Detroit Tops UIC, 70-66

Filed under Game Recap on January 28th, 2012

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On January 27th at home, the Titans beat the Flames in Horizon play, 70-66.

Ray McCallum put up the most points against the Flames with 26 on 81% shooting from the floor in 39 minutes.

The Titans played a decent game, although the final score was a little closer than expected. Detroit had an advantage in RPI ranking (#219 to #300). The Titans played the Flames earlier this season, and lost that game 63-59.

Detroit was able to overwhelm UIC in defensive rebounding and also win the battle in assists.

Detroit used a big advantage on the boards to win the possession battle with 23 defensive rebounds to 15 for UIC. Detroit beat UIC with assists, 13 to 10, and facilitated more balanced scoring.

UIC Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Darrin Williams 26 13 10 1 1 1 1 A Sammy Sutter 17 12 2 0 1 0 0 A Gary Talton 35 17 2 5 0 0 3 B Daniel Barnes 29 11 1 2 4 0 2 C+ Hayden Humes 34 8 3 0 1 0 1 C Marc Brown 31 2 4 2 0 0 2 D Paris Carter 16 1 3 0 0 0 3 - Ahman Fells 9 2 0 0 0 0 2 - Will Simonton 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

DET Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A+ Ray McCallum 39 26 6 4 2 1 2 A Eli Holman 30 16 8 0 1 1 1 B Doug Anderson 20 9 2 1 1 0 0 B Jason Calliste 37 12 5 2 1 1 4 B- Evan Bruinsma 18 4 5 1 1 0 1 C Chase Simon 23 2 3 3 1 0 2 D+ LaMarcus Lowe 23 1 4 1 0 1 2 - Donavan Foster 7 0 0 1 1 0 1 - P.J. Boutte 3 0 1 0 0 0 1

The Titans are now 12-11. They improve to 6-5 and remain in 6th place in the Horizon. They're also on a 3 game winning streak.

Coming up next is Valparaiso on the road on February 2nd.

• Jason Calliste has 3 straight double-digit point games.
• Detroit has won 75% of the time this season (9-3) after holding an opponent to under 42.3% field goal percentage.
• Detroit has won 100% of the time this season (7-0) when its had a field goal percentage of 51.0% or better.
• Eli Holman has led the team in rebounding in 7 out of 23 games this season.
• Detroit has turned the ball over less than their opponents for the past 10 games.

• The top two scorers (Gary Talton and Darrin Williams) accounted for 45.4% of the points.
• Darrin Williams recorded a double-double. It was the 2nd of his career.
• Darrin Williams has led the team in rebounding 11 times in 21 games this season.
• This loss extended the Flames losing streak to 4 games.
• Darrin Williams accounted for 40.0% of the team's rebounds.

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