Members of the NCAA Div.II’s Lone Star Conference Lubbock Christian Sports Information • Chris Due / Everett Corder 806-720-7283 • 806-720-7278 • www.lcuchaps.com LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN vs. ARKANSAS-FORT SMITH MEN’S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES Friday, February 5 - 7:00 p.m. CT Saturday, February 6 - 5:00 p.m. CT Fort Smith, Ark. - Stubblefield Center Fort Smith, Ark. - Stubblefield Center February 5 / 6 , 2021 LCU leads all-time series 7-5 LCU CHAPARRALS SHUFFLING THE DECK squads – Colorado School of Mines and Northern Location .............................................. Lubbock, Texas Although the Lubbock Christian University men’s State being the others – to have played more than Founded ..................................................... 1957 basketball team has had four games postponed six games this year. Enrollment ................................................ 2,000 so far this season, they have been relatively lucky Affiliation .......................................... NCAA Div. II compared to this week’s opponent Arkansas Fort NATIONALLY KNOWN Conference .......................................... Lone Star Smith, who has played just eight games during There are two NCAA Division II men’s basketball top Nickname ������������������������������ Chaparrals “Chaps” the 2020-21 season. This past weekend while 25 polls, and the Chaparrals are now ranked in the Athletic Director ����������������������������� Scott Larson LCU took down Midwestern State to move to 10- top 10 in both of them. In the D2SIDA Poll, LCU Sports Information ���������������������� Everett Corder 0, the Lions shuffled their schedule not once, but moved all the way up to No. 7 this week, which Head Coach ������������������������������������ Todd Duncan twice, postponing their originally schedule games is their highest national ranking since February Career Record (year) .................. 167-104 / 10th against Cameron before eventually taking on of 2004, when they earned the No. 5 spot in the Oklahoma Christian for one game (a 75-56 Lion NAIA National Poll. In the NABC Poll, the Chaps also 2020-21 CHAPS SCHEDULE loss) on Monday. A quick turnaround now faces moved up, but to No. 10. This is the first season Date Site Opponent Time UAFS, as the Chaps will be in town for games on that LCU has been ranked in any top 25 poll since 12/11 H St. Mary’s ...............................Postponed Friday and Saturday. moving to the NCAA. 12/12 H St. Mary’s ...............................Postponed 12/18 A Oklahoma Christian .................W, 82-70 A PERFECT 10 SHARING IS CARING 12/19 A Oklahoma Christian .................W, 80-67 With Saturday’s overtime win over Midwest- Lubbock Christian is the NCAA Division II men’s 1/2 A UT Tyler .................................W, 80-64 ern State, the Chaps moved to 10-0 to start basketball national leader in assist to turnover ratio, 1/3 A UT Tyler .................................W, 77-62 1/9 H Texas A&M-Commerce ............Postponed the season, which is the best start ever by LCU with a mark of 1.76. They also rank No. 5 in the 1/13 A Angelo State ...........................W, 87-69 since moving to the NCAA and their best start nation and lead the Lone Star Conference in assists 1/16 H Angelo State ...........................W, 69-66 under head coach Todd Duncan. With the 10th per game at 19.5. Chap guard Cameron Copley is 1/22 H Texas A&M International..........W, 86-38 win of the season, they also matched the pro- responsible for a large portion of those assists, as 1/23 H Texas A&M International..........W, 83-50 gram’s best ever start, matching the 1996-97 his 6.4 per game so far this season ranks No. 6 1/27 H Midwestern State ....................W, 83-60 team, which John Copeland coached to a 10-0 in all of Division II individually. Lloyd Daniels (3.2) 1/30 A Midwestern State ....................W, 83-82 start. A win over UAFS Saturday would set a new and Rowan Mackenzie (2.7) are both also averaging 2/1 H Texas A&M-Commerce ............2 p.m. 2/5 A UAFS .....................................TBA program record for wins to start a season. Only double-digit assists per game for LCU. 2/6 A UAFS .....................................TBA 11 other teams in NCAA Division II are still un- 2/11 H Western New Mexico ...............7:30 p.m. defeated, but LCU is one of only three perfect 2/12 H Western New Mexico ...............7:30 p.m. FAIR OR FOUL 2/17 A UT Permian Basin ...................7:30 p.m. 2/20 H UT Permian Basin ...................4 p.m. Through their first 10 games this 2/24 H West Texas A&M .....................7:30 p.m. season, the Chaps have aver- 2/27 H West Texas A&M .....................4 p.m. aged just 14 personal fouls per 3/2 N LSC Championships Rd. 1 ........TBA game, which is the seventh-low- 3/5 N LSC Championships Rd. 2 ........TBA LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (@LCUCHAPS) UAFS (@UAFSSPORTS) est mark in the nation. In total, 3/6 N LSC Championships Final .........3 p.m. CHAPARRALS LIONS LCU players have committed just 3/12-15 N NCAA South Central Regional ...TBA 140 fouls. Daniels, who leads the 3/23-26 N NCAA Elite Eight .....................TBA Record: 3-4, 3-4 Record: 10-0, 10-0 team in minutes played with 33.7 Last Game: W vs. CU Last Game: W vs. MSU (OT) per game, has committed just * - Lone Star Conference Game Coach: Jim Boone Coach: Todd Duncan seven fouls all year. Chap op- $ - LSC Men’s Basketball Championship Game Record at LCU: 167-104 Record at UAFS: 16-20 ALL TIMES CENTRAL ponents have shot just 157 free PROJECTED STARTERS PROJECTED STARTERS throws this season, which is the Pos. Player Class Pts/g Reb/g Pos. Player Class Pts/g Reb/g third-lowest mark in the LSC, and F Chris Rollins Sr. 17.7 9.0 G L.D. Daniels Sr. 14.0 3.5 LCU opponents have struggled at G Cameron Copley R-Jr. 5.8 4.3 G Matthew Wilson Sr. 14.7 2.6 F Parker Hicks Sr. 17.1 6.6 G Evan Anderson So. 6.7 2.7 the free throw line, making only G Rowan Mackenzie So. 12.2 5.5 F Braden Boyer Jr. 3.0 2.9 65.6 percent of their free throw G Payton Brown Fr. 18.8 3.2 F Ty Caswell So. 6.8 4.2 chances. ON THE NET - WWW.LCUCHAPS.COM UAFS ‘20-21 LEADERS CHARITY STRIPE The official website of LCU Athletics is where you can find LCU ‘20-21 LEADERS everything relating to the LCU basketball teams. Schedules, AVG. POINTS AVG. POINTS On the flip side, Lubbock Chris- results, rosters, bios, statistics and game notes can be found 16.0 Parker Hicks 18.8 Payton Brown tian has been the best team in and are always up to date. the league and the 15th-best REBOUNDS REBOUNDS All LCU basketball games are broadcasted online on team in the nation at shooting lonestarconferencenetwork.com and live stats are to be 6.1 Rowan Mackenzie 9.0 Chris Rollins provided as well. Most games will air on the radio on KJTV free throws, averaging 79.1 per- AM950/100.7FM. ASSISTS ASSISTS cent for the season. They have at- 51 (6.4) Cameron Copley 27 (3.8) Matthew Wilson tempted just 153 free throws this FACEBOOK/LCUCHAPS season, which is the third-fewest STEALS STEALS TWITTER: @LCUchaps in the league, but they have made YOUTUBE: #LCUathletics 8 Copley, Mackenzie 6 Evan Anderson LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY MEN’S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES www.lcuchaps.com @lcuchaps GAME NOTES / Games 11 & 12 vs. Arkansas-Fort Smith 121 of those. Copley is still perfect (17-17) on cluding 46.7 percent from beyond the arc. The season, LCU held off a furious comeback effort foul shots this season, and Aamer Muhammad only problem was MSU, who shot 58.1 percent by UAFS in the second half to win 69-67. (87 percent) and Ty Caswell (81.3 percent) are and just wouldn’t go away. second and third on the team. LAST TIME THESE TEAMS MET A layup by Rommell Williams with 16:02 left to FORT SMITH, Ark. (February 13, 2020) – Af- SHARP-SHOOTERS go cut the Chap lead back to single-digits, but ter two impressive comebacks of their own in The Chaps have also been an excellent shooting it was around the 12 minute mark that MSU re- the last two Lubbock Christian men’s basketball team overall, hitting 51.3 percent of their shots ally heated up. Jalin Brown hit a pair of free games, the Chaps nearly blew a lead of their from the field (No. 9 in D-II) and 38.9 percent of throws and followed up with a jumper before own, topping Arkansas-Fort Smith 69-67 in the their three-point attempts (No. 24 in D-II). Both Pierre Sanders made a layup to pull within four. Stubblefield Center. Parker Hicks (No. 4) and Daniels (No. 6) rank in Then after the media timeout Derrick Ogechi hit the top ten in the LSC in field goal percentage, his first bucket since Jan. 23 to cut the deficit to LCU’s largest lead of the game was 15 (59-44) with marks of 56.6 percent and 52.3 percent, two, and he followed that up with a three-point- with 9:33 left to play in the second half, and respectively. Gonzalo Corbalan has also shot an er to pull within one, and they took their first they looked to be cruising to a comfortable road extremely efficient 66.7 percent from the field, lead of the game on the following possession. win. UAFS stormed back, however, outscoring but his 45 field goals attempted do not qualify the Chaps 23-10 from that point on.