Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. UIC

DETROIT (1/15/2014) – It will be a light week for the Titans with just one game on the schedule as the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team squares off against UIC on Thursday, Jan. 16, at historic Calihan Hall. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m.

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Detroit will be looking to end a six-game slide as well as closeout a three-game homestand with a victory over UIC, a team that has dropped two in a row after winning 11 straight.

Senior Senee Shearer will also look for a personal accomplishment as she is just four points shy of becoming the 19th player in school history to reach 1,000 career points. Shearer – the Horizon League's leading scorer at 20.9 points per game – is also fifth in the nation with 3.38 three-point field goals per game.

The Titans are still trying to get healthy as they have been without three starters for the last few games and have had 11 different starting line-ups this season due to those injuries.

After the game, UDM will hit the road for three straight away from Dick Vitale Court as the Titans are at Valparaiso (Jan. 23) and Milwaukee (Jan. 25) next week and then at Youngstown State on Jan. 29.

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DETROIT VS. UIC
Detroit and UIC split the two meetings last year with each team winning close games on its homecourt. UDM has won two of the last three and leads the all-time series, 23-20.

The Titans are also 13-10 all-time at home against the Flames and have won five of the last six in the Motor City.

ABOUT THE FLAMES
UIC was on an 11-game winning streak, but has now dropped two straight conference games to enter the match-up at 11-4, 0-2 in the Horizon League.

Rachel Story leads the team and is fourth in the HL in scoring at 18.3 ppg., while Ruvanna Campbell has a league-best eight double-doubles and is topping the conference in rebounding (10.3) to go with 14.8 ppg. Katie Hannemann is tallying 12.5 ppg., and Terri Bender is 11th in the league handing out 3.1 assists per contest.

The Flames are fourth in the Horizon League in scoring at 71.0 points, while allowing the second least in the league at 65.6. UIC is also the top rebounding team in the conference pulling down 42.2 per game.

HORIZON LEAGUE HISTORY
The Titans are 212-203 all-time in the Horizon League with the 212 victories the third most in league history trailing only Green Bay's 272 and former member Butler's 227.

UDM has won two regular season titles claiming the 1987 crown with a 10-2 record and the 1997 championship as senior Autumn Rademacher led Detroit to a 14-2 mark. The Titans also finished that year winning their only conference tournament.

LEADING THE COUNTRY
Senior Senee Shearer is currently fifth in the nation with 3.38 three-point field goals per game. Shearer – who had a streak of eight straight games with 20 or more points – has 54 3-pointers on the year, second in the country behind Missouri's Morgan Eye and Syracuse's Brianna Butler (57)

Her 54 three-point field goals are also 16 more than the next player in the HL in Wright State's Kim Demmings and Ivory James (38).

Shearer is also seventh in the league in three-point field-goal percentage (32.3%).

SHEARER EYEING 1,000
The UDM 1,000-point club might soon be adding another member as senior Senee Shearer is just four points away (996) from becoming the 19th player in school history with 1,000 career points.

YOUR LEADING HL SCORER IS...
Senior Senee Shearer as her career-tying 29 points her last time out moved her to the top of the Horizon League with 20.9 points per game. That number also ranks 27th in the nation.

She has already scored 334 points this season in 16 games, more than the 231 she totaled in 20 contests last year - she missed the first 14 games of her junior season recovering from a torn ACL that she suffered in the 2012 Horizon League Championship - and 33 points shy of the 367 she posted in 33 games as a sophomore.

Her 334 total points is second in the HL and 15th in the nation.

EXTRA OPPORTUNITIES
Detroit went to the free throw line 32 times against Oakland, the seventh time this season that Detroit has made at least 25 trips to the charity stripe, including the third time with 30 or more.

The other two 30-attempt games were against Lawrence Tech (31) and Madonna (35).

UDM has attempted 373 free throws on the year - third in the Horizon League - while its 243 makes is the second most in the HL.

MIX & MATCH
Due to the injuries Detroit has racked up this year, the Titans have used 11 different starting line-ups through their first 16 games.

In fact, with senior Megan Hatter missing the last two games, no Titan will start every game this season.

UDM has seen 12 of its 13 players on the roster start at least one game, with the lone exception in senior walk-on Abby McCollum who was just officially added to the roster in mid-December.

A GALLOWAY-IN EFFORT
Freshman Megan Galloway was starting to progress until an ankle injury slowed her down, but she was back in the starting line-up against Cleveland State on Jan. 9 and posted her first collegiate double-double with 13 points and a career-best 10 rebounds.

At Toledo on Dec. 6, she scored 14 points and added eight rebounds.

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 eight of her last 11 games in the middle for UDM, missing the EMU contest with an injury.

At the FAU Thanksgiving Classic, 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 against Georgia Southern and seven points and six rebounds with two assists vs. Rhode Island, earning the HL Freshman of the Week.

In her last nine games, she is tallying 7.3 ppg., 4.8 rpg., and is 25-of-42 from the field (59.5%).

A REIGN OF OFFENSE
Freshman Reyna Montgomery was not intimidated in her first conference game as the rookie totaled seven points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals at Wright State on Jan. 5. She then tied her season high with 11 points and grabbed a season-best eight rebounds with two rebounds against Oakland.

She netted a season-high 11 points against Eastern Michigan on Dec. 15, going 5-of-5 from the field in just 10 minutes of action.

After starting the season just 7-of-38 (18.4%) from the field, Montgomery is 11 for her last 26 (42.3%) in her last six games.

AMONG THE LEADERS
Detroit is currently third in the Horizon League and 95th in the nation in scoring at 71.7 ppg.

AERIAL ASSULT
A three-point threat might not be sufficient enough to describe Senee Shearer's game.

In her career, Shearer has attempted 869 shots and 565 of them have been from behind the arc. That means 65.1% of her career looks have been from downtown. Her 167 three-point attempts on the year also leads the country, nine ahead of Oregon's Katelyn Loper.

Shearer also has 188 career threes, tied for fourth in school history with Patrice Martin (1989-93) and four shy of Lindsey Pasquinzo's (2002-06) 192 for third.

She is on pace to take over the category lead trailing head coach Autumn Rademacher (1993-97) by 13 for second and school record-holder Michelle James (1998-02) by 29 (217).

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.
Her offense has once again picked up in the last two games as she had a career-high 17 points at Wright State on Jan. 5, adding seven boards in just 24 minutes, and recorded 11 points, five rebounds and four assists against Cleveland State.

She nearly had a triple-double against Eastern Michigan on Dec. 15 with eight points, a career-high eight rebounds and nine assists.

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

On the year, she is averaging 9.7 points - fourth on the team - a team-high 3.5 assists and 1.7 steals as well as 4.1 rebounds per game.

WHAT A BRIE'S
Junior Brie Wilcox earned her first collegiate start at Wright State on Jan. 5 and played a career-high 32 minutes, finishing with a career-best eight rebounds and two blocks.

She then came back string with six rebounds, an assist, a block and a steal against Cleveland State in 17 minutes.

Wilcox saw action in just 16 career games before the WSU contest totaling 66 minutes.

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 21 points and tying her career mark with 11 rebounds. Hatter was also a career-best 8-of-13 from the field.

Back on Nov. 30, she recorded a then career-high 17 points and tied her career mark with five assists in a win over Georgia Southern. In that contest, she was 5-of-8 from the field with three 3-pointers and was also a perfect 4-of-4 at the free throw line with seven boards.

Against Ball State on Nov. 23, 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 a career-high 26 points and seven rebounds against Madonna on Dec. 30, Hatter scored in double digits in six-straight games and seven of the last nine.

Hatter also now has 11 games this season - and 32 in her career - with five or more rebounds and is currently second on the squad and 13th in the HL in rebounding at 6.5 rpg.

In her last seven games, Hatter - who missed the last two with an injury - is averaging 16.4 ppg., and a team-best 7.6 rpg., shooting 46.8% from the field (36-of-77), 37.5% (15-of-40) from three and 77.8% at the line (28-of-36).

RISTOVSKI PROTECTING THE BALL
Titan rookie Haleigh Ristovski is doing a good job of protecting the ball.

She currently has a 23-6 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 at 3.9 rebounds per game, with a season-high 10 caroms at Wright State.

ON THE DL
Sophomore Rosanna Reynolds will miss the rest of the season after suffering a knee injury early in the game at Western Michigan.

Reynolds was selected to the Horizon League All-Newcomer Team last year after starting all 34 games and averaging a team-high 35.3 minutes per game, tallying 7.8 points – fifth on the team – along with 3.3 rebounds, and a team-high 4.0 assists per game (135).

She also finished fifth in the Horizon League in assists (120th in the nation), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.7), and minutes played.

The Titans have also seen Tayelor McCalister and Minisha Frederick-Childress miss five games with an injury. Megan Galloway missed the Eastern Michigan game with an ankle ailment and Ellisha Crosby has missed the last four contests and is day-to-day with a leg injury.

The latest person on the DL is Megan Hatter as she missed the Cleveland State and Oakland game with a leg injury.

All told, the injured Titans have missed a total of 30 games on the season

GETTING SHOTS UP
UDM has attempted 1,031 shots on the year - 64.4 per game - with at least 62 shots in 11 of the 16 games on the season and a season high of 85 against Eastern Michigan.

The 85 shots put up against EMU were the most since UDM took 86 at Cleveland State on Feb. 9, 2002.

Detroit has also netted 30 or more field goals four times this season with a season-high 37 also against the Eagles and the most since going 37-of-63 vs. Madonna on Dec. 22, 2012.

Detroit is second in the Horizon League to Wright State in both shots attempted (1251-1031) and made field goals (504-399).