Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. IPFW

DETROIT (12/19/2013) -- Need a break from the holiday shopping season, then head down to Calihan Hall this Saturday, Dec. 21, as the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team will look to get back on track as the IPFW Mastodons invade the Motor City.

Game time is set for Noon on Dick Vitale Court and it will be broadcast live on Comcast Sports 900 and on the Horizon League Network.

Titan fans can follow every UDM game this season through the women'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.

UDM has split its last four games, but is looking to end a three-game slide at home as the Titans lead the overall series, 6-1.

Detroit has played some high scoring games this season showcased again by the 200 combined point, 104-96, setback to Eastern Michigan this past Sunday. The 200 points is the fourth most in school history as four Titans scored in double figures, led by a career-high 33 from junior Ellisha Crosby and 28 off the hand of senior Senee Shearer. The 33 from Crosby actually set a school record for the most points by a first-year Titan.

The game is the second of three straight at home as UDM continues its homestand on Monday, Dec. 30, with a doubleheader. The women will begin things with Madonna at 5:00 p.m., and the men will follow by welcoming Bethune-Cookman at 7:30 p.m.

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. IPFW
This will be the seventh career meeting between Detroit and IPFW with the Titans owning a 6-1 lead in the series. It is also the fourth-straight season that the two programs will square off.

The Titans are 3-0 all-time against the Mastodons in Calihan Hall.

ABOUT THE MASTODONS
IPFW has had a bit of a roller coaster season coming into the game at 6-6 and alternating winning and losing streaks. The Mastodons started the year dropping four straight and then won four in a row before losing two straight and now winning their last two.

The Mastodons do have a win over nationally-ranked #21/18 Michigan State, 81-76, on the road.

They are led in scoring by Amanda Hyde at 21.2 ppg., as she is shooting 57.5% from the field and 50.0% from three. She also tops the team with 4.2 assists per game and 17 steals and is second grabbing 4.6 rebounds per game.
Haley Seibert is second in scoring at 12.3 ppg., while Ariana Simmons is tallying 9.3 ppg.

IPFW is averaging 79.0 points, while allowing 72.9.

20 X 6
Don't look now, but senior Senee Shearer is putting up points at an alarming rate as she posted her sixth-straight game with 20 or more points with 28 against EMU last Sunday.

Shearer was 10-of-24 from the field and tied her season and career high with six 3-pointers, while also tying her career-best with seven rebounds - all in just 27 minutes as she fouled out of the game.

The six-straight games with 20 or more is the longest streak by a Titan since Detroit Hall-of-Famer and all-time leading scorer Cassandra Pack set a school record with seven straight during the 1983-84 campaign.

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. She continued at another tournament with a team-high 24 points at Toledo and then had 20 versus Chicago State in the Toledo Invite.

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 15 career games reaching the 20-point plateau - seven this season - and the Titans are 9-6 in those contests.

During this streak, she is averaging 23.8 ppg., shooting 41.3% (50-of-121 FG) and 39.7% from three (27-of-68) with 3.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.

Shearer currently leads the team and is second in the Horizon League (Kim Demmings, Wright State - 21.0 ppg) and 36th in the nation in scoring at 20.5 ppg.

TOP 10 IN THE COUNTRY
According to the latest NCAA stats, released last Monday, senior Senee Shearer leads the Horizon League and is seventh in the nation with 3.64 three-point field goals per game. She is also fifth in the HL in three-point field-goal percentage (36.0%).

Her 40 three-point field goals are 17 more than the next player in the HL in Milwaukee's Angela Rodriguez.

AMONG THE LEADERS
Detroit is currently second in the Horizon League and 83rd in the nation in scoring at 73.4 ppg., behind only Wright State's 78.7.

UDM is also second in the HL and 114th in the nation in assists per game (14.7), third in the conference and 97th in the country in assists-to-turnover ratio (0.93) and fourth in the league in field-goal percentage (40.1%) and field-goal percentage defense (43.4%).

TRY AND STOP ME
Talk about offensive firepower as junior Ellisha Crosby is coming off a career-high 33 points against Eastern Michigan. The 33 points is the second most by a HL player on the season, trailing only Wright State's Kim Demmings who had 35 at Murray State.

It is also the most points by a Titan since Shareta Brown had 34 at EMU last season, and is tied for 18th in school history and the most ever by a first-year player, passing junior Dominique Dixon's 32 against Milwaukee on Jan. 2, 2011.

Crosby was a career-best 11-of-23 from the field, 1-of-3 from three and a career-high 10-of-13 at the line, netting 19 in the first half and 14 in the second playing all 40 minutes.

The first-year Titan has scored in double digits in every game this season and has topped 20 on three occasions, including in back-to-back games as she had a team-high 24 against Chicago State.

She is currently fifth in the Horizon League in scoring (18.0), eighth in field-goal percentage (43.1%) and 10th with 1.91 three-point field goals per game.

HAT'S OFF TO YOU
Senior Megan Hatter posted her first career double-double against Ball State on Nov. 23, and then tallied her second vs. Chicago State on Dec. 7 with 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.

With her 11-point, eight-rebound effort her last time out against Eastern Michigan, Hatter has now scored in double digits in four-straight games and five of the last six.

Hatter now has nine games this season - and 30 in her career - with five or more rebounds and is currently second on the squad and 14th in the HL in rebounding at 6.6 per night.

In her last six games, Hatter is averaging 13.7 ppg., and a team-best 8.5 rpg., shooting 45.0% from the field (27-of-60) and 90.5% from the line (19-of-21) - compared to the first five games of the year where she had 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 with career highs in nearly every category in her first four games, before an injury forced her out of five straight.

She returned to the hardwood against Chicago State on Dec. 7 and handed out five assists, while scoring seven points and tying her career best with four steals.

She then nearly had a triple-double against Eastern Michigan with eight points and a career-high eight rebounds and nine assists.

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

On the year, she is averaging 10.3 points - third on the team - a team-high 4.8 assists and 2.3 steals as well as 3.8 rebounds per game.

QUICK OFFENSE
Freshman Reyna Montgomery came off the bench to net a season-high 11 points against Eastern Michigan, going 5-of-5 from the field and 1-of-2 at the line in just 10 minutes of action.

Her previous season high was six versus Lawrence Tech and Montgomery was just 7-of-38 (18.4%) shooting on the year entering the game.

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 six 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 5.2 points and 5.2 rebounds per game to go with five assists and three steals.

RISTOVSKI PROTECTING THE BALL
A lot of freshmen have trouble with turnovers, but Titan rookie Haleigh Ristovski is doing a good job of protecting the ball.

She currently has a 17-4 assist-to-turnover ratio with a season-best four assists in the close setback against Ball State on Nov. 23.

Ristovski has also done a good job hitting the glass averaging 3.4 rebounds per game, with a season-high eight caroms against Michigan, seven against Eastern Michigan and six versus Chicago State.

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

In her career, Shearer has attempted 765 shots and 509 of them have been from behind the arc. That means 66.5% of her career looks have been from downtown.

Shearer now has 174 career 3-pointers, fifth in school history and just 14 in back of Patrice Martin (1989-93) for fourth place.

She will have a chance at the top spot trailing head coach Autumn Rademacher (1993-97) by 27 for second and school record-holder Michelle James (1998-02) by 43 (217).

HIGH-SCORING AFFAIR
Detroit has played two of its highest scoring games in school history this season with 200 combined points against Eastern Michigan (L, 104-96) and 189 at Western Michigan (L, 103-86).

The 200 combined points are the fourth most in school history and the third most in a non-overtime game, while the 189 is sixth.

227 - 116-101 at Butler 1/16/99
209 - 107-102 vs. Kentucky 12/28/83 (2ot)
201 - 107-94 at Loyola 2/15/01
200 - 104-96 vs. Eastern Michigan 12/15/13)
192 - 97-95 vs. Xavier 2/22/90 (ot)
189 - 103-86 at Western Michigan 11/14/13)

The game against Eastern Michigan also marked 15th time in school history that UDM has allowed 100+ points and the most since the 107-94 loss at Loyola in 2001.

COACH RAD LOOKING FOR A RECORD
Head coach Autumn Rademacher is in her sixth year coaching her alma mater, where she has an 86-86 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.

A RUDE HOST
The Titans might have dropped three home games this season, but UDM was 16-1 at home last year - 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 28-7 ledger in their last 35 home games dating back to the 2010-11 campaign, as well as 43-15 in their last 58 home games.

UDM is also 51-26 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 279-147 (.657) home court record.

MIX & MATCH
Due to the different injuries that have hit the Titans this season, UDM has had seven different starting line-ups through its first 11 games of the year.

The Titans have also been forced to play as many as four freshmen on the floor at the same time this year and those four rookies surrounded a first-year transfer.