Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. Milwaukee 
Coach Rademacher Previews Milwaukee
BE THERE
 
DETROIT (1/5/2014) -- The first 13 games are in the books, but the "second season" will now begin as conference play starts up on Wednesday, Jan. 7, with the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team hosting Milwaukee in historic Calihan Hall.
 
Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. on Dick Vitale Court with Denny Kapp and Jalesa Jones calling the action on ESPN3.
 
Fans can follow every Detroit game this season through the women'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 photos and game tickets. The Gameday Central page also carries all the information on each opponent from who is leading the all-time series to who won the last game.
 
Detroit went 5-8 in the non-conference season, which included three losses by 10 or fewer points. UDM will also look to end a three-game slide and rebound from a tough 75-71 setback in overtime at Eastern Michigan its last time out.
 
The game marks the opening of the conference schedule for both Detroit and Milwaukee. Detroit enters the contest as the eldest member of the conference in its 35th season (1980) - the HL is in its 36th year starting up in 1979, and the 29th sponsoring women's basketball (1986-87). The Panthers joined the conference in 1994.
 
Milwaukee heads into HL play at 4-8 and on a two-game losing streak. The Panthers are 2-5 away from home with their last two losses on the road at Western Illinois (79-59) and at IPFW (78-72).
 
Fans, to purchase tickets or for more information, contact the Titans' Ticket office at (313) 993-1700. The Titans' Ticket Office is located in Calihan Hall and is open Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
 
DETROIT VS. MILWAUKEE
This will be the 48th career meeting between Detroit and Milwaukee as the Titans lead the all-time series, 24-23. The two teams split last year's match-ups, but UDM has won five of the last six and nine of the last 11 games.
 
Detroit is 12-9 at home against the Panthers and has won three in a row and five of the last six in the series at Calihan Hall.
 
ABOUT THE PANTHERS
Milwaukee has lost two in a row and enters the game at 4-8 on the season with wins over North Dakota State, UMKC, Eastern Illinois and Chicago State. The Panthers have played one common opponent with the Titans dropping a 78-72 contest at IPFW.
 
Ashley Green leads the team in scoring at 21.1 points per game - second in the HL - while also leading the squad and standing eighth in the conference with 7.7 rebounds per contest.
 
Jenny Linder is averaging 10.1 ppg., and 4.5 rpg., while Jaleesa Armstrong is tallying 4.7 assists - second in the league.
 
Milwaukee is averaging 66.6 points and giving up 70.2, ranking seventh in the HL in both stats.
 
HORIZON LEAGUE HISTORY
The Titans are 215-213 all-time in the Horizon League with the 215 victories the third most in league history trailing only Green Bay's 282 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 '97 led Detroit to a 14-2 mark. The Titans also finished that year winning the conference tournament and advancing to their only NCAA Tournament.
 
Detroit is in its 35th season as a member of the Horizon League this year and now stands as the eldest member in the conference by 14 years over Cleveland State, Green Bay, Milwaukee, UIC, and Wright State, who all joined in 1994 with the Titans entering in 1980.
 
BOMBS AWAYS IN RECORD FASHION
The Titans connected on 15, 3-pointers at Toledo on Dec. 14, breaking the school mark of 13 at Butler on Jan. 30, 1999.
 
UDM finished the game 15-for-32 from behind the arc, including 12-of-21 in the first half alone.
 
After going 11-for-32 in their next three games, the Titans were 11-of-33 from long range at Eastern Michigan their last time out.
 
The game marked the fourth time this season that Detroit has made 10 or more threes in a contest (15 at Toledo, 11 at IPFW, 10 vs. Madonna), while the 33 three-point attempts tied a school record with the 33 UDM had against Ball State last season.
 
ROSIE THE SCORER
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds posted her 10th double-digit scoring effort on the year and her second double-double with 19 points and 10 boards at Eastern Michigan.
 
She already has three 20+ point games capitalized by her career-high 33 points at IPFW on Dec. 2, where she was a career-best 11-of-18 from the field with seven 3-pointers. She became just the 18th Titan in school history to score 30 or more in a game, with the 33 points the most since teammate Ellisha Crosby had 33 against EMU last season.
 
Reynolds had a game-high 26 points at Toledo on Dec. 14 going 8-of-15 from the field with seven more treys and also netted a game-high with 22 points on 7-of-11 shooting versus Delaware State on Dec. 18.
 
On the year, she is currently leading the team and fifth in the HL with 15.3 ppg.
 
ALL-AROUND GAME
Sophomore Haleigh Ristovski continues to show her full basketball skills this season on both the offensive and defensive end of the floor.
 
She might not be the typical frontcourt player, but she has grabbed at least eight rebounds in nine of UDM's 13 games, including five of the last eight with 10 or more.
 
She also has a team-high four double-doubles on the season as she is coming off a 20-point, 12-rebound performance - which tied both of her career highs - at Eastern Michigan. She also had 13 points and 10 rebounds at Toledo, 13 points and 11 rebounds at IPFW and 20 points and 12 caroms versus Madonna.
 
Her game against Madonna also saw her post nearly a triple-double as she handed out a career-high six assists.
 
She has recorded at least five assists five times this year and is leading the team and ninth in the Horizon League at 3.3 per game.
 
On the season, she is fourth on the team and 24th in the HL in scoring at 9.1 ppg., as well as leading the team and ranking fifth in the conference in rebounding at 8.1 per contest.
 
GETTING TO 70
The Titans are 54-20 when they score 70 or more points as well as 20-5 when they score 80 or more under head coach Autumn Rademacher. UDM has also eclipsed 90 seven times under Coach Rad, with a season-high 96 against Eastern Michigan last year.
 
A TRIPLE THREAT
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds has become one of the deadliest long-range shooters in the Horizon League.
 
She is currently first in the HL in three-point field goals per game (2.8) and second in three-point field goal percentage (43.9%), while standing 29th and 32nd, respectively, in the nation in those two categories.
 
Reynolds has twice nailed seven 3-pointers in a game - one away from the school record of eight that Daphne Smith (8-of-11) had versus Butler on Jan. 10, 1987.
 
She had seven treys (7-of-10) in a 33-point outburst at IPFW on Dec. 2 and also had seven (7-of-12) in a 26-point effort at Toledo.
 
Reynolds has sank at least one 3-pointer in 12 of the Titans' 13 games on the year - only at Cincinnati did she not have one - and has an HL-best 36 triples on the year, a new career high passing the 25 she had as a freshman in 34 games in 2012-13.
 
In fact, 36 of her 69 total field goals (52.1%) on the year are from three.
 
LITTLE D BRINGS BIG O
Freshman Darianne Seward might have been making her first collegiate start in her first career game at Michigan, but you would never know by the way the rookie played.
 
The 5-4 guard from Ohio ended the day with a game-high 19 points - 17 in the first half - along with three rebounds and three assists.
 
The 19 points in a collegiate debut was the most by a Titan true freshman since the 2011-12 season and the most by a Titan true freshman guard since Titan Hall-Of-Famer and the school's all-time leading scorer Cassandra Pack netted 23 at home against Bowling Green to open the 1983-84 campaign.
 
Seward has continued to be a force on offense recording her 10th game in double figures with 15 points at Eastern Michigan. She recently also tied her season high with 19 against Western Michigan.
 
The two-time Horizon League Player of the Week is currently second on the team in scoring and 11th in the Horizon League at 12.7 ppg., the second highest freshman average in the HL behind Valparaiso's Dani Franklin's 13.3.
 
She is also 12th in the league in free throw percentage (70.6%) connecting on 48-of-63, the fourth most free throws and attempts among conference peers.
 
STRONG DEFENSE
The Titans have played some tough defense to start the 2014-15 season, holding teams to just 64.8 points per game, down from last season's 80.5 ppg.
 
UDM has held four opponents to 60 or less on the season and twice to under 50. Detroit is currently third in the Horizon League in both field-goal percentage defense (.375) and three-point field-goal defense (.290).
 
Detroit had one of its best defensive games in school history in defeating Marygrove, 88-46, in the home opener on Nov. 16.
 
The 46 points allowed were the fewest since Detroit downed Youngstown State at home, 62-48, during the 2012-13 campaign.
 
The 25.0% (16-of-64) shooting by Marygrove was the lowest UDM has held a team since Milwaukee's 22.8% on Mar. 2, 2013.
 
Detroit held IPFW to just 29.7% shooting, including 28.5% (12-of-42) in the second half and overtime and 16.7% (2-of-12) in the extra session alone, while limiting Madonna to 29.4% (15-of-51). The 15 made field goals by Madonna were the fewest by an opponent since Youngstown State had just 15 in that 62-48 win.
 
Against Toledo, the Titans held an offensive Rockets team to 32.5% (26-of-80) overall and 27.5% (11-of-40) from three, while Delaware State shot just 37.7% (21-of-56) and 1-of-15 from distance. 
 
CANADIAN BLOCK
Senior Brie Wilcox received her most extensive court time of the season playing 32 minutes off the bench at Eastern Michigan.
 
The London, Ontario, native made the most of it tying her career high with four blocks and totaling five points, five rebounds and two assists.
 
The four blocks matched her effort against UIC last season as she came into the game with only 11 career swats.
 
HALEIGH HITS 6
Sophomore Haleigh Ristovski came into the Eastern Michigan game just 15-of-57 (26.3%) from three-point range, but she showed her shooting touch by knocking down a career-best six triples in nine attempts.
 
Her previous career high was five at Youngstown State last year.
 
RECORD-SETTING WIN NO. 94 FOR COACH RAD
Head coach Autumn Rademacher '97 accomplished something that many coaches don't even get a chance to attempt as she became the all-time wins leader at her alma mater with victory No. 94 on Dec. 18 against Delaware State.
 
UDM used an early run in dominating the Hornets, 74-52, for the record-breaking win, surpassing her coach in college Fred Procter (1990-96).
 
Coach Rademacher did it inside Calihan Hall where as a player she scored over 1,600 points and helped lead the Titans to their only NCAA bid as a senior in 1997.
Her first coaching win was also on the very same floor as she guided UDM to a 70-66 upset victory over No. 23 Georgia on Nov. 22, 2008.
 
It is not like Coach Rademacher took over a top of the line program as Detroit was coming off back-to-back last-place finishes and just 11 total wins from 2006-08.
 
In her first six years, Detroit has recorded three winning seasons, a pair of 20-win campaigns, five years with a conference tournament victory, a trip to the WNIT in 2012 - the first postseason action for UDM since 1997 - and the school's first postseason title since 1981 when the Titans won the WBI in 2013. 
 
ROSTER NEWS
Senior Ellisha Crosby has missed the last three games and is day-to-day with an upper body injury suffered against Delaware State.
 
Junior Tayelor McCalister and redshirt freshman Tayla Gibb will also not suit up this season for Detroit.
 
ELLICIOUS
Senior Ellisha Crosby - who has missed the last three games - was just beginning to find her offensive rhythm with her fourth-straight game - and sixth on the year - in double figures as she tallied 12 points in just 16 minutes versus Delaware State. She also handed out a career-high six assists in that contest.
 
Against Toledo, she posted 24 points for her fourth career 20+ point effort.
 
She also now has 18 double-digit scoring games in her 22 career Division I contests. 

She was tabbed the Glass City Classic Tournament MVP after tallying 18.5 points, 9.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and shooting 46.7 percent from the field in the two games against Southeast Missouri and Toledo.
 
Crosby started the weekend event with her first double-double of the year and the sixth of her career with 13 points and a season-high 10 rebounds against the Redhawks.
 
In her Titan career, Crosby is tallying 14.6 ppg., including 11.5 ppg., this year.
 
KEEPING THE BALL
The Titans are averaging just 13.6 turnovers per game, fourth in the Horizon League behind only Wright State's 13.2 and Green Bay and Youngstown State's 13.5.
 
Detroit has turned it over 10 or fewer times in three games this year, including a season-low nine against St. Bonaventure and at Niagara.
 
UDM also had just 10 turnovers at Cincinnati.
 
GOOD DECISIONS
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds and sophomore Haleigh Ristovski are both among the most trustworthy ball handlers in the Horizon League.
 
Ristovski is currently fifth in the Horizon League - and 99th in the nation - with a 1.91 assist-to-turnover ratio (43 A, 24 TO). As a freshman, Ristovski recorded a 2.7 mark (47 A, 17 TO) last season.
 
Meanwhile, Reynolds has 37 assists and just 19 turnovers on the year (1.9), and came into this game just a few assists shy of qualifying for fourth in the league in assist-to-turnover ratio.
 
NO "MINNIE ME" HERE
Sophomore Minisha Frederick-Childress might stand just 5-4, but she can crash the boards witnessed by her three game this season with seven rebounds; including back-to-back against Southeast Missouri and at Toledo at the Glass City Classic. She also had seven caroms at IPFW.
 
In the close setback to Southeast Missouri, she also recorded a season-best five assists, the most since her career high of seven at Oakland last year.
 
The seven boards are just two away from her career high of nine set against Milwaukee as a freshman.
 
Frederick-Childress is also coming off her second double figure scoring outing of the season with 10 points, five rebounds and three assists at Eastern Michigan.
 
IF ONE IS GOOD, TWO IS BETTER
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds and sophomore Haleigh Ristovski once again collected double-doubles in the same game as Ristovski tied her career highs with 20 points and 12 rebounds, while Reynolds recorded 19 points and 10 boards at Eastern Michigan.
 
At IPFW earlier in the year, Reynolds ended the contest with a career-high 33 points and career-best 11 rebounds and Ristovski scored 13 points and grabbed 11 caroms for her first career double-double.
 
Both players also added four assists against the Mastodons.
 
HELPING OUR CAUSE
With a strong group of guards, you would expect that Detroit would be able to take care of the ball and create a lot of assists, and the Titans have done just that.
 
Detroit is sixth in the Horizon League in assists at 14.0 per game as well as fifth in the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.03). The red, white and blue is one of just five teams in the league to have more assists than turnovers on the year and has committed a season-low nine turnovers twice this year.
 
The Titans also finished with 22 assists against Marygrove in their home opener on Nov. 16 and had 19 against Delaware State.
 
BACK-TO-BACK ACCOLADES FOR FRESHMAN DARIANNE SEWARD
For the second-straight Monday, freshman Darianne Seward was honored by the Horizon League as the rookie was named the HL's Freshman of the Week on Dec. 29.

Seward led the Titans with 11 points and five rebounds in Detroit's only action as the red, white and blue played at Cincinnati of the American Athletic Conference.
 
A week before (Dec. 22), she earned the award after tallying 17.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals in Detroit's two games against Delaware State and Western Michigan. She also shot over 50 percent from the field hitting 12-of-22 (54.5%) field goals.
 
She scored 16 points and totaled five rebounds, four assists and two steals in the victory over Delaware State and then tied her season high with 19 points and grabbed a season-best eight rebounds in the match-up with the Broncos.
 
URBANICK FINDING HER STROKE
Freshman Nicole Urbanick netted a season-high 12 points against Madonna. It was the third time this season she has been in double figures with 10 against Marygrove and 11 versus St. Bonaventure.
 
On the season, she is averaging 5.7 points per game - fifth on the team.
 
THE 5-4 CLUB
Sophomore Minisha Frederick-Childress and freshman Darianne Seward are both 5-4, but both guards have done their share of hitting the glass.
 
Seward is third on the squad with 4.2 rpg., while Frederick-Childress is fifth on the team in rebounding at 3.8 rpg.