Thursday, February 23
Vermillion, S.D.
8:00 p.m.
Purdue Fort Wayne
at
South Dakota
Photo by: Lucas Carter
Men's Basketball Closes Out Regular Season with Road Trip
2/21/2012 5:33:00 PM | Men's Basketball
PREGAME NOTES
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The IPFW Mastodons close out the 2011-12 regular season this weekend during a road swing to Vermillion, South Dakota, and Kansas City, Missouri.
Opponent: South Dakota Coyotes (9-17, 4-12 Summit)
When: Thursday, February 23, 2012 | 8:00 p.m.
Where: Vermillion, S.D. | DakotaDome (10,000)
Radio: ESPN 1380 AM (Mike Maahs, play-by-play)
Live Stats: South Dakota Live Stats
Streaming Video: CoyotevisionTV (Subscription Required)
SCOUTING THE COYOTES
South Dakota, in their final year of transition from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I, comes into the game with this and
one other game remaining on the 2011-12 schedule, as the program will not be eligible for the Summit League and NCAA Tournaments until next season.
In their most recent game, a 93-92 loss at home to Texas State in the Sears BracketBusters, Louis Krogman scored
37 points on 13-of-22 shooting from the field, while Trevor Gruis scored 23 points and pulled down 15 rebounds. Charlie Westbrook, the team's leading scorer on the season scored 18 points in the one-point loss. Krogman also led the team with six assists and four steals, while playing in all 40 minutes in the contest.
Westbrook paces a trio of players in double-figure scoring with 18.0 points per game, while Krogman is close behind with 16.7. Gruis averages 11.0 points per game, as the next highest player on the team (Allen Saint-Gelais) averages 5.7 points per game.
Ricardo Andreotti pulls down a team-best 7.1 rebounds per game, as Gruis is close behind in rebounding average, at 6.4 caroms per game, and has two more of the entire season (166-to-164) than Andreotti. Krogman has dished out 99 assists, as Westbrook has a team-high 46 steals and Andreotti 33 blocked shots.
SERIES vs. SOUTH DAKOTA
This is just the second all-time meeting between between IPFW and South Dakota, with the Mastodons winning the previous meeting in Fort Wayne earlier this season by a 92-87 final score. This is South Dakota's first season as a member of the Summit League, and next year will be eligible for the postseason tournament.
EARLIER THIS SEASON AGAINST SOUTH DAKOTA
Frank Gaines scored 26, as IPFW had seven players with at least eight points in a 92-87 victory over the South Dakota
Coyotes on Saturday evening.
Gaines, who was leading the Summit League in scoring and ranked sixth in the country, scored 26 points on 8-of-15 shooting and 9-of-10 from the charity stripe. John Peckinpaugh scored a career-high 12 points, as Jason Smeathers and Michael Kibiloski each scored 10, Joe Edwards put in nine, and Trey McCorkle and Mario Hines each added eight points in the win.
Hines grabbed a team-best eight rebounds, with Peckinpaugh adding seven, as IPFW out-rebounded the Coyotes 38-to-28, the third time in the last four games that the Mastodons have held a +10 margin or greater on the boards. Jonny Marlin dished out five assists, with Kibiloski adding four, while Hines had a game-high two blocked shots.
The Mastodons used a 7-0 run early to take an 18-7 lead just over six and a half minutes into the contest before the visitors chipped away at the lead with a 13-2 streak to lead by four at 30-26.
HIGH SCORER
According to the latest NCAA Statistical rankings (2/19/12), IPFW junior Frank Gaines currently ranks 10th in the country in points per game, averaging 20.5 per contest. He has reached the 20-point plateau in 16 of the team's 27 games this season, including scoring a career-high 30 points against Western Illinois on January 7, at Oakland on February 11, and at Eastern Kentucky on February 18. In all, the Summit League has five scorers inside of the top-14 overall, with Oakland's Reggie Hamilton leading the nation. There are also 19 players currently averaging over 20 points per game, over one quarter of those coming from the Summit League.
QUICK HITTERS
• IPFW sits in a three-way tie for eighth place in the Summit League standings, with IPFW and UMKC battling for the eighth and final berth into the 2012 Summit League Tournament
• IPFW has made 50 percent or more of its shots in eight games this season, including a season-high .608 against Valparaiso on December 7
• Frank Gaines became the program's 11th member of the 1,000-point club in the first half of the team's loss at Western Illinois on February 2. He currently has 1,127 career points, and sits 7th in career scoring at IPFW
• Gaines has also climbed into fifth in single-season scoring at IPFw with 553 points, and needs 14 more to pass Steve Bard (1987-88)
• Gaines currently sits fourth in the Summit League and 10th in NCAA Division I in scoring, averaging 20.5 points per game
• IPFW head coach Tony Jasick is 10-17 in his first season as head coach of the Mastodons
• Jasick is the fifth youngest current head coach in NCAA Division I
• Gaines saw his 19-game double-figure scoring streak snapped at Nebraska Omaha on December 11, being held to seven points. He has scored 20 or more in 16 of his last 27 games.
• IPFW has an RPI of 283 in the latest RPI rankings and South Dakota ranks 286th
• IPFW Is 5-4 all-time on February 7
• IPFW leads the all-time series between the two teams 1-0
• IPFW has used four different starting lineups this season, and only Frank Gaines and John Peckinpaugh have started all 27 games for the Mastodons
• Gaines and Trey McCorkle have combined for 42 double-digit scoring efforts this season, while the rest of the squad has combined for just 32
~ Feel the Rumble ~
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The IPFW Mastodons close out the 2011-12 regular season this weekend during a road swing to Vermillion, South Dakota, and Kansas City, Missouri.
Opponent: South Dakota Coyotes (9-17, 4-12 Summit)
When: Thursday, February 23, 2012 | 8:00 p.m.
Where: Vermillion, S.D. | DakotaDome (10,000)
Radio: ESPN 1380 AM (Mike Maahs, play-by-play)
Live Stats: South Dakota Live Stats
Streaming Video: CoyotevisionTV (Subscription Required)
SCOUTING THE COYOTES
South Dakota, in their final year of transition from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I, comes into the game with this and
one other game remaining on the 2011-12 schedule, as the program will not be eligible for the Summit League and NCAA Tournaments until next season.
In their most recent game, a 93-92 loss at home to Texas State in the Sears BracketBusters, Louis Krogman scored
37 points on 13-of-22 shooting from the field, while Trevor Gruis scored 23 points and pulled down 15 rebounds. Charlie Westbrook, the team's leading scorer on the season scored 18 points in the one-point loss. Krogman also led the team with six assists and four steals, while playing in all 40 minutes in the contest.
Westbrook paces a trio of players in double-figure scoring with 18.0 points per game, while Krogman is close behind with 16.7. Gruis averages 11.0 points per game, as the next highest player on the team (Allen Saint-Gelais) averages 5.7 points per game.
Ricardo Andreotti pulls down a team-best 7.1 rebounds per game, as Gruis is close behind in rebounding average, at 6.4 caroms per game, and has two more of the entire season (166-to-164) than Andreotti. Krogman has dished out 99 assists, as Westbrook has a team-high 46 steals and Andreotti 33 blocked shots.
SERIES vs. SOUTH DAKOTA
This is just the second all-time meeting between between IPFW and South Dakota, with the Mastodons winning the previous meeting in Fort Wayne earlier this season by a 92-87 final score. This is South Dakota's first season as a member of the Summit League, and next year will be eligible for the postseason tournament.
EARLIER THIS SEASON AGAINST SOUTH DAKOTA
Frank Gaines scored 26, as IPFW had seven players with at least eight points in a 92-87 victory over the South Dakota
Coyotes on Saturday evening.
Gaines, who was leading the Summit League in scoring and ranked sixth in the country, scored 26 points on 8-of-15 shooting and 9-of-10 from the charity stripe. John Peckinpaugh scored a career-high 12 points, as Jason Smeathers and Michael Kibiloski each scored 10, Joe Edwards put in nine, and Trey McCorkle and Mario Hines each added eight points in the win.
Hines grabbed a team-best eight rebounds, with Peckinpaugh adding seven, as IPFW out-rebounded the Coyotes 38-to-28, the third time in the last four games that the Mastodons have held a +10 margin or greater on the boards. Jonny Marlin dished out five assists, with Kibiloski adding four, while Hines had a game-high two blocked shots.
The Mastodons used a 7-0 run early to take an 18-7 lead just over six and a half minutes into the contest before the visitors chipped away at the lead with a 13-2 streak to lead by four at 30-26.
HIGH SCORER
According to the latest NCAA Statistical rankings (2/19/12), IPFW junior Frank Gaines currently ranks 10th in the country in points per game, averaging 20.5 per contest. He has reached the 20-point plateau in 16 of the team's 27 games this season, including scoring a career-high 30 points against Western Illinois on January 7, at Oakland on February 11, and at Eastern Kentucky on February 18. In all, the Summit League has five scorers inside of the top-14 overall, with Oakland's Reggie Hamilton leading the nation. There are also 19 players currently averaging over 20 points per game, over one quarter of those coming from the Summit League.
QUICK HITTERS
• IPFW sits in a three-way tie for eighth place in the Summit League standings, with IPFW and UMKC battling for the eighth and final berth into the 2012 Summit League Tournament
• IPFW has made 50 percent or more of its shots in eight games this season, including a season-high .608 against Valparaiso on December 7
• Frank Gaines became the program's 11th member of the 1,000-point club in the first half of the team's loss at Western Illinois on February 2. He currently has 1,127 career points, and sits 7th in career scoring at IPFW
• Gaines has also climbed into fifth in single-season scoring at IPFw with 553 points, and needs 14 more to pass Steve Bard (1987-88)
• Gaines currently sits fourth in the Summit League and 10th in NCAA Division I in scoring, averaging 20.5 points per game
• IPFW head coach Tony Jasick is 10-17 in his first season as head coach of the Mastodons
• Jasick is the fifth youngest current head coach in NCAA Division I
• Gaines saw his 19-game double-figure scoring streak snapped at Nebraska Omaha on December 11, being held to seven points. He has scored 20 or more in 16 of his last 27 games.
• IPFW has an RPI of 283 in the latest RPI rankings and South Dakota ranks 286th
• IPFW Is 5-4 all-time on February 7
• IPFW leads the all-time series between the two teams 1-0
• IPFW has used four different starting lineups this season, and only Frank Gaines and John Peckinpaugh have started all 27 games for the Mastodons
• Gaines and Trey McCorkle have combined for 42 double-digit scoring efforts this season, while the rest of the squad has combined for just 32
~ Feel the Rumble ~
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