2011-12 IUPUI Game Notes IUPUI (1-2) vs. Eastern Michigan (2-1) Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011 - 4:00 ET The Jungle (1,215) Indianapolis, Indiana Auto-Owners Insurance Spartan Classic n IUPUI PROBABLE STARTERS Pos. ## Name PPG RPG APG FG 3FG FT G 2 Stephen Thomas (6-1 / Sr.) 9.0 2.5 2.5 31.8 00.0 100 n 2011-12 SCHEDULE/RESULTS G 12 Greg Rice (5-11 / So.) 7.0 2.7 1.7 50.0 62.5 --- Date Opponent Time/Result F 5 Alex Young (6-6 / Sr.) 14.7 5.3 2.0 45.7 41.7 63.6 Nov. 1 # IU East W, 87-77 F 30 Donovan Gibbs (6-7 / So.) 4.7 4.3 1.0 35.3 40.0 00.0 F 55 Christian Siakam (6-7 / Sr.) 13.0 5.0 1.0 71.4 100 72.7 Nov. 7 # Marian W, 85-50 Nov. 11 Anderson W, 101-68 n OFF THE BENCH Nov. 15 ^ at Arkansas-Little Rock L, 70-75 Pos. ## Name PPG RPG APG FG 3FG FT Nov. 18 ^ at Milwaukee L, 49-62 F 1 Lyonell Gaines (6-6 / Fr.) 7.0 2.7 0.7 50.0 00.0 75.0 Nov. 20 ^ Eastern Michigan 4:00 p.m. G 4 Ian Chiles (6-1 / So.) 5.3 3.3 1.3 38.5 25.0 83.3 Nov. 23 at Ball State 7:00 p.m. G 10 Jordan Shanklin (6-0 / Fr.) --- --- --- --- --- --- Nov. 26 ^ Texas Southern 7:00 p.m. G 20 Sean Esposito (6-3 / Jr.) 2.7 1.3 1.0 37.5 28.6 --- Nov. 28 at Georgetown 7:00 p.m. G/F 22 Marcellus Barksdale (6-5 / Fr.)5.3 1.3 1.0 44.4 50.0 85.7 Dec. 1 * South Dakota State 7:00 p.m. G 23 P.J. Hubert (6-5 / So.) 3.0 0.0 0.0 33.3 33.3 --- Dec. 3 * North Dakota State 7:00 p.m. F 24 Nick Kitcoff (6-7 / Jr.) 4.0 0.0 0.0 100 --- 100 Dec. 7 at Louisville 7:00 p.m. G 25 Nick Achille (6-3 / So.) --- --- --- --- --- --- Dec. 10 Western Kentucky 7:00 p.m. C 50 Mitchell Patton (6-9 / So.) 5.3 2.0 0.3 42.9 00.0 50.0 Dec. 16 St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 7:00 p.m. n ABOUT THE GAME Dec. 19 Ball State (CFH) 7:00 p.m. IUPUI will host game three of the Auto-Owners Insurance Spartan Classic Dec. 23 Valparaiso (CFH) 1:00 p.m. when it welcomes Eastern Michigan (2-1) for a 4:00 p.m. Eastern tip on Sunday, Dec. 30 * Western Illinois 7:00 p.m. Nov. 20. The game is the third of four of the event constructed by Michigan State. Jan. 3 * UMKC 7:00 p.m. The game can be heard In the Indianapolis-market on WNDE 1260 AM as Jan. 5 * at IPFW 7:00 p.m. Scott McCauley (pxp) and former Jag Angelo Smith (analyst) call the action from Jan. 7 * at Oakland 6:00 p.m. courtside. The game will also be heard on WNDE.com and via the free iHeart- Radio app on smartphones. Pregame coverage will begin at approximately 3:50 Jan. 12 * Southern Utah 7:00 p.m. p.m.. Jan. 14 * Oral Roberts 7:00 p.m. Jan. 19 * at South Dakota 8:00 p.m. n LAST TIME OUT Jan. 21 * at UMKC 8:05 p.m. IUPUI is coming off a 62-49 loss at Milwaukee on Friday night in the Jaguars’ Jan. 28 * at Western Illinois 8:00 p.m. second game of the Spartan Classic. Summit League Preseason Player of the Feb. 1 * Oakland 7:00 p.m. Year Alex Young was limited to just five points and 13 minutes because of foul troubles and freshman Marcellus Barksdale was the lone IUPUI player to reach Feb. 4 * IPFW 7:00 p.m. double-digits with 12 points. Feb. 9 * at Oral Roberts 8:05 p.m. Ryan Allen and Kyle Kelm led Milwaukee with 14 points each and James Feb. 11 * at Southern Utah 9:30 p.m. Haarsma added 11 points and seven boards in the win. After trailing by eight at Feb. 15 * South Dakota 7:00 p.m. the break, IUPUI opened up with an 8-0 run to knot the score at 31 all. IUPUI Feb. 18 at ESPN BracketBusters tba went in front briefly on a Thomas layup with 16 minutes to play, but the Panthers Feb. 23 * at North Dakota State 8:00 p.m. answered with a 6-0 run and never trailed the rest the way. Feb. 25 * at South Dakota State 8:30 p.m. Senior Christian Siakam finished with nine points and four boards while Ste- phen Thomas hit just 3-of-13 shots and closed with eight points. IUPUI shot just Mar. 3-4 % Summit League Quarters tba 30 percent overall and went just 5-of-26 (19.2 percent) in the second half. IUPUI Mar. 5 % Summit League Semis tba was also beaten on the glass 40-28 as freshman Lyonell Gaines led the Jags Mar. 6 % Summit League Championship tba with five boards (all offensive). Young’s five points were the fewest since Feb. 21 of his freshman campaign and snapped his streak of 26 straight games in double- # exhibition game figures. ^ Auto-Owners Spartan Invitational (campus sites) * Summit League game % Summit League Tournament n LAST MEETING/SERIES INFORMATION (CFH) denotes games at Conseco Fieldhouse Eastern Michigan leads the all-time series between the two schools, 2-0, with All games broadcast on 1260 WNDE / WNDE.com I iHeartRadio app the two having played a home-and-home series in 1999-00 and 2000-01. The Ed Holdaway - IUPUI Sports Information Director - (317) 274-2725 - [email protected] - www.IUPUIJags.com - Page 1 2011-12 IUPUI Game Notes n SPECIALTY STATS Eagles won in Indianapolis 62-56 on Dec. 23, 1999 and 67-64 in Ypsilanti, Mich. on Dec. 6, 2000. In POT - Points off Turnovers the most recent meeting, Sylvester Allen led IUPUI with 18 points wihle EMU was paced by Dante PP - Points in the Paint Darling’s 16. The Jaguars squandered a 15-point lead in that road loss. 2nd - Second Chance Points BP - Bench Points n ABOUT THE SPARTAN CLASSIC The Auto-Owners Insurance Spartan Classic is not a traditional tournament format in terms of IUPUI-Opposition brackets and crowning a champion. Instead, the event is moreso a conglomerate of six schools Opponent POT PP 2nd BP (Michigan State, Eastern Michigan, Milwaukee, UALR, Texas Southern and IUPUI), with games Anderson 23-11 56-34 23-13 42-22 played on campus sites. Michigan State will play three home games and travel to EMU, while IUPUI @ UALR 7-17 26-38 4-12 20-20 is the lone team to not face the Spartans. For IUPUI's part in the event, the Jaguars got the two early @ Milwaukee 15-10 20-34 6-10 24-14 road games and will later host EMU (Nov. 20) and Texas Southern (Nov. 26). E. Michigan @ Ball State n ALEX’S STREAK SNAPPED Texas So. Senior Alex Young had scored in double-figures 26 straight times until he was held to just five @ G’town points (in 13 minutes) at Milwaukee on Nov. 18. Young was hit with four first half fouls and never got SDSU in a rhythm in the loss. The five points were his fewest since Feb. 21 of his freshman season. For NDSU his career, he’s scored in double-figures 84 times in 102 career games and in 38 of IUPUI’s last 40 @ UofL games. W. Kentucky SJC (Ind.) n SHOOTING WHOAS! Ball State IUPUI’s 30.0 percent shooting from the floor in Friday’s loss at Milwaukee was the lowest in a Valparaiso game since hitting just 29.2 percent (14-of-48) against Oral Roberts in The Summit League Tourna- W. Illinois ment semifinals on Mar. 7, 2007, a span of 133 total games. UMKC @ IPFW n SPREADING THE WEALTH @ Oakland Through three games, eight different IUPUI players have scored in double-figures (Young, Rice, S. Utah Gibbs, Thomas, Siakam, Chiles, Gaines, Barksdale), however no Jag has scored in double-digits in ORU all three games. Last season, nine different IUPUI players had at least one game scoring in double- @ USD digits. @ UMKC @ W. Illinois n BENCH PRODUCTION Oakland So far this season, IUPUI has gotten tremendous bench production as evidence by the 28.7 points IPFW per game. Freshman Lyonell Gaines has been the primary force behind that production at 7.0 points @ ORU per game, while both Ian Chiles and Marcellus Barksdale have also played well as reserves. @ S. Utah USD n YOUNG TABBED SUMMIT LEAGUE PRESEASON POTY ESPN BB IUPUI senior swingman Alex Young was voted The Summit League’s Preseason Player of the @ NDSU Year by the league’s coaches, media and sports information personnel. The 6-foot-6 lefty averaged a @ SDSU team-high 19.7 points and 6.4 rebounds per game as a junior, earning his second straight First Team Summit Q’s All-Summit ballot. He was joined on the First Team by Michael Craion (Oral Roberts), Frank Gaines Summit Sem (IPFW), Reggie Hamilton (Oakland), Dominique Morrison (Oral Roberts) and Nate Wolters (South Summit Finals TOTALS 45-38 102-106 33-35 86-56 IUPUI Avg. 15.0 34.0 11.0 28.7 n 2011-12 IUPUI ROSTER Opponents Avg.