2009-10 Creighton Men's Basketball
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2009-10 Creighton Men’s Basketball Game #12 vs. Northern Iowa • Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009 • 7:05 p.m. SID Contact: Rob Anderson • Office Phone: (402) 280-5544 • Cell Phone: (402) 660-5854 • Fax: (402) 280-2495 • E-mail: [email protected] Northern Iowa Panthers at Creighton Bluejays Qwest Center Omaha (17,260) • Omaha, Neb. Radio: KXSP 590 AM, www.bigsports590.com Television: KMTV Series History: Creighton leads, 26-12 (9-1, 0-0 MVC) Last Meeting: Creighton won 77-71 on Feb. 8, 2009 in Cedar Falls, Iowa (5-6, 0-0 MVC) 2009-10 Schedule & Results Next Game Once registered, fans will only need to log- Creighton (5-6, 0-0 MVC) opens Missouri Valley in with their password on game night. The video November Conference play next Tuesday night when pre- stream, which will include an audio simulcast of 4 MISSOURI WESTERN STATE (Ex.) W 94-69 season favorite Northern Iowa (9-1, 0-0 MVC) the Big Sports 590 (or KMTV) broadcast, typi- 8 NEBRASKA-OMAHA (Ex.) W 93-77 comes to town. cally begins approximately 15-30 minutes 14 at #21 Dayton (WHIO/Cox 2) L 80-90 Tip-off at Qwest Center Omaha (17,260) in before tipoff featuring live video of Qwest Center 17 FLORIDA A&M W 78-53 Omaha, Neb., is scheduled for 7:05 pm. Omaha and the audio of the Big Sports 590 pre- 22 ARKANSAS-LITTLE ROCK W 80-65 game show. Radio Broadcast Information In order to view the webcast, users must Old Spice Classic (Orlando, Fla.) KXSP (“Big Sports 590” AM) will broadcast all have high speed Internet access (cable modem 26 vs. #15 Michigan (ESPN2) L 76-83 (OT) Creighton men’s basketball games during the or DSL service) and Windows Media Player ver- 27 vs. Xavier (ESPNU) L 67-80 2009-10 season. The audio is also webcast live sion 9.0 or above. 29 vs. Iona (ESPNU) L 55-63 at www.bigsports590.com. T. Scott Marr and former Bluejay Brody Live Stats Information December Deren will call the action. All Creighton basketball games will have live 6 NEBRASKA (KMTV) W 67-61 Big Sports 590 will also have a call-in show stats this season. Fans can go to www.gocre- 12 at George Mason (KMTV) L 72-75 focusing on the Bluejays, that leads into the pre- ighton.com and click on the Live Stats tab on 16 SAVANNAH STATE W 77-62 game show on KXSP. The show takes calls after the left-hand side of the page. 19 at #19 New Mexico# (The Mtn.) L 61-66 22 HOUSTON BAPTIST W 85-56 the game as well, also on Big Sports 590. 29 NORTHERN IOWA* (KMTV) 7:05 pm Scouting Northern Iowa Television Broadcast Information Expectations are through the roof at Northern January Tuesday’s game is the third of eight telecasts for Iowa, which has followed last year’s MVC 1 at Indiana State* 1:05 pm KMTV this season. Travis Justice and Nick Tournament title and share of the MVC regular- 3 at Evansville* 2:05 pm Bahe will be on the call. Coordinates follow: season title with a 9-1 start, which includes eight 6 DRAKE* (KMTV) 7:05 pm Galaxy 16 K6 6A Digital straight victories. U/L - 14.104.13H 9 at Wichita State* (ESPNU) 1:00 pm All five starters return from last year’s team D/L - 11.804.13V 13 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS* (FSN) 8:00 pm that finished 23-11, a group led by preseason 16 WICHITA STATE* (ESPN2) 4:00 pm Video Webcast Information all-Valley picks Adam Koch (13.3 ppg., 4.4 rpg.) 20 at Illinois State* (KMTV) 7:05 pm Creighton University Athletics and Jump TV will and Kwadzo Ahelegbe (13.8 ppg., 3.6 rpg.). 24 MISSOURI STATE* (ESPNU) 7:00 pm present a live, pay-per-view video webcast of Ali Farokhmanesh averages 10.4 points 27 at Bradley* 7:05 pm approximately 15 games this season, including per game and tops the team with 24 three-point- 30 at Drake* (KMTV) 7:05 pm Tuesday’s game. To sign up for the video web- ers, while 7-footer Jordan Eglseder averages cast, fans can register by going directly to 12.8 points and 8.0 rebounds per game. February UNI’s only loss was to DePaul, but the 3 EVANSVILLE* (NET-1) 7:05 pm http://www.gocreighton.com. Cost for a Panthers have beaten teams from the Big 10 6 at Missouri State* (KMTV) 7:05 pm monthly pass is $11.95 and a season pass is (Iowa), Big 12 (Iowa State), ACC (Boston 9 INDIANA STATE* (NET-1) 7:05 pm $69.95. 13 ILLINOIS STATE* (KMTV) 2:05 pm 16 at Northern Iowa* (FSN) 7:05 pm Probable Starters 20 BRACKETBUSTERS TBD Creighton (5-6, 0-0 Missouri Valley) 23 at Southern Illinois* (FSN) 7:05 pm No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG RPG MISC Hometown 27 BRADLEY* (MVC TV Wildcard) TBD 1 Justin Carter F 6-4 200 Sr. 8.3 4.9 21 points vs. #15 Michigan Gaithersburg, Md. 10 P’Allen Stinnett G 6-3 185 Jr. 10.1 3.8 Career-high 7 ast. vs. HBU Las Vegas, Nev. March 24 Darryl Ashford F 6-4 191 Jr. 9.8 3.5 2nd on team in blocks, 3FG’s Houston, Texas State Farm MVC Tournament 25 Kenny Lawson Jr. C 6-9 250 Jr. 11.8 6.4 First dbl-dbl vs. Neb (25/10) Oceanside, Calif. 4 First Round 6:05/8:35 pm 30 Antoine Young G 6-0 165 So. 5.2 2.7* 27 assists, 17 turnovers Bellevue, Neb. 5 Quarterfinals (FSN) 12/2:30/6/8:30 pm *assists per game 6 Semifinals (FSN) 1:35/4:05 pm 7 Championship (CBS) 1:05 pm Northern Iowa (9-1, 0-0 Missouri Valley) No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG RPG MISC Hometown *Missouri Valley Conference regular season games 5 Ali Farokhmanesh G 6-0 190 Sr. 10.4 1.6 Team-best 24 3-pointers Iowa City, Iowa #Mountain West-Missouri Valley Conference Challenge Series 11 Kwadzo Ahelegbe G 6-2 200 Jr. 13.8 3.6 32 points vs. Boston College Oakdale, Minn. All times listed are Central and subject to change 13 Johnny Moran G 6-1 190 So. 4.4 2.9 22 pts last year at Qwest Center Algonquin, Ill. Home games in BOLD CAPS at Qwest Center Omaha 34 Adam Koch F 6-8 255 Sr. 13.3 4.4 First-team all-MVC pick Ashwaubenon, Wis. 53 Jordan Eglseder C 7-2 280 Sr. 12.8 8.0 20 pts., 14 reb. at Iowa State Bellevue, Iowa 2009-10 MVC Standings (through 12/28) College) and Conference USA (East Carolina), 24 years as a head coach at all levels. The 2001 MVC only All Games as well as a strong Siena team. and 2002 MVC Coach of the Year was a finalist Team WLWL The Panthers average 67.8 points per for the Naismith National Coach of the Year Wichita State 0 0 11 1 game and shoot 45.4 percent from the floor, Award in 2003. In 2004, Altman was named the Missouri State 0 0 10 1 40.3 percent from three-point range and 65.5 Collegeinsider.com Jim Phelan National Mid- Northern Iowa 0 0 9 1 percent at the line. UNI allows just 57.7 points Season Coach of the Year. In March, 2007, Illinois State 0 0 9 2 per game and opponents shoot just 42.6 per- Altman was named a coach on the MVC’s All- Southern Illinois 0 0 7 2 cent from the floor. Centennial Team. Indiana State 0 0 8 3 Evansville 0 0 6 4 Additionally, Altman has led Creighton to Bradley 0 0 5 5 Scouting Creighton seven NCAA Tournaments and his teams have Creighton 0 0 5 6 Creighton is 5-6 on the young season, going 5- played in the postseason in 12 straight seasons. Drake 0 0 5 7 0 at home but winless in six games away from He is assisted by Brian Fish, Darian DeVries Qwest Center Omaha. and Todd Eisner. Mike Jones is the team’s Coming Up in the MVC The Bluejays have home wins over Florida graduate manager. A&M, UALR, Nebraska, Savannah State and Ben Jacobson (North Dakota, 1994) owns Tues., Dec. 29 Houston Baptist, but lost on the road at No. 21 a 68-39 record in his fourth year as a head *Missouri State at Evansville . .7:05 pm Dayton, George Mason and No. 19 New coach. Jacobson was promoted to head coach *Indiana State at Southern Illinois . .7:05 pm Mexico, and in Orlando to No. 15 Michigan, when Greg McDermott took the Iowa State job *Wichita State at Illinois State . .7:05 pm Xavier and Iona. four summers ago and last season led UNI to *Bradley at Drake . .7:05 pm *Northern Iowa at Creighton . .7:05 pm The Bluejays returned eight lettermen and MVC regular-season and MVC Tournament three starters from last year’s team that went titles. Jacobson is assisted by Ben Johnson, Fri., Jan. 1 27-8 and made a 12th straight postseason Kyle Green and P.J. Hogan. *Creighton at Indiana State . .1:05 pm appearance. *Illinois State at Missouri State . .7:05 pm Junior center Kenny Lawson Jr. leads the The Series With Northern Iowa *Southern Illinois at Bradley . .7:05 pm team in scoring (11.8 ppg.), rebounding (6.4 Creighton leads the all-time series with Northern *Drake at Wichita State .