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DRAKE MEN’S BASKETBALL DRAKE BULLDOGSMEN’S BASKETBALL GAME 29 • AT MISSOURI STATE • The Drake University men’s basketball team plays SCHEDULE Feb. 24, 2016 • 7 p.m. CST its final road game of the season on Wednesday, Feb. 24, when it makes its annual trip to Springfield, Mo., Springfield, Ill. • JQH Arena November to face Missouri State. 7 McKENDREE (Exh.) W, 95-78 • Earlier this season, the Bears used a second-half 13 SIMPSON W, 97-52 rally to defeat the Bulldogs, 79-70, in Des Moines. COMPARISON OT MSU’s Dequon Miller scored 23 points to help MSU 16 at Tulane L , 79-74 erase a 10-point halftime deficit. 21 UMKC L, 79-73 Drake Team Missouri State OT Des Moines, Iowa Location Springfield, Mo. • Drake makes the trip to JQH Areana with a 6-22 23 vs. W. Kentucky! W , 81-79 Bulldogs Nickname Bears overall record and a 1-15 mark in the MVC. MSU is 24 vs. Weber State! L, 74-58 Missouri Valley Conference Missouri Valley 11-17 overall and 7-9 in the league. 25 vs. Pepperdine! W, 69-53 6-22 Record 11-17 • Reed Timmer needs 15 points to reach the 28 UIC W, 83-62 1-15 Conference Record 7-9 500-point mark this season and become the 19th Ranking Bulldog to reach that milestone. He is currently aver- L6 Streak L2 aging 17.3 points per game, the third-highest average December Ray Giacoletti Head Coach Paul Lusk in the MVC. 5 at Bowling Green L, 75-63 30-60/3rd Record at School 69-88/5th • Drake sophomore Ore Arogundade has averaged 9 DePAUL L, 74-71 201-183/13th Career Record 71-111/6th 8.3 points and 5.8 rebounds per game in the last 10 12 at Nevada L, 79-71 68.0 Points/Game 67.8 games 72.9 Opp. Points/Game 73.5 19 vs. Iowa$ L, 70-64 • Freshman center Dominik Olejniczak has also seen -4.9 Scoring Margin -5.7 22 ABILENE CHRISTIAN W, 87-70 his offensive production surge as he is 37-of-45 from .453 FG% .417 31 at Wichita State * L, 67-47 .462 Opp. FG% .449 the field in the last 11 games. He has scored eight .391 3FG% .309 or more points in four of the last five games with two double-figure scoring games in that span. January .374 Opp. 3FG% .369 3 ILLINOIS STATE * L, 67-62 .720 FT% .678 • Arogundade and Olejniczak’s efforts on the glass 32.8 Rebounds/Game 35.7 have helped Drake outrebound six of its last nine 6 INDIANA STATE * L, 79-69 33.2 Opp. Rebounds/Game 35.6 opponents. 9 at UNI * L, 77-44 -0.4 Rebounding Margin +0.0 • After a pair of subpar shooting games, Drake has 12 at Evansville * L, 84-65 11.9 Assists/Game 12.0 shot 46.2 percent from the three-point arc in the last 17 SIU * L, 81-76 13.6 Turnovers/Game 13.1 two games. The Bulldogs currently rank 23rd nation- 20 MISSOURI STATE * L, 79-70 -3.6 Turnover Margin -0.9 ally in three-point shooting at 39.1 percent. 4.0 Steals/Game 6.1 • Of Drake’s 22 losses, 13 have been by 10 or fewer 23 at Loyola * L, 68-63 1.9 Blocks/Game 3.6 points and 11 have been by eight or fewer points. 26 at Illinois State * L, 76-64 30 BRADLEY * W, 80-70 ON THE AIR LAST THREE GAMES LEADERS February | Television The Valley on ESPN3 SCORING 2 at Indiana State * L, 63-56 Play-by-play REED TIMMER 6 UNI * L, 82-66 Analyst G • 6-1 • 185 • So. • New Berlin, Wis. 9 WICHITA STATE * L, 74-48 13 at SIU * L, 75-60 Radio ESPN 1350-AM Play-by-play Larry Cotlar 15.0 PPG 17 EVANSVILLE * L, 80-74 Analyst Brandon Bader 20 at Bradley * L, 73-70 Opponent FG-A 3FG-A FT-A Pts 24 at Missouri State * 7 p.m. Streaming Video WatchESPN/ESPN3 at SIU 4-12 0-4 1-2 9 27 LOYOLA * 1 p.m. COMMUNICATIONS CONTACTS Evansville 3-8 0-1 10-11 16 at Bradley 6-12 1-2 7-9 20 March 3-6 Arch Madness Drake Ty Patton Total 13-32 1-7 18-22 45/15.0 Office 515-271-3014 ! Gulf Coast Challenge (Estero, Fla.) Mobile 205-310-1271 REBOUNDING E-mail [email protected] $ Hy-Vee Big Four Classic (Des Website www.GoDrakeBulldogs.com CASEY SCHLATTER Moines, Iowa) Twitter @DUBulldogs/@TyPatton_Drake F • 6-10 • 220 • RFr. • Iowa Falls, Iowa * MVC Contest All times central Missouri State Rick Kindhart 5.3 RPG Office Phone 417-836-4585 GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS Mobile 417-849-5865 Opponent O-Reb. D-Reb. Total E-mail [email protected] Website www.missouristatebears.com at SIU 3 2 5 Twitter @MissouriStBears Evansville 1 3 4 at Bradley 2 5 7 Total 6 10 16/5.3 WWW.GODRAKEBULLDOGS.COM 1 TWITTER @DUBULLDOGS | @DRAKEBULLDOGSMB DRAKE MEN’S BASKETBALL Ray Giacoletti was introduced as the 26th head coach in Drake men’s basketball history during a press conference on QUICK FACTS March 28, 2013. In his first season at the helm of the Bulldogs, he led the University squad to a 10-3 start to the season that included the Fresno Location Des Moines, Iowa State Classic championship and a program-record five wins Founded 1881 in the month of November. The team finished his first season Enrollment 5,348 with a 15-16 record. Nickname Bulldogs In his second season, he coached an uneven roster that Colors Blue & White included five seniors and five freshmen to a 9-22 mark. The Arena (Capacity): Knapp Center (7,152) team continued to develop throughout the season, winning Conference Missouri Valley Conference five of its final 10 regular-season games. Giacoletti served as an assistant coach at Gonzaga Univer- President Earl F. ‘Marty’ Martin Head Coach sity for six seasons (2007-13), where he helped lead the pe- Faculty Athletics Rep. Renae Chesnut rennial basketball power to six straight NCAA appearances, Ray five West Coast Conference titles and a 163-41 (.799) record Coaching Staff during his time on campus in Spokane, Wash. Head Coach Ray Giacoletti GIACOLETTI In 2012-13, Gonzaga marched to a 32-3 record and spent Alma Mater Minot State, 1985 the final three weeks of the season ranked No. 1 in both the Third Season Record at Drake 30-60 (3rd season) Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Polls to earn a Career Record 201-183 (13th season) No. 1 seed in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament. Giacoletti came to Gonzaga with 10 total years of head Assistants Jeff Rutter coaching experience and a three-year tenure as the head coach at the University of Utah where he Todd Townsend led the Utes to a 29-6 record in his first season to tie for the third-most wins in program history and Dave Buchanan advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. That squad won 18-straight games to win the Director of Operations JR Blount Mountain West Conference regular-season title and recorded the best league record to date (13-1) in Video Coordinator Chris McMahon the six-year history of the league. As a result, Giacoletti was named the NABC District 13, USBWA District 8, and Mountain West Team Information Conference Coach of the Year. Sophomore center Andrew Bogut became Utah’s first consensus 2014-15 Record 9-22 National Player of the Year, winning the John R. Wooden Award, Naismith, National Association of Basketball Coaches and Associated Press Player of the Year honors. In three seasons on the Utah 2014-15 MVC Record 6-12 bench, he amassed a 54-40 record. 2014-15 H/A/N Record 8-6/1-11/0-5 Prior to taking the reins at Utah, he served as the head coach at Eastern Washington University Starters Returning/Lost 4/3 where he went 69-50 in four seasons, the best mark of any coach in the school’s NCAA Division I Letterwinners Returning/Lost 6/4 history. He guided the Eagles to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2004, as well as the Newcomers 7 Big Sky Conference regular-season and tournament titles. In each of Giacoletti’s first three years, the Eagles placed second in the Big Sky during the regular season and advanced to the tournament Program History championship game. In 2002-03, Giacoletti led EWU to the NIT for the program’s first postseason bid All-Time Record 1,194-1,433 (.459) since 1947 when it was a NAIA program. MVC Record 554-836 (.403) MVC Tournament Record 17-36 (.327) MVC Titles 7 (4 Outright/3 Shared) CAREER HEAD COACHING HISTORY AND RESULTS (1935, 39, 64, 69, 70, 71, 2008) Drake University, Head Coach, 2013-Present MVC Tournament Titles 1 Year Record Pct. MVC Record Pct. Postseason/Honors (2008) 2013-14 15-16 .484 6-12 .333 NCAA Appearances 4 2014-15 9-22 .290 6-12 .333 2015-16 6-22 .214 1-15 .063 (1969, 1970, 1971, 2008) Total 30-60 .333 13-39 .250 NCAA Record 5-4 (.555) NIT Appearances 3 University of Utah, Head Coach, 2004-06 (1964, 1981, 1986) Year Record Pct. MW Record Pct. Postseason/Honors NIT Record 1-3 (.250) 2004-05 29-6 .829 13-1 .929 NCAA Sweet 16 2005-06 14-15 .483 6-10 .375 Media Relations 2006-07 11-19 .367 6-10 .375 Basketball Contact Ty Patton Total 54-40 .574 25-21 .543 Office 515-271-3014 Eastern Washington University, Head Coach, 2000-03 Mobile 205-310-1271 Year Record Pct.