Daemen Men's Basketball 2019-20 Game Notes
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DAEMEN MEN'S BASKETBALL 2019-20 GAME NOTES TWO-TIME EAST COAST CONFERENCE REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS // 2014 • 2019 SCHEDULE & RESULTS DAEMEN WILDCATS DIST. COLUMBIA FIREBIRDS (H: 13-1, A: 7-4, N: 1-1) (21-6, 10-3 ECC) (10-14, 5-7 ECC) OCTOBER 24 @ Buffalo # L, 111-73 @DaemenMBB @UDCFirebirds Head Coach: Mike MacDonald (St. Bonaventure '88) Head Coach: Mike Riley (Georgetown ’73) 26 @ Syracuse # L, 90-71 Record at Daemen: 126-49 (6th season) Record at UDC: 68-121 (3rd season) 29 Mohawk # W, 116-54 Record Overall: 383-275 (23rd season) Record Overall: Same NOVEMBER (8-1) GAMEDAY INFO BY THE NUMBERS 1 #1 NW Mo. St. % L, 85-65 2 Mo. Western St. % W, 68-64 Date ____________________ February 21, 2020 Category DC UDC 8 Felician $ W, 95-80 Time ______________________________ 8 PM Scoring Off. 81.6 73.9 9 Nyack $ W, 80-74 Venue _______________ Lumsden Gymnasium Scoring Def. 73.3 74.0 Location ____________________ Amherst, N.Y. FG% Offense .481 .420 14 Mercyhurst W, 67-65 Live Stats ______________daemenwildcats.com FG% Defense .437 .444 16 #4 West Liberty W, 98-83 Live Stream _________________ ECC Network 3pt FG% Off. .389 .325 19 Le Moyne W, 89-79 3pt FG% Def. .338 .347 23 Wilmington ! W, 83-81 Rebounds/Game 37.3 36.8 30 @ U. Sciences W, 83-57 Turnovers/Game 15.3 12.9 DECEMBER (4-1) FASTBREAK POINTS: 10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE GAME 4 Salem W, 89-59 1. Daemen’s final homestand of the regular season wraps up Friday night when they play host to the UDC 7 Roberts Wesleyan * W, 96-70 Firebirds. Daemen is 13-1 at home this season – the eighth time they’ve posted 10+ home wins in the last 13 @ Mercy * W, 103-59 nine seasons. 2. Daemen has won seven of their last eight games overall, including perhaps their most impressive win since 15 @ #24 St. Thomas Aq. * L, 87-80 the calendar flipped to 2020. The Wildcats fended off a furious second-half rally last Friday night to defeat St. 19 @ St. Rose W, 96-88 Thomas Aquinas. It marked Daemen’s second win against a nationally-ranked team this season. 3. Daemen’s 96-79 win Sunday over Mercy clinched the Wildcats’ fifth-straight ECC tournament berth. The JANUARY (5-3) ECC tournament will feature the top six teams in the final standings. Daemen remains in the hunt for a top- 1 @ St. Anselm L, 87-59 two seed and the corresponding bye into the semifinal round. If not, they are in the driver’s seat for the No. 3 seed which would give them a first round home game on March 4. 2 @ St. Michael's W, 72-68 4. UDC finds itself in the thick of the ECC tournament race. The Firebirds are among four teams with five or 4 @ Stonehill L, 82-76 six ECC wins, essentially competing for the final three tournament berths. A win Friday against Daemen 10 Queens * W, 65-57 would push the Firebirds into a fourth-place tie with Molloy. 12 Bridgeport * L, 67-64 5. Daemen will be going for the season sweep and their eighth-straight win in the series with UDC. The 19 @ Dist. Columbia * W, 65-61 Wildcats rallied for a 65-61 win in our nation’s capital last month, getting a double-double from Andrew 24 Molloy * W, 91-83 Sischo (22 points, 10 rebounds) and some timely scoring from Joey Wallace (four points in the final 75 seconds). The Wildcats are 12-2 all-time against the Firebirds. 26 New York Tech * W, 92-57 6. Friday’s game features two of the top three-point marksmen in the ECC: Daemen’s Jeff Redband and UDC’s Juanye Colon. Redband leads the ECC with 89 three-pointers this season and is shooting 51% from FEBRUARY (4-1) downtown (38-for-74) over the last nine games. Colon ranks third in the ECC with 65 three-pointers. 1 @ Roberts Wesleyan * W, 93-73 7. Holding leads has been troublesome for UDC this season. The Firebirds have held second half leads of at 7 @ #11 Bridgeport * L, 83-74 least eight points in six of their 14 losses, including against all three of the ECC’s top teams (11 vs. Daemen; 19 vs. STAC, 8 vs. Bridgeport). 9 @ Queens * W, 84-74 8. Joey Wallace has flirted with triple-doubles in each of Daemen’s last two games. Wallace leads Daemen 14 #12 St. Thomas Aq. * W, 81-77 with 92 assists and is averaging 5.7 assists over the last nine games. Daemen is 14-2 this season when he 16 Mercy * W, 96-79 records at least three assists. 21 Dist. Columbia * 8 PM 9. Daemen is ranked seventh in the official East Region poll from the NCAA Regional Advisory Committee. 28 @ Molloy * 7 PM The NCAA releases 10-team regional polls for all eight regions in the three weeks leading up to the NCAA Championships Selection Show which is slated for Sunday, March 8. 10. Friday’s game marks the final home regular season game for a quintet of Daemen seniors – Jay Sarkis, MARCH (0-0) Jeff Redband, Breon Harris, Jeffrey Duah and Joey Wallace – who will all be honored in a pre-game 1 @ New York Tech * 3:30 PM ceremony. # denotes exhibition % denotes SCB Hall of Fame Classic $ denotes ECC-CACC Challenge PROBABLE LINEUP ! denotes game played at KeyBank Center STARTING FIVE HT YR HOMETOWN GP/GS PPG RPG APG MPG G 5 Jay Sarkis 6-1 R-Sr. Rochester, N.Y. 25/25 9.0 2.3 3.1 32.7 * denotes East Coast Conference G 2 Breon Harris 5-9 Sr. Niagara Falls, N.Y. 23/21 12.7 4.2 2.7 28.8 F 23 Joey Wallace 6-4 R-Sr. Rochester, N.Y. 26/25 11.3 6.2 3.5 29.8 ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS F 44 Jeff Redband 6-7 R-Sr. Batavia, N.Y. 27/27 13.5 3.9 1.3 32.2 Mike Miranto C 22 Andrew Sischo 6-9 R-Jr. Guilderland, N.Y. 26/27 24.1 11.4 1.5 33.6 Sr. Associate A.D., Operations & Communications OFF THE BENCH (NEXT FIVE) Email: [email protected] G 12 Kyle Harris 6-3 Jr. Buffalo, N.Y. 27/9 4.7 3.0 1.1 19.1 Office: 716-839-8385 F 25 Ryan Bradley 6-7 R-Fr. Niagara Falls, N.Y. 16/0 2.6 2.2 0.4 9.8 Cell: 716-471-7626 G 3 Tajmin Holt 6-3 R-So. Rochester, N.Y. 27/0 2.3 1.2 0.7 9.3 Twitter: @coachmiranto G 20 Ryan Salzberg 6-3 Fr. Manlius, N.Y. 18/0 1.4 0.4 0.3 4.7 Website: daemenwildcats.com C 34 Chris Luke 7-0 Jr. Cortland, N.Y. 22/2 1.2 1.2 0.1 4.0 GAME #28 // DAEMEN VS. DIST. COLUMBIA // FEB. 21, 2020 // LUMSDEN GYMNASIUM NUMERICAL ROSTER No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown / High School / Previous School 2 Breon Harris Sr. G 5-9 170 Niagara Falls, N.Y. / Niagara Falls 3 Tajmin Holt R-So. G 6-3 200 Rochester, N.Y. / Rochester Early College 4 Jeffrey Duah Sr. G 5-7 185 Bronx, N.Y. / South Bronx 5 Jay Sarkis R-Sr. G 6-1 175 Rochester, N.Y. / Greece Athena 10 Donte' Williams R-Sr. G/F 6-4 180 Buffalo, N.Y. / Bishop Timon-St. Jude / California (Pa.) 11 Trevor Book So. G 6-4 175 North Tonawanda, N.Y. / North Tonawanda 12 Kyle Harris Jr. G 6-3 180 Buffalo, N.Y. / Park School / Erie Community College 14 Da'Shawn Hines R-So. G 5-10 170 Amherst, N.Y. / Amherst 15 Keith Slack Fr. G 5-8 155 Rochester, N.Y. / Gates Chili 20 Ryan Salzberg Fr. G 6-4 180 Manlius, N.Y. / Bridgton Academy 21 Josiah Chandler Fr. G 6-0 180 New York City, N.Y. / LaSalle Academy 22 Andrew Sischo R-Jr. C 6-9 240 Guilderland, N.Y. / Guilderland 23 Joey Wallace R-Sr. G 6-4 205 Rochester, N.Y. / Immaculate / Southern Connecticut State 24 Ziv Basden R-So. F 6-5 195 Nassau, Bahamas / Redemption Christian 25 Ryan Bradley R-Fr. F 6-7 190 Niagara Falls, N.Y. / Canisius 30 Patrick Higgins Fr. G 5-10 180 Pennington, N.Y. / The Pennington School 33 Joey Atkins So. G/F 6-4 175 Watervliet, N.Y. / Watervliet / Jefferson 34 Chris Luke Jr. C 7-0 250 Cortland, N.Y. / Cortland / Niagara County Community College 44 Jeff Redband R-Sr. F 6-7 180 Batavia, N.Y. / Batavia 51 Justin Poumpey Fr. G 5-10 160 Buffalo, N.Y. / St. Francis RADIO/TV ROSTER #2 #3 #4 #5 #10 #11 #12 Breon Harris Tajmin Holt Jeffrey Duah Jay Sarkis Donte' Williams Trevor Book Kyle Harris G • Sr. • 5-9 G • R-So. • 6-3 G • Jr. • 5-7 G • R-Sr. • 6-1 G/F • R-Sr. • 6-4 G • So. • 6-4 G • Jr. • 6-e Niagara Falls, N.Y. Rochester, N.Y. Bronx, N.Y. Rochester, N.Y. Buffalo, N.Y. N. Tonawanda, N.Y. Buffalo, N.Y. Greece Athena Park School Niagara Falls Rochester Early South Bronx Bishop Timon/St. Jude N. Tonawanda College #14 #15 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 DaShawn Hines Keith Slack Ryan Salzberg Josiah Chandler Andrew Sischo Joey Wallace Ziv Basden G • R-So.