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2016-17 FRESNO STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES FRESNO STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2016-17 GAME NOTES Stephen Trembley, Director of New Media • 559-278-6178 (office) • 559-270-4291 (cell) • [email protected] Taylor Martinez, Communications Intern • 559-278-2509 (office) • 559-394-6492 (cell) • [email protected] GAME 7: FRESNO STATE (4-2) AT DRAKE (1-6) December 3, 2016 -- 12 p.m. PT -- Des Moines, Iowa (Knapp Center) TV/Online: ESPN3 (Larry Morgan/Adam Emmenecker) Radio: 940 AM ESPN Radio (Paul Loeffler/Marc Q. Jones) Series History: Drake leads 2-0 (overall) and 1-0 (games played in Des Moines) Last Meeting: Drake 84, Fresno State 74 (11/29/13 • Fresno, Calif.) Last Meeting in Des Moines: Drake 70, Fresno State 52 (1949-50 • Des Moines, Iowa) FRESNO STATE Next Up: at Marquette (Dec. 6 • 4:30 p.m. PT), vs. Cal Poly (Dec. 10 • 4 p.m. PT) DRAKE OPENING TIP ABOUT THE DRAKE BULLDOGS • Fresno State has won five of its last six true road games. The Drake Bulldogs (Missouri Valley Conference) are 1-6 this season, with • Fresno State has won 10 straight times in single possession games. a win over Simpson (76-61) and enter Saturday’s game on a four-game (Last loss: Pacific 71, Fresno State 68 • Stockton, Calif. • 12/20/14) losing streak with three losses in the Great Alaska Shootout and a close 77- • Fresno State is eighth in the nation in steals per game (10.0 spg). 75 loss at DePaul this past Wednesday. Drake is led by Reed Timmer (16.3 • Fresno State junior guard Jahmel Taylor is 17th in the nation in 3-point ppg). This is the third meeting between the programs, with Drake winning shooting (17-for-32, 53.1 percent). the previous two meetings. Drake defeated Fresno State 84-74 in Fresno on • Fresno State redshirt junior guard Jaron Hopkins is tied for 32nd in the Nov. 29, 2013 and 70-54 in Des Moines during the 1949-50 season. nation in steals per game (2.3 spg). TAYLOR IGNITES ’DOGS TO WIN AT OREGON STATE BULLDOG BONES Fresno State junior guard Jahmel Taylor scored a career-high 21 points, • By winning the 2016 Mountain West Basketball Championship, Fresno and also had career-best single-game marks in assists (4), steals (3) and State earned its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2001. 3-pointers (6) in the Bulldogs’ 63-58 road win at Oregon State. Taylor, • Fresno State has improved its conference win total in each of the last four who transferred to Fresno State from Washington, made five of his six seasons since head coach Rodney Terry arrived in 2011, rising from 3-11 3-pointers in the first half and converted 60 percent of his 3-point field (11-12) to 5-11 (12-13) to 9-9 (13-14) to 10-8 (14-15) to 13-5 (15-16). goal attempts (6-for-10). It was Fresno State’s first win over a Pac-12 team • Fresno State is one of eight teams in the nation to have improved its since 2011 and first win over Oregon State since 2006. conference win total in each of the last four seasons. • This season, Fresno State was picked to finish fourth in the Mountain TERRY CLIMBING BULLDOGS’ ALL-TIME WINS LIST West by the league’s media in a preseason poll in mid-October. When Fresno State defeated Menlo College 80-67 on Wednesday night, it • Before the 2015-16 season, Fresno State was picked to finish fifth in a was the 175th game coached by Rodney Terry since arriving prior to the preseason poll. The Bulldogs went on to win the 2016 MW Championship 2011-12 season. Terry has 89 wins in his first six seasons at Fresno State and earn the MW’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. and he is tied with Bill Vandenburgh (1954-60) for sixth on the Bulldogs’ all-time head coaching wins list. Terry is now three wins away from tying ’DOGS VISIT DRAKE FOR MW/MVC CHALLENGE Steve Cleveland (2005-11), who 92 career wins with the ’Dogs, for fifth on Fresno State (4-2) begins a two-game Midwest road trip when the Bulldogs the all-time wins list. Terry is the 18th head coach in program history and travel to play at Drake (1-6) for the 2016 Mountain West/Missouri Valley the fifth Fresno State head coach to coach at least 175 games. Challenge on Saturday at 12 p.m. PT. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3 (www.WatchESPN.com) and 940 AM ESPN Radio. • REFERENCE: “Fresno State” (never: FSU, CSUF, Fresno State University, or just simply “Fresno”); ABBREVIATION: Fresno St. or FS 2016-17 SCHEDULE/RESULTS (4-2) N1 (Tues) Cal State San Bernardino (Ex.) ................ W, 76-69 Mountain West Conference Games N11 (Fri) UTSAOE [MWN] ....................................... W, 69-66 D28 (Wed) at New Mexico [ESPNU or ESPN3] .......... 6/7/8 p.m. N14 (Mon) Prairie View A&MOE [MWN] .................... L, 78-84 D31 (Sat) Nevada [ESPN3] ........................................... 4 p.m. N19 (Sat) LamarOE [MWN] ...................................... W, 83-64 J4 (Wed) Wyoming ...................................................... 7 p.m. N22 (Tues) at CSU Bakersfield ...........................................L, 63-71 J7 (Sat) at San Jose State [MWN] ................................... 2 p.m. N25 (Fri) at Oregon StateOE [Pac-12 Oregon] ..............W, 63-58 J11 (Wed) at Air Force [MWN] .......................................... 6 p.m. N30 (Wed) Menlo College .......................................... W, 80-67 J14 (Sat) Boise State [MWN] ...................................... 4 p.m. D3 (Sat) at Drake [ESPN3] ............................................. 12 p.m. J18 (Wed) Colorado State [CBSSN] .............................. 8 p.m. D6 (Tues) at Marquette [CBSSN] .................................. 4:30 p.m. J21 (Sat) at Nevada [CBSSN] ............................................ 3 p.m. D10 (Sat) Cal Poly [MWN]........................................... 4 p.m. J28 (Sat) at Utah State [MWN] ......................................... 6 p.m. D14 (Wed) Holy Names University ................................ 7 p.m. F1 (Wed) Air Force [ROOT Sports/MWN] ................. 7 p.m. D17 (Sat) at Pacific ............................................................... 7 p.m. F4 (Sat) San Diego State [ESPN3] ............................. 4 p.m. D20 (Tues) at Oregon [Pac-12 Networks] ........................... 8 p.m. F8 (Wed) at Wyoming [MWN] .......................................... 6 p.m. F11 (Sat) at Colorado State [MWN] ................................. 1 p.m. NOTES: F15 (Wed) San Jose State [MWN] .................................. 7 p.m. • All games also broadcast on 940 AM ESPN Radio F18 (Sat) New Mexico [CBSSN] .................................. 3 p.m. • All home games also broadcast in Spanish on 1600 AM ESPN Deportes • All home games in BOLD and played at Save Mart Center F22 (Wed) at San Diego State [CBSSN] .............................. 8 p.m. • All Times Pacific F28 (Tues) at Boise State [CBSSN] ....................................... 7 p.m. M4 (Sat) UNLV [ESPN3] ............................................. 4 p.m. OE = 2016 Orange Express [Multi-Team Event, games played at Campus Sites] Pac-12 Networks = Pac-12 Network, Pac-12 Los Angeles, Pac-12 Washington, 2017 Mountain West Tournament (Las Vegas, Nev.) Pac-12 Oregon, Pac-12 Bay Area, Pac-12 Arizona and Pac-12 Mountain M8 (Wed) MW Opening Round [MWN] ............................TBD CBSSN = CBS Sports Network M9 (Thurs) MW Quarterfinals [CBSSN] ................................TBD MWN = Mountain West Network (www.GoBulldogs.com/mwn) M10 (Fri) MW Semifinals [CBSSN] .............7 p.m. or 9:30 p.m. ROOT = ROOT Sports M11 (Sat) MW Championship [CBS] ................................ 3 p.m. | 6 NCAA APPEARANCES (1981, ’82, ’84, 2000*, ’01 & ’16) • 9 NIT APPEARANCES • 1983 NIT CHAMPIONS | 1 2016-17 FRESNO STATE MEN’SIndividual BASKETBALL Career HistoryNOTES BEDDEO, Ryan CAREER STARTS Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Name Career 16-17 Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg Paul Watson 101 6 2016-17 1-0 2/2.0 0-0 .0 0 0 0-0 .0 0 0 0-0 .0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0.0 Karachi Edo 58 0 TOTAL 1-0 2/2.0 0-0 .0 0 0 0-0 .0 0 0 0-0 .0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0.0 Cullen Russo 21 6 BITTNER, Sam Terrell Carter II 8 1 Jaron Hopkins 6 6 Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Jahmel Taylor 6 6 Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg Bryson Williams 5 5 2015-16 18-4 165/9.2 6-16 .3 7 5 5-14 .3 5 7 2-5 .4 0 0 2 15 17 0.9 19 1 5 1 1 3 19 1.1 Sam Bittner 4 0 2016-17 6-0 68/11.3 1-7 .1 4 3 0-3 .0 0 0 0-0 .0 0 0 4 4 8 1.3 10 0 6 1 1 4 2 0.3 TOTAL 24-4 233/9.7 7-23 .3 0 4 5-17 .2 9 4 2-5 .4 0 0 6 19 25 1.0 29 1 11 2 2 7 21 0.9 CAREER GAMES PLAYED CAMPBELL, Ountae Name Career 16-17 Paul Watson 108 6 Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Karachi Edo 103 0 Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg Terrell Carter II 53 6 2015-16 7-0 12/1.7 1-3 .3 3 3 0-0 .0 0 0 0-0 .0 0 0 0 3 3 0.4 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0.3 Cullen Russo 40 6 TOTAL 7-0 12/1.7 1-3 .3 3 3 0-0 .0 0 0 0-0 .0 0 0 0 3 3 0.4 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0.3 Jahmel Taylor 25 6 CARTER II, Terrell Sam Bittner 24 6 Ountae Campbell 7 0 Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Nate Grimes 6 6 Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg Jaron Hopkins 6 6 2016-17 6-1 105/17.5 16-26 .6 1 5 0-0 .0 0 0 6-17 .3 5 3 8 12 20 3.3 17 1 2 7 3 3 38 6.3 Johnny McWilliams 6 6 TOTAL 6-1 105/17.5 16-26 .6 1 5 0-0 .0 0 0 6-17 .3 5 3 8 12 20 3.3 17 1 2 7 3 3 38 6.3 Deshon Taylor 6 6 Bryson Williams 6 6 GRIMES, Nate Grant Shell 6 0 Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring D.