Records will be broken as Titans look to rise again By P.J. Gradowski
The 2021-22 season is here, so fans will get a chance to see some history made in Calihan Hall, all while watching the Detroit Mercy men’s basketball team rise to prominence again. For the Titans, the season will look to pick up where they left off last year. The red, white and blue went 11-3 in its last 14 games, reaching the Horizon League Championship quarterfinals and finishing just a few seconds away from advancing to the semifinals. “We are better and have more talent than we have had the last few years,” said head coach Mike Davis, who is looking to take his fourth program to the NCAA tournament which would make him only the 13th coach in NCAA history to do that. “I like the way we have 12 | Spiritus Fall 2021
practiced since the start of the summer. We have worked hard and I think we are in for a good season.” This year’s Titans are built around star guard Antoine Davis, already an NCAA record holder who can knock down a few more school, conference and NCAA marks this season. In three seasons, Davis has scored 2,040 career points, third in school history, and his 316 3-pointers are second in school and Horizon League history. He already owns four of the top 11 scoring performances in Titan history, with his 48 points against Wright State in 2019 just one shy of the school mark and the most points ever by a Titan and HL freshman. Last season, he etched another mark with 46 points against Robert Morris in the opening
