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6 NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES // 14 NIT APPEARANCES // 5 MVC REGULAR SEASON TITLES // 4 MVC TOURNAMENT TITLES // 21 ALL-AMERICANS Illinois State Redbirds // Ohio State Buckeyes (0-0, 0-0 MVC) (0-0, 0-0 big 10) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 // 7 PM // VALUE CITY ARENA // COLUMBUS, OHIO 2020-21 SCHEDULE/RESULTS MATCH-UP OVERALL RECORD: 0-0 REDBIRDS #23/24 BUCKEYES MVC: 0-0 // Non-Conference: 0-0 Home: 0-0 // Away: 0-0 // Neutral: 0-0 Head Coach: Dan Muller Head Coach: Chris Holtman Alma Mater: Illinois State ‘98 Alma Mater: Taylor ‘94 NOVEMBER Record at ISU: 149-117 (9th season) Record at Ohio State: 66-34 (4th season) 1 25 at Ohio State 1 p.m. ESPN Career Record: 149-117 (9th season) Career Record: 180-119 (10th season) 28 vs. UMass Lowell 1 TBD TV vs. Ohio State: 0-0 vs. Illinois State: 0-0 DECEMBER 12 at Ball State TBD TBD QUICK HITTERS GAME INFORMATION 15 CHICAGO STATE TBD TBD • Illinois State is 78-44 all-time in season openers. SERIES HISTORY Overall First Meeting JANUARY • This season’s Illinois State team has the seventh-highest average height in Current Streak program history, as the 15 players on the team have an average height of 6-5.80. First Meeting In Columbus First Meeting • The Redbirds have no seniors on this season’s team, the seventh time in pro- Last Meeting None FEBRUARY gram history a squad had no seniors. Of the six previous occurances, four times the team made a postseason (NCAA or NIT) the following season. TELEVISION • Along with having no seniors and just four juniors, the team’s average athletic ESPN year is 1.80 (freshman = 1, seniors = 4), which is tied for the least experienced Play-by-Play Anish Shroff MARCH team in program history. Analyst Cory Alexander 4 MVC First Round 2 6:05 pm MVC TV Network • Last season Illinois State’s opponents averaged an offensive possession 2 5 MVC Quarterfinals 12:05 pm MVC TV Network lengthof 18.8 seconds, the longest-such total in the NCAA according to KenPom. RADIO 6 MVC Semifinals 2 2:35 pm CBS Sports Network Illinois State Radio Network • Illinois State has four players from outside of the United States, the most for- 7 MVC Championship 2 1:05 pm CBS Flagships WJBC 93.7 & 1230 AM eign players on a Redbird team in program history. The previous most was from Online TuneIn.com 1 the 1996-97, 2012-13, and 2013-14 seasons that had three players each from = Columbus, Ohio www.goredbirds.com/watch 2 = Arch Madness (St. Louis, Mo.) outside of the USA. • = Missouri Valley Conference Game Play-by-Play Dick Luedke MVC TV Network consists of: Fox Sports Midwest, Fox Sports • Illinois State has faced 10 of the 14 schools in the Big Ten, with a 7-26 record Indiana, Fox Kansas City, and NBC Sports Chicago all-time against teams from the conference. STATISTICAL COMPARISON ILS OSU • There are 11 current NCAA Division I head coaches that either played or Overall Record 10-21 21-10 coached at Illinois State, including two other head coaches in the Missouri Valley Conference Record 5-13 11-9 Conference. Scoring Offense 66.1 72.1 • Illinois State head coach Dan Muller is one of 34 head coaches in the country Scoring Defense 70.0 62.9 who is coaching at his alma mater. Of that group, he has the seventh-most victo- Scoring Margin -3.9 +9.1 ries. Leading the list is Jim Boeheim (Syracuse), Roy Williams (North Carolina), FG Percentage .424 .446 Matt Painter (Purdue), and Bob Huggins (West Virginia). FG Percentage Defense .444 .397 • Illinois State is 149-117 under head coach Dan Muller. Since he took over, he 3FG Percentage .355 .373 has the second-best record in the state of Illinois. 3FG Percentage Defense .337 .327 3FG Per Game 8.3 8.4 • Illinois State is 3-5 all-time on November 25. Free Throw Percentage .711 .752 Rebounding Offense 33.4 37.0 Rebounding Margin -1.5 +5.4 Assists Per Game 12.0 13.3 Turnovers Per Game 14.4 12.7 Turnover Margin -0.9 -0.5 Assist / Turnover Ratio 0.8 1.0 Steals Per Game 5.8 5.0 Blocked Shots/Game 2.5 3.5 REDBIRD PROJECTED STARTERS (BASED OFF OF THE LAST GAME) Pos. No. Name Ht. Wt. Cl. Hometown PPG RPG APG FG% 3FG% FT% F 4 Abdou Ndiaye 6-9 195 r-So. Louga, Senegal F 21 Dusan Mahorcic 6-10 230 Jr. Belgrade, Serbia G 0 DJ Horne 6-1 175 So. Raleigh, N.C. G 2 Josiah Strong 6-3 194 Jr. Brooklyn Park, Minn. G 12 Antonio Reeves 6-4 185 So. Chicago, Ill. Reserves G 1 Dedric Boyd 6-4 185 r-Jr. Brownsville, Tenn. G 3 Howard Fleming Jr. 6-5 190 Fr. Louisville, Ky. ILLINOIS STATE ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS G 10 Emon Washington 6-6 175 Fr. Atlanta, Ga. Bill Salyer, Assistant Director / MBB Contact F 11 Alston Andrews 6-9 220 Fr. Detroit, Mich. 203C Horton Field House F 13 Sy Chatman 6-8 220 Jr. Minneapolis, Minn. Normal, IL 61790-7130 G 14 Nik Stadelman 6-0 175 Fr. Rockford, Ill. Cell: (260) 705-3963 / Office: (309) 438-3805 F 23 Harouna Sissoko 6-7 210 r-Fr. Kayes, Mali Email: [email protected] G 24 Jayden Johnson 6-6 195 Fr. Batavia, Ill. Twitter: @bill_salyer F 25 Alex Kotov 6-10 215 So. Moscow, Russia GENERAL INFORMATION SCOUTING THE BUCKEYES SEASON AND CAREER TOTALS Name of School Illinois State University The season opener for Ohio State comes after a COVID-shortened 2019-20 season in which 2019-20 Career Normal, Ill. 61790 the Buckeyes went 21-10 with an 11-9 mark in Big Ten play. DOUBLE-DIGIT SCORING GAMES City/Zip Founded 1857 Back for Ohio State this season is 6-3 guard Duane Washington who averaged 11.5 points per DJ Horne 14 (6-8) 14 (6-8) Enrollment 20,878 game last season, dishing out 40 assists while making 55-of-140 shots from beyond the arc. Antonio Reeves 10 (3-7) 10 (3-7) Also back is 6-1 guard CJ Walker and 6-8 forward Kyle Young who averaged 8.7 and 7.5 points Nickname Redbirds per game, each. Walker dished out 107 assists against 54 turnovers, while Young pulled down Dedric Boyd 7 (1-6) 7 (1-6) School Colors Red (PMS 186) and White 144 rebounds and made 59 percent of his shots from the field. Doug Collins Court at Redbird Arena Arena Name In the Buckeyes’ last game, an 80-69 loss at Michigan State, Washington led the team with 16 20+ POINT GAMES 9,600 Capacity points, while Walker scored 14 and forward E.J. Liddell added a dozen points. The Buckeyes DJ Horne 2 (2-0) 2 (2-0) Affiliation NCAA Division I made 45 percent of their shots from the field, and 31 percent from beyond the arc. Dedric Boyd 1 (0-1) 1 (0-1) Missouri Valley Conference TALL TEAM President Dr. Larry Dietz With the team having four players standing 6-9 or taller, this Illinois State squad has the sev- 10+ REBOUND GAMES Alma Mater Southern Illinois ’70 enth-biggest average height of any team in program history with an average height of 6-5.80, Abdou Ndiaye 1 (0-1) 1 (0-1) Athletic Director Larry Lyons this years’ team trails the tallest two teams (1976-77 and 1987-88) by just over 1/4 of an inch per Alma Mater Illinois ’78 player. Below are the top-10 tallest and shortest Illinois State teams since 1962-63. 3+ STEAL GAMES Ticket Office Phone (309) 438-8000 tallest ISU teams Shortest ISU teams Rk. season Avg in. Rk. season avg in. Website GoRedbirds.com DJ Horne 1 (1-0) 1 (1-0) 1. 1976-77 78.08 1. 1964-65 71.63 Twitter @ISURedbirds 1987-88 78.08 2. 1965-66 74.00 Basketball Twitter @Redbird_MBB 3. 1979-80 78.07 3. 2010-11 74.27 3+ THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS Basketball Hashtag #REDBIRDhoops 1985-86 78.07 4. 1963-64 74.31 DJ Horne 7 (2-5) 7 (2-5) 5. 1997-98 77.88 5. 1962-63 74.46 Antonio Reeves 4 (2-2) 4 (2-2) 6. 1983-84 77.85 6. 1981-82 74.64 HISTORY 7. 2020-21 77.80 7. 1966-67 74.67 Dedric Boyd 3 (1-2) 3 (1-2) First Year of Basketball 1898-99 8. 2017-18 77.71 8. 1968-69 75.00 9. 1980-81 77.62 9. 1967-68 75.13 All-Time Record 1608-1155 STARTS 10. 2016-17 77.60 10 1969-70 75.27 NCAA Appearances 6 DJ Horne 24 (7-17) 24 (7-17) Last 1998 BABY BIRDS Abdou Ndiaye 9 (2-7) 9 (2-7) NIT Appearances 14 This season’s Illinois State men’s basketball team has no seniors and just four juniors, with the remaining 11 student-athletes being of sophomore or freshman age. The average athletic year Dedric Boyd 4 (1-3) 4 (1-3) 2017 Last for the Redbirds this season is 1.80 (freshman =1, senior =4), which is tied for the youngest Antonio Reeves 3 (1-2) 3 (1-2) CBI Appearances 1 squad in program history. Below are the 10 oldest and youngest teams in the program since 1962-63. Last 2014 Last Postseason UCF (NIT Second Round) least experienced most experienced Illinois State teams Illinois State teams Rk.