon League.

Those games bring the total number of regional and national televised appearances to 14, including a minimum of 10 on the ESPN family of networks and one Horizon League "Game of the Week". The three-game slate on FSD begins Dec. 15 when the Akron Zips visit Calihan Hall for a noon tip.  More than a month later, the Titans face conference rival UIC with a 6:30 p.m. match-up on Jan. 19, before hosting Loyola at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 26.

McCALLUM NAMED TO THE WOODEN AWARD PRESEASON TOP 50
Detroit junior guard Ray McCallum was named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 list, according to a release. The list recognizes the top-returning players in all of college basketball.

McCallum, the Horizon League preseason Player of the Year and first team selection for the second-straight season, was named the Horizon League Tournament MVP last year after he helped lead the Titans to the League crown and their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1999. McCallum led the team in scoring (15.4 ppg), assists (4.0 apg) and steals (1.6 spg) for the second-straight season.

TITANS PICKED SECOND
The UDM men's basketball team was picked to finish second in the Horizon League preseason poll voted on by the league's coaches, sports information directors and media members. The reigning HL Tournament Champions totaled 332 points – including four first-place votes – trailing only Valparaiso's 382 points and 40 first-place selections. Green Bay was picked to finish third with 283 points, while Youngstown State was fourth with 243 and Cleveland State fifth tallying 230. Rounding out the poll was Milwaukee (178), Loyola (105), UIC (96) and Wright State (86).

McCALLUM NAMED HL PRESEASON POY
Junior guard Ray McCallum was named the Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year for the second-straight season, following a super sophomore year.

McCallum, the Horizon League Tournament MVP last year, helped lead the Titans to the League crown and their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1999. He was named to the Lou Henson All-America team as well as the National Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA) All-District First Team and the National All-Jesuit Team after a superb season that saw him become the 37th Titan to surpass 1,000 career points and the first to do it as a sophomore.

UP NEXT
Detroit will continue its homestand on Saturday, Dec. 8 when the Titans host Rochester (Mich.) at Calihan Hall. The game is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. and will be streamed live on the Horizon League Network.