Detroit Titans
| Detroit Titans | |
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| University | University of Detroit Mercy |
| Conference | Horizon League, MAAC, A-Sun |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | Robert Vowels |
| Location | Detroit, Michigan |
| Varsity teams | 19 |
| Basketball arena | Calihan Hall |
| Baseball stadium | Buysse Field |
| Soccer stadium | Titan Field |
| Mascot | Tommy Titan |
| Nickname | Titans |
| Colors | Red, White, and Blue |
| Website | www |
The Detroit Titans are the athletic teams of the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). The university is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. The school primarily competes in the Horizon League, but competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for men's lacrosse and the Atlantic Sun Conference for women's lacrosse.
A member of the Horizon League, the University of Detroit Mercy sponsors teams in eight men's, nine women's, and one coed NCAA sanctioned sports:
On April 12, 2008, UDM announced the hiring of Ray McCallum as men's basketball coach. McCallum is a veteran of more than 20 years in college basketball, most recently as assistant head coach at Indiana University. The Men's Basketball Team won the 2012 Horizon League Tournament, granting the Titans an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Titans received a 15 seed and lost to Kansas University in the tournament's second round.
Former men's basketball coach Perry Watson led a successful program at Detroit's Southwestern High School and served as an assistant coach at the University of Michigan before coming to UDM and maintained strong recruiting ties within the city's public league. After 14 seasons Watson stepped down as head coach at the end of the 2007-2008 season. Watson guided Detroit to 10 winning seasons, three league titles, two NCAA Tournament appearances and an NIT Final Four. The Titans two NCAA appearances also included victories over St. John's and UCLA. Between 1997-98 and 2000–01, the Titans had four straight 20-victory seasons.
Dick Vitale, ESPN's most well-known college basketball commentator, was the Detroit men's basketball Head Coach for four seasons (1973–1977) before becoming the school's Athletics Director in 1977. The following year he left to coach the Detroit Pistons. In his final year as a college head coach, "Dickie V." led the Detroit Titans to the Round of 16 in the 1977 NCAA Tournament before losing to Michigan, 86-81.
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