Men's Basketball Drake Season Schedule/Results & Leaders (As of Dec 10, 2015) DRAKE MEN’S BASKETBALL All Games 2015-16 RESULTS
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DRAKE MEN’S BASKETBALL DRAKE BULLDOGSMEN’S BASKETBALL GAME 10 • AT NEVADA • The Drake University men’s basketball team returns SCHEDULE Dec. 12, 2015 • 6 p.m. CST to road this weekend to face Nevada as part of the MWC/MVC Challenge. Reno, Nev. • Lawlor Events Center November • Currently the Mountain West has a 4-3 lead over the 7 McKENDREE (Exh.) W, 95-78 Missouri Valley heading into this weekend’s game. 13 SIMPSON W, 97-52 • Drake leads the series with the Wolf Pack, 4-0, but COMPARISON OT Saturday will be just the second meeting between the 16 at Tulane L , 79-74 two programs since 1969. 21 UMKC L, 79-73 Drake Team Nevada OT Des Moines, Iowa Location Reno, Nev. • The Bulldogs are aiming to snap a two-game los- 23 vs. W. Kentucky! W , 81-79 Bulldogs Nickname Wolf Pack ing streak after falling at home to DePaul, 74-71, 24 vs. Weber State! L, 74-58 Missouri Valley Conference Mountain West Wednesday evening. 25 vs. Pepperdine! W, 69-53 4-5 Record 6-3 • Sophomore Reed Timmer led the Bulldogs in that 28 UIC W, 83-62 Conference Record loss with a career-high 30 points on 7-of-11 shooting. Ranking • The 30-point outing marked the fourth-time this sea- L2 Streak W2 son that Timmer has scored 20 or more points and December Ray Giacoletti Head Coach Eric Musselman the seventh time a Bulldog has done so this season. 5 at Bowling Green L, 75-63 28-43/3rd Record at School 6-3/1st Last season, a Drake player scored 20 or more points 9 DePAUL L, 74-71 199-166/13th Career Record 6-3/1st just nine times all season. 12 at Nevada 6 p.m. 74.3 Points/Game 83.0 • The Bulldogs currently rank 16th nationally in 69.7 Opp. Points/Game 68.6 19 vs. Iowa$ 3:30 p.m. three-point shooting at 41.7 percent. The Bulldogs +4.7 Scoring Margin +14.4 22 ABILENE CHRISTIAN 7 p.m. have finished in the top 15 in the nation in three-point .480 FG% .444 31 at Wichita State * 1 p.m. .440 Opp. FG% .359 shooting each of the last three seasons. • Graham Woodward currently ranks 18th nationally .417 3FG% .352 January .377 Opp. 3FG% .288 in three-point shooting accuracy at 50 percent. .706 FT% .734 • Nevada has scored 80 or more points four times this 3 ILLINOIS STATE * 1 p.m. 34.4 Rebounds/Game 46.4 season and ranks 42nd nationally in scoring at 83.0 6 INDIANA STATE * 7 p.m. 33.7 Opp. Rebounds/Game 38.6 points per game. 9 at UNI * 7 p.m. +0.8 Rebounding Margin +7.9 • In their last outing, the Wolf Pack throttled Fresno 12 at Evansville * 7 p.m. 13.1 Assists/Game 14.4 Pacific, 119-70. 17 SIU * 3 p.m. 13.1 Turnovers/Game 13.3 • Nevada is led by Marqueze Coleman’s 17.4 points 20 MISSOURI STATE * 7 p.m. -0.9 Turnover Margin +0.0 per game while AJ West nearly averages a double- 4.4 Steals/Game 7.9 double with 9.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game to 23 at Loyola * 1 p.m. 1.9 Blocks/Game 7.9 help the Wolf Pack to a +7.9 advantage in rebounding 26 at Illinois State * 7 p.m. this season. 30 BRADLEY * 2 p.m. ON THE AIR LAST THREE GAMES LEADERS February Television Mountain West Network 2 at Indiana State * 6 p.m. Play-by-play SCORING Analyst REED TIMMER 6 UNI * 1 p.m. G • 6-1 • 185 • So. • New Berlin, Wis. 9 WICHITA STATE * 7 p.m. Radio ESPN 1350-AM 13 at SIU * 3 p.m. Play-by-play Larry Cotlar 22.0 PPG 17 EVANSVILLE * 8 p.m. Analyst Ty Patton 20 at Bradley * 8 p.m. Opponent FG-A 3FG-A FT-A Pts 24 at Missouri State * 7 p.m. Streaming Video www.NevadaWolfPack.tv UIC 9-14 3-6 2-2 23 27 LOYOLA * 1 p.m. COMMUNICATIONS CONTACTS at BGSU 4-10 1-4 4-5 13 DePaul 7-11 3-4 13-17 30 March 3-6 Arch Madness Drake Ty Patton Total 20-35 7-14 19-24 66/22.0 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 JACOB ENEVOLD JENSEN Moines, Iowa) Twitter @DUBulldogs/@TyPatton_Drake C • 7-0 • 246 • Jr. • Lunderskov, Denmark * MVC Contest All times central Nevada Jack Kuestermeyer 7.3 RPG Office 775-682-6984 GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS Cell 775-240-6251 Opponent O-Reb. D-Reb. Total • E-Mail [email protected] Website www.nevadawolfpack.com UIC 1 5 6 at BGSU 0 3 3 DePaul 6 7 13 Total 7 15 22/7.3 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 28-43 (3nd season) Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Polls to earn a Career Record 199-166 (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 1,192-1,416 (.459) since 1947 when it was a NAIA program. MVC Record 553-820 (.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 4-5 .444 (1969, 1970, 1971, 2008) Total 28-43 .384 12-24 .333 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.