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Saturday, January 24
Fort Wayne, Ind.
7 p.m.
Purdue Fort Wayne
vs
North Dakota State
Men's Basketball Hosts Bison in IPFW Homecoming
1/24/2015 1:20:00 AM | Men's Basketball
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The IPFW men's basketball hosts its 2014-15 homecoming game on Saturday evening, as the Mastodons welcome the North Dakota State Bison to the Gates Sports Center in the second game of a women's / men's doubleheader.
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Date: Saturday, January 24 | 7 p.m.
Location: Fort Wayne, Ind. | Gates Sports Center
Audio: ESPN Radio 1380 AM | Brett Rump, play-by-play; Art Saltsberg, analyst
Video: Mastodon All-Access (subscription required)
Television: PBS39
QUICK HITTERS
• The game is a rematch of the two schools who played in the Summit League Championship Game a season ago.
• North Dakota State and IPFW sit 1-2 in the Summit League rankings in rebounding margin.
• Against Oral Roberts, Steve Forbes picked up his fifth double-double of the season, the most since Deilvez Yearby had nine in 2009-10.
• IPFW has put together runs of 10-0 or better in half of its 18 games this season, with the team totaling 14 different 10-0 or better runs total on the year.
• IPFW held Denver to just 10 rebounds in the team's victory on Thursday evening, the fourth fewest in NCAA Division I since 1996-97, and the lowest in program history.
• Forbes currently ranks 25th in the country in career field goal percentage among active players.
• IPFW was picked to finish first in the Summit League in the preseason poll of the league's head coaches, SIDs, and select media members.
SCOUTING THE BISON
North Dakota State comes into the weekend ? nale having won seven of its last eight games, including a 69-61 overtime win over IUPUI on Thursday evening.
In the win over IUPUI, the Bison spread the team's 225 total minutes over just seven players, each of whom scored at least four points. In the game Law-rence Alexander scored a game-high 24 points, with A.J. Jacobson and Dexter Werner each scored 10. Chris Kading pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds, while scoring six points and blocking three shots. Carlin Dupree dished out a game-high four assists, as Jacobson and Kading each dished out two assists.
Alexander, the lone senior on the team, leads the squad by averaging a Summit League-best 18.2 points per game. Jacobson and Kory Brown average 10.6 and 10.2, respectively.
Werner averages 9.8 and a team-best 6.3 rebounds per game off of the bench. Six other Bison: Carlin Dupree (4.9), Alexander (4.6), Brown (4.6), Ja-cobson (4.1), Paul Miller (4.1), and Chris Kading (4.1) each pull down over four rebounds per game. Dupree dishes out a team-best 3.2 assists per game, while also leading the team with 22 steals. Werner also paces the team with 29 blocked shots, with Kading blocking 21 for the year.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Date: Saturday, January 24 | 7 p.m.
Location: Fort Wayne, Ind. | Gates Sports Center
Audio: ESPN Radio 1380 AM | Brett Rump, play-by-play; Art Saltsberg, analyst
Video: Mastodon All-Access (subscription required)
Television: PBS39
QUICK HITTERS
• The game is a rematch of the two schools who played in the Summit League Championship Game a season ago.
• North Dakota State and IPFW sit 1-2 in the Summit League rankings in rebounding margin.
• Against Oral Roberts, Steve Forbes picked up his fifth double-double of the season, the most since Deilvez Yearby had nine in 2009-10.
• IPFW has put together runs of 10-0 or better in half of its 18 games this season, with the team totaling 14 different 10-0 or better runs total on the year.
• IPFW held Denver to just 10 rebounds in the team's victory on Thursday evening, the fourth fewest in NCAA Division I since 1996-97, and the lowest in program history.
• Forbes currently ranks 25th in the country in career field goal percentage among active players.
• IPFW was picked to finish first in the Summit League in the preseason poll of the league's head coaches, SIDs, and select media members.
SCOUTING THE BISON
North Dakota State comes into the weekend ? nale having won seven of its last eight games, including a 69-61 overtime win over IUPUI on Thursday evening.
In the win over IUPUI, the Bison spread the team's 225 total minutes over just seven players, each of whom scored at least four points. In the game Law-rence Alexander scored a game-high 24 points, with A.J. Jacobson and Dexter Werner each scored 10. Chris Kading pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds, while scoring six points and blocking three shots. Carlin Dupree dished out a game-high four assists, as Jacobson and Kading each dished out two assists.
Alexander, the lone senior on the team, leads the squad by averaging a Summit League-best 18.2 points per game. Jacobson and Kory Brown average 10.6 and 10.2, respectively.
Werner averages 9.8 and a team-best 6.3 rebounds per game off of the bench. Six other Bison: Carlin Dupree (4.9), Alexander (4.6), Brown (4.6), Ja-cobson (4.1), Paul Miller (4.1), and Chris Kading (4.1) each pull down over four rebounds per game. Dupree dishes out a team-best 3.2 assists per game, while also leading the team with 22 steals. Werner also paces the team with 29 blocked shots, with Kading blocking 21 for the year.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
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