2019-20 UNCG Men’s Basketball 2019-20 SCHEDULE Game 15 Date Opponent Time 11/5 NORTH CAROLINA A&T W, 83-50 Jan. 1, 2020 11/9 at No. 3 Kansas L, 74-62 vs Greensboro, N.C. 11/11 AVERETT% W, 109-51 11/15 TENNESSEE TECH%^ W, 64-30 (11-3, 1-0) (6-8, 0-1) Greensboro, N.C. 11/16 MONTANA STATE%^ L, 67-66 TELEVISION RADIO INTERNET 11/18 APPALACHIAN STATE% W, 55-41 ESPN+ Tunein Radio Live Stats link at 11/24 VMI* W, 74-63 Scott Pryzwansky (play-by-play) (Scott Pryzwansky & Darryl www.uncgspartans.com Darryl Kosiack (commentary) Kosiack) Follow @UNCGBasketball 11/30 at Georgetown W, 65-61 12/4 KENNESAW STATE^ W, 72-54 12/7 at Radford W, 60-58 What’s On Tap . The Spartans take on Mercer for the 14th 12/15 NC STATE L, 80-77 UNCG Please time in school history, at Greensboro Coli- 12/18 at Vermont W, 54-53 seum on Wednesday at 7 PM … The game Please refer to UNCG as simply UNCG 12/21 NORTHERN KENTUCKY^ W, 67-50 will be live streamed via ESPN+ ... The Spar- or the Spartans. Please do not refer 12/28 WILLIAM PEACE W, 106-34 tans are already getting ready for their 11th to UNCG as UNC Greensboro, UNC- 1/1 MERCER * 7 p.m. home game of the season ... UNCG is 8-2 Greensboro, North Carolina-Greens- 1/4 at Wofford * 7 p.m. when playing in Greensboro, and 6-1 when boro, North Carolina at Greensboro, playing inside Greensboro Coliseum … The 1/8 ETSU * 7 p.m. or any other variation of the univer- Spartans enter the game with an 11-3 re- 1/11 at Furman * 7 p.m. cord, but their only two losses at home have sity’s name. Thank you 1/15 at The Citadel * 7 p.m. come against (RV) NC State and Montana 1/18 CHATTANOOGA * 7 p.m. State ... The Spartans’ loss to the Wolfpack 1/25 at Samford * 3 p.m. came on a halfcourt buzzer-beater, the second time they have experienced a loss in that fashion ... The Spartans fell to Montana State 67-66 on a halfcourt buzzer-beater, their only other loss 1/29 at Western Carolina * 7 p.m. came on the road to No. 3-ranked Kansas ... Mercer and UNCG are both coming off 100-point 2/1 at ETSU * 4 p.m. performances, with the Bears defeating Milligan College 104-52. 2/5 THE CITADEL * 7 p.m. 2/9 SAMFORD * 1 p.m. Scouting The Spartans . 2/12 WESTERN CAROLINA * 7 p.m. Teams have shot just 38.4 percent against the Spartans this season, with that number shrinking 2/15 at Mercer * 4:30 p.m. to 36.0 when excluding the team’s games against Kansas and NC State ... No other team in the SoCon causes more turnovers per game (18.50) than the Spartans, nor makes as many blocks 2/19 WOFFORD * 7 p.m. (66), they rank 11th and 27th in the nation respectively ... Offensively, UNCG is led by junior 2/22 at VMI * 1 p.m. guard Isaiah Miller, whose average of 16.3 points per game ranks fourth in the Southern Confer- 2/26 FURMAN * 7 p.m. ence … Miller became the 27th Spartan in program history to reach the 1,000 career point-mark 2/29 at Chattanooga * 4:30 p.m. after pouring in 27 points at Radford … The guard scored 20-plus points for a third straight * - Southern Conference game game against State, pulling his team back from a 13-point deficit, while going 7-for-10 in the % - Delaware Invitational final 10 minutes of the game ... James Dickey and Kyrin Galloway rank first and second in the conference with 29 and 23 blocks respectively, they sit 28th and 54th in the nation ... Dickey’s ^ - Fleming Gymnasium on campus streak of block performances ended at 11 against Vermont, the first game he’s played this season without recording a rejection ... The Spartans set a new program record with 23 steals in a 106-34 victory over William Peace ... James Dickey moved to second all time on UNCG’s all-time rebounding list with 879 career ... UNCG’s 72 point winning margin is the second-largest in program history Scouting The Bears . Senior guard Ethan Stair is one of the top rebounders in the country, with his 135 boards ranking 14th in Division I basketball .. Averaging just under a double-double per game, Stair leads the conference with seven ... Just four of the Bears’ six wins have come against Division I teams this year, only two of which have come against squads ranked within the top-300 of the most recent NET rankings ... Mercer took a 64-62 loss to Furman to open the Southern Conference season last week ... Senior guard Djordje Dimitrijevic leads the Bears with 50 assists and 21 steals on the year UNCG’s Projected Starters Off The Bench Contributors Media Information #1 Isaiah Miller, Jr., G #0 Keyshaun Langley, Fr., G Assistant Director of Communications #2 Malik Massey, Sr., G #4 Mohammed Abdulsalam, So., F Mark Pinkerton (primary contact) #13 Angelo Allegri, So., F #11 Michael Hueitt Jr., So., G [email protected] #14 Kyrin Galloway, Sr., F #12 Khyre Thompson, Fr., F #21 James Dickey, Sr., F #33 Bas Leyte, Fr., F *Based on last game* 2019-20 UNCG Men’s Basketball Series History. road against Wofford, before coming back to 2019-20 SOCON STANDINGS This is the 14th time the Bears and Spartans face ETSU (RV) ... The Spartans are just 16-28 have met, with Mercer leading the all-time when facing the Terriers all-time, but are 14- SoCon Overall series 7-6 ... The Spartans have been victori- 16 against the Bucs ... UNCG will be looking Team W L Pct W L Pct ous in six of their last seven meetings with the to bounce back from three straight losses to ETSU 1 0 1.000 12 2 .857 Bears and have not lost to Mercer at home Wofford in the 2018-19 campaign, after de- UNCG 1 0 1.000 11 3 .786 since January 3, 2015, the first time the pair feating the side five straight times prior to last Furman 1 0 1.000 11 3 .786 competed against one another at the Division season I level ... the pair’s first game against one Western Carolina 1 0 1.000 9 3 .750 another came almost exactly 34 years prior, Record Watch . Wofford 0 0 .000 8 5 .615 January 5, 1981 Isaiah Miller became the 27th Spartan in Samford 0 0 .000 6 8 .429 school history to reach 1,000 career points Chattanooga 0 1 .000 9 5 .643 In the Polls... Kind of . after dropping 27 against Radford (12/7), The Citadel 0 1 .000 6 6 .500 The Spartans are currently ranked No. 7 in his 1,069 total points are three shy of tying Mercer 0 1 .000 6 8 .429 College Insider’s “Men’s Mid-Major Top-25” ... for No. 22 on the Spartan all-time scoring list They defeated the No. 16 team in that group, … James Dickey moved into fourth on the VMI 0 1 .000 5 9 .357 (As of Dec. 19) Vermont earlier in the year ... Three Southern Spartan all-time rebounding list with his nine Conference teams are included in the top-25, boards against William Peace, he now sits at SCHOOL INFORMATION with ETSU and Furman ranking No. 5 and No. 879, 54 boards shy of the No. 3 spot ... With 9 respectively ... UNCG is also ranked No. 61 178 steals in his three years at UNCG, Miller is School....................................................... UNCG in the most current NET rankings, two spots currently ranked fourth in Division I program Location ................................... Greensboro, N.C. Founded .....................................................1891 ahead of ETSU for the highest ranking in the history, and is just seven away from AP All- Enrollment .............................................. 20,196 SoCon ... The Spartans are ranked higher American Honorable Mention Kyle Hines, for Nickname ............................................. Spartans than every member of the SoCon, MAC, C- third on the list … Miller is currently just 58 Colors ....................................Navy, Gold & White USA, CAA, Big South, Big Sky, Big West, Sun steals away from tying the all-time program Arena .................................. Greensboro Coliseum Capacity .........................................7,617/23,000 Belt, OVC, WAC, Summit, Horizon, America record (Ricky Hickman, 2003-07) … With his Affiliation ................................... NCAA Division I East, NEC, MAAC, Patriot, SWAC and MEAC ... 879 rebounds and 198 blocked shots, James Conference ...........................................Southern Two of UNCG’s three losses have come against Dickey sits fourth among active players in Di- Chancellor .......................... Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. teams reanked within the top-40 of the most vision I ... His block numbers rank second in Director of Athletics ........................ Kim Record recent NET rankings; Kansas (2) and NC State D1 program history ... Dickey is 168 boards Alma Mater....................................Virginia, 1984 Athletics Dept. Phone ...................336-334-5952 (32) and 151 rejections from tying both school re- Ticket Office Phone ......................336-334-3250 cords ... Senior forward Kyrin Galloway’s 96 Schedule Ahead . rejections put him four short of becoming just UNCG finishes its three-game home stand the sixth Spartan since 1988 to record 100 TEAM INFORMATION against Mercer, hoping to go undefeated in blocks... He currently ranks sixth in Division I 2018-19 Overall Record ............................ 29-7 those contests with a win over the Bears ... program history. 2018-19 SoCon Record ............................. 15-3 The Spartans will be in the full swing of the SoCon Finish ................................................2nd SoCon schedule next week, getting on the Letterwinners Returning/Lost .................