Evansville Basketball Five National Championships | Four Ncaa D-1 Tournaments
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EVANSVILLE BASKETBALL FIVE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS | FOUR NCAA D-1 TOURNAMENTS 2012-13 Schedule Exhibition Game Two Illinois-Springfield (0-0) at Evansville (0-0) OCTOBER 2012 November 3, 2012 - 4:05 p.m. - Ford Center - Evansville, Ind. Oct. 27 USI @ W, 73-55 NOVEMBER 2012 Live Coverage: 91.5 WUEV - www.WUEV.org Nov. 3 Illinois-Springfield @ 4:05 p.m. PxP: Lance Wilkerson Color: Scott Shreffler Nov. 10 at Notre Dame $ TBA Nov. 15 Buffalo $ 7:05 p.m. Nov. 16 Yale $ 7:35 p.m. Nov. 17 Western Illinois $ 7:35 p.m. Nov. 20 at Tennessee Tech 7:30 p.m. Nov. 26 Alabama A&M 7:05 p.m. EVANSVILLE INFORMATION UIS INFORMATION DECEMBER 2012 2011-12 Record: 16-16 (9-9 MVC) 2011-12 Record: 15-13 (12-6 GLVC) Head Coach: Marty Simmons Head Coach: Ben Wierzba Dec. 1 at Colorado State ^ 3:30 p.m. Record at UE: 67-88 (6th Season) Record at UIS: 23-30 (3rd Season) Dec. 5 Miami (Ohio) 7:05 p.m. Career Record: 165-161 (12th Season) Career Record: Same Dec. 8 Murray State 1:05 p.m. 2011-12 STATISTICAL LEADERS 2011-12 STATISTICAL LEADERS Dec. 15 Alabama State 1:05 p.m. Points: Colt Ryan - 20.5 PPG Points: Jermal Love-Roberts - 16.5 PPG Dec. 18 Oakland City 7:05 p.m. Rebounds: Troy Taylor - 4.9 RPG Rebounds: Michael Fakuade - 11.0 RPG Assists: Troy Taylor - 112 assists Assists: Kevin Pettiford - 80 assists Dec. 22 at Butler 1:00 p.m. Blocks: Kenneth Harris - 19 blocks Blocks: Michael Fakuade - 83 blocks Dec. 29 at CREIGHTON 7:05 p.m. Minutes: Colt Ryan - 36.3 MPG Minutes: Jermal Love-Roberts - 29.1 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: Named to MVC All-Freshman team; averaged Jan. 9 at NORTHERN IOWA 7:00 p.m. 0 SO - F/C - 6-8 - 200 6.2 PPG while making 22 starts 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 6.2 4.0 62.6 60.5 20.9 Jan. 19 at INDIANA STATE 7:05 p.m. Jan. 23 BRADLEY 7:05 p.m. Lewis Jones Notes: Scored career-high 24 points in road game at Jan. 26 at ILLINOIS STATE 7:00 p.m. SR - G/F - 6-3 - 205 Missouri State last season Jan. 29 NORTHERN IOWA 7:05 p.m. 4 Memphis, Tenn. Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes GW Carver FEBRUARY 2013 5.3 2.4 42.4 66.7 17.3 Feb. 2 at MISSOURI STATE 2:05 p.m. Feb. 5 at BRADLEY 7:00 p.m. Troy Taylor Notes: Named to MVC All-Defensive Team while lead- ing UE in rebounding and second in assists Feb. 10 DRAKE 2 or 7 p.m. 5 SR - G - 6-0 - 184 Feb. 13 at SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 7:05 p.m. Anderson, Ind. Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes Feb. 16 CREIGHTON 2:00 p.m. Anderson 5.8 4.9 51.6 76.3 27.3 Feb. 20 ILLINOIS STATE 7:05 p.m. Feb. 22-24 at Sears Bracketbusters & TBA Colt Ryan Notes: Won third MVC Player of the Week honor on Feb. 27 at WICHITA STATE 7:00 p.m. 11 SR - G/F - 6-5 - 210 2/27/12, named All-MVC First Team player Batesville, Ind. Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes MARCH 2013 Batesville 20.5 4.2 44.2 84.4 36.3 Mar. 2 INDIANA STATE TBA Mar. 7-10 at MVC Tournament St. Louis, Mo. Ned Cox Notes: Made three starts while playing in all 32 games, 22 SR - G - 6-1 - 185 named MVC Sixth Man of the Year San Antonio, Texas Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes @ - Exhibition Game Judson $ - Coaches vs. Cancer 9.2 1.6 41.4 88.2 24.6 ^ - 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 1.6 0.4 Tallied 10 pts vs. Oakland City Home Games in Bold 10 Jaylon Moore F 6-7/230 SO 1.4 1.0 Notched 6 pts at BRAD Home MVC Games in BOLD CAPS 12 Adam Wing G 6-4/205 FR - - Freshman guard MVC Games in ALL CAPS 13 Jordan Jahr G 6-6/205 SO 5.8 2.6 Limited to 8 gms last season (foot) All Times Central 14 Andy Chinn G 6-0/165 SR 0.4 0.2 Score 2 pts vs. WIU 20 Brandon Williams G 6-0/170 SR 0.0 0.2 Notched a RB vs. BRAD 23 Mike Leazer G 6-3/170 FR - - Freshman walk-on guard 25 Rokas Cesnulevisius F 6-8/215 SO 1.0 1.3 Played in 25 games as a freshman 31 D.J. Balentine G 6-2/210 FR - - Freshman guard 34 David Howard F/C 6-8/225 FR - - Freshman forward 55 Egidijus Mockevicius C 6-10/225 FR - - Freshman center 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 Follow The Aces Current Game Notes PRESEASON HONORS FOR COLT: Earlier this week, it was announced that UE senior Colt You can find the Purple Aces on Ryan had received a pair of prestigious honors entering the season. In the MVC preseason Facebook and Twitter! Follow the UE release, Ryan was named to the Preseason All-Conference Team after garnering First Team men’s basketball team on Facebook All-Conference honors a season ago. On Oct. 31, Ryan was named one of 30 finalists for the at “Aces Men’s Basketball (Official). Senior Class Award. The winner is announced at the Final Four next year. The Aces hoops team is also on Twitter @evansvillehoops. You can PRESEASON POLL: For the second-straight year, the University of Evansville was picked also follow all of the University of Evansville athletics to finish fifth in the Valley. Last season, UE surpassed the pick, taking the third seed for the teams on Twitter @ueathletics and on Facebook at 2012 MVC Tournament and the Aces seem poised to repeat that feat this year as they return University of Evansville Athletic Department. four seniors who will be the core of UE’s squad. GoPurpleAces.com is the official home of University of LOOKING BACK: The last meeting between the two schools came just last season in the Evansville athletics. GoPurpleAces Aces’ second exhibition game of the season. Evansville came away with a 74-61 victory has the most info on Evansville Ath- as UE’s senior duo of Kenneth Harris and Denver Holmes led the way. Harris led everyone letics and provides daily updates on with 17 points and 10 rebounds while Holmes added nine. In the middle was Ned Cox, all UE sports. It is also the one place who scored 11. Even though UIS finished the game with a .476-.382 shooting advantage, to find live streaming and audio Evansville made its mark at the the line, sinking 31 free throws. from several Aces athletics contests. COACHING CONNECTION: Illinois-Springfield head coach Ben Wierzba shares a special connection with the University of Evansville and head coach Marty Simmons. Wierzba, The Marty Simmons Radio Show a graduate of SIU Edwardsville, began his coaching career in 2006 with Simmons at SIUE Aces head coach Marty Simmons and Lance Wilkerson before coming to UE in 2007 when Simmons took the helm of the program. He worked host the “Marty Simmons Radio Show” every Monday with the Aces for three years prior to accepting the head coaching position at UIS. That night at 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at Turoni’s on the east side. The is not the only UE connection for Wierzba as he served as the Director of Basketball show can be heard on WUEV 91.5 FM. The restaurant Operations at Army from 2002-04, working under former UE head coach Jim Crews. is located just north of the UE campus. Fans are in- vited to come out each week and get the inside scoop WHAT A START: Aces senior Colt Ryan finished last season as the No. 11 scorer in the on the latest developments with the Aces basketball country and is within shouting distance of the UE record. In last weekend’s preseason team! opener against USI, Ryan showed that he is ready to get the regular season rolling as he was 11-20 from the floor, 3-3 from long range and 8-8 from the free throw line en route to a 33-point effort. He also led all players with nine rebounds, five assists and four steals. The Home Media Stats Batesville, Ind. native even led all players in minutes with 35. It is hard to argue against Members of the media can follow today’s game by those numbers! logging on to evansville.statbroadcast.com. You can follow it on any laptop or mobile device. This access is SETTLING IN: Another player who turned some heads in the win over the Screaming for media only and is available for all home contests. Eagles was sophomore Jaylon Moore. In his freshman campaign, Moore’s top effort was a 6-point outing at Bradley.