DETROIT -- Matt Rohde scored 27 points Wednesday to lead Wisconsin-Green Bay past Detroit Mercy 60-54.
The win kept the Phoenix (13-5, 6-2) alone in second place in the Horizon League.
Brandon Cotton scored 12 points to lead Detroit Mercy (7-11, 4-4), which lost its third consecutive league game. The taller Titans were outrebounded 35-26.
Green Bay hit six of its 11 3-point attempts in the second half to take control of the game and finished 9-for-18 from behind the arc. Josh Lawrence connected on one of those triples five minutes into the half to give Green Bay a lead it wouldn't lose. Lawrence finished with 11 points.
The Titans cut the margin to three points with 10 minutes to play, but Rohde stifled the rally by converting a three-point play, then hitting a 3-pointer. Detroit, which made just 34 percent of its field-goal attempts, closed the final score with an eight-point flurry in the final minute.
The teams were a combined 14-for-43 from the field in a low-scoring first half. Detroit's Zach Everingham hit a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to send the squads to the break tied at 21.
