{"id":25264,"date":"2026-03-12T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=25264"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:01:10","slug":"mens-basketballs-gritty-effort-comes-up-just-short-in-hl-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/03\/12\/mens-basketballs-gritty-effort-comes-up-just-short-in-hl-title-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s basketball&#8217;s gritty effort comes up short, 66-63, in HL title game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Men's basketball players huddle prior to its semifinal game against Robert Morris in Indianapolis.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?resize=1536%2C1022&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?resize=826%2C550&amp;ssl=1 826w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?w=1986&amp;ssl=1 1986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The University of Detroit Mercy men&#8217;s basketball team saw its rejuvenated program come up just short of a NCAA bid as the Titans fell to No. 1 Wright State, 66-63, on Tuesday night in the Barbasol Horizon League Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The trip to the finals was the ninth in school history and the first since winning it all in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The third-seeded Titans made a run to the championship with wins over #8 Milwaukee, 84-63, and #2 Robert Morris, 70-64, and ended the year with a 17-15 record, the most wins since 2012-13, as well as a winning record for a full season for the first time since 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Orlando Lovejoy led the way with a game-high 26 points, four rebounds, three assists, and a steal. Sophomore TJ Nadeau ended with 21 points &#8211; 16 in the second half &#8211; and senior Legend Geeter had 11 points and a team-high nine rebounds in his final game for the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>At 17-15, Detroit Mercy clinched its first winning season since the 12-10 mark in the 2020-21 pandemic season, when coach Montgomery was on staff as an assistant, but the first with a full slate of games since 16-15\u00a0 in 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/detroittitans.com\/news\/2026\/3\/10\/mens-basketball-titans-come-up-short-in-final-seconds-falling-to-wright-state-in-hlmbb-2026-barbasol-championship-game.aspx\">Complete coverage from DetroitTitans.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Detroit Mercy men&#8217;s basketball team saw its rejuvenated program come up just short of a NCAA bid as the Titans fell to No. 1 Wright State, 66-63, on Tuesday night in the Barbasol Horizon League Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":25266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[357,2106,1625,5765,447,7352,717],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/03\/649387393_1210946587692897_1895607142707754508_n.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6zu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25268,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264\/revisions\/25268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}