GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Bass Interview

DETROIT (1/30/15) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will continue Horizon League play when the Titans visit Milwaukee on Saturday, Jan. 31 at UWM Panther Arena. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. ET and will be televised nationally on ESPN3.

GAMEDAY CENTRAL
Fans can follow every Detroit game this season through the men'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 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.
 
LAST OUTING
Senior Juwan Howard Jr. scored 11 of his team-high 22 points in overtime and the University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball led throughout the extra session as the Titans earned a 93-87 victory over visiting Youngstown State on Thursday night in historic Calihan Hall.

The win was the second-straight in overtime against the Penguins as the Titans won last year 83-81 in the Motor City.
 
Freshman Paris Bass added 18 points and a career-high 14 rebounds in the win for his third career double-double, while also collecting four assists and three blocks. Junior guard Anton Wilson added 17 points, including 14 in the second half, and a career-high seven assists.
 
Senior Brandan Kearney tallied 11 points and a career-best six assists, while freshman Jaleel Hogan was the fifth Titan in double figures with 10 points.
 
Detroit (11-12, 4-4 HL) had the lead for much of the game, but Youngstown State (10-14, 1-8 HL) came back to jump out in front, 60-57, with 7:12 left in the second half.  Detroit stormed back to take a five-point advantage, 69-64, at the 2:45 mark, but YSU ended the stanza with five-straight points to send the game into overtime.
 
UDM ended the game shooting 42.3 percent (30-of-71) and 76.5 percent (26-of-34) at the free throw line, recording 22 assists on its' 30 field goals. The Titans outrebounded the Penguins, 44-37, and forced 18 turnovers turning those into 20 points. Detroit also had a 16-5 advantage in second-chance points.
 
ABOUT MILWAUKEE
The Matt Tiby posted 19 points and 13 rebounds and Steve McWhorter added 17 points to lead host University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (8-14, 3-5 Horizon) to a 71-65 victory over UIC (5-17, 1-6 Horizon) on Thursday at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. The win is Milwaukee's third in a row at home and is the Panthers' 13th in the last 15 meetings versus the Flames.
 
The Panthers drained 52.2 percent (12-for-23) of their shots in the second half, including 5 of 10 from three-point territory. Tiby's 19 points and 13 boards fell one shy of his season high in each category and the double-double was his sixth of the season. The Panthers are now 9-3 in his career when he tallies 10 or more points and rebounds and he has scored in double digits in a career-best 13 straight games.
 
McWhorter added five rebounds and four assists to go with his 17 points, while Springs (13 points) and Wichmann (11 points) also reached double figures in scoring.
 
The Panthers' 2004-05 team that reached the NCAA Sweet 16 will be recognized at halftime of Saturday's game versus Detroit.

SERIES WITH THE PANTHERS
This will be the 45th meeting between Detroit and Milwaukee, with the Panthers leading the all-time series 23-21. Detroit won the first meeting this season 83-67 at Calihan Hall. The two teams split their regular season meetings last year with both winning on the road, before the Panthers got the last laugh with an 83-73 win in the first round of the Horizon League Championship in Milwaukee.
 
BASS NAMED HL FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK
UDM guard/forward Paris Bass was named the Horizon League Freshman of the Week for the fourth time this season on Monday, Jan. 26 following his performance last week against a pair of first-place teams.
 
Bass won his League-best fourth Freshman of the Week award this season after leading the Titans to a 1-1 week. The lengthy freshman forced overtime in Detroit's non-conference game at Northeastern - currently tied for first in the Colonial Athletic Association - with a dunk with 28 seconds remaining. In overtime, Bass scored nine of the first 11 points as the Titans dominated the extra five minutes to win, 81-69. Bass finished the contest with a career-high tying 19 points, while shooting 8-of-14 from the field.
 
His dunk in the closing seconds was saluted with a No. 2 ranking on SportsCenter's "Top 10 Plays" on ESPN.

On Friday night, Bass again tied his career-high with 19 points, shooting 7-of-13 from the field. He also pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds for his second double-double of the season and first in Horizon League play.

Bass continues to pace all freshmen in the League in scoring (12.1), rebounding (6.1), steals (1.2) and blocked shots (24). 

FORMER CUB GROWING UP
Former U of D Jesuit High School star Chris Jenkins is beginning to make his mark as part of the UDM men's basketball team. The sophomore guard/forward recorded his first collegiate double-double last week with 13 points and 13 rebounds against Northeastern.
 
In two games on the road last week against first place teams Jenkins averaged 12.5 points and 10.0 rebounds per game.
 
Through his first 13 games as a Titan, the former Cub is averaging 7.4 points and 5.1 rebounds per game.

HOWARD IS 22 AND RISING
This season, Detroit senior forward Juwan Howard Jr. became the 39th Titan to join the 1,000-point club and currently ranks 22nd all-time with 1,237 points. Former Titan Mike Lovelace '93 is next on the list as he ranks 21st overall with 1,258 points. Juwan Howard, Sr. scored 1,526 points at the University of Michigan from 1992-94 as part of the Fab Five.

UP NEXT
Detroit will stay on the road as the Titans visit Horizon League foe Valparaiso on Wednesday, Feb. 4. Tip-off is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. ET at the ARC and will be televised nationally on ESPN3.