'Dons Travel to East Coast to Face Navy

PREGAME NOTES

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The IPFW men's basketball team will be making its second straight trip to the east coast when the squad travels to Annapolis, Md., to face off against the Navy Midshipmen in a 7 p.m. tip on Wednesday, November 28.

Opponent: Navy Midshipmen (3-4)
When: Wednesday, November 28 | 7 p.m.
Where: Annapolis, Md. | Alumni Hall (5,710)
Radio: WKJT ESPN 1380 AM (Kent Hormann, play-by-play)
Live Stats: Navy Gametracker
Streaming Video: Navy Live Video

SCOUTING THE MIDSHIPMEN

Navy comes into the mid-week game after coming back from South Padre Island, where the squad went 1-1 with a loss to Prairie View A&M and a win over Delaware State. This year the squad has wins over Marymount and Binghamton, with losses to Siena, UAB, and TCU.

The Midshipmen average 58.6 points per game, while giving up 54.0, the 18th fewest, while holding opponents to .195 percent three-point shooting, second-lowest in the country.

Tilman Dunbar leads the team and is the lone player averaging double-figure points at 10.6 per contest, while Brandon Venturini is close to the double-figure plateau at 9.4 points per game. Worth Smith averages 7.9, and Thurgood Wynn 5.3.

Dunbar averages 5.1 assists per game, while Jared Smoot averages 5.8 rebounds while Smith pulls down 5.1 boards per contest.

GETTING LOW

When the IPFW Mastodons held the Judson Eagles to 22 points, it was the lowest point total given up by IPFW, outside of a 2-0 forfeit victory over IU Southeast on February 12, 1977. Below are the eight lowest point total given up by IPFW in a full contest.

BIG MARGINS

IPFW's 70-point win over Judson was the highest margin of victory in IPFW history, topping the previous high of 52 against Marygrove on December 18, 2006. Below is the five largest margins of victory in IPFW history.

RECORD-SETTING PERFORMANCE

In IPFW's triple-overtime win over Texas-Pan American, the Mastodons set numerous team and individual school records. It was the team's first multi-overtime game since IPFW toppled Western Illinois 97-95 in five overtimes on November 21, 2005.

IPFW's 57 free throw attempts are a new single-game school record, and the team's 32 free throw made are the fifth-most. The team's 63 rebounds are the second-highest total in school history, while Frank Gaines' 21 free throw attempts are the most in a single-game in program history.

CLIMBING THE RECORD BOOKS

IPFW senior Frank Gaines currently has 1,354 career points, fifth most in a career in IPFW history, 46 behind former teammate Ben Botts for fourth all-time. The career school record is 1,765 held by IPFW Hall of Famer Sean Gibson, who has 1,765. Below are the top five scorers in IPFW history.

ALL-TIME SERIES

IPFW has never faced off against Navy, now have the Mastodons faced any team from the Patriot League, which includes Bucknell, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Army, Colgate, American, and Lafayette.

LAST TIME OUT

Behind a career-high 18 points from sophomore Isaiah McCray, and 15 from Mario Hines, the IPFW Mastodons held on despite a fierce comeback from the hosts, as the 'Dons took the game against the Ivy League foe by a 70-66 final score.

McCray scored 18 on 6-of-7 shooting from the field, 1-of-1 from long range, and 5-of-7 from the charity stripe, as Hines went 5-for-6 from the field and 5-of-9 on free throws for 15 points. Luis Jacobo scored 13 for IPFW, while Gaines added a dozen. Hines pulled down eight rebounds and blocked three shots, while Pierre Bland dished out a team-best three assists.

The Mastodons never trailed in the game, as the Mastodons jumped out to an 11-2 lead through the first seven minutes of the game, capped by a McCray lay-up. Down by nine, the Big Green fought back to within two off of a 7-0 run,

The first-half lead grew to double-digits with just over four minutes left in the half, and led by 13 with 1:58 on the third straight three-point basket by Jacobo, as IPFW went into the locker room with a 37-24 lead at halftime.

Trailing by 13 with 16:47 to play in the game, the hosts ran off eight straight points to cut the gap to five, and later cut the gap to as few as one, before IPFW ran off seven straight points to push the advantage back to eight. A pair of John Golden free throws with a minute left cut the gap to two, but a free throw by Joe Edwards, and another from McCray gave the game its four-point final margin.

IPFW went 23-of-50 from the field (46.0 percent), 6-of-15 from long range (40%), and 18-of-30 (60%) from the charity stripe. The squad was narrowly out-rebounded 38-34, just the second time this season that the squad has been out-rebounded.

~ Feel the Rumble ~

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