Tuesday, February 7
Chicago, Ill.
8:05 p.m.
Purdue Fort Wayne
at
Chicago State
Photo by: Lucas Carter
IPFW Visits Chicago for Battle with Cougars
2/6/2012 7:06:00 PM | Men's Basketball
PRE-GAME NOTES
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The IPFW Mastodons step out of Summit League play on Tuesday, when the squad heads to Chicago to take on the Cougars of Chicago State University in an 8:05 p.m. tip-off.
Opponent: Chicago State Cougars (2-20, 1-4 Great West Conference)
When: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 | 8:05 p.m. EST
Where: Chicago, Ill.. | Jones Convocation Center (7,000)
Radio: ESPN 1380 AM (Kent Hormann, play-by-play; Jeff Parrish, analyst)
Live Stats: None Available
Streaming Video: None Available
SCOUTING THE COUGARS
Chicago State comes into Tuesday evening's meeting with a 2-20 overall record; however, the squad has won two of its last six games after falling in their first 16 games of the season, and 25 total dating back to last season.
Last season IPFW defeated the Cougars 95-50 in Fort Wayne, starting the program's 25-game losing skid.
In their most recent game, a 73-64 loss to NJIT, Matt Samuels scored 23 points, making 6-of-11 shots from the field and 9-of-14 from the free throw line, while Lee Fisher scored 16 and Jeremy Robinson 13. The aforementioned trio of players scored 52 of the team's 64 points (81 percent). Fisher pulled down eight rebounds while Robinson grabbed seven in the losing effort. Ardarius Simmons scored six points while dishing out five assists in 31 minutes of playing time.
For the season, Robinson leads the team with a 14.6 point per game scoring average, while Fisher scores 12.5 points per game, and Samuels 11.1. Simmons is just off the double-figure scoring pace averaging eight points per game. Fisher and Robinson average 7.8 and 7.2 rebounds per game each; however, the next highest rebounding average sits at 2.9 rebounds per game, as the Cougars get out-rebounded by an average of 4.7 rebounds per game. Simmons and Fisher have 58 and 52 assists, respectively, while Robinson has a team-best 37 blocked shots.
SERIES vs. CHICAGO STATE
IPFW owns a clean slate against the Cougars, winning all five of the previous meetings, including a 95-50 victory over CSU in Fort Wayne nearly a year ago on February 8. The first meeting came on January 8, 2002 - IPFW's first season as a NCAA Division I member, and the teams met twice a year in 2001-02 and 2002-03.
LAST TIME OUT
The IPFW Mastodons led by as many as ten in the second half, but could not hold onto the lead, as the Jaguars came back with a vengeance and used a three-pointer by Stephen Thomas with 24 seconds left to clinch the 66-63 Jaguar win.
Trey McCorkle scored a team-high 14 points, while Frank Gaines and Mario Hines each scored 13, and Joe Edwards scored 11. Jonny Marlin and Antwaun Boyd each added five points.
McCorkle pulled down seven rebounds, while Gaines and Hines each grabbed five. Justin Jordan dished out a game-high four assists while Marlin gave out three scores. Gaines had three steals, while he, McCorkle, and Edwards had one block apiece.
MASTODONS DRAW EASTERN KENTUCKY IN SEARS BRACKETBUSTER
IPFW has drawn the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in the Mastodons' first ever season in the Sears BracketBusters Event.
Eastern Kentucky is 13-12 this season, and an even 5-5 in Ohio Valley Conference play. The teams have only one common opponent so far this year, as each of the squads have topped UT Martin - with the Mastodons winning by six and the Colonels by eight. The two teams have met twice all-time, splitting the two meetings. Eastern Kentucky won the first meeting in overtime 100-96 in Richmond, Ky. on January 15, 2002, before the Mastodons evened the score with a 79-76 win in Fort Wayne the next season.
EKU is led by Jaron Jones, a 6-5 senior guard out of Lexington, Ky. who is the only player on the team to average in double-figures at 17.0 points per game. Joshua Jones averages 9.4, while Eric Stutz, the team's tallest player at 6-8, averages 8.7 points and a team-best 5.1 rebounds per game.
LAST SEASON vs. CHICAGO STATE
Senior guard Ben Botts and junior guard Jeremy Mixon led five IPFW Mastodons in double figures with 20-points each as the 'Dons drilled the Chicago State Cougars, 95-50 on Tuesday night in non-conference action at the Memorial Coliseum.
The margin of victory was IPFW largest since beating Purdue-North Central, 101-55 on December 28, 2009.
Botts started off a titanic, 29-0 run for the 'Dons midway through the first half with one of his four 3-pointers in the game. IPFW held Chicago State scoreless from the 9:16 mark of the first half until there was just 2:20 remaining.
At the half, IPFW led by the score of 51-15.
Senior guard Zach Plackemeier dished out eight first half assists and finished with a career high 11 before leaving early in the second half.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The IPFW Mastodons step out of Summit League play on Tuesday, when the squad heads to Chicago to take on the Cougars of Chicago State University in an 8:05 p.m. tip-off.
Opponent: Chicago State Cougars (2-20, 1-4 Great West Conference)
When: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 | 8:05 p.m. EST
Where: Chicago, Ill.. | Jones Convocation Center (7,000)
Radio: ESPN 1380 AM (Kent Hormann, play-by-play; Jeff Parrish, analyst)
Live Stats: None Available
Streaming Video: None Available
SCOUTING THE COUGARS
Chicago State comes into Tuesday evening's meeting with a 2-20 overall record; however, the squad has won two of its last six games after falling in their first 16 games of the season, and 25 total dating back to last season.
Last season IPFW defeated the Cougars 95-50 in Fort Wayne, starting the program's 25-game losing skid.
In their most recent game, a 73-64 loss to NJIT, Matt Samuels scored 23 points, making 6-of-11 shots from the field and 9-of-14 from the free throw line, while Lee Fisher scored 16 and Jeremy Robinson 13. The aforementioned trio of players scored 52 of the team's 64 points (81 percent). Fisher pulled down eight rebounds while Robinson grabbed seven in the losing effort. Ardarius Simmons scored six points while dishing out five assists in 31 minutes of playing time.
For the season, Robinson leads the team with a 14.6 point per game scoring average, while Fisher scores 12.5 points per game, and Samuels 11.1. Simmons is just off the double-figure scoring pace averaging eight points per game. Fisher and Robinson average 7.8 and 7.2 rebounds per game each; however, the next highest rebounding average sits at 2.9 rebounds per game, as the Cougars get out-rebounded by an average of 4.7 rebounds per game. Simmons and Fisher have 58 and 52 assists, respectively, while Robinson has a team-best 37 blocked shots.
SERIES vs. CHICAGO STATE
IPFW owns a clean slate against the Cougars, winning all five of the previous meetings, including a 95-50 victory over CSU in Fort Wayne nearly a year ago on February 8. The first meeting came on January 8, 2002 - IPFW's first season as a NCAA Division I member, and the teams met twice a year in 2001-02 and 2002-03.
LAST TIME OUT
The IPFW Mastodons led by as many as ten in the second half, but could not hold onto the lead, as the Jaguars came back with a vengeance and used a three-pointer by Stephen Thomas with 24 seconds left to clinch the 66-63 Jaguar win.
Trey McCorkle scored a team-high 14 points, while Frank Gaines and Mario Hines each scored 13, and Joe Edwards scored 11. Jonny Marlin and Antwaun Boyd each added five points.
McCorkle pulled down seven rebounds, while Gaines and Hines each grabbed five. Justin Jordan dished out a game-high four assists while Marlin gave out three scores. Gaines had three steals, while he, McCorkle, and Edwards had one block apiece.
MASTODONS DRAW EASTERN KENTUCKY IN SEARS BRACKETBUSTER
IPFW has drawn the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in the Mastodons' first ever season in the Sears BracketBusters Event.
Eastern Kentucky is 13-12 this season, and an even 5-5 in Ohio Valley Conference play. The teams have only one common opponent so far this year, as each of the squads have topped UT Martin - with the Mastodons winning by six and the Colonels by eight. The two teams have met twice all-time, splitting the two meetings. Eastern Kentucky won the first meeting in overtime 100-96 in Richmond, Ky. on January 15, 2002, before the Mastodons evened the score with a 79-76 win in Fort Wayne the next season.
EKU is led by Jaron Jones, a 6-5 senior guard out of Lexington, Ky. who is the only player on the team to average in double-figures at 17.0 points per game. Joshua Jones averages 9.4, while Eric Stutz, the team's tallest player at 6-8, averages 8.7 points and a team-best 5.1 rebounds per game.
LAST SEASON vs. CHICAGO STATE
Senior guard Ben Botts and junior guard Jeremy Mixon led five IPFW Mastodons in double figures with 20-points each as the 'Dons drilled the Chicago State Cougars, 95-50 on Tuesday night in non-conference action at the Memorial Coliseum.
The margin of victory was IPFW largest since beating Purdue-North Central, 101-55 on December 28, 2009.
Botts started off a titanic, 29-0 run for the 'Dons midway through the first half with one of his four 3-pointers in the game. IPFW held Chicago State scoreless from the 9:16 mark of the first half until there was just 2:20 remaining.
At the half, IPFW led by the score of 51-15.
Senior guard Zach Plackemeier dished out eight first half assists and finished with a career high 11 before leaving early in the second half.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
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