Game Notes vs. Youngstown State .

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DETROIT -- Back to its winning ways, the Detroit women's basketball team will play its final regular season home game of the year on Saturday as Youngstown State visits Calihan Hall on Senior Day. Tip-off is set for 2:00 p.m., with Senior Day presentations beginning at 1:40 p.m., on Dick Vitale Court.

Tickets to the game are $6 for an adult and $4 for children and seniors.

The Titans are 15-12 on the year and 11-4 in the Horizon League. They have clinched at least a top-four seed in the Horizon League Tournament with their win against Cleveland State and Butler falling to Milwaukee on Thursday. Detroit also controls its own destiny for a No. 2 seed in the HL postseason if it can win out.

Freshman Shareta Brown led the way in the 65-55 victory over the Vikings with her 10th double-double of the season, tallying 20 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. It was also her 10th game on the year with at least 20 points.

Youngstown State has dropped six in a row and brings a 10-17 overall record and a 4-12 mark in the Horizon League into the match-up. Four of those losses have been by five points or less, including an overtime setback to Green Bay.

The Penguins have the HL's Preseason Player of the Year in junior Brandi Brown, who is averaging 16.9 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. Senior Kenya Middlebrooks had 30 points in the last meeting, a game that saw YSU tie a school record with 15 3-pointers en route to an 80-67 victory.

Senior Story

Prior to the game, Detroit will honor its two seniors in Lauren Allen and Jalesa Jones, both of whom have been a major part of the Titans revival since they came to campus.

They came to Detroit in the spring of 2008 and were among head coach Autumn Rademacher's first recruits. Prior to their arrival, Titans were 5-26 in 2006-07 and 6-24 during the 2007-08 season, but they quickly helped turn that around with 12 wins during their freshmen season and a win over #23 Georgia at home, 70-66, on Nov. 22, 2008. At that time, it was the Titans first win over a ranked team since 1981. In that game as a true freshman, Allen had her only collegiate double-double with 13 points, 11 rebounds and five assists, while Jones had five points, four rebounds and a team-high six assists.

As sophomores, they helped the Titans to a 17-14 record and a 14-4 mark in the Horizon League, where they tied for second place and advanced to the semifinals of the HL Tournament. It was the most wins UDM recorded since 2004 and during that season, Detroit defeated another ranked team in #23/22 Green Bay, 71-55, on Feb. 4, 2010. That win ended a 15-game slide to the HL powerhouse Phoenix

As juniors, they were at it again helping the squad to a 67-48 victory at Michigan. It was the Titans first win against Michigan since 1994 and the first in Ann Arbor since 1993.

Now as seniors, they have Detroit on a roll as the Titans have rebounded from an 0-6 start. Both were key contributors in the historic win at #9/9 Green Bay two weeks ago and both have etched their names in the school record books.

Jones currently leads the conference in assists at 4.9 per night and just broke the school's all-time assist record with 487 – a number that stood for 30 years.

Allen is ninth in school history with 326 assists and has been an all-around player with 42 career games with five or more rebounds, 31 double digit scoring efforts as well as 26 games with five or more assists.

DETROIT VS. YOUNGSTOWN STATE
Detroit leads the overall series, 16-13, but Youngstown State ended the Titans six game-winning streak with an 80-67 triumph back in January.

The Titans are 11-3 at home in the series with three-straight victories over the Penguins.

The teams first met back in 1983 as YSU won the first game, 60-59, in the Motor City.

ABOUT THE PENGUINS
Youngstown State has lost six in a row, but four of those losses have been by five points or less, including an overtime setback to Green Bay last week. The Penguins enter the game at 10-17, 4-12 in the Horizon League.

Junior Brandi Brown – the Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year – leads the team and is sixth in the HL in scoring (16.9) and rebounding (9.1). Brown has a league-high 12 20-point games on the year along with nine double doubles.

Senior Kenya Middlebrooks is second on the team in scoring at 11.6 ppg., and had 30 points on eight 3-pointers and two three-point plays in the meeting back in January.

Youngstown State is averaging 64.8 points, while allowing 67.4.

LAST TIME AGAINST YOUNGSTOWN ST.
Freshman Shareta Brown tallied a double-double, but the Titans ran into a red hot Penguins' squad and fell on the road to Youngstown State, 80-67.

Brown had 21 points and 12 rebounds to lead Detroit. Sophomore Senee Shearer had 12 points – on four 3-pointers - while senior Jalesa Jones added 11 points, seven rebounds, four assists and four steals.

Youngstown State tied a school record with 15 3-pointers and senior Kenya Middlebrooks broke the Penguins' record with eight of them as she set a career-high with 30 points in the contest. She was 10-of-14 in the game and 8-of-10 from three, including six triples in the second half.

The Penguins came out hot from three-point range right from the very start hitting 6-of-8 to start the game building a double-digit lead, 26-13, with 7:24 left in the half.

That was when Shearer caught fire nailing three triples of her own in the next two minutes to cut the Youngstown State advantage to six, 28-22, with 5:03 left, but YSU took a 35-26 lead into the half.

UDM would get within five on a few occasions, but a YSU 11-1 run gave the Penguins control of the game as the red, white and blue could never get back within single digits.

GOOD NUMBERS VS. YSU
Junior Yar Shayok has posted some great numbers against the Penguins in her career. In five games against Youngstown State, Shayok is averaging 9.6 points and 10.8 rebounds per game. She has a pair of double-doubles in those five games as well as three double-digit scoring outings and three games with 10 or more rebounds.  Last season, she had 16 rebounds in the contest in Detroit and 17 points in the game at Youngstown.

Senior Jalesa Jones is tallying 8.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game in seven career games. She has been in double digits in scoring three times and has five games with four or more assists. Junior Demeisha Fambro is averaging 8.2 points in five games, with a pair of double-digit scoring contests.

TITANS CLINCH HOME PLAYOFF GAME
The Titans are currently tied for second place in the Horizon League at 11-4 with Wright State, but own the tiebreaker over the Raiders with the victory at Green Bay.

Due to that win against the Phoenix, the red, white and blue control their own destiny for a No. 2 seed, which they would get by winning out.

With the win over Cleveland State and Butler losing at Milwaukee, the Titans are guaranteed to finish no lower than fourth in the conference, giving UDM a bye in the opening round of the Horizon League Tournament as well as a home playoff game in the quarterfinals. That game is set for Wednesday, Mar. 7, with a 7 p.m., start.

TITANS VICTORY TOTAL RISING
With Detroit downing Cleveland State, the Titans now have 15 victories for just the third time since the 2003-04 season and the fourth time in the last 10 years.

The Titans were 17-14 in the 2009-10 season in head coach Autumn Rademacher's second year at Detroit. They were also 15-14 during the 2003-04 campaign.

A NEW TITAN RECORD
Senior Jalesa Jones began the season in seventh place on the Titan all-time assists' list, but with a feed late in the game to freshman Shareta Brown during UDM's win over Cleveland State, Jones took over as the Titan leader.

She had seven assists in the game and 487 in her career, passing the likes of Autumn Rademacher (439), Jocelyn Boyd (451) and Titan Hall-Of-Famer and previous record holder Mary Lillie Cicerone (486).

As a freshman, Jones had 84 assists, while collecting 159 as a sophomore and 112 last year. She has already posted 132 this year.

Her 132 assists on the season also give her another top 10 season record moving into 10th place. She is already fourth on that list with 159 helpers back in 2009-10.

For her career, she is tallying 4.1 apg.

ANOTHER RECORD BITES THE DUST
Senior Jalesa Jones was not the only Titan breaking a record in the win over Cleveland State.

Freshman Shareta Brown broke her second Titan freshman mark of the season passing Titan Hall-Of-Famer Cassandra Pack for the most points in a season by a freshman. Brown now has 460, moving ahead of Pack's 453 she totaled during the 1983-84 campaign.

Back on Jan. 7 in a win at Loyola, Brown broke the freshman single-game scoring record with 31 points.

The previous high was 30 by Michelle DeHaan on Jan. 15, 1994, at Evansville.

Brown currently leads the team in scoring at 17.0 ppg., and if she keeps that up, she will be the first true freshman to lead the Titans in scoring since Autumn Rademacher did it with 15.2 ppg., during the 1993-94 season.

SUPER FROSH
Freshman Shareta Brown continues to impress during her rookie year with some great performances.

She has tallied 10 double-doubles on the year and has been in double figures in scoring 23 times in the Titans' 27 games.

She has also crossed the 20-point plateau 10 times with a season-high of 31 at Loyola on Jan. 7.

Her 10 20-points games are tied for second among HL players, while her 10 double-doubles are tied for fourth.

With that 31-point explosion, Brown became just the 16th player in school history to score 31 or more in a game, which was also the most by a freshman in school history.

SHEARER IN THE TOP 10
The long range shooting of sophomore Senee Shearer not only has her among the league leaders, but also among the best in Titan history.

On the year, Shearer is third in the HL with 57 3-pointers and fourth in the conference with 2.1 per game - which also has her 89th in the nation.

With a pair of treys against Cleveland State, Shearer moved into seventh place on the all-time Titan single-season list, passing head coach Autumn Rademacher who owned the eighth and ninth-place spot with 56 in 1994 & 95.

Next up for Shearer to pass is Michelle James at 58 with Lindsey Pasquinzo in fifth with 62.

Brigid Mulroy is the Titan leader with 92 during her senior year of 2009-10.

BROWN LEADING THE HL, TOP 10 IN THE NATION
In the latest NCAA stats, released on Friday, Feb. 24, freshman Shareta Brown is currently leading the Horizon League and is eighth in the nation in field-goal percentage (55.9%).

She is also eighth in the HL and 73rd in the country with 8.7 rebounds per game, while standing fifth in the league and 61st in the nation in scoring (17.0).