EVANSVILLE BASKETBALL FIVE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS | FIVE NCAA D-1 TOURNAMENTS 2012-13 Schedule GAME EIGHT Miami (Ohio) at Evansville OCTOBER 2012 Dec. 5, 2012 - 7:05 p.m. CT - Ford Center Oct. 27 USI @ W, 73-55 NOVEMBER 2012 Live Coverage: 91.5 WUEV - www.WUEV.org - AcesTV Nov. 3 Illinois-Springfield @ W, 79-54 PxP: Lance Wilkerson Color: Scott Shreffler Nov. 10 at No. 22 Notre Dame $ L, 49-58 Nov. 15 Buffalo $ L, 50-56 Nov. 16 Yale $ W, 66-56 Nov. 17 Western Illinois $ W, 49-44 Nov. 20 at Tennessee Tech W, 62-50 Nov. 26 Alabama A&M W, 72-46 EVANSVILLE INFORMATION MIAMI INFORMATION DECEMBER 2012 2012-13 Record: 4-3 2012-13 Record: 3-3 Dec. 1 at Colorado State ^ L, 79-72 Head Coach: Marty Simmons Head Coach: John Cooper Record at UE: 71-91 (6th Season) Record at MU: 3-3 (1st season) Dec. 5 Miami (Ohio) 7:05 p.m. Career Record: 169-164 (12th Season) Career Record: 46-54 (4th season) Dec. 8 Murray State 1:05 p.m. 2012-13 STATISTICAL LEADERS 2012-13 STATISTICAL LEADERS Dec. 15 Alabama State 1:05 p.m. Points: Ned Cox - 11.3 PPG Points: Allen Roberts - 12.3 PPG Dec. 18 Oakland City 7:05 p.m. Rebounds: Troy Taylor - 5.1 RPG Rebounds: Two tied with - 5.7 RPG Assists: Troy Taylor - 27 assists Assists: Quinten Rollins - 25 assists Dec. 22 at Butler 1:00 p.m. Blocks: Egidijus Mockevicius - 12 blocks Blocks: Will Felder - 4 blocks Dec. 29 at CREIGHTON 7:05 p.m. Minutes: Ned Cox - 30.9 MPG Minutes: Quinten Rollins - 30.0 MPG JANUARY 2013 Probable Evansville Starters Jan. 2 MISSOURI STATE 7:05 p.m. Jan. 5 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 8:00 p.m. Ryan Sawvell Notes: Recorded game-high 8 rbs at Tennessee Tech Jan. 9 at NORTHERN IOWA 7:00 p.m. 0 SO - F/C - 6-8 - 200 Jan. 13 WICHITA STATE 3:35 p.m. Mundelein, Ill. Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes Jan. 16 at DRAKE 7:05 p.m. Mundelein 4.3 4.3 34.4 72.7 18.4 Jan. 19 at INDIANA STATE 7:05 p.m. Jan. 23 BRADLEY 7:05 p.m. Troy Taylor Notes: Notched 5 pts, 6 rbs, 4 ast in win over Jan. 26 at ILLINOIS STATE 7:00 p.m. SR - G - 6-0 - 184 Alabama A&M Jan. 29 NORTHERN IOWA 7:05 p.m. 5 Anderson, Ind. Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes Anderson FEBRUARY 2013 4.0 5.1 30.4 45.5 30.4 Feb. 2 at MISSOURI STATE 2:05 p.m. Feb. 5 at BRADLEY 7:00 p.m. Colt Ryan Notes: Made 2nd start of season at CSU; scored 20 points on 9-19 shooting Feb. 10 DRAKE 2 or 7 p.m. 11 SR - G/F - 6-5 - 210 Feb. 13 at SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 7:05 p.m. Batesville, Ind. Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes Feb. 16 CREIGHTON 2:00 p.m. Batesville 10.0 1.0 40.8 100.0 18.2 Feb. 20 ILLINOIS STATE 7:05 p.m. Feb. 22-24 at Sears Bracketbusters & TBA Ned Cox Notes: Recorded game-high 15 pts with 6 ast in victory Feb. 27 at WICHITA STATE 7:00 p.m. 22 SR - G - 6-1 - 185 at Tennessee Tech San Antonio, Texas Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes MARCH 2013 Judson 10.1 2.1 32.9 92.9 30.9 Mar. 2 INDIANA STATE TBA Mar. 7-10 at MVC Tournament St. Louis, Mo. Egidijus Mockevicius Notes: Notched 10 pts, 6 rbs and a block while hitting 55 FR - C - 6-10 - 225 4-of-5 shots at CSU Kursenai, Lithuania Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes @ - Exhibition Game Lithuanian Univ. of Edu. Sci. $ - Coaches vs. Cancer 5.4 4.1 73.9 66.7 15.7 ^ - Mountain West - MVC Challenge & - SEARS Bracketbuster Game Off The Bench % - MVC Tournament - St. Louis # Name Pos Ht/Wt Cl PPG RPG NOTES 1 Jordan Nelson G 6-0/160 SO 1.8 0.6 Hit 3pt attempt vs. AAMU Home Games in Bold 4 Lewis Jones F 6-3/200 SR 4.9 1.9 Led UE with 14 pts vs. UB Home MVC Games in BOLD CAPS 10 Jaylon Moore F 6-7/230 SO 5.3 1.9 Set career high 10 pts vs. AAMU MVC Games in ALL CAPS 12 Adam Wing G 6-4/205 FR 1.3 1.0 Perfect 2-2 FT’s on the season All Times Central 13 Jordan Jahr F 6-6/200 SO 5.4 3.9 Scored 13 pts vs. WIU 14 Andy Chinn G 6-0/165 SR 0.0 0.0 Scored 2 pts vs. UIS 20 Brandon Williams G 6-0/170 SR 0.0 0.0 Notched a RB vs. BRAD last season 23 Mike Leazer G 6-3/170 FR 0.0 1.0 Had a rebound vs. AAMU 25 Rokas Cesnulevisius F 6-8/215 SO 2.0 5.0 Tied career mark w/5 rb vs. AAMU 31 D.J. Balentine G 6-2/210 FR 11.3 1.7 Career high 26 pts at CSU, 6-10 3pt 34 David Howard F/C 6-8/225 FR - - Redshirted for 2012-13 season Contact: Bob Pristash Office: 812-488-2285 Cell: 812-266-5288 Email: [email protected] 2012-13 UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 1 2012-13 PURPLE ACES GAME NOTES The Opening Tip Follow The Aces - Following a stretch of playing two of three games on the road, the Purple Aces return home on Wednesday to face Miami (OH); UE will play its next four games at home before You can find the Purple Aces on wrapping up the non-conference slate with a road trip to Butler on Dec. 22 Facebook and Twitter! Follow the UE - The Aces will play their next four games in their home venue. It is just the fourth time men’s basketball team on Facebook since the beginning of the 2003-04 season that UE has played four straight home games at “Aces Men’s Basketball (Official). - In the last three stretches, Evansville has been extremely successful, winning 10 out of The Aces hoops team is also on those 12 games. The top streak came in early 2006-07 when the Aces went 4-0, picking up Twitter @evansvillehoops. You can wins over Cleveland State, Buffalo, SEMO and UT-Martin also follow all of the University of Evansville athletics teams on Twitter @ueathletics and on Facebook at Preseason Honors University of Evansville Athletic Department. - Senior Colt Ryan has received several preseason accolades entering the 2012-13 campaign. Those include: GoPurpleAces.com is the official home of University of - MVC Preseason All-Conference Team Evansville athletics. GoPurpleAces - SENIOR Class Award Watch List has the most info on Evansville Ath- - Lou Henson Preseason All-America Team letics and provides daily updates on - No. 3 Under-The-Rader Player (CBSSports.com) all UE sports. It is also the one place - No. 11 shooter on Luke Winn’s Top 16 list (SI.com) to find live streaming and audio from several Aces athletics contests. Freshman Phenom: - D.J. Balentine posted one of the best efforts by a freshman in UE history in Saturday’s game at Colorado State. The Kokomo, Ind. native registered 26 points on 10-of-15 shooting The Marty Simmons Radio Show while hitting six three-pointers, moving him up to sixth place in the Valley with 2.1 treys per Aces head coach Marty Simmons and Lance Wilkerson game host the “Marty Simmons Radio Show” every Monday - His outing against the Rams was the top effort by a freshman since Colt Ryan notched 31 night at 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at Turoni’s on the east side. The at Creighton in his freshman campaign of 2009-10. It also marked the top scoring output show can be heard on WUEV 91.5 FM. The restaurant for a UE player this season is located just north of the UE campus. Fans are in- - Balentine is now the top scorer for UE, averaging 11.3 points per game while ranking vited to come out each week and get the inside scoop among the leaders in the MVC with 15 three-pointers on the season on the latest developments with the Aces basketball - Balentine has hit all six free throws on the year, including all four in the final minute of play team! to seal the win over WIU Spark From The Bench: Home Media Stats - Evansville has done a great job of spreading the ball around this season while not Members of the media can follow today’s game by depending on any single player to spark the offense. That is shown in the disparity in UE’s logging on to evansville.statbroadcast.com. You can bench scoring when compared to that of its opposition follow it on any laptop or mobile device. This access is - Evansville’s bench has outscored its opponents bench by a 192-123 margin this season, available for all home contests. an average of 9.9 PPG. The bench has done even better over the last week, finishing with a 41-12 advantage versus Alabama A&M while outscoring Colorado State’s bench by a 32-12 margin, an average of 24.5 PPG He’s Back! - Over a 4-game stretch, senior Colt Ryan missed two games while playing a combined ten minutes in the other two; he has returned to his regular form in the last two games while averaging 27 minutes in those two contests - Ryan led the Aces with 13 points and seven assists in the win over Alabama A&M before Media Policy scoring a season-high 20 at Colorado State where he hit 9-of-19 shots while recording three steals and three assists University of Evansville Sports Information Director Bob Pristash will - For the first time since suffering a hip pointer in the loss to Buffalo, Colt Ryan spent be serving as the primary media contact for Aces Men’s Basketball this season and all interview and media requests must be directed to his significant time on the floor versus Alabama A&M, seeing 22 minutes of playing time attention.