Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE (1/24/2014) -- The back end of this weekend's road trip has the Titans heading north as the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team visits Milwaukee on Saturday. Game time is set for 3:00 p.m. (EST) at the Klotsche Center.

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Detroit (3-15, 0-5 HL) had a tough start to its three-game road swing with a loss at Valparaiso on Thursday as the Titans look to rebound in Milwaukee, the site of its last true road win last year. The Panthers are also looking to break a losing streak as they have dropped three in a row and come into the game at 5-12, 1-3 in the Horizon League.

After the contest, UDM will end its three-game road trip at Youngstown State next Wednesday before returning home to face Green Bay on Saturday, Feb. 1. For ticket information, click here or call the Titan Ticket Office at 313-993-1700.

DETROIT VS. MILWAUKEE
Detroit leads the all-time series by a slim 23-22 margin, although UDM has controlled the series of late winning four in a row and eight of the last nine. The lone loss in this run was in Detroit in 2011.

On the road, the Titans are 10-13 all time in Milwaukee and have won four in a row at the Klotsche Center with the last loss coming in 2009.

ABOUT THE PANTHERS
Milwaukee has had some big wins this year, including at Green Bay, but the Panthers have dropped three straight and enter the game at 5-12, 1-3 in the Horizon League.

The Panthers are in the middle of the pack in the HL in most statistics, but do rank tied for first with 8.2 three-point field goal per game, second in three-point field goal percentage (33.0%) and third in three-point field goal percentage defense (29.4%).

Milwaukee is led offensively by Angela Rodriguez as she is seventh in the conference in scoring (17.1), while topping the league with 6.1 assists per game. She is also one of the top HL shooters as she is among the leaders in three point field goals.

Ashley Green is second on the squad in scoring tallying 14.6 points with 6.6 rebounds, while Avyanna Young is averaging 12.5 points and 9.4 rebounds, third in the HL.

HORIZON LEAGUE HISTORY
The Titans are 212-205 all-time in the Horizon League with the 212 victories the third most in league history trailing only Green Bay's 274 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 fourth in the nation with 3.29 three-point field goals per game. Shearer has 58 trifectas on the year, tied for seventh in the nation and just six away from the top spot in Syracuse's Brianna Butler.

SHEARER NAMED TO 2014 NANCY LIEBERMAN AWARD WATCH LIST
Numbers are one thing, but recognition among the greats of college basketball is another as senior Senee Shearer was named to the 2014 Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Jan. 15.

The award recognizes the top point guard in women's NCAA Division I college basketball. Candidates exhibit the floor leadership, play-making and ball-handling skills of Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman.

Shearer was joined by 28 other players on the initial watch list, which includes the likes of Odyssey Sims of Baylor, Bria Hartley of Connecticut, Duke's Chelsea Gray, Amber Orrange of Stanford and Tennessee's Ariel Massengale. She is also the only player from the Horizon League as well as from a school in Michigan on the list.

The Hall of Fame appointed a premier Selection Committee made up of top college basketball personnel including media members, head coaches, sports information directors and Hall of Famers to review the candidates. The list will be narrowed down to a final 20 in February, then final five by March.

The Lieberman Award winner will be announced during Final Four weekend activities.

Previous winners of the Nancy Lieberman Award include last year's recipient Skylar Diggins (Notre Dame), Sue Bird (Connecticut), Renee Montgomery (Connecticut) and Diana Taurasi (Connecticut).

SHEARER NETS 1,000
The UDM 1,000-point club added another member as senior Senee Shearer became the 19th player to reach the mark.

Shearer now has 1,030 points and is ready to climb higher as she is just three points away from 18th place and eight shy of 17th.

Below is a list of people ahead of her in scoring in Titan history.
16th Lindsey Pasquinzo - 1,143 - 2002-06
17th Katie Solner - 1,038 - 2002-06
18th Mary Lillie - 1,033 - 1978-82
19th Senee Shearer - 1,030 - 2010-pre
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Shearer is currently second in the Horizon League - and 33rd in the nation - in scoring at 20.4 points per game, trailing only Wright State's Kim Demmings' 21.0

She has already scored a career-high 368 points this season in 18 games, more than the 367 she totaled in 33 games as a sophomore. Her 368 total points is second in the HL and 26th in the nation.

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).

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 five contests and is day-to-day with a leg injury.

The latest person on the DL is Megan Hatter as she missed the last three games with a leg injury as well as freshman Reyna Montgomery who sat out in UDM's last game against UIC.

All told, the injured Titans have missed a total of 36 games on the season.

AMONG THE LEADERS
UDM is fourth in the Horizon League and 110th in the nation in scoring at 69.9 ppg.

MIX & MATCH
Due to the injuries Detroit has racked up this year, the Titans have used 13 different starting line-ups through their first 18 games.

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

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

RISTOVSKI'S BIG GAME
Titan rookie Haleigh Ristovski is doing a good job of protecting the ball and she is coming off one of her best games on the season.

Against UIC on Jan. 16, she started and played all 40 minutes netting a season-high 11 points and handing out a season-best five assists with three rebounds and a steal.

She currently has a 29-9 assist-to-turnover ratio on the year and is also doing a good job hitting the glass at 3.8 rebounds per game, with a season-high 10 caroms at Wright State.

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

In her career, Shearer has attempted 896 shots and 580 of them have been from behind the arc. That means 64.9% of her career looks have been from downtown. Her 182 three-point attempts on the season is also tied for second in the country behind Oregon's Katelyn Looper's (186).

Shearer also has 192 career 3-pointers, tied for third in school history.

She is on pace to take over the category lead trailing head coach Autumn Rademacher (1993-97) by nine for second and school record-holder Michelle James (1998-02) by 25 (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 four games as she had a career-high 17 points at Wright State on Jan. 5, adding seven boards in just 24 minutes. She recorded 11 points, five rebounds and four assists against Cleveland State on Jan. 9, and has had nine and eight points, respectively, against Oakland and UIC, adding a pair of helpers in both contests.

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 8.8 points - fourth on the team - a team-high 3.2 assists and 1.5 steals as well as 3.6 rebounds per game.

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.

Galloway has now found that stroke from earlier in the season averaging 8.0 points and 6.3 rebounds in her last four games, shooting 14-of-25 (56.0%) from the field.

During the span, she had the 13-point, 10-rebound performance against CSU, six points with a pair of boards versus Oakland, eight points, six rebounds and four steals against UIC and five points with seven boards and a block at Valparaiso.

GROWING PAINS
The young Titan squad experienced a real eye opener at Valparaiso its last time out, falling 85-44.

The 41-point setback is tied for the worst loss in conference play regular season history with Detroit's 99-58 outcome at Notre Dame in 1990, and the worst to a conference team since dropping an 85-44 contest in the MCC Semifinals against Notre Dame in 1992.

The margin was also the most since a 44-point loss at Auburn in 2007 (91-47).

A REIGN OF OFFENSE
Freshman Reyna Montgomery - who missed the UIC with an injury - returned to the line-up at Valparaiso, finishing with four points, tree rebounds, two assists and two steals.

She 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 13 for her last 40 (43.3%) in her last seven games.

20 X 8
Make it a school record for senior Senee Shearer as she posted eight-straight games with 20 or more points from Nov. 23-Dec. 30. Her streak came to an end at Wright State on Jan. 5, when she had just six points.

During the streak, she passed Detroit Hall-of-Famer and all-time leading scorer Cassandra Pack, who did it in seven straight during the 1983-84 campaign.

Below was her 20-point streak
26 vs. Madonna (8-26 FG, 7-20 3FG, 3-7 FT)
23 vs. IPFW (7-19 FG, 4-9 3FG, 5-8 FT)
28 vs. EMU (10-24 FG, 6-13 3FG, 2-3 FT)
20 vs. Chicago State (8-20 FG, 4-13 3FG, 0-1 FT)
24 at Toledo (9-19 FG, 3-10 3FG, 3-6 FT)
22 vs. Georgia Southern (7-20 FG, 3-8 3FG, 5-6 FT)
21 vs. Rhode Island (7-18 FG, 5-10 3FG, 2-3 FT)
28 vs. Ball State (9-20 FG, 6-14 3FG, 4-4 FT)

Earlier in the year, she tallied a then career-high 29 points at Western Michigan, and she now has 20 career games reaching the 20-point plateau, including 12 this season.

D CRASHING THE GLASS
Sophomore DaVonna Bradford only played in seven games as a rookie, but the second-year forward is starting to find her role.

She has now posted at least five rebounds in nine of her last 13 games and had a career game with 12 points and five rebounds against Cleveland State on Jan. 9, hitting 5-of-6 shots.

She had 10 points and a career-high nine rebounds against Madonna on Dec. 30, and came back with six points and eight rebounds in the HL opener at Wright State.

In the last nine games, she is averaging 6.6 points - going 21-of-44 (47.7%) from the field along with 4.8 rebounds per game.

ID PLEASE
The Titans are extremely young this season with six freshmen and nine underclassmen in uniform and even younger with sophomore Rosanna Reynolds sidelined for the year and senior Megan Hatter and junior Ellisha Crosby nursing injuries.

UDM also has two other players who have played just one collegiate season as they begin their junior year academically, and just two seniors dot the roster in Senee Shearer (98 games, 63 starts) and Megan Hatter (101 games, 61 starts).

In fact, Shearer and Hatter's 199 combined career games played are almost as many as the 234 total of everyone else who has played in college at any level: Ellisha Crosby (42), Rosanna Reynolds (37), Tayelor McCalister (32), DaVonna Bradford (24), Brie Wilcox (21), Haleigh Ristovski (18), Reyna Montgomery (17), Lizzy Connors (16), Megan Galloway (16), Minisha Frederick-Childress (13) and Abby McCollum (3).

MCCOLLUM ADDING ANOTHER SPORT TO HER RESUME
The UDM women's basketball team did some "in-season" recruiting as the Titans announced that senior Abby McCollum of the women's soccer team has joined the squad as a walk-on as of Dec. 13.

She appeared in her first collegiate game at Wright State on Jan. 4, 2014, recording a point and a rebound in seven minutes.

With the assignment, she became first Detroit female student-athlete in 10 years to play on three varsity teams with the last being Laura Gignac (1999-03), who played three years of softball, two for track and field (2001, 2003) and one with cross country (2001).

McCollum is a four-year letter winner in soccer (2009-13), who also played on the women's lacrosse team as a sophomore in 2011, appearing in five games with one start.

In soccer, McCollum was a two-time All-HL performer earning first team as a sophomore and second team as a junior, while also being tabbed to the All-Newcomer Team as a freshman. As a senior this past fall, she was limited to just 11 games due to a knee injury.

She finished her career playing 68 games making 64 starts, scoring 17 goals with 14 assists for 48 points. Her 14 helpers are tied for eighth in school history.