Gameday Central
Game Notes vs. St. Bonaventure
 
DETROIT (11/22/2014) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team returns home to play its fourth game in eight days as the Titans welcome St. Bonaventure into historic Calihan Hall on Saturday. Game time is set for 12:30 p.m., as it is part of a Titan doubleheader with the men facing South Alabama at 3:00 p.m. 
 
The voice of the Titan women's basketball team Denny Kapp will call all the action as the game will be televised on Comcast 900 as well as live streamed 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 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.
 
Individual ticket prices for the day are set at $6 for adults and $4 for children and seniors, with one ticket getting you inside historic Calihan Hall for both games (Must use Promo Code: Use MITTENS For Saturday under the WBB Ticket tab). Discounted rates are also available for groups of 10 or more.
 
Detroit will also honor a veteran as part of the Wounded Warrior Project prior to the game and will have a special halftime promotion as fans can take part in a mitten toss to benefit "Mittens for Detroit", a charity whose sole purpose is to collect, purchase & distribute new mittens and gloves to children and adults in need in Detroit.
 
The Titans (1-2) are coming off a tough loss 60-57 setback at Ohio on Thursday. Detroit held a six-point lead at one time and lead by three at the half, but the Bobcats came out strong and took a 14-point advantage in the second half. Led by redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds' 15 points and senior Ellisha Crosby's 12, Detroit stormed back and pulled within one possession, but Reynolds' game-tying 3-pointer was too strong as time expired.
 
Freshman Darianne Seward currently leads the team in scoring at 15.0 points per game, while sophomore Haleigh Ristovski tops the team in rebounding at 7.3. Seward and Ristovski are also tied for the team lead with 3.3 assists per game.
 
After playing four games in eight days to begin the 2014-15 season, the Titans will have a week before its next competition as the red, white and blue head east to upstate New York to face Niagara next Saturday, Nov. 29.
 
DETROIT VS. ST. BONAVENTURE
This is the first career meeting between the two programs, located just six hours apart.
 
ABOUT THE BONNIES
Located a little more than an hour outside of Buffalo, New York, St. Bonaventure was able to leave campus amid the terrible winter storm and started its Midwest road trip with a 64-58 setback at Toledo on Thursday.
 
The Bonnies opened the year with a 62-46 win at home over Canisius, but then fell on the road at James Madison, 76-43.
 
St. Bonaventure has six upperclassmen on its 12-man roster, but only one senior.
 
Junior Katie Healy leads the team in scoring at 12.0 ppg., while collecting 4.3 rpg. Last season, she started all 35 games for the Bonnies and led the squad in points per game (16.5), assists (86), blocked shots (38) and field goals made (206), while her 579 total points was good for fourth best on the Bonaventure single-season total.
 
Junior Nyla Rueter is tallying 8.3 ppg., 3.7 rpg., and 1.6 apg., while junior Hannah Little is posting 10.3 ppg., a 5.3 rpg., and 1.0 apg.
 
TALE OF TWO HALVES
Detroit has led at the half in all three games so far on the season, but the second stanza has been a different story.
 
UDM led Michigan, 37-36, but was outscored 50-20 in the second half, while at Ohio, the Titans led 27-25, but the Bobcats used a mid-period run to win the second 20 minutes, 35-30.
 
THE MOTOR CITY AGAINST NEW YORK
UDM has played 20 games against schools located in New York and Detroit owns an 11-9 ledger in those contests.
 
Detroit dropped its last contest to a New York school falling at Canisius last year in the season opener, while the last win was at home against the Golden Griffins in 2012-13.
 
AGAINST THE ATLANTIC 10
Detroit is 26-31 all-time against current members of the Atlantic 10 Conference, which includes four former Horizon League/MCC members in Dayton, Duquesne, La Salle and Saint Louis.
 
The last time UDM took on an A-10 team was last season with Rhode Island downing the Titans at the FAU Thanksgiving Classic.
 
Detroit's last win over the A-10 was on Dec. 20, 1999 as the red, white and blue cruised past Duquesne, 80-59.
 
BIG TIME DEFENSE
The Titans are coming off another strong defensive performance as they held Ohio - a team that was averaging 97.5 ppg., through its first two games against Division I competition - to just 60 points and 33.3% shooting (19-of-57), including 24.2% (8-of-33) in the first half.
 
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 was 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, while the 16 made field goals was the fewest by a visiting team since that afore mentioned YSU contest.
 
GLASS WORK
UDM outrebounded Marygrove, 58-30, in the home opener on Nov. 16. The 58 rebounds was the most by the Titans since they grabbed 70 against Central Michigan on Feb. 9, 1980.
 
GETTING TO 70
The Titans are 50-19 when they score 70 or more points as well as 18-5 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.
 
FIVE ALIVE
The Titans had five players in double figures in scoring against Marygrove, the most since they had six versus Wright State last season.
 
Freshman Darianne Seward led the way with 15, while sophomore Haleigh Ristovski tallied 12. Sophomore Minisha Frederick-Childress had 11 and junior Lariah Stevens and freshman Nicole Urbanick netted 10 points apiece.
 
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 it 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 alone - along with three rebounds, three assists and a steal.
 
She had eight points in the first six minutes and 11 in the first eight to guide UDM to an 11-point halftime lead against the Wolverines.
 
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.
 
She came back to record a team-high 15 points with six rebounds, five assists, two steals and even a block against Marygrove and added 11 points with three rebounds at Ohio.
 
Through three games, she is leading the Titans in scoring at 15.0 ppg.
 
I THINK SHE'S BACK
Redshirt sophomore Rosanna Reynolds led Detroit with 15 points at Ohio - including two big 3-pointers down the stretch as UDM rallied late - the second time in three games that she has been in double figures as she looks to come back from an ACL injury that saw her play in just three games last season.
 
She led Detroit with 32 points in the lone exhibition game versus Salem International in just 28 minutes and then netted 17 playing 36 minutes in the season opener at Michigan.
 
She was 7-of-18 from the field and 3-of-4 from behind the arc, but even more impressive was her athletic move to keep the ball in bounds after a steal, jumping right before it went out and tapping it to Darianne Seward, who went on to lay it in ahead of the Michigan defenders.
 
HALEIGH'S SUCH A CROOK
Sophomore Haleigh Ristovski came away with a career-high five steals in the season opener at Michigan, besting her previous high of three last year against Lawrence Tech.
 
DOING THE BOARD WORK
She might not be the typical frontcourt player, but sophomore Haleigh Ristovski has done a fine job on the boards this season.
 
Ristovski finished with a team-high nine rebounds, one shy of her career high, at Michigan and is coming off a nine-point, eight rebound effort at Ohio.
 
Against Marygrove, Ristovski showed her all-around game with 12 points, five rebounds, three steals and tying her career high with five assists and two blocks.

It was the third time in her career she has had five assists in a game.
 
CROSBY BACK IN DOUBLE DIGITS
Senior Ellisha Crosby netted a season-high 12 points at Ohio, her 13th career double-figure scoring game out of the 15 she has played in as a Titan.
 
COACH RAD LOOKING FOR A RECORD
Head coach Autumn Rademacher '97 has recorded 90 victories and is currently in third place in Detroit history in wins, just three away from the school record held by her coach in college Fred Procter (93, 1990-96) and one away from DeWayne Jones (91, 1983-90).
 
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.