TRUMAN BULLDOGS MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Game Notes | Men’s Basketball Contact: Cooper Weidenthaler | [email protected] | 660-785-4127 Truman at Southern Indiana - Thursday, January 10 - 7:30 p.m. WEEK 10 Truman at #1 Bellarmine - Saturday, January 12 - 2:15 p.m. (CT) Physical Activities Center - Evansville, Ind. | Knights Hall - Louisville, Ky. 2018-19 Schedule (8-6) The Opponents Date Opponent Result/Time Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles (9-4, 1-2 GLVC) Nov. 9 #23 Findlay^ L, 57-81 Nov. 10 Cedarville^ L, 84-91 Watch | Listen | Track Nov. 16 #5 Northwest Missouri State L, 60-87 SERIES INFORMATION Nov. 20 Washburn L, 61-73 Series vs. USI: 2-5 Nov. 23 #18 Northern State% W, 61-59 First Meeting: Dec. 13, 1997 (85-92) Nov. 24 Sioux Falls% W, 70-67 Last Meeting: Jan. 20, 2018 (76-85) Nov. 29 Rockhurst* W, 64-60 Current Streak: L1 Dec. 1 William Jewell* W, 73-72 Last 10: 2-5 Dec. 4 Missouri Southern State L, 77-106 Jeff Horner vs. USI: 0-0 Dec. 7 Central Christian W, 118-47 Rodney Watson vs. Truman: 4-2 Dec. 8 Indiana State (Exhibition) L, 69-77 Dec. 18 Grand Valley State W, 82-78 • If not for Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) play, Southern Dec. 29 Graceland W, 83-65 Indiana would be 8-2 with a pair of losses that came by seven points or less including an overtime defeat. Instead, the Screaming Eagles are Jan. 3 Lewis* W, 75-66 9-4 overall and 1-2 in league action. Southern Indiana was forced to Jan. 5 Indianapolis* L, 79-83 open conference play with Bellarmine (80-92) on the first of December Jan. 10 Southern Indiana* 7:30 p.m. before continuing it with Maryville (80-75) and Missouri-St. Louis (61-73) Jan. 12 #1 Bellarmine* 2:15 p.m. this past week. Not to mention the fact that the Screaming Eagles have Jan. 17 Missouri-St. Louis* 7:30 p.m. already lost two home games, which is as many as they lost in the last two Jan. 19 Maryville* 3 p.m. seasons combined. • The Rodney Watson era has reached double-digits as the Illinois Jan. 24 Illinois Springfield* 7:30 p.m. native is in season No. 10 at the helm of Southern Indiana. In that time, Jan. 26 McKendree* 3 p.m. Watson has racked up a record of 212-69 (.754 winning percentage) Jan. 31 Missouri S&T* 7:30 p.m. including 116-79 (.595) in GLVC competition. In year 10, the Screaming Feb. 2 Drury* 3 p.m. Eagles continue to be led by Alex Stein, the league’s foruth-leading scorer Feb. 9 Quincy* 3 p.m. at 20.5 points per game. Also averaging double-figures are Kobe Caldwell Feb. 14 William Jewell* 7:30 p.m. (13.3), Josh Price (11.0) and Emmanuel Little (10.5). Little is also the team’s Feb. 16 Rockhurst* 3 p.m. leading rebounder at 7.3 per game. Feb. 23 Quincy* 3 p.m. #1 Bellarmine Knights (12-0, 3-0 GLVC) Feb. 28 Indianapolis* 7:30 p.m. March 2 Lewis* 3 p.m. Watch | Listen | Track March 7-10 GLVC Tournament TBA SERIES INFORMATION ^ - GLVC/G-MAC Challenge in Kirksville, Mo. (Hosted by Truman) Series vs. BU: 3-5 % - Dacotah Bank Thanksgiving Classic in Aberdeen, S.D. (Hosted by Northern State) First Meeting: Dec. 28, 1966 (75-67) * - Great Lakes Valley Conference Game Last Meeting: March 10, 2018 (65-82) Bold - Home game in General John J. Pershing Arena Current Streak: L3 This Week in Truman Basketball... Last 10: 3-5 • On the brink of week 10 of the regular season and week three Jeff Horner vs. BU: 0-0 of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) slate, the Truman State Scott Davenport vs. Truman: 5-2 University men’s basketball team has won eight of its last 10 games, but is coming off its first league loss. Last week, the Bulldogs made it a 3-0 • The train keeps on chugging in Louisville as Bellarmine enters conference start with a 75-66 win at Lewis before falling to Indianapolis by this week as the unanimous No. 1 team in the nation according to the four, 83-79, both of which were on the road. The road trip continues this National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). The Knights were week at Southern Indiana and at No. 1 Bellarmine. tabbed first in the preseason poll and haven’t budged since then. Leading • The Purple and White are one of three GLVC teams with three that charge is 14th-year head coach, Scott Davenport. In those 13+ in-league wins along with Bellarmine (3-0) and Rockhurst (3-1). It’s very seasons, Davenport has gone 328-96 (.774 winning percentage) overall early, but Truman is currently the top-ranked team according to the GLVC and 168-54 (.757) within the GLVC. Point Rating System. With that being said, the Bulldogs still have 14 • Just like Southern Indiana, Bellarmine has a familiar face leading conference games left in the regular season including seven at home and the way in senior, Adam Eberhard. The four-time GLVC Player of the Week seven away from Pershing Arena. is first on the nights and third in the league in scoring at 20.8 points per • Truman continues to be led by a trio of scorers averaging game. He is joined in double-figures by Chivarsky Corbett (14.1) and Ben double-figures including Brodric Thomas (19.5), Cade McKnight (13.0) and Weyer (12.4). Eberhard is also the team leader in assists per game (5.7), Turner Scott (12.6). Taurin Hughes and Nathan Messer are also on the cusp minutes per game (29.9), field goal percentage (.658), and free throw percentage (.876). of that list with marks of 9.9 and 9.7, respectively. Thomas also paces the taem in rebounding with 6.6 per game while McKnight is averaging 5.8. Follow Truman Basketball: TrumanBulldogs.com • Twitter.com/TrumanAthletics Twitter.com/TrumanMBB • Facebook (search for Truman Athletics) 2018-19 Game Notes | Men’s Basketball Contact: Cooper Weidenthaler | [email protected] | 660-785-4127 Believe B.T. Truman’s Record When... General It’s hard to believe Truman stepping onto the court without redshirt junior guard, Brodric at home 5-2 Thomas. Thomas missed the team’s first six games of the season and after a couple on the road 2-4 games to warm up, has really begun to assert himself. In his last six games, Thomas is playing at a neutral site 1-0 playing in overtime 0-0 averaging 22.8 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.3 blocks, and nearly a steal per game. vs. Top-25 teams 1-2 That stretch includes five 20-point games, three 26-point games in a row and the team’s playing GLVC opponents 3-1 playing non-GLVC games 5-5 first double-double of the year with 28 points and 10 rebounds at Lewis. leads at half 6-0 trails at half 1-6 Unfriendly Confines tied at half 1-0 wins the game before 6-2 Bellarmine has won 63 games in a row on its home court inside Knights Hall. The loses the game before 2-3 Knights last home loss came on Dec. 13, 2014, a 101-96 overtime loss to No. 3 Florida Scoring margin is 5 points or less 5-1 Southern. The last time Bellarmine dropped a GLVC game at home was the season be- margin is between 6-10 1-1 fore on Jan. 20, 2014 against No. 10 Southern Indiana, 68-66, also in overtime. Bellarm- margin is between 11-20 1-1 margin is more than 20 1-3 ine leads the all-time series with Truman, 5-3, and the Bulldogs have dropped their only scoring 59 points or less 0-1 two matchups on the Knights’ court on Feb. 5, 2015 (89-73) and Jan. 14, 2016 (86-57). scoring 60-69 points 2-2 scoring 70-79 points 3-2 scoring 80-89 points 2-1 Strength of Schedule scoring 90+ points 1-0 When it faces off against No. 1 Bellarmine on Saturday, Truman will have faced a team opp. scores 59 points or less 2-0 opp. scores 60-69 points 4-0 that was either ranked in the NABC top 25 or receiving votes for the seventh time this opp. scores 70-79 points 2-1 season. Those previous six meetings included No. 23 (ranking at the time) Findlay in opp. scores 80-89 points 0-3 the season opener, No. 5 Northwest Missouri State on Nov. 16, No. 18 Northern State opp. scores 90+ points 0-2 TSU has 20+ point scorer 6-4 on Nov. 23, Sioux Falls the next night (receiving votes), Missouri Southern on Dec. 4 opp. has 20+ point scorer 3-3 (RV), and Lewis on Jan. 3 (RV). When the Bulldogs and Knights meet, the Purple and Jersey Color wearing purple jerseys 2-4 White will be facing the top team in the country for the second time in as many seasons wearing white jerseys 6-1 (Northwest Missouri last season). wearing gray jerseys 0-1 Statistical shoots 50% or better 1-1 Hoist It and Board It shoots less than 50% 7-5 Southern Indiana does two things as well as anyone in the GLVC. That is shoot the three opp.