Purdue Fort Wayne
Drake
Men's Basketball Opens CBI With Drake on Saturday
3/16/2022 11:41:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Game Day Information
Who: Purdue Fort Wayne (21-11) vs. Drake (24-10)
When: Saturday, March 19 | noon ET
Where: Daytona Beach, Fla. | Ocean Center
Listen: 1380 The Fan
Live Stats: Link
Watch: FloHoops ($)
Game Notes: Purdue Fort Wayne (PDF) | Drake (PDF)
KNOW YOUR FOE
// Leading scorer: Tucker DeVries (13.9)
// Head coach: Darian DeVries
// Drake defeated the 'Dons 74-64 on Dec. 8, 2012 in Des Moines in the only previous meeting.
// Drake fell to Loyola in the Missouri Valley Conference title game.
POSTSEASON HISTORY:
// This is the Mastodons' sixth postseason appearance.
// In 2014, the 'Dons defeated Akron at home 97-91 and fell on the road at VMI 106-95 in the CIT
// In 2015, the 'Dons lost 82-77 at Evansville in the CIT.
// In 2016, the 'Dons earned a berth in the NIT, falling 79-55 at San Diego State.
// In 2017, the 'Dons defeated Ball State at home 88-80, received a bye in the second round and then fell in the quarterfinals at Texas A&M Corpus Christi 78-62 in the CIT.
// In 2018, the 'Dons fell to Central Michigan 94-89 in the CIT.
ON THE 10-GAME WIN STREAK:
// The Mastodons' 10-game win streak was their longest in Division I program history. The program record for consecutive wins is the 1988-89 team that opened the season 11-0.
// The first nine wins came in February, marking the most wins in a single month in program history. Per sports-reference.com, only nine times since 2010-11 has a Division I team won nine or more games in the month of February.
'DONS AND ENDS:
// The 'Dons went 15-6 in league play, sharing the 2022 Horizon League Regular Season Championship with Cleveland State.
// Jarred Godfrey enters Saturday's game with 487 points. Should he score 13 points, it would be his second career 500-point season. He scored 514 points in 2019-20. Only five Mastodons (Bryson Scott, Frank Gaines, Steve Bard, Nick Wise and Bruce Roland) have ever recorded two 500 point seasons in their career. Notably, that list doesn't include current Memphis Grizzlies guard John Konchar who had three seasons of 400 plus points and one of 642.
// Jon Coffman owns a 139-113 career record. He is already the Mastodons' all-time leader in Division I coaching victories. However he is nearing the program record for career wins. That total is held by Andy Piazza who went 142-108 with the 'Dons from 1987 to 1996.
// Horizon League awards saw Jon Coffman named the 2022 Coach of the Year. It is his second career league coach of the year honor after winning the same award in the Summit League in 2015-16
// The 'Dons finished the regular season 14-2 at home this season. The last time they won 14 home games in a season was 2016-17.
// The 'Dons have held a lead for at least five minutes in all but three games this season.
// Cameron Benford set a new program record for games played when he entered the game on Feb. 10 against IUPUI. Benford has now played in 140 games. The previous record holder was current Memphis Grizzlies member John Konchar at 133.
// When Cameron Benford started on Senior Night, it broke a streak of the same starting five for 25 straight games. The 'Dons entered the contest as one of seven teams in the nation to make it that far in the season with the same starting five.
// Johnathan DeJurnett, who scored 12 total points last season in his freshman season, has 77 this season. He played a season-high 19 minutes on Feb. 18 at Green Bay.
// Seven different players have led the team in scoring for a game this season. That ties a single-season high for a Mastodon team under head coach Jon Coffman. The 2019-20 team also had seven scoring leaders.
// When Jalon Pipkins shoots better than 50 percent from the floor, the 'Dons are 9-0 this season.
// Freshman JoJo Peterson scored a career-high 11 points at Milwaukee (Feb. 20). Over the last eight games he is 10-of-18 from three.
// The 'Dons rank 17th in the nation in 3-pointers per game (8.8).
// Per KenPom, the Mastodons recorded the highest Effective field goal percentage in program history (77 percent) in the home win over Robert Morris (Jan. 21).
// KenPom's excitement ranking is "a measure of how much the win probability changed over the course of a game." The Cleveland State 3 OT victory had a value of 4.01, the fifth highest of every game played in the nation this season.
// The Cleveland State win was featured on ESPN's SportsCenter as Scott Van Pelt's "Best Thing I Saw Today
~ Feel The Rumble ~
