The Wright State men's basketball team scored the first eight points of the game and led wire to wire in defeating Detroit 64-53 in Horizon League action Monday night at Calihan Hall.

Threes by Kendall Griffin and Chrishawn Hopkins helped the Raiders get off to that 8-0 start and a Justin Mitchell jumper made it 12-2 five minutes into the contest. 

Detroit cut the deficit to three with an 8-1 run, only to see WSU answer with a 17-3 burst over a six-minute span, a run that including three Grant Benzinger three-pointers and six points from Michael Karena, to go up 30-13 with 6:17 remaining in the first half.

Back came the Titans, however, as they scored 14 of the final 17 points of the period to trail by just six at the halftime break at 33-27.

The Raiders shot 52 percent in the opening 20 minutes, including six of 13 three-pointers, while Detroit shot 43 percent, four of nine from behind the arc.

A Chris Jenkins three made a three-point game early in the second half before Wright State pushed the lead back into double figures with a 12-2 run, a run that featured threes by Reggie Arceneaux and Benzinger.

The Titans would get no closer than eight the rest of the way as WSU shot 46 percent for the game overall, including an 11 of 29 performance from three-point range.  UDM, meanwhile, shot 40 percent for the game and was seven of 18 from three.

Griffin led the Raiders with 20 points, 13 in the second half, while Benzinger added 18 off the bench, 12 coming in the first half.

Anton Wilson paced Detroit (10-12, 3-4 Horizon) with 15 points off the bench, but no other Titan had more than eight.

Wright State (11-10, 3-4 Horizon) wraps up the Michigan trip on Wednesday, January 28, with a 7:00 contest at Oakland.