Men's Basketball to Battle In-State Rival IUPUI

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The IPFW men's basketball team will look for a season split on Wednesday evening when the Mastodons take on the IUPUI Jaguars in the second of two regular-season meetings between the two schools.

GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Who: IUPUI Jaguars (8-16, 4-6 Summit League)
Where: Indianapolis, Ind. | Indiana State Fairgrounds
When: Wednesday, February 11 | 7 p.m.
Listen: ESPN Radio 1380 AM | Brett Rump, play-by-play
Live Stream: ESPN3 | Greg Rakestraw, play-by-play; Bob Lovell, analyst

QUICK HITTERS
•    IPFW's five-game winning streak is the longest active streak in the Summit League.
•    With one more win, IPFW will have the team's longest win streak since the 1992-93 season.
•    Max Landis was named the Summit League Player of the Week on February 9, marking the first time in two seasons that teammates from the same school have earned the honor in back-to-back weeks.
•    After his performances against South Dakota and Omaha, IPFW senior forward Steve Forbes was named the Summit League Player of the Week, his second Player of the Week honor this season.
•    IPFW head coach Jon Coffman has 13 wins this season, the fourth-most first-year victories in program history, passing former head coach Tony Jasick, who had 11 in his first season at the helm of the program. The program record for wins in a first season as head coach is 15, held by three different coaches (Gordon Stauffer, Andy Piazza, and Tim Russell).
•    IPFW's nine turnovers against Oral Roberts the eighth time this season that the team has committed single-digit turnovers for a game.
•    Against South Dakota State on February 5, IPFW was out-rebounded for the first time in nine games, the second-longest such streak in program history, behind only the 10 consecutive games from the 1992-93 season.

SCOUTING THE JAGUARS
IUPUI comes into the mid-week meeting looking to snap out of its current three-game losing skid, having fallen to Western Illinois, Oral Roberts, and South Dakota State in the team's last three games.

In the last game, a 63-56 loss to South Dakota State, Marcellus Barksdale and Justus Stanback each scored 10 points, while D.J. McCall added nine. Barksdale had a double-double with 10 rebounds, as the Jaguars out-rebounded IUPUI 38-to-22 including a dozen offensive rebounds - three each from Barksdale and McCall.,

Barksdale and Khufu Najee each dished out three assists, with Barksdale and DavRon Williams each pilfering three steals.

The Jaguars have the lowest-scoring team leading scorer in the country, and is led by Barksdale's 8.3 points per game. Williams (7.6), Najee (7.4), ,and Mason Archie (7.3) each average over seven points per game, with Aaron Brennan (6.5) and P.J. Boutte (6.1) above six points per game. In all, the Jaguars use a rotation of 11 players who average at least nine minutes per game.

Williams shoots a Summit League-best 57.0 percent from the field, while pulling down 6.0 rebounds per game. Boutte leads the team with 3.1 assists per game, as Barksdale has picked up 46 steals while Williams has 19 blocked shots.

~ Feel the Rumble ~

Men's Basketball to Battle In-State Rival IUPUI

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