@WKUBasketball WKUBasketball @wkubasketball WKUSports 2019-20 GAME NOTES WKUSports.com MEDIA CONTACT: Zach Greenwell, Associate AD of Communications • [email protected] • (270) 668-4716 CAMPBELLSVILLE (4-3) SECONDARY CONTACT: Dana Brown, Media Relations Assistant • [email protected] • (317) 752-6161 AT WKU (3-0) KEY PAGES Monday, Nov. 18 | 7 p.m. (CT) | Bowling Green, Ky. E.A. Diddle Arena (7,523) Page 2 | Streaks/Standings Page 10 | Chasing Record Book Pgs. 15-26 | Player Bios Page 3 | Roster/Coaching Staff Page 12 | Last Time It Happened Page 35 | 2019-20 Stats LISTEN Hilltopper Sports Network, TuneIn Page 4 | Last Series Meeting Page 13-14 | Rick Stansbury Page 36 | Radio/TV Roster • Randy Lee (pxp), Hal Schmitt (analysis) WATCH ESPN3; WKU PBS (BG); WBNA (Louisville) THE TIP-OFF • Graham Doty (pxp), Jay Walton (analysis) WKU Hilltopper Basketball returns home to host NAIA PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP program Campbellsville at 7 p.m. CT Monday at E.A. Did- NOVEMBER (3-0) dle Arena. The game will air online on ESPN3, on WKU PBS 2 Kentucky State (EXH) W, 85-45 in Bowling Green and on WBNA in Louisville. 5 Tennessee Tech W, 76-64 9 Austin Peay W, 97-75 The Hilltoppers improved to 3-0 with a 79-71 road win at 15 at Eastern Kentucky W, 79-71 Eastern Kentucky on Friday night. G | Hollingsworth G | Justice G/F | Savage 18 Campbellsville 7 p.m. CT Lineup 22 (1) vs. Bowling Green 7 p.m. CT Campbellsville fell to 4-3 on Saturday with a loss to Mis- projection 23/24 (1) vs. Illinois State or Cincinnati TBD souri Baptist. WKU is 5-0 all-time against the Tigers in reg- based on 25 (1) TBD TBD ular-season games. The Tops often play CU in exhibitions, previous 29 (2) vs. Louisville 4 p.m. CT including a 91-66 win last year. WKU head coach Rick F | Williams C | Bassey games DECEMBER (0-0) Stansbury has never faced CU in a regular-season game. 3 at Wright State 6 p.m. CT 7 Arkansas 6:30 p.m. CT TOP STORYLINES 17 (3) Kentucky Wesleyan (EXH) 7 p.m. CT • Campbellsville is the alma mater of WKU head coach Rick Stansbury, where he was a four-year letterman 21 at Rhode Island 1 p.m. CT and got his coaching start as a student assistant. Stansbury received Campbellsville’s Distinguished Alumnus 28 Belmont 6:30 p.m. CT Award in 1999 and was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003. JANUARY (0-0) 2 North Texas* 6 p.m. CT • WKU associate head coach Phil Cunningham is a Campbellsville native who played for and coached with 4 Rice* 4 p.m. CT the Tigers under his father and longtime CU coach Lou Cunningham. 9 at UAB* 7 p.m. CT 11 at Middle Tennessee* 5 p.m. CT • Monday’s game counts as a campus-site game of this week’s U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam tournament. 16 Old Dominion* 7 p.m. CT 18 Charlotte* 4 p.m. CT • WKU is trying to start 4-0 for the first time since 2006-07. The Tops are 1 of 81 unbeaten teams nationally. 22 at Marshall* 7 p.m. CT 25 Marshall* 6:30 p.m. CT • WKU has made 20 more free throws (63) than its opponents have even attempted (43) through two games. 30 at Florida Atlantic* 6 p.m. CT FEBRUARY (0-0) • Through three games, the Hilltoppers have trailed for just a total of 3 minutes and 21 seconds. 1 at FIU* 11 a.m. CT 6 Louisiana Tech* 8 p.m. CT • WKU ranks 12th in the country in field-goal percentage at 53.5 percent. The Hilltoppers have shot 50 percent 8 Southern Miss* 6:30 p.m. CT or better in each of their first three games this season. 13 at UTEP* 8 p.m. CT 15 at UTSA* 3 p.m. CT • The Hilltoppers have seven players averaging between 8.0 and 14.7 points per game, including four players 22 Potential Bonus Play* averaging at least 13 points per outing. 27 Potential Bonus Play* MARCH (0-0) 1 Potential Bonus Play* WKU HILLTOPPERS CAMPBELLSVILLE TIGERS 4 Potential Bonus Play* 7 Potential Bonus Play* 2019-20 Record 3-0 2019-20 Record 4-3 11-14 (4) C-USA Tournament Ranking NR Ranking NR 2018-19 NCAA Final NET 113 2018-19 NCAA Final NET N/A (NAIA) (*) Conference USA Game Last Game W, 79-71 at Eastern Kentucky Last Game L, 88-84 vs. Missouri Baptist (1) U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam (U.S. Virgin Islands) Head Coach Rick Stansbury Head Coach Brent Vernon (2) Bridgestone Arena (Nashville, Tenn.) Career Record 358-208 (18th season) Career Record 65-39 (Fourth season) (3) 37th Annual BB&T Classic (Bowling Green, Ky.) Record at School 65-42 (Fourth season) Record at School Same (4) Conference USA Tournament (Frisco, Texas) Leading Scorer Charles Bassey (14.7 ppg) Leading Scorer Taiveyhon Mason (12.6 ppg) Leading Rebounder Charles Bassey (11 rpg) Leading Rebounder Justin Tucker (5.0 rpg) Leading Assists Taveion Hollingsworth (3.7 apg) Leading Assists Taiveyhon Mason (3.4 apg) 1 45 20-WIN SEASONS | 42 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS | 23 NCAA TOURNAMENTS | 1,798 ALL-TIME WINS | 35 NBA DRAFT PICKS WORKING CREDENTIALS: To request credentials, please contact Zach arrangements for the Hilltopper Sports Network. ISDN lines will not be available Greenwell or Dana Brown, WKU Media Relations Assistant. All requests should in Diddle Arena this season. Inquiries about any other accommodations should be be made as early as possible and should be limited to working press only. made well in advance with Greenwell and WKU Telecommunications. Space on the E.A. Diddle Arena press row is limited, and a media/photo work room is available on the ground level just off the arena floor for credentialed BASELINE AREAS: Access to the baselines is reserved for photographers/ media members. videographers. Seating on the baselines is extremely limited, and several spots will be marked and reserved for season credential holders. Media must remain within Credentials will be screened and issued on a priority basis, with national the six spots on each baseline, away from the areas around the goals and stairs, and publications, daily newspapers, wire services, originating radio and television outside the team bench areas. Those who do not adhere to these policies will be networks, television tape crews and student newspapers from WKU and the asked to move or leave the building. visiting school receiving top priority. Requests from weekly newspapers, internet publications and radio stations that cover WKU and the visiting team RECRUITS: Per NCAA rule, media are not permitted to have contact with a prospect may be honored on a space-available basis. or family members of a prospect during their visit (official or unofficial) to campus, including prospects in attendance at practice or games. Contact includes in-person Spouses, dates, equipment carriers and non-working members of the media conversations, phone calls, text messages, emails, social media, etc. Media are also are restricted from press row, sidelines and interview areas. Any abuse of a asked to make every effort to keep distance from prospects on campus, including credential to a WKU athletic event will result in the immediate removal of at practice, during pregame activities and in the stands. the media member from the event as well as the agency losing credential privileges for the remainder of the season. GAMEDAY SERVICES: Members of the media covering the game will be provided with pregame notes for both teams, a media guide and a flipcard. Statistics will be MEDIA WILL CALL: Credentials may be picked up on gameday at the Media handed out at halftime and after the game, and a running play-by-play will also be Will Call located at Gate 2 of E.A. Diddle Arena. Please be mindful that parking provided following the game. WKU offers live stats for media members throughout is done by a list and parking passes will not be issued, so please request the game on StatBroadcast. Approximately 15 minutes following the completion parking at the same time. of the game, a final statistical book will be available. The first run of books will be given directly to the visiting SID to allow for easy departure. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Credentials for photographers will be issued on the basis of circulation, with priority granted to agencies covering the participating POSTGAME INTERVIEWS: For home games, head coach Rick Stansbury and schools on a regular basis. Credentials will not be issued to freelance select players will hold a postgame news conference with the media in the Paul photographers unless they are employed by a reputable publication or the Just Media Center at E.A. Diddle Arena. WKU Athletic Communications/Media media relations office of the participating schools. Per NCAA rule, images or Relations representatives will be available to assist in postgame interviews. likeness of current student-athletes may not be sold, distributed or used for Interviews with the visiting team can be coordinated with the visiting SID, unless it commercial purposes. is predetermined that the visiting team will also come to the media room. RADIO COVERAGE: Radio broadcast permission must be obtained in advance, WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE: Head coach Rick Stansbury will hold a press along with press row reservations, from Zach Greenwell. WKU maintains conference for credentialed media during the week when the team schedule allows, courtesy ethernet and phone lines for schools who can provide reciprocal usually on a weekly basis.