Horizon League Release

DETROIT (2/8/2016) -- University of Detroit Mercy sophomore Brianne Cohen (Toronto, Ont. / York Memorial) was named Horizon League Player of the Week on Monday following her performance last week as the Titans went 2-0 on the road.

Cohen averaged 21.0 points, 6.5 rebounds per game last week and shot 80 percent from the floor (16-of-20) in Detroit's two road victories. She tied her career-high twice, scoring 21 points in both wins at Cleveland State and Youngstown State. It's her first-career Horizon League weekly honor.

In Detroit's 66-60 victory over the Vikings, Cohen sank her first eight shots of the game and finished with 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting. She pulled down eight rebounds, seven of them on the offensive side. Cohen followed it up with a 7-of-8 shooting performance at YSU, leading the squad with 21 points in Detroit's road win against the Penguins. It was her third 21-point game in the past five games and fourth game of 20 points in 2015-16.

The Toronto, Ont. native is 10th in the Horizon League in scoring at 13.8 points per game despite coming off the bench in the past 20 contests. She is third in the conference in field goal percentage (58.6) and is tied-for-seventh in offensive rebounding (2.8 boards per game). She has 15 games of double figures this year.

The weekly honor is the second this season for a Detroit women's basketball student-athlete after Rosanna Reynolds received the honor on Jan. 11.

Detroit is 5-1 in Horizon League road games this season and is currently in third place overall in the league standings at 7-4. The Titans are 11-7 in their last 18 games as UDM has evened its record at 11-11 under first-year head coach Bernard Scott.

The Titans return to the court Thursday, hosting UIC for Field Trip Day at 11 a.m. at historic Calihan Hall.