Men's Basketball Drake Combined Team Statistics (As of Nov 13, 2015) All Games
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DRAKE MEN’S BASKETBALL DRAKE BULLDOGSMEN’S BASKETBALL GAME 2 • AT TULANE • #DUVSTU • The Drake University men’s basketball team plays SCHEDULE Nov. 16, 2015 • 7 p.m. CST its first road game of the young 2015-16 season on Monday evening when it faces Tulane. New Orleans, La. • Devlin Fieldhouse November • The Bulldogs make the trek to New Orleans with a 7 McKENDREE (Exh.) W, 95-78 1-0 record after opening the season with a 97-52 win 13 SIMPSON W, 97-52 COMPARISON over Simpson College, a Division III program. • A win would give the Bulldogs their second 2-0 start 16 at Tulane 7 p.m. 21 UMKC 7 p.m. Drake Team Tulane under third-year head coach Ray Giacoletti. The team Des Moines, Iowa Location New Orleans, La. opened up 2-0 during his first season en-route to a 23 vs. W. Kentucky! 5 p.m. Bulldogs Nickname Green Wave 9-3 non-conference record. 24 vs. TBA! TBA Missouri Valley Conference American Athletic • Tulane opened its season with a 68-67 overtime 25 vs. TBA! TBA 1-0 Record 0-1 loss to Alabama A&M on Friday evening. 28 UIC 2 p.m. Conference Record • Monday’s game is the sixth all-time between the Ranking two programs, but the first since the 1994-95 season. W1 Streak L1 Drake leads the series, which dates back to 1970, by December Ray Giacoletti Head Coach Ed Conroy a 3-2 margin. 5 at Bowling Green 3 p.m. 25-38/3rd Record at School 80-82/5th • Heading into the 2015-16 season, 13 of the 14 9 DePAUL 7 p.m. 196-161/13th Career Record 170-215/13th players on the roster were recruited by Giacoletti and 12 at Nevada 6 p.m. 97.0 Points/Game 67.0 staff, including two returning players that earned 52.0 Opp. Points/Game 68.0 19 vs. Iowa$ 3:30 p.m. a combined three All-Missouri Valley Conference +45.0 Scoring Margin -1.0 22 ABILENE CHRISTIAN 7 p.m. honorees. .698 FG% .386 31 at Wichita State * 1 p.m. .292 Opp. FG% .391 • As a freshman, guard Reed Timmer earned MVC All-Freshman and All-Newcomer honors by leading .500 3FG% .259 January .229 Opp. 3FG% .276 Bulldogs in scoring with 11.5 points and 2.4 assists .586 FT% .615 per game. 3 ILLINOIS STATE * 1 p.m. 49 Rebounds/Game 48.0 • Seven-foot center Jacob Enevold was named to the 6 INDIANA STATE * 7 p.m. 26 Opp. Rebounds/Game 37.0 MVC Most Improved Team and will tutor the team’s 9 at UNI * 7 p.m. 49.0 Rebounding Margin +11.0 most recent 7-foot addition in Polish center Dominik 12 at Evansville * 7 p.m. 19 Assists/Game 11.0 Olejniczak. 17 SIU * 3 p.m. 12 Turnovers/Game 19.0 • The Bulldogs also return a pair of other regular start- 20 MISSOURI STATE * 7 p.m. 12.0 Turnover Margin -4.0 ers in sophomore C.J. Rivers and sixth-year player 7 Steals/Game 6.0 Karl Madison. 23 at Loyola * 1 p.m. 5 Blocks/Game 7.0 • Seven newcomers, including three redshirted play- 26 at Illinois State * 7 p.m. ers, have been added to that core. 30 BRADLEY * 2 p.m. ON THE AIR LAST THREE GAMES LEADERS February Television ESPN3 2 at Indiana State * 6 p.m. Play-by-play SCORING Analyst Murry Bartow 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 19.0 PPG 17 EVANSVILLE * 8 p.m. Analyst Paul Doerrfeld 20 at Bradley * 8 p.m. Opponent FG-A 3FG-A FT-A Pts 24 at Missouri State * 7 p.m. Streaming Video ESPN/WatchESPN Simpson 6-7 1-1 6-6 19 27 LOYOLA * 1 p.m. COMMUNICATIONS CONTACTS March 3-6 Arch Madness Drake Ty Patton Total 6-7 1-1 6-6 19 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 DOMINIK OLEJNICZAK Moines, Iowa) Twitter @DUBulldogs/@TyPatton_Drake C • 7-0 • 249 • Fr. • Tourn, Poland * MVC Contest All times central Tulane Rachel Perreault 5.8 RPG Office Phone 504-314-7219 GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS Mobile 504-495-5251 Opponent O-Reb. D-Reb. Total E-mail [email protected] Website www.tulanegreenwave.com Simpson 1 11 12 Twitter @GreenWaveMBB Total 1 11 12 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 First Season Record at Drake 25-38 (2nd season) Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Polls to earn a Career Record 196-161 (12th 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 1,189-1,411 (.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 1-0 1.000 (1969, 1970, 1971, 2008) Total 25-38 .397 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. BS Record Pct. Postseason/Honors E-mail [email protected] 2000-01 17-11 .607 11-5 .688 Press Row 515-271-4878 2001-02 17-13 .567 10-4 .714 Fax 515-271-3015 2002-03 18-13 .581 9-5 .642 NIT 1st Round Website www.GoDrakeBulldogs.com 2003-04 17-13 .567 11-3 .786 NCAA 1st Round Total 69-50 .580 41-17 .707 North Dakota State, Head Coach, 1997-99 Year Record Pct.