Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. Eastern Michigan

DETROIT (12/13/2013) -- It is a light week for the Titans with just one contest on the slate after playing back-to-back games the last two weekends as the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team hosts in-state rival Eastern Michigan on Sunday. Tip-off is scheduled for Noon on Dick Vitale Court inside historic Calihan Hall with the broadcast available on Comcast Sports 900.

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Detroit nearly came away with two wins last week at the Toledo Invite, but Titans comeback against the Rockets came up short, 79-70, before they blew past Chicago State, 85-64. Senior Senee Shearer was named All-Tournament after she posted 24 points against Toledo and 20 with a career-high nine assists versus the Cougars. Senior Megan Hatter added a double-double with a career-high 21 points and 11 rebounds in the victory, while junior Ellisha Crosby tied her season best adding 24 markers.

The game is the first of three straight at home for the Titans as they will play six of their next seven in the Motor City, with the lone exception a trip to Wright State on Jan. 5.

Tickets are just $6 for adults and $4 for children and senior citizens, while all students get in free with a UDM student ID card. For more information on tickets, CLICK HERE or call the Detroit Ticket Office at (313) 993-1700.

DETROIT VS. EASTERN MICHIGAN
Detroit leads the all-time series 14-8 as the Titans have won three in a row and four of the last five against Eastern Michigan. UDM started the series by winning nine in a row before EMU came back with six straight.

The series has been extremely competitive with 12 of the 22 games decided by single digits, including four by a single point, and two of the last five in overtime.

The Titans are 7-4 at home against the Eagles with a 70-69 overtime decision back in 2011. Head coach Autumn Rademacher is also 4-1 against EMU since she arrived in 2008.

ABOUT THE EAGLES
Eastern Michigan comes into the contest at 6-1, but the Eagles six-game, season-opening winning streak came to an end at Michigan on Wednesday, 89-75. The six wins though are just two shy of the eight they had all of last season.

The Eagles are averaging 88.3 ppg., but two of their highest scoring games were over NAIA members Madonna (101-2) and Marygrove (120-35).

Four players are averaging double digits in scoring led by Janay Morton's 15.0 ppg., Desyree Thomas is tallying 13.6 ppg., and has a team-high 5.4 apg., while Cha Sweeney is posting 13.0 ppg., 4.1 rpg., and 3.9 apg. Olivia Fouty is the last EMU player in double figures with 13.0 ppg., and a team-best 8.4 rpg.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Last season's Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) title was the first postseason tournament win for Detroit since 1981 when the Titans beat Michigan, Wayne State, and Oakland in the State-Large College Tournament.

AGAINST THE GREAT LAKES STATE
UDM is 105-67 all-time against teams from the Michigan, and 11-7 since the start of the 2010-11 season.

AGAINST THE MAC
This is the fourth game of the season that Detroit will take on a team from the Mid-American Conference as UDM is 0-3 this season and 74-65 all-time against current teams from the MAC. The Titans have fallen to Western Michigan and Toledo on the road and Ball State at home.

Since head coach Autumn Rademacher took over the reins as the Titan leader in 2008, UDM is 10-10 against the league.

THREE IN THE 20'S
Detroit accomplished something that it had not done in nearly 15 years as three Titans registered 20 points in a game in the 85-64 victory over Chicago State last Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Toledo Invite. Junior Ellisha Crosby led the way with 24 points, while senior Megan Hatter had 21 and senior Senee Shearer chipped in 20.

The last time three Titans scored 20 or more in a game was on Dec. 21, 1998, as Erica Lewis (23), Tia Winters (22) and Stephanie Carey (21) did it against East Tennessee State.

20 X 5
Make it five-straight games with 20 or more points for senior Senee Shearer as she posted back-to-back games reaching 20 last week at the Toledo Invite.

It is the longest streak by a Titan since Detroit Hall-of-Famer and all-time leading scorer Cassandra Pack did it in seven-straight games during the 1983-84 campaign.

Shearer had a team-high 24 points at Toledo and then had 20 versus Chicago State last week. She started the offensive charge with a game-high 28 points against Ball State on Nov. 23, tying her career high with six 3-pointers, and then racked up 21 against Rhode Island - where she drained another five treys - and a team-high 22 points against Georgia Southern at the FAU Thanksgiving Classic.

Earlier in the year, she tallied a career-high 29 points at Western Michigan on Nov. 14 - tying her career best with six 3-pointers.

She now has 14 career games reaching the 20-point plateau - six this season - and the Titans are 9-5 in those contests.

Shearer currently leads the team and is third in the Horizon League and 45th in the nation in scoring at 19.8 ppg.

TOP 10 IN THE COUNTRY
According to the latest NCAA stats, released last Monday, senior Senee Shearer leads the Horizon League and is ninth in the nation with 3.40 three-point field goals per game.

Her 34 three-point field goals are 14 more than the next player in the HL in teammate Ellisha Crosby and Wright State's Kim Demmings.

SHE'S A SHOOTER
A three-point threat might not be sufficient enough to describe senior Senee Shearer's game.

In her career, Shearer has attempted 741 shots and 496 of them have been from behind the arc. That means 66.9% of her career looks have been from downtown.

Shearer now has 168 career 3-pointers, sixth in school history and just four in back of Shari Hill (1997-01) for fifth place.

She will have a chance at the top spot trailing head coach Autumn Rademacher (1993-97) by 33 for second and school record-holder Michelle James (1998-02) by 49 (217).

ROLLING DOUBLES
Junior Ellisha Crosby posted her team-best fourth double-double of the season with 18 points and 10 rebounds against Rhode Island on Nov. 29.

The four double-doubles is tied for third in the Horizon League trailing only the six put up by UIC's Ruvanna Campbell and the five by Valparaiso's Sharon Karungi.

Her other double efforts on the season have come against Ball State (14 pts., 10 rebs.), at Western Michigan (24 pts., 12 rebs.) and at Canisius (15 pts., 11 rebs.).

In the game at WMU, the 24 points were a season high, while the 12 boards were a career best.

Her collegiate high in points was 25 as a freshman when she was at Cornerstone University in a game against Northwestern Ohio in 2011.

She currently ranks second on the team and seventh in the HL in scoring (16.5), while leading the team and tied for ninth in the conference in rebounding (7.1).

DOING A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING
Senior Senee Shearer recorded a career-high nine assists against Chicago State her last time out, while junior Ellisha Crosby was asked to play a little more point guard the last few games due to some injuries and tops the team with 25 total assists.

The nine assists were the most by a Titan since Audrey Matteson had 10 against Lourdes last season.

COACH RAD LOOKING FOR A RECORD
Head coach Autumn Rademacher is in her sixth year coaching her alma mater, where she has an 86-85 record and is currently in third place in UDM history in wins, just seven away from the school record held by her coach in college Fred Procter (93, 1990-96) and five away from DeWayne Jones (91, 1983-90).

It is not like Coach Rademacher took over a top of the line program as UDM was coming off back-to-back last-place finishes and just 11 total wins from 2006-08.

In her first five years, Detroit has posted three winning seasons, a 20-win campaign, five-straight years with a conference tournament victory and a trip to the WNIT in 2012 - the first postseason action for UDM since the 1997 NCAA Tournament - and a WBI Championship last season, the first postseason title since 1981.

HAT'S OFF TO YOU
Senior Megan Hatter posted her first career double-double against Ball State three weeks ago and is now coming off a great game against Chicago State, tallying a career-high 21 points and tying her career mark with 11 rebounds. Hatter was also a career-best 8-of-13 from the field.

Just two weeks ago, she recorded a then career-high 17 points and tied her career best with five assists in a winning effort over Georgia Southern. In that contest, she was 5-of-8 from the field with a personal-best three 3-pointers and was also a perfect 4-of-4 at the free throw line with seven boards.

Against Ball State, she posted her first double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds, and was actually scoreless with just two caroms in the first half of that game before erupting in the second period.

Hatter now has eight games this season - and 29 in her career - with five or more rebounds and is currently second on the squad and 14th in the HL in rebounding at 6.5 per night.

In her last five games, Hatter is averaging 14.2 ppg., and a team-best 8.6 rpg., shooting 44.9% from the field (22-of-49) and 90.5% from the line (19-of-21) - compared to the first five games of the year where she tallied just 6.0 ppg., and 4.4 rpg., and was shooting only 22.0%.

IT'S TAY TIME
Tayelor McCalister had a fine start to her sophomore year posting career highs in nearly every statistical category in her first four games, before an injury forced her out of five straight.

She returned to the hardwood in the last game against Chicago State and handed out a career-high five assists, while scoring seven points and tying her career best with four steals.

Against Michigan back on Nov. 16, McCalister was in double figures for the fourth-straight game with a career-high 14 points (7-9 FG) to go with a career-best six rebounds and four assists.

On the year, she is averaging 10.8 points - third on the team - a team-high 4.0 assists and 2.4 steals as well as 3.0 rebounds per game.

CROSBY KNOCKING 'EM DOWN
Junior Ellisha Crosby set a career mark with six 3-pointers against Chicago State en route to tying her season-best with 24 points.

The six treys are also tied for the team lead with the six Senee Shearer tallied at Western Michigan.

KEEP WORKING
Freshman Megan Galloway just keeps on improving and is coming off another great effort at the Toledo Invite, where she scored 14 points and tied her season high with eight rebounds against the host Rockets.

Galloway – who didn't play in the season opener and was limited to just four minutes in the second game of the year against NAIA member Lawrence Tech – has started six of the last seven games in the middle for UDM.

At the FAU Thanksgiving Classic from Nov. 29-30, she tallied 11.5 points and 6.5 rebounds, while shooting 9-of-14 (64.3%) from the field in tallying a season-high 16 points with seven rebounds and a block against Georgia Southern and seven points and six-rebounds with two assists against Rhode Island. Those numbers led her to be tabbed the HL Freshman of the Week on Dec. 1.

In her last three games, Galloway is averaging 10.0 points, 6.3 rebounds and is 14-of-21 from the field (66.7%).

ANOTHER CAREER MARK
Senior Senee Shearer might have started the season a bit slow hitting just 12-of-21 at the free throw line (57.1%), but she is now 22 for her last 30 (73.3%) moving her career free throw percentage to 74.8%, tied for ninth in school history.

On the season, her 34-of-51 effort for 66.7% is tied for 15th in the conference.

COMING ALIVE
Sophomore DaVonna Bradford only played in seven games as a rookie, but the second-year forward is now starting to find her role.

She has now posted at least five rebounds in four of her last five games, with career highs of eight against Ball State and Toledo. She also recently tallied a career-high nine points with five boards in just 16 minutes against Chicago State.

In the last five games, she is averaging 5.0 points and 6.2 rebounds per game to go with five assists and four steals.

SHEARER EYEING 1,000
The UDM century club might soon be adding another member as senior Senee Shearer is just 140 points away from becoming the 19th player in school history with 1,000 career points.

She enters the match-up with 860 career markers.

GETTING SHOTS UP
UDM has attempted 628 shots on the year - 62.8 per game - with at least 62 shots in seven of the 10 games on the season (70 at Canisius and at Western Michigan, 69 versus Lawrence Tech, 67 vs. Chicago State, 64 vs. Ball State, 63 vs. Michigan and 62 at Toledo).

The 70 shots at Canisius were the most since UDM threw up 70 at Loyola on Jan. 31, 2008.

Detroit has netted 30 or more field goals three times this season with a season-high 33 against Chicago State on Dec. 7, the most since the Titans knocked in 35 at home against Cleveland State last year.

A RUDE HOST
The Titans might have dropped their last two home games, but UDM was 16-1 at home last season - averaging 76.6 ppg - with a +16.6 scoring margin. In fact, Detroit's 16 home victories were tied for the second most in the nation with Kentucky trailing only North Carolina's 17-1 mark.

The 16 wins were also a school record breaking the 13-0 mark of the 1986-87 squad.

MORE ON CALIHAN MAGIC
Over a longer stretch of time, the Titans have posted a 28-6 ledger in their last 34 home games dating back to the 2010-11 campaign, as well as 43-14 in their last 57 home games.

UDM is also 51-25 in Calihan Hall since head coach Autumn Rademacher returned to her alma mater in 2008.

In their 37-year history, the Titans have enjoyed a 279-146 (.657) home court record.