Game Notes vs. Milwaukee

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MILWAUKEE -- After upsetting the ninth-ranked team in the country on Thursday, the Detroit women's basketball team will look for its second five-game winning streak of the year when the Titans visit Milwaukee on Saturday. Game time is set for 5:00 p.m. (EST) at the Klotsche Center.

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Detroit is 13-11 on the season and 9-3 in the Horizon League, where it is tied for second with Wright State, but currently own a tiebreaker over the Raiders. UDM is 13-5 since starting the season 0-6 and already has a five game win streak under its belt by winning its last five to end December.

The Titans ended #9/9 Green Bay's perfect season on Thursday as the red, white and blue captured a 70-58 victory. The win was just the second all-time in Green Bay and the first since the MCC Championship game in 1997. UDM also put an end to the Phoenix 40-game regular season winning streak and its 36-game Horizon League regular season run.

Freshman Shareta Brown had her seventh 20-point game of the season with a game-high 24 points, while sophomore Senee Shearer had her sixth career 20-point outing with 23 markers. Brown leads the team in scoring (16.3), rebounding (8.7) and field-goal percentage (55.3), while Shearer is second on the team in scoring at 11.0 ppg., while topping the team with 49 3-pointers.

THE DETROIT-MILWAUKEE SERIES
Detroit has won five of the last six meetings against the Panthers, rebounding from a seven-game Panthers' winning streak.

Milwaukee still leads the overall series, 22-19, but the Titans took the first meeting of the season, 71-48, at home.

Detroit is 7-13 all-time in Milwaukee, but has won the last two match-ups, including a 90-76 contest last season.

ABOUT THE PANTHERS
Milwaukee has lost four in a row coming into the game and stands at 6-16 overall and 2-9 in the Horizon League.

The Panthers are averaging 58.5 points per game, while allowing a league-high 68.4.

Courtney Lindfors leads the team in scoring at 12.9 per night, to go with 5.9 rebounds.
Sami Tucker is tallying 10.9 points and a team-high 7.2 rebounds per game, while Angela Rodriguez is averaging 10.6 ppg.

LAST TIME AGAINST MILWAUKEE
The Detroit Titans women's basketball team never trailed as UDM downed Milwaukee, 71-48.

Sophomore Senee Shearer had 20 points to lead all scorers along with grabbing six rebounds and handing out three assists. Junior Yar Shayok recorded a double-double with 10 points and a game-high 12 rebounds, while freshman Shareta Brown had 12 points.

The game was tied at two-apiece when the Titans went on a 9-1 run to give them their first big lead. Brown and Shearer did all of the damage as Brown had six and Shearer five at that point for an 11-3 lead.

Detroit never let its lead dip under six points and increased its advantage to as many as 18, 29-11, in the first half, thanks to a 14-4 run. The Titans would end the half up 30-17.

The defense stymied Milwaukee for the most part holding the Panthers to just 8-of-26 (30.8%) shooting with seven turnovers.

UDM had a 15-point lead, 37-22, in the second half with 15 minutes left when the Panthers had one final charge in them cutting the Titan lead to eight, 38-30, with 14:10 left.

That was when the red, white and blue collected themselves and put the game away with an 18-1 run over the next five minutes to take their biggest lead of the game, 56-31.

Detroit finished the game shooting 54.2% from the field and 65.2% in the second half. The Titans were also 7-of-14 from three-point range and owned the boards to the tune of a 42-30 advantage.

GOOD NUMBERS VS. MILWAUKEE
Senior Lauren Allen is tallying 9.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists in seven career games. She has three double-digit scoring games, including twice posting her career high of 19 against the Panthers.

As a sophomore, she recorded a 19-point, eight-assist, seven-rebound game in a 72-65 win over UWM.

Junior Yar Shayok is averaging 11.8 points, 8.8 rebounds, 2.2 steals and 1.3 assists per game in five career games against Milwaukee. She has netted double figures in scoring four times and has also pulled down at least eight rebounds in four contests. She also posted her career high of six steals as a redshirt freshman in 2010 and tallied a double-double with 10 points and 12 boards in the last meeting.

TITANS KNOCK OFF #9/9 GREEN BAY
The Detroit Titans earned one of their biggest wins in school history as UDM went into the Kress Center and ended Green Bay's perfect season with a 70-58 victory.

The win also ended Green Bay's school record 40-game regular season winning streak as well as the Phoenix' 36-game regular season winning streak over Horizon League teams.

The Titans also prevented Green Bay from setting a new home-winning streak as the triumph put a stop to the Phoenix 27-game run in the Kress Center

TITANS EARN FIFTH WIN OVER A RANKED TEAM
The 70-58 victory over #9/9 Green Bay was the fifth victory in Titan history against a ranked opponent – with the last three coming in the last four years under head coach Autumn Rademacher.

It was also the first-ever win on the road against a ranked opponent in Titan history and the first win over a top-10 team since Dec. 5, 1981, when Detroit edged North Carolina State, 60-59.

2 FOR 20
Detroit had two players with 20+ points in a game for the second time this season as freshman Shareta Brown had a game-high 24 points, while sophomore Senee Shearer netted 23 at Green Bay.

The Titans also accomplished the feat at Ball State on Dec. 1 as Brown and junior Demeisha Fambro each netted a game-high 21.

PLAYING PHYSICAL
Detroit saw four Green Bay players foul out of the game as UDM went to the free throw line a season-high 35 times. The Titans took advantage of that by making a season-best 29 free throws, including 16 in a row to end the game, with 12 coming in the final 1:18.

It was also the most free throws attempted since UDM went to the line 36 times in an overtime loss to Loyola last season, while the 29 makes were the most since the Titans connected on 31 against Cleveland State on Feb. 28, 2002.

LOOKING FOR 5 IN A ROW
Detroit will look to tie its season high by winning its fifth-straight game on Saturday.

Detroit ended December on a five-game winning streak.

PUTTING THE “D” IN DETROIT
The Detroit Titans have displayed some tough, aggressive defense in their last four games, holding each opponent to under its scoring average on the year as Cleveland State had 43, Loyola 59, UIC 57 and Green Bay 58.

UDM held the Vikings to just 25% shooting (13-of-52), including 20.8% in the first half (5-of-24) as well as just a 3-of-18 effort from three-point range.

The 13 field goals were the fewest by a Titan opponent since Marygrove had 11 in a 68-27 win last season.

The 43 points were also the fewest points allowed against a Division I school since a 52-43 triumph over Youngstown State last year.

The Titans then came back to hold Loyola - the second highest scoring team in the HL - to 59 points, including 22 in the first half. In the opening stanza, UDM held Loyola to just 7-of-31 shooting (22.6%) and outrebounded the Ramblers, 28-12.

Against UIC, Detroit saw the Flames shoot 50% in the first half, but then just 9-of-28 (32.1%) the rest of the way to overcome a seven-point halftime deficit. UIC's 17-second half points marked the fourth time this season an opponent has scored less than 20 points in a half, and the third time it has been 17 points.

In UDM's win over #9/9 Green Bay, the Titans held the Phoenix to its lowest point total of the season 58 points - about 17 points below its season average.

Detroit held the Phoenix to a season-low 29.9% from the field (20-of-67), including just a 7-of-31 showing (22.6%) in the first half.

MORE ABOUT THE D
After seeing Youngstown State nail 15 3-pointers in just 25 attempts (60.0%), the Titans have seen their last four opponents shoot 25-of-85 (29.4%) from beyond the arc, all Titan win.

Cleveland State was 3-of-18, Loyola 7-of-18, UIC 3-of-11 and Green Bay 12-of-38.

Detroit is currently fourth in the HL in three-point field goal defense (31.2%).

GETTING OFFENSIVE
With the 70 points scored in Detroit's win at Green Bay, the Titans tallied 70 or more for the 10th time this season, with eight of those games occurring in the last 14 contests.

Since Dec. 1, the Titans are averaging 70.1 points per game.

That offense has also helped Detroit post an 11-3 record in that span. 
 
In Detroit's first nine games, it was averaging just 57.1 points per game, and all of last year, Detroit topped 70 points six times.

During this stretch, the Titans tallied a season-best 90 points against IPFW on Dec. 18, 87 at Ball State and 83 against Loyola.

The 90 points (53 in the second half) were the most by Detroit since posting 90 in a winning effort at Milwaukee last season and the most UDM has scored at home since a 94-67 victory against Cleveland State on Jan. 12, 2002.

REBOUNDS LEADING TO POINTS
The Titans' presence down low has led to some easy buckets in the paint as well as a plethora of second-chance points.

On the season, Detroit owns a 700-448 advantage in points in the paint.

Detroit dominated the inside against IPFW to the tune of a 62-26 advantage.

Five other games where the Titans have shown their size was against Bowling Green (28-10 margin), at Ball State (46-26), at Youngstown State (36-20), at Cleveland State (24-12) and most recently at Green Bay (30-8).

STEPPING UP
Junior Chanahl Putnam stepped in for Jalesa Jones - who fouled out four of her free throws in the last two minutes as UDM beat #9/9 Green Bay, 70-58.

MAKE IT 3X FOR BROWN
For the third time this year, freshman forward Shareta Brown earned the College SportsMadness.com Horizon League Player of the Week, announced the website on Monday, Feb. 6.

Brown averaged 14.5 points and 8.5 rebounds in the Titan wins over Loyola and UIC. She also shot over 50% hitting 12-of-23 from the field.

She started the weekend sweep of the Horizon League Chicago schools with her ninth double-double of the season finishing with 13 points and 11 boards against the Ramblers. She then netted 16 points and grabbed six rebounds in the overtime victory over UIC.