Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. Youngstown State

DETROIT (1/28/2014) -- The end of January has the Titans finishing a three-game road trip as the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team heads to Youngstown State to face the Penguins on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Game time is set for 7:05 p.m., at the Beeghly Center.

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Detroit will be looking to break a nine-game slide, while Youngstown State has been red hot winning five straight and coming into the match-up atop the Horizon League at 5-0, 9-9 overall.

The countdown continues for senior Senee Shearer as she is third in school history with 193 career 3-pointers, just eight away from second place (201) held by Titan head coach Autumn Rademacher and 24 behind school leader Michelle James (217). She is also 16th in school history with 1,051 points.

Sophomore Tayelor McCalister has come alive on offense tallying a career-high 17 twice in her last six games, including at Milwaukee her last time out, while freshman Reyna Montgomery betted a season-best 11 points for the third time.

After the game, UDM returns to the Motor City for a game against Green Bay on Saturday, Feb. 1. It will be Play for Kay Pink Day at Calihan Hall as the Titans unveil new uniforms for the special occasion. To purchase tickets or for more information on game-day tickets, click here.

DETROIT VS. YOUNGSTOWN STATE
The two teams have split the last four meetings which came after UDM won six in a row as the Titans lead the match-up, 18-14.

The home team has dominated the series as Detroit is 13-3 at Calihan Hall, while Youngstown State is 11-5 at the Beeghly Center. The Titans have dropped their last two on the road against the Penguins.

ABOUT THE PENGUINS
The Horizon League leader with a 5-0 record in conference play, Youngstown State started the year 1-6, but have won eight of 11, including five in a row to stand at 9-9 overall.

Heidi Schlegel leads the team and is third in the HL in scoring at 19.7 points per game as well as tied for ninth with 7.2 rebounds per game. Liz Hornberger is tallying 9.7 ppg. , 3.6 rpg., and a team-high 3.2 assists, while Karen Flagg is posting 8.8 ppg., 7.2 rpg., and 3.2 apg.

YSU is among the leaders in defense ranking third in points allowed (68.4), second in field-goal percentage defense (39.5%) and topping the conference in three-point field-goal percentage defense (25.7%).

The Penguins are seventh in scoring (67.1%) and third in rebounding (40.3), but have won four of their five HL games by double digits.

HORIZON LEAGUE HISTORY
The Titans are 212-206 all-time in the Horizon League with the 212 victories the third most in league history trailing only Green Bay's 275 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.

SHEARER AMONG THE NATION'S LEADERS
Senior Senee Shearer is currently ninth in the nation with 3.11 three-point field goals per game. Shearer has 59 trifectas on the year, tied for 11th in the nation.

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 against UIC on Jan. 16.

Shearer now has 1,051 points and is ready to climb higher as she is just 92 points away from 16th place.

Below is a list of people ahead of her in scoring in Titan history.
14th Jeanie Hill - 1,199 - 1994-97
15th Mandy Chandler - 1,181 - 1987-91
16th Lindsey Pasquinzo - 1,143 - 2002-06
17th Senee Shearer - 1,051 - 2010-pre.

Shearer is currently second in the Horizon League - and 31st in the nation - in scoring at 20.5 points per game, trailing only Wright State's Kim Demmings' 21.1

She has already scored a career-high 389 points this season in 19 games, more than her previous career best of 367 she totaled in 33 games as a sophomore.

Her 389 total points is second in the HL and 30th in the nation.

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.

Her offense has once again picked up in the last six games as she has twice posted a career high 17 points against Wright State on Jan. 5 and at Milwaukee her last time out. Against WSU, she also had seven rebounds in just 24 minutes, while tying her career best with eight boards versus the Panthers.

She also 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.

In the last six games, McCalister is tallying 10.3 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.9 assists.

On the year, she is averaging 9.4 points - fourth on the team - a team-high 3.1 assists and 1.4 steals as well as 3.9 rebounds per game.

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).

Freshman Megan Galloway missed the Eastern Michigan game and fellow freshman Reyna Montgomery sat against UIC with various ailments.

The Titans have also seen Tayelor McCalister and Minisha Frederick-Childress miss five games with a concussion earlier in the year.

The latest on the DL and two more key players that have not returned yet are junior Ellisha Crosby and senior Megan Hatter.

Crosby has missed the last seven contests and is day-to-day with a leg injury and Hatter has missed the last five games with a leg injury.

All told, the injured Titans have missed a total of 40 games on the season.

MIX & MATCH
Due to the injuries Detroit has racked up this year, the Titans have used 14 different starting line-ups through their first 19 games.

In fact no Titan will start every game this season due to all the injuries.

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.

In her last four games, she is averaging 6.2 points and 4.0 rebounds, shooting 44.0% (11-of-25) from the field with three 3-pointers.

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

In her career, Shearer has attempted 919 shots and 589 of them have been from behind the arc. That means 64.0% of her career looks have been from downtown.

Her 191 three-point attempts on the season is second in the country behind Oregon's Katelyn Looper's (215).

Shearer also has 193 career 3-pointers, third in school history, and she is on pace to take over the category lead trailing head coach Autumn Rademacher (1993-97) by eight for second and school record-holder Michelle James (1998-02) by 24 (217).

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 10 of her last 12 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 6.2 points and 5.2 rebounds in her last six games, shooting 16-of-35 (45.7%) from the field.

During the span, she has had:
13-pts, 10-rebs. vs Cleveland State
6-pts, 2 rebs. vs Oakland
8-pts, 6-rebs., 4-steals, 2-blocks vs. UIC
5-pts, 7-rebs., 1-block at Valparaiso
5-pts, 6-rebs., 1-block at Milwaukee

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 continued her scoring by tying her season high with 11 points, while adding five rebounds, two steals and an assist at Milwaukee.

She had previously tied her season high with 11 points and grabbed a season-best eight rebounds with two assists against Oakland.

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

After starting the season just 7-of-38 (18.4%) from the field, Montgomery is 15 for her last 37 (40.5%) in her last nine games.