2011-12 IUPUI Game Notes IUPUI (8-12, 2-6) at South Dakota (6-11, 1-7) Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 - 8:00 ET DakotaDome (10,000) Vermillion, S.D. n IUPUI PROBABLE STArters Pos. ## Name PPG RPG APG FG 3FG FT G 2 Stephen Thomas (6-1 / Sr.) 11.4 2.8 4.0 35.5 29.3 88.6 G 4 Ian Chiles (6-1 / So.) 9.6 2.8 1.5 45.9 42.9 75.4 F 1 Lyonell Gaines (6-6 / Fr.) 8.0 5.2 0.9 56.1 00.0 71.0 n 2011-12 SCHEDULE/RESULTS F 5 Alex Young (6-6 / Sr.) 20.0 6.2 2.2 40.3 29.6 81.7 Date Opponent Time/Result F 55 Christian Siakam (6-7 / Sr.) 6.8 5.3 0.7 49.1 66.7 75.8 Nov. 1 # IU East W, 87-77 Nov. 7 # Marian W, 85-50 n OFF THE BENCH Nov. 11 Anderson W, 101-68 Pos. ## Name PPG RPG APG FG 3FG FT G 10 Jordan Shanklin (6-0 / Fr.) 1.1 0.2 0.7 21.7 12.5 75.0 Nov. 15 ^ at Arkansas-Little Rock L, 70-75 G 12 Greg Rice (5-11 / So.) 3.5 1.7 1.0 38.9 36.4 40.0 Nov. 18 ^ at Milwaukee L, 49-62 G 20 Sean Esposito (6-3 / Jr.) 3.1 0.9 0.8 35.7 34.3 83.3 Nov. 20 ^ Eastern Michigan L, 64-66 G/F 22 Marcellus Barksdale (6-5 / Fr.) 4.2 2.4 1.0 34.9 30.8 66.7 Nov. 23 at Ball State L, 62-69 G 23 P.J. Hubert (6-5 / So.) 2.0 0.0 0.0 40.0 50.0 --- Nov. 26 ^ Texas Southern W, 74-55 F 24 Nick Kitcoff (6-7 / Jr.) 2.0 0.0 0.0 100 --- 100 Nov. 28 at Georgetown L, 58-81 F 30 Donovan Gibbs (6-7 / So.) 3.4 2.6 0.6 42.9 40.0 50.0 Dec. 1 * South Dakota State L, 93-97 (ot) C 50 Mitchell Patton (6-9 / So.) 5.5 3.1 0.5 44.7 16.7 58.6 Dec. 3 * North Dakota State L, 79-84 n ABOUT THE GAME Dec. 7 at No. 5/4 Louisville L, 60-90 IUPUI (8-12, 2-6 Summit) will open a two-game Summit League Dec. 10 Western Kentucky W, 84-76 road trip when it takes on South Dakota (6-11, 1-7 Summit) inside the Dec. 16 St. Joseph’s (Ind.) W, 75-55 DakotaDome on Thursday (Jan. 19) for an 8:00 p.m. Eastern tip. The game can be heard in Indianapolis on WNDE 1260, www.WNDE.com or via the Dec. 19 Ball State (BLF) W, 66-57 free iHeartRadio app available on smartphones as Scott McCauley (pxp) Dec. 23 Valparaiso (BLF) W, 97-88 calls the action from courtside. Thursday’s game marks the first of three straight contests away from home and the first of two Dec. 30 * Western Illinois W, 75-68 road games on this trip. Jan. 3 * UMKC W, 83-74 (ot) Jan. 5 * at IPFW L, 67-72 n LAST TIME OUT IUPUI’s current losing streak hit four as the Jaguars dropped an 81-71 home game to Oral Jan. 7 * at Oakland L, 81-93 Roberts on Saturday (Jan. 14) in the Jungle. IUPUI led 63-60 after an Alex Young alley-oop with 7:40 Jan. 12 * Southern Utah L, 64-72 to play, but ORU responded with a decisive 15-0 run to take control of the game. Sophomore War- ren Niles led four Golden Eagles in double-digits with 23 points and fifth-year senior Michael Craion Jan. 14 * Oral Roberts L, 71-81 posted 18 points and 10 boards. Young led all players with 27 points and grabbed his 600th career Jan. 19 * at South Dakota 8:00 p.m. board, but was just 11-of-27 from the floor in defeat. Jan. 21 * at UMKC 8:05 p.m. ORU shot 51 percent from the field and outrebounded the Jaguars 42-27 in the win. IUPUI turned the ball over just three times and outscored the guests 15-3 off turnovers, but was outscored at the Jan. 28 * at Western Illinois 8:00 p.m. charity stripe 26-8. Niles hit 10-of-11 attempts and junior center Damen Bell-Holter was 6-of-7 as part Feb. 1 * Oakland 7:00 p.m. of his 18 points. Sophomore Ian Chiles was the only other Jag to reach double-digits, finishing with Feb. 4 * IPFW 7:00 p.m. 10. Feb. 9 * at Oral Roberts 8:05 p.m. n LAST MEETING/SERIES INFORMATION Feb. 11 * at Southern Utah 9:30 p.m. Tonight's game marks the first-ever meeting between IUPUI and the University of South Dakota on the hardwood. USD will return the game to Indianapolis on Feb. 15 as IUPUI's final home game of Feb. 15 * South Dakota 7:00 p.m. the regular season. Feb. 18 at ESPN BracketBusters tba Feb. 23 * at North Dakota State 8:00 p.m. n AY2K CLIMBS TO 8TH Senior Alex Young became the third player in IUPUI history and 11th in Summit League history Feb. 25 * at South Dakota State 8:30 p.m. to amass at least 2,000 career points in the Jan. 12 loss to Southern Utah with a free throw at the Mar. 3-4 % Summit League Quarters tba 6:46 mark of the first half. With his 27 points against Oral Roberts on Saturday, the 6-foot-6 lefty has since climbed to eighth on The Summit League’s all-time scoring list with 2,032 tallies. Young is the Mar. 5 % Summit League Semis tba only active player in all of Division I men’s college basketball currently over the 2,000 point mark in his Mar. 6 % Summit League Championship tba career and becomes just the third player from the state of Indiana to have reached the number in the last decade (Luke Harangody-Notre Dame and E’Twaun Moore-Purdue). # exhibition game He joins Carlos Knox and Aldray Gibson in IUPUI’s 2,000 point club. ^ Auto-Owners Spartan Invitational (campus sites) * Summit League game n UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY % Summit League Tournament While IUPUI’s 2-6 Summit League start isn’t unprecedented, it’s definitely a rarity for the Jaguars. (BLF) denotes games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse The 2008-09 squad also opened league play at 2-6 before rebounding for a 9-9 league finish. IUPUI All games broadcast on 1260 WNDE / WNDE.com I iHeartRadio app hasn’t finished under .500 in league play since the 2001-02 campaign when the Jaguars went 6-8. Ed Holdaway - IUPUI Sports Information Director - (317) 274-2725 - [email protected] - www.IUPUIJags.com - Page 1 2011-12 IUPUI Game Notes n ROAD WOES n SPECIAlty STATS IUPUI comes into tonight winless on the road this season in seven tries with the losses having come by an average POT - Points off Turnovers of 13.6 points per. The slimmest margin during the seven-game road losing streak are a pair of five-point losses 75-70 PP - Points in the Paint loss at UALR (75-70) and at IPFW (72-67). 2nd - Second Chance Points BP - Bench Points n 6 UP, 4 DOWN Since the six-game winning streak, IUPUI has dropped four straight including home losses to Southern Utah and IUPUI-Opposition Oral Roberts last week. Collectively, the Jaguars have hit just 42.5 (110-of-259) percent from the field while allowing op- Opponent POT PP 2nd BP ponents to make 54.7 (111-of-203) of their attempts. The four defeats have also seen the Jaguars be outrebounded by Anderson 23-11 56-34 23-13 42-22 8.5 rebounds per game and outscored by nine points per game at the foul line. @ UALR 7-17 26-38 4-12 20-20 n LOW TURNOVERS @ Milwaukee 15-10 20-34 6-10 24-14 IUPUI’s three turnovers against Oral Roberts on Saturday were the team’s fewest in the program’s Division I era. E. Michigan 15-10 30-32 11-4 30-17 The previous low was a four turnover game at Oakland on Jan. 6, 2011. @ Ball State 12-19 30-28 7-14 12-21 Texas So. 16-14 30-36 15-8 19-29 n PIVOTAL MINUTES @ G’town 6-19 22-46 14-12 20-18 While senior Christian Siakam individual production has dipped his senior year, the center platoon of he and sophomore Mitchell Patton has performed quite well. The duo is teaming to average 12.3 points and 8.4 boards per SDSU 17-5 28-32 12-17 29-28 game while teaming to play better than 33 minutes a night. NDSU 31-12 34-40 17-13 41-22 @ UofL 17-26 24-50 15-18 43-30 n HIT THE ROAD, JAGS W. Kentucky 20-10 32-28 16-11 11-39 Beginning this week, IUPUI will close the regular season with eight of their final 11 contests on the road including SJC (Ind.) 20-12 36-30 16-5 13-23 the Feb. 18 Sears Bracket Buster contest. The only remaining home games are Oakland (2/1), IPFW (2/4) and South Ball State 13-12 26-24 17-4 15-15 Dakota (2/15).