Coach Rademacher Talks About Non-Conference Schedule On HLN Detroit
2014-15 Women's Basketball Schedule
 
DETROIT (7/22/2014) -- Six home games, four post season teams, trips to Michigan and Cincinnati and one in-season tournament await the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team in 2014-15 as the Titans released their full non-conference schedule for the upcoming season on Tuesday.
 
"I am very excited about the mixture of very competitive teams as well as teams that we can go nose-to-nose and are going to be great games and some other games that we are hoping to rotate some people in and gain a lot of experience going into the conference," said head coach Autumn Rademacher '97, who is entering her seventh season on the sidelines for her alma mater.
 
The home portion gets underway with an exhibition as Detroit will face Salem International on Nov. 8 in a basketball doubleheader that will also feature the men's team hosting Marygrove in a preseason affair.
 
The regular season will then officially get underway on Nov. 14 with the red, white and blue heading to Ann Arbor to battle the Wolverines, a team that went 20-14 a year ago and advanced to the third round of the WNIT.
 
The Titans' home opener is set for just a couple of days later as UDM welcomes Marygrove into historic Calihan Hall on Nov. 16, which will be followed by a quick road trip to Ohio on Nov. 20.
 
Another basketball twinbill will be on Nov. 22 with the women hosting St. Bonaventure – a 24-win team and WNIT participant a year ago – and the men playing South Alabama.
 
The remaining three home games for the Titans are scheduled for Dec. 8 against Madonna, Dec. 18 versus Delaware State, and Dec. 20 against in-state rival Western Michigan.
 
"I know that one of the very important things for our girls that they even listed on their top five goals of the upcoming season was to protect our home court and go undefeated on our home floor," added Coach Rademacher.
 
The rest of the road schedule will have Detroit visiting Niagara (Nov. 29), IPFW (Dec. 2), Cincinnati (Dec. 23) and in-state foe Eastern Michigan (Dec. 30).  Both IPFW and EMU took part in the Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) in 2014, while Cincinnati is a member of the American Athletic Conference.
 
UDM will also make the trip back to Toledo for the second-straight season as it competes in the Toledo Invite on Dec. 12-13. The field for that event has not yet been announced.
 
Detroit will return nearly its entire roster from a year ago, which featured freshmen that accounted for a Horizon League-high 43% of minutes played. Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds and senior Ellisha Crosby will look to come back from season-ending injuries that saw the duo play in a combined 15 games and miss the entire HL season, while junior guard Tayelor McCalister is the leading returning scorer netting a career-high 11.7 points per game.
 
The Horizon League schedule will be announced later in the summer.
 
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