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Sophomore Corey Allen and the Titans head to UIC on Monday.

Men's Basketball

Windy City Visit Up Next For Detroit Mercy

DETROIT (2/18/2018) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's basketball team will make its final road trip of the regular season as the Titans make their annual trek to Chicago to battle the UIC Flames on Monday, Feb. 19.  

Game time is set for 8 p.m. (EST) at the UIC Pavilion. The game can be seen online on ESPN3 and the Watch ESPN App or fans can listen to all the action with the Voice of the Titans Cliff Russell on 910 AM Superstation.

With just three games left, the Titans still have a chance to finish anywhere from sixth through 10th in the standings. A sixth-place finish would mean Detroit Mercy would not open up Motor City Madness until the Sunday portion of the event, while 7-10 would have the red, white and blue starting things off on Friday night.

Detroit Mercy still has two more home games left as the Titans host Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 22, and Green Bay on Saturday, Feb. 24.

Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone (313-993-1700 ext. 7301) or in person at Calihan Hall. For more information on tickets, contact Director of Ticket Operations & Sales Justin Hairston at 313-993-1700 ext. 7301 or at hairstjj1@udmercy.edu.

Tickets for the 2018 Little Caesars Horizon League Men's and Women's Basketball Championship — to be played at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit — are on sale now at HorizonLeague.com, the Little Caesars Arena Box Office, or the Little Caesars Arena Ticket Sales and Service Office (313-471-7575). Fans can also purchase tickets by calling or visiting their favorite school's box office. Fans have the option to purchase tickets in their favorite school's fan section by visiting HorizonLeague.com or their campus box office.

ALL-TIME MATCH-UP
  • Detroit Mercy has been on the good side of the scoreboard recently against UIC as the Titans have won eight of the last 12 and 11 of the last 16 against the Flames to lead the overall series, 31-18.
  • The Titans have also won five of the last seven on the road in the series and are 13-10 all-time on the road against UIC.

TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SLATE
  • The 11 Division I opponents on the Titan non-conference schedule are 189-106 (61.3%) already on the year and 10 of those 11 foes have winning records.
  • The Titan non-conference schedule currently ranks 35th overall in the nation.

ONE STRONG CHATMAN
  • Kameron Chatman has been one of the most productive transfers in the NCAA. 
  • Chatman leads the team and is:
  • * 2nd in the HL in free throw percentage at 87.5%
  • * 3rd in the HL in scoring at 18.0 ppg.
  • * 3rd in the HL in rebounding at 8.6 rpg.
  • * 3rd in the HL in 3-point shooting at 42.3%
  • * T8th in the HL in 3-point FG per game at 2.1
  • He is also second on the team and 11th in the HL shooting 47.3 percent on the season as well as second on the team and tied for fourth in the league with 1.4 steals per game. 
  • He started conference play with two-straight 20-point games netting 22 at Green Bay - along with 11 rebounds and a career-high five assists - and 20 at Milwaukee, while adding another double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds against Wright State. He also collected double-doubles with 13 points and 10 caroms against UIC and 26 points and 11 boards at Youngstown State. 
  • His nine double-doubles are third in the conference.

CHATMAN ON TOP IN SCORING, REBOUNDING
  • Redshirt junior Kameron Chatman posted his 12th, 20-point game of the season tallying a team-high 26 points at Youngstown State. 
  • The 12, 20-point games are the most by a Titan since Paris Bass posted 13 in 2015-16 as well as second in the Horizon League. 
  • Chatman is also leading the team in rebounding at 8.6 per night and is trying to become just the sixth Titan since 1980 to lead the team in scoring and rebounding

CHASING 1,000
  • With his 12 points at Youngstown State, junior Josh McFolley now has 967 career points, just 33 short of becoming the 42nd Titan in school history to reach 1,000. 

OUR ROYAL PRINCE
  • Graduate senior Roschon Prince continues to shine in HL play as he was in double figures for the fifth-straight game and the 10th during league competition with 16 points and seven rebounds at Youngstown State.
  • That was after tallying a season-high 22 points and grabbing nine rebounds at Cleveland State, where he was 6-of-8 from the field and 6-of-7 at the line.
  • Prince has now been in double figures in 12 games overall on the year. 
  • After averaging 5.1 points and 3.2 rebounds in his first 12 games, Prince is tallying 11.6 points and 6.5 rebounds, while shooting 56.9 percent from the field in conference play. 
  • He had 18 points against UIC in the first meeting going 7-of-11 from the floor. 
  • He recorded his second double-double of the year registering 10 points and a season-high 13 boards at Oakland. His first Titan double-double came at Milwaukee when he had 11 points and 10 boards. 

RO DAMAGE
  • Graduate senior Roschon Prince has been a man among boys when it comes to scoring in the paint as he currently ranks sixth in the Horizon League in field goal percentage at 55.9 percent. 
  • Even when he is fouled, he is making teams pay going 26-of-30 (86.6%) at the charity stripe in the last five games and is shooting 72.2 percent overall at the line this season. 

MCFOLLEY FOR 3
  • Junior Josh McFolley was in double figures putting in 12 at Youngstown State, hitting two more 3-pointers. He recorded a career-high 30 points against UIC in the first meeting hitting four triples in the process. 
  • He now has 12, 3-pointers in his last five games and has connected from distance in 21 of his 28 games on the year. He also has six games with three or more triples. 
  • McFolley now has 10 career 20-point games along with 155 career 3-pointers, ninth in school history and just two away from eighth place and Michael Jackson '95.

PICKING YOUR POCKET
  • Junior Josh McFolley has been committing highway robbery at an alarming rate recently posting 17 steals in his last five games.
  • He had five at Oakland, his sixth game of the year with at least three steals, and that was after a career-best six steals against UIC. 
  • He is currently third in the Horizon League with 1.6 steals per game. 
  • In his career, he has recorded a steal in 66 of his 89 career games, including 29 multi-steal contests and 16 with at least three takeaways.
  • McFolley led the conference in steals per game (2.00) and total steals (62), ranking 26th and 35th in the NCAA, respectively, last season.
  • His 141 career steals is just one shy of 10th place in school history, occupied by current assistant coach Jermaine Jackson with 142.

HE CAN SCORE
  • Sophomore Corey Allen has been in double figures in 18 of his 25 games with six 20+ contests and three 30+ games. 
  • He tied for the team lead with 24 points on 8-of-13 shooting with five treys against Oakland.
  • He poured in a game-high 25 points going 9-of-14 from the field with eight rebounds and had the game-winning layup as time expired over Cleveland State. He followed that up with a game-high 34 points on 8-of-16 shooting with five 3-pointers and a career-best 13-of-16 at the line against Youngstown State. 

JJJ FILLING UP THE STAT SHEET
  • Rookie Jermaine Jackson Jr. posted stats all around as a true freshman on the road in his collegiate debut at Virginia Tech tallying 16 points with seven rebounds and three assists.  
  • He tallied his third 20-point game of the season with a game-high 22 points at IUPUI. 
  • Jackson Jr. had a monster game scoring a season-best 32 points against Youngstown State - one shy of a Titan freshman record - on 12-of-17 shooting with six 3-pointers. 
  • He is the only freshman in the Horizon League this season with a 30-point game. 
  • The rookie tallied a then season-high 25 points at Green Bay - where he was 8-of-14 from the field with a season-high seven 3-pointers and has now scored in double figures in 16 games on the year after netting back-to-back 12-point games at Cleveland State and Youngstown State. 
  • Jackson Jr. is currently third on the team averaging 11.5 points to go with a team-best 2.8 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 1.2 steals. He also has 72 assists and just 50 turnovers for a 1.4 ratio.
  • Jackson Jr. leads all league rookies in made 3-pointers and free throw percentage and is second in assists and scoring.

A LONG DAY
  • Sophomore Cole Long has been a man on a mission lately and his latest conquest saw him post a career-high 16 points connecting on 6-of-8 from the field with a pair of 3-pointers along with registering eight rebounds at Cleveland State. 
  • Long has posted at least five rebounds in four of the last five games and is averaging 6.1 per game during that span. 
  • He netted 12 points with a career-high seven assists along with five rebounds against IUPUI and then pulled down a career-best nine rebounds and tied his career mark with three blocks against UIC. 
  • In limited playing time at Oakland, he recorded three assists and six rebounds in just 13 minutes. 
  • Long also has 15 blocks in his last 12 games and leads the team overall with 17 on the year.
  • He made his first start of the season against ETSU and he made the most of it scoring 10 points and handing out four assists. He picked up five assists against Youngstown State and blocked three shots at NKU. 

DRE DAY
  • Senior DeShawndre Black stepped into the starting role against IUPUI and he was a big reason for the Titan win as he finished with 13 points, three assists and three rebounds.
  • He has now been in double figures in scoring three times in the last five games with 11 points and four assists at Oakland and 11 points and three helpers at Youngstown State.
  • He ran the point guard to precision against UIC tying a career-high with eight assists against just one turnover. 
  • In fact, in his last 12 games, Black has 30 assists with just 13 turnovers, better than a 2.2-to-1 ratio. 

I SEE YOU CA
  • Sophomore Corey Allen set a career high in rebounds with 13 against NKU and has tied his career best with five assists three times this season against Michigan-Dearborn, Houston Baptist and Cleveland State. 
  • He posted 34 points against Youngstown State, where he was 8-of-16 from the field, 5-of-9 from three and a career-best 13-of-16 at the line.
  • His 13 free throws were the most since Juwan Howard Jr. went 14-of-14 against South Alabama in 2014. 
  • He had another game with five triples against Oakland, ending with 24 points. 
  • Allen has also now connected on a 3-pointer in 43 of his 53 career games, including 21 with three or more and eight with five or more. 
  • On the season, he is second on the team in scoring at 14.9 points per game - eighth in the HL - and ranks second on the team and ninth in three-point shooting (39.1%) as well as third on the team in overall shooting (44.1%). 

HIGH POWERED OFFENSE
  • The Titans currently rank third in the Horizon League and 66th in the nation in scoring offense at 78.6 points per game. 
  • Detroit Mercy has scored at least 70 points in 22 games, including three 100+point efforts, five with 90 or more and 10 topping 80 or more.

LET IT FLY
  • Detroit Mercy set a school record hoisting up 43 three-point attempts against Houston Baptist on Nov. 19, nailing 12 of them.
  • The previous record was 36 against Dayton in 1991. 
  • Against Siena Heights, Detroit Mercy was 17-of-28 from behind the arc, just one triple shy of tying the school record of 18 against Milwaukee on Feb. 26, 2000. 
  • They have also nailed 10 or more 3-pointers in 13 games this season and lead the HL with 8.8 triples per game, 74th in the nation, as well as ranking third in the HL in three-point field goal percentage (35.0%). 
  • Some of the top-shooting games include 13-of-29 versus Cleveland State, 12-of-25 against Youngstown State, 11-of-29 at IUPUI, 12-of-27 at Wright State and 10-of-22 at Oakland. 

TAKING ADVANTAGE
  • Detroit Mercy has done a great job at the free throw line connecting on 76.0 percent, second in the HL and 33rd in the country.
  • The Titans are coming off an outstanding effort at the line going 24-of-25 (96.0%) at Youngstown State and are 81-of-95 (85.2%) in the last five games. 
  • Detroit Mercy has hit 80.0 percent or more at the line in 12 games, including 16-of-20 versus IUPUI, 18-of-22 at Virginia Tech, 20-of-23 versus Seattle, 14-of-17 at Oakland and 17-of-20 against Western Michigan.  
  • Some of the top free throw shooters include Kameron Chatman (87.5%, 77-of-88), Jermaine Jackson Jr. (85.9%, 55-of-64), Corey Allen (81.2%, 69-of-85) and Josh McFolley (78.4%, 58-of-74), all of whom are among the top 15 in the Horizon League. 

   
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