EVANSVILLE BASKETBALL FIVE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS | FIVE NCAA D-1 TOURNAMENTS 2012-13 Schedule GAME SEVEN Evansville at Colorado State OCTOBER 2012 Dec. 1, 2012 - 3:30 p.m. CT - Moby Arena Oct. 27 USI @ W, 73-55 NOVEMBER 2012 Live Coverage: 91.5 WUEV - www.WUEV.org Nov. 3 Illinois-Springfield @ W, 79-54 PxP: Lance Wilkerson Color: Bob Pristash 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 COLORADO STATE INFORMATION DECEMBER 2012 2012-13 Record: 4-2 2012-13 Record: 5-0 Dec. 1 at Colorado State ^ 3:30 p.m. Head Coach: Marty Simmons Head Coach: Larry Eustachy Record at UE: 71-90 (6th Season) Record at CSU: 5-0 (1st season) Dec. 5 Miami (Ohio) 7:05 p.m. Career Record: 169-163 (12th Season) Career Record: 407-258 (22nd 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 - 10.2 PPG Points: Colton Iverson - 16.6 PPG Dec. 18 Oakland City 7:05 p.m. Rebounds: Troy Taylor - 5.5 RPG Rebounds: Pierce Hornung - 12.0 RPG Assists: Troy Taylor - 21 assists Assists: Dorian Green - 19 assists Dec. 22 at Butler 1:00 p.m. Blocks: Egidijus Mockevicius - 11 blocks Blocks: Pierce Hornung/Gerson Santo - 3 blocks Dec. 29 at CREIGHTON 7:05 p.m. Minutes: Ned Cox/Troy Taylor - 31.0 MPG Minutes: Pierce Hornung - 31.8 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 5.0 5.0 36.7 72.7 19.3 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 4.7 5.5 47.4 50.0 31.0 Feb. 2 at MISSOURI STATE 2:05 p.m. Feb. 5 at BRADLEY 7:00 p.m. Colt Ryan Notes: Returned vs. Alabama A&M to lead all players with 13 pts 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 7.5 1.3 36.7 100.0 14.8 Feb. 20 ILLINOIS STATE 7:05 p.m. Feb. 22-24 at Sears Bracketbusters & TBA Jordan Jahr Notes: Led UE’s second-half comeback vs. WIU with 13 Feb. 27 at WICHITA STATE 7:00 p.m. 13 r-SO - F - 6-6 - 205 points; had 3 3’s in the second half Austin, Texas Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes MARCH 2013 Lake Travis 6.3 4.3 33.3 80.0 24.2 Mar. 2 INDIANA STATE TBA Mar. 7-10 at MVC Tournament St. Louis, Mo. Ned Cox Notes: Recorded game-high 15 pts with 6 ast in victory 22 SR - G - 6-1 - 185 at Tennessee Tech San Antonio, Texas Points Rebounds Shooting Free Throw Minutes @ - Exhibition Game Judson $ - Coaches vs. Cancer 10.2 1.8 32.8 91.7 31.0 ^ - 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 5.5 2.0 Led UE with 14 pts vs. UB Home MVC Games in BOLD CAPS 10 Jaylon Moore F 6-7/230 SO 5.3 2.2 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 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 8.8 1.8 11 pts, 3-5 3pt at TTU 34 David Howard F/C 6-8/225 FR - - Redshirted for 2012-13 season 55 Egidijus Mockevicius C 6-10/225 FR 4.7 3.8 Registered 3 blocks vs. AAMU 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 - It is back to the road for the Aces as they travel to Fort Collins, Colo. for their first ever meeting against Colorado State. Both teams will put win streaks on the line as the Aces You can find the Purple Aces on have been victorious in their last four games while CSU is a perfect 5-0 on the season; Facebook and Twitter! Follow the UE following the trip out west, Evansville returns home for its next four contests beginning on men’s basketball team on Facebook December 5 versus Miami (Ohio) at “Aces Men’s Basketball (Official). The Aces hoops team is also on Preseason Honors Twitter @evansvillehoops. You can - Senior Colt Ryan has received several preseason accolades entering the 2012-13 also follow all of the University of Evansville athletics campaign. Those include: teams on Twitter @ueathletics and on Facebook at - MVC Preseason All-Conference Team University of Evansville Athletic Department. - SENIOR Class Award Watch List - Lou Henson Preseason All-America Team GoPurpleAces.com is the official home of University of - No. 3 Under-The-Rader Player (CBSSports.com) Evansville athletics. GoPurpleAces - No. 11 shooter on Luke Winn’s Top 16 list (SI.com) has the most info on Evansville Ath- letics and provides daily updates on Playing Some D all UE sports. It is also the one place - Evansville’s defense has turned it up over the last three games, holding WIU, TTU and to find live streaming and audio AAMU to just 46.7 PPG while holding WIU and TTU to under 20 points in a half (AAMU had from several Aces athletics contests. 21 in the first half); large runs have been key in those contests; in the win over WIU, the Aces held the Leathernecks scoreless over a span of 8:28 in the second half, forcing them to miss all five shots along with eight turnovers; a similar run in the first half at Tennessee Tech The Marty Simmons Radio Show saw UE go on a 20-2 run while holding the Golden Eagles to 1-11 shooting over that span; Aces head coach Marty Simmons and Lance Wilkerson the defense was at it again versus the Bulldogs, in the first half, the Aces went on a 22-3 run host the “Marty Simmons Radio Show” every Monday while holding AAMU without a field goal over the span of 8:55 night at 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at Turoni’s on the east side. The - For the season, the Aces are holding opponents to 51.7 points per game, a total that is show can be heard on WUEV 91.5 FM. The restaurant tied for 6th in the nation, the most a team has scored on the Aces was 58 by Notre Dame; is located just north of the UE campus. Fans are in- the defense has vastly improved since the 2011-12 campaign as opponents averaged 72.7 vited to come out each week and get the inside scoop points per game on the latest developments with the Aces basketball - UE has held its last three opponents to 50 or fewer points; by comparison, Evansville held team! just one team to under 50 last season as Western Illinois mustered up 45 points in a Feb. 18 meeting; this year the Leathernecks scored just 44 points versus UE, the fewest point an opponent has scored since Oakland City had 42 in the 2010-11 season opener Home Media Stats - The last time the Aces held three opponents in a row under 50 points as UE held Cleveland Members of the media can follow today’s game by State, Buffalo and SEMO to 49, 44 and 45 points, respectively, early in the 2006-07 season. logging on to evansville.statbroadcast.com. You can follow it on any laptop or mobile device. This access is Boarding It Up available for all home contests. - Through the first four games of the 2012-13 campaign, UE found itself being outrebounded by an average of 10 per game; that has all changed over the last two contests as the Aces are on the better end of the final tally, finishing with an average of 8 more rebounds than the opposition - Last season, Evansville had just one two-game streak of outrebounding its opponents, doing so against Bradley and Illinois State Top Performance - Sophomore Jaylon Moore posted the top effort of his career in the win over Alabama Media Policy A&M, notching ten points on 5-of-6 shooting, it marked the first double-digit outing for Moore in his time at UE University of Evansville Sports Information Director Bob Pristash will - Through just six games in 2012, Moore has scored 32 points; he registered 30 all of last 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 season attention.