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DRAKE MEN’S BASKETBALL DRAKE BULLDOGSMEN’S BASKETBALL GAME 13 | VS. LOYOLA • The Drake men’s basketball team begins Missouri SCHEDULE Dec. 29, 2016 • 7 p.m. CST Valley Conference action on Dec. 29 when it hosts November Des Moines, Iowa • Knapp Center Loyola in the Knapp Center. • The game is also the last of a six-game stretch of 11 SOUTH DAKOTA L, 79-74 15 at UMKC L, 68-62 games played in Des Moines by the Bulldogs. COMPARISON • Drake entered the Holiday break after a 101-69 19 SIMPSON W, 76-61 victory over Mississippi Valley State on Dec. 22. The 24 vs. Iona ! L, 64-53 Drake Team Loyola Bulldogs’ 101 points were their most since Nov. 2013 Des Moines, Iowa Location Chicago, Ill. 25 vs. UC Davis ! L, 64-58 and the team tied a school record with 17 three- Bulldogs Nickname Ramblers 26 vs. UA Anchorage ! L, 74-69 pointers. Missouri Valley Conference Missouri Valley 30 at DePaul L, 77-75 • Eight of those three-pointers came from Billy 2-10 Record 10-3 Wampler who was 8-of-11 for a career-high 27 points. Conference Record His eight three-pointers tied for the second most in a December Ranking OT game in school history. 3 FRESNO STATE # L , 78-76 W1 Streak L1 • Wampler has also scored in double-figures in seven- 10 JACKSON STATE L, 68-63 Jeff Rutter Head Coach Porter Moser straight games and had 20 or more points in three of 17 vs. Iowa State $ L, 97-80 1-3/1st Record at School 81-94/6th the last four games. 72-119/8th Career Record 186-195/13th 19 S. DAKOTA ST. L, 83-75 • Excluding the 17-point loss to Iowa State, Drake’s 71.8 Points/Game 77.4 22 MISS. VALLEY ST. W, 101-69 other nine losses have come by a total of 50 points. 73.5 Opp. Points/Game 63.5 29 LOYOLA * 7 p.m. Two of the team’s last five losses have been by just -1.7 Scoring Margin 13.8 two points. 0.430 FG% 0.515 • Reed Timmer has been Drake’s top scorer in six of January 0.450 Opp. FG% 0.418 12 games this season and is averaging 15.6 points 1 at SIU * 4 p.m. 0.347 3FG% 0.384 per game after posting 16.8 points per game as a 4 at Wichita State * 7 p.m. 0.367 Opp. 3FG% 0.333 sophomore in 2015-16. He has scored 115 points 8 EVANSVILLE * 3 p.m. 0.743 FT% 0.688 in the last eight games including a season-high 24 35.1 Rebounds/Game 32.4 11 INDIANA STATE * 7 p.m. points in the loss at Alaska Anchorage. 35.8 Opp. Rebounds/Game 32.8 15 at UNI * 3 p.m. • Timmer is also recently recorded his 1,000th career -0.7 Rebounding Margin -0.5 18 SIU * 7 p.m. point in the loss to Jackson State. He is one of two 14.1 Assists/Game 15.8 21 at Illinois State * 7 p.m. active MVC players to have recorded 1,000 career 14.2 Turnovers/Game 11.5 points and is the 24th Bulldog to do so. He currently 24 at Missouri State * 7:05 p.m. -0.2 Turnover Margin 4.2 has 1,062 career points and needs just one more 28 UNI * 1 p.m. 6.4 Steals/Game 7.0 point to move into the top-20 all-time at Drake. 2.5 Blocks/Game 2.5 February LAST THREE GAMES ON THE AIR 1 WICHITA STATE * 6 p.m. SCORING 4 at Bradley * 1 p.m. Television Mediacom MC22 BILLY WAMPLER 7 ILLINOIS STATE * 7 p.m. Play-by-play Larry Morgan F • 6-6 • 200 • So. • Eau Claire, Wis. 11 at Indiana State * 1 p.m. Analyst Adam Emmenecker 14 at Evansville * 7 p.m. 18 MISSOURI STATE * 7 p.m. Radio ESPN 1350-AM 22.7 PPG 22 at Loyola * 7 p.m. Play-by-play Larry Cotlar Analyst Paul Doerrfeld Opponent FG-A 3FG-A FT-A Pts 25 BRADLEY * 1 p.m. vs. Iowa St. 9-12 3-6 2-2 23 March Streaming Video The Valley on ESPN3 S. Dakota St. 7-12 4-8 0-0 18 2-5 at MVC Tournament (St. Louis, Mo.) MVSU 8-13 8-11 3-3 27 COMMUNICATIONS CONTACTS Total 24-37 15-25 10-10 68/22.7 ! - GCI Great Alaska Shootout (Anchorage, Ak.) Drake Ty Patton # - MVC/MWC Challenge Office 515-271-3014 REBOUNDING $ - Hy-Vee Classic * MVC Contest Mobile 205-310-1271 C.J. RIVERS All times central E-mail [email protected] G • 6-2 • 187 • Jr. • Cahokia, Ill. Website www.GoDrakeBulldogs.com Twitter @DrakeBulldogsMB/@TyPatton_Drake 5.3 RPG GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS Loyola Bill Behrns Office Phone (773) 508-2497 Opponent O-Reb. D-Reb. Total • Dollar Night- Fans can purchase Mobile (773) 469-6214 vs. Iowa St. 0 5 5 tickets to the game for just $1. $1 tickets are pre-sale only and not E-mail [email protected] S. Dakota St. 2 7 9 Website www.LoyolaRamblers.com available on the day of the game. Twitter @LoyolaRamblers MVSU 0 2 2 • There will also be $1 deals at con- Total 2 14 16/3 cessions the night of the game. WWW.GODRAKEBULLDOGS.COM 1 TWITTER @DUBULLDOGS | @DRAKEBULLDOGSMB DRAKE MEN’S BASKETBALL Jeff Rutter, a veteran coach with vast experience in Iowa and the Missouri Valley conference, is in his fourth season QUICK FACTS at Drake. On Dec. 6, 2016, Rutter assumed head coaching duties after three-and-a-half years as an assistant coach. University Rutter came to Drake after seven seasons at Iowa State Location Des Moines, Iowa where he helped coach 13 all-Big 12 student-athletes and Founded 1881 aided in 46 wins, the third-best two-year win total in Cyclone Enrollment 5,015 history, resulting in a pair of NCAA Tournament berths. Rutter Nickname Bulldogs spent the first four seasons of his ISU tenure as an assistant Colors Blue & White coach before assuming the role of director of operations in Arena (Capacity): Knapp Center (7,152) the spring of 2010 under Fred Hoiberg. Conference Missouri Valley Conference Rutter gained three seasons of experience coaching in the Missouri Valley Conference as an assistant at UNI from President Marty Martin Head Coach 2003-06, where the Panthers compiled a 65-31 mark and Faculty Athletics Rep. TBD made three consecutive NCAA tournament appearances Jeff under head coach Greg McDermott. In his first season in Coaching Staff 2003-04, UNI won the MVC Tournament title and qualified Head Coach Jeff Rutter RUTTER for its first NCAA appearance since 1990. The following year Alma Mater Winona State, 1988 (2004-05), UNI earned its first ever at-large NCAA berth with First Season Record at Drake 1-3 (1st season) a No. 11 seed while posting a 21-11 record. The Panthers Career Record 72-119 (8th season) tied a school record in wins in Rutter’s final year at UNI with a 23-10 record. Assistants Dave Buchanan Three Panthers earned first-team all-Missouri Valley Conference honors four times in his three JR Blount seasons in Cedar Falls. In 2006, Rutter was honored by his peers by winning the NABC Literacy Brian Lucas Award, given annually to a coach who is committed to promoting education to children in local Director of Operations Chris McMahon schools and communities. Past winners of the prestigious award include Mike Krzyzewski, Gene Keady, Tubby Smith and Fran Fraschilla. Team Information Rutter’s career also includes a lengthy tenure as the head coach at Wisconsin-Parkside from 2015-16 Record 7-24 1996-2003 before joining McDermott’s staff. UW-P finished 15-13 overall his final season, its first 2015-16 MVC Record/Finish 2-16/10th winning record since 1988. In his first year as head coach in 1996-97, Rutter’s team stunned the No. 1 team in the nation, the University of Indianapolis, 63-45. In his second season, the team posted its 2015-16 H/A/N Record 5-9/0-12/2-3 first back-to-back double-digit win seasons in a decade. In 2001-02, UW-P was nationally ranked (No. Starters Returning/Lost 4/1 16) for the first time since the school joined the Division II ranks. Letterwinners Returning/Lost 9/3 At UW-P, Rutter developed the Adopt-a-Ranger program and the Junior Rangers built a strong Newcomers 4 connection with schools in the Racine-Kenosha area. His teams also posted some of the highest grade-point averages in the school’s 35-year basketball history. He assisted in developing corporate Program History sponsorship programs and was instrumental in the development of the Ranger Athletic Club and the All-Time Record 1,196-1,447 (.459) men’s basketball Dunk Club. MVC Record 555-838 (.403) Rutter has also taught at various levels, including serving as a clinical associate professor from MVC Tournament Record 17-36 (.327) 1996-2003 at UW-P, a lecturer at North Dakota State from 1990-95 and teaching at the elementary, junior and senior high school levels. MVC Titles 7 (4 Outright/3 Shared) He began his collegiate coaching career at North Dakota State from 1990-95 where the Bison (1935, 39, 64, 69, 70, 71, 2008) posted a 43-17 mark and made two NCAA tournament appearances in his final two seasons there.

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