GAMES 14-15 GRAND CANYON Jan. 29, 2021 at 7 p.m. Jan. 30, 2021 at 7 p.m. MEN’S BASKETBALL GCU Arena • Phoenix, Ariz. 2020-21 SCHEDULE NEW MEXICO STATE GRAND CANYON AGGIES LOPES 10-3 4-0 6-1 4-0 0-2 W-L WAC H A N (3-1, 0-0) (10-3, 4-0) V HC: Chris Jans (4th at NMSU, 86-18 | 5th overall, 107-30) S HC: Bryce Drew (1st at GCU, 10-3 | 9th overall, 174-111) Wed 11/25 Grambling State W 69-53 PTS REB AST PTS REB AST Sat 11/28 Benedictine (Ariz.) W 94-63 Clayton Henry Donnie Tillman Evan Gilyard Asbjørn Midtgaard Asbjørn Midtgaard Jovan Blacksher Jr. Tue 12/1 Mississippi Valley State W 88-49 15.5 ppg 9.7 rpg 3.0 apg 15.1 ppg 9.8 rpg 5.2 apg Fri 12/11 Nevada W 87-77 TV STREAM LISTEN STATS Sun 12/13 (23) Arizona State L 71-70 FOX 10 Xtra ESPN3 1580 The Fanatic Sun 12/20 vs. San Francisco at Las Vegas L 68-65 Ch. 45 / Cable 9 ESPN.com/Watch 99.3 FM & 95.9 FM Barry Buetel play-by-play 1580thefanatic.com GCUStats.com Tue 12/22 vs. Colorado at Las Vegas L 74-64 Scott Williams analysis YouTube Michael Potter play-by-play Kate Longworth reporter YouTube.com/GCU Paul Coro analysis Fri 1/8 at Tarleton* W 75-72 Sat 1/9 at Tarleton* W 59-48 SERIES HISTORY THIS SERIES Fri 1/15 Bethesda W 121-62 GCU record vs. New Mexico State 2-15 » GCU is off to its best start through 13 games since 2015-16 Home / away / neutral 2-5 / 0-8 / 0-2 when the Lopes started 11-2. Sat 1/16 Bethesda W 98-47 Last meeting Feb. 27, 2020, home, L 67-53 » New Mexico State is playing its first conference games Fri 1/22 at Dixie State* W 77-74 Streak New Mexico State, won 8 and has only played one Division I opponent. Sat 1/23 at Dixie State* W 81-46 LAST GAME’S STARTERS » The Lopes and Aggies have met in the two most recent WAC title games. Fri 1/29 New Mexico State* 7 p.m. » GCU is on its longest winning streak (six games) since an Sat 1/30 New Mexico State* 7 p.m. 11-game win streak between 2016-17 and 2017-18. Fri 2/5 at UT Rio Grande Valley* 7 p.m. CT » The Lopes lead the WAC with a 4-0 conference mark. #10 #3 #4 #25 #33 Utah Valley (3-0) and UTRGV (2-0) follow. Sat 2/6 at UT Rio Grande Valley* 7 p.m. CT Jovan Mikey Oscar Alessandro Asbjørn Blacksher Jr. Dixon Frayer Lever Midtgaard LAST WEEK Fri 2/12 CSUN 5:30 p.m. G | So. | 5-11 G | Sr. | 6-2 F | Sr. | 5-11 F | Sr. | 5-11 C | Sr. | 5-11 » GCU won a narrow opener and a blowout finale at Dixie 11.8 PPG 7.3 PPG 6.5 PPG 12.8 PPG 15.1 PPG Fri 2/19 California Baptist* 7 p.m. 3.0 RPG 1.7 RPG 2.5 RPG 5.0 RPG 9.8 RPG State to improve to 4-0 in WAC play. 5.2 APG 1.3 APG 2.1 APG 1.4 APG 0.6 APG » In an 81-46 win on Saturday, GCU posted its biggest ever Sat 2/20 California Baptist* 7 p.m. 44.4% FG 39.7% FG 41.7% FG 54.3% FG 74.5% FG WAC margin of victory and lowest opposing point total. Fri 2/26 at Seattle U* TBA 33.3% 3P 21.9% 3P 38.6% 3P 40.5% 3P 0.0% 3P FT 74.2% FT 58.3% FT 68.4% FT 71.7% FT 75.0% STORYLINES Sat 2/27 at Seattle U* TBA bold purple denotes team leader in category BY THE NUMBERS » GCU leads the nation in rebound margin at +12.2. The Fri 3/5 Utah Valley* 7 p.m. Lopes have won the rebounding battle in all 13 games. Sat 3/6 Utah Valley* 7 p.m. » Asbjørn Midtgaard is the nation’s leader in field goal percentage at 74.5% and has made 11 consecutive shots. WAC TOURNAMENT (ORLEANS ARENA, LAS VEGAS, NEV.) 77.0 POINTS >> 80.6 » The Lopes are the nation’s only team to rank in the top 10 3/11-13 TBA TBA 59.5 POINTS ALLOWED >> 61.8 in both field goal percentage (5th, 51.8%) and field goal + 17.5 MARGIN >> + 18.8 defense (8th, 37.7%). 43.5 FG PCT. >> 51.8 » Alessandro Lever needs just 13 points to match Duane Gagnon for third on the program’s all-time scoring list 36.7 << FG PCT. DEFENSE 37.7 with 1,453 points. Lever became GCU’s No. 4 all-time * denotes WAC game home away 29.2 3PT PCT. >> 32.8 leading scorer on Jan. 9, surpassing Jim Irvine. 74.4 << FT PCT. 67.5 » GCU’s big-man combo of Alessandro Lever and Asbjørn NOTABLE NUMERAL 41.0 REBOUNDS >> 41.2 Midtgaard is combining to average 27.9 points and 14.8 rebounds while shooting 64.0% from the field. Asbjørn Midtgaard leads the nation 12.8 ASSISTS >> 17.5 74.5 » GCU is shooting 37.0% from distance over its last five in field-goal percentage 13.3 << TURNOVERS 13.5 games after starting the year at 29.5% through eight. 5.8 << STEALS 5.5 » Gabe McGlothan is averaging 9.8 rebounds in WAC play, INTERACTIVE DOCUMENT 2.5 BLOCKS >> 3.2 tied for the team lead and doing it off the bench. Viewing this digitally? » The Lopes have a NET ranking of 130 which leads the Text with this underline will take you to the web or Josh Hauser [email protected] COMMUNICATIONS conference. Utah Valley follows at 205. elsewhere in the document for more information Jerob Moon [email protected] ‹ 1 › #LOPESUP GRAND CANYON MEN’S BASKETBALL LAST TWO GAMES VS SATURDAY, JAN. 23 | AWAY Official Basketball Box Score - Final Game Time: 7:00 PM Grand Canyon at Dixie St. Game Duration: 1:56 Attendance: 769 01/23/21 Burns, St. George GRAND 2020-21 Men's Basketball DIXIE STATE Officials: Mike Scyphers, Wilson Holland, Klaus Endrissat CANYON Grand Canyon - 81 Record: 10-3 (4-0) FG 3P FT Rebounds Fouls Blocks Shooting By Period TP AS TO ST +/- NO. Name Min M-A M-A M-A OR DR TOT PF FD BS BA 1st FG% 14-31 45.2% 46 81 4 Oscar Frayer F 20:35 2-7 0-4 1-2 0 0 0 1 2 5 5 1 1 0 1 24 3PT% 4-11 36.4% 25 Alessandro Lever C 24:59 6-10 1-3 0-0 0 6 6 2 2 13 2 1 0 0 0 14 FT% 4-4 100% 33 Asbjorn Midtgaard C 26:18 6-6 0-0 4-5 2 7 9 4 7 16 0 2 2 1 0 29 2nd FG% 14-26 53.8% 3 Mikey Dixon G 21:01 2-5 1-3 2-2 0 0 0 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 21 3PT% 3-11 27.3% 10 Jovan Blacksher Jr. G 21:28 4-9 2-3 0-0 0 3 3 2 1 10 2 1 1 1 0 13 FT% 14-20 70% 0 Sean Miller-Moore 15:52 0-3 0-0 0-2 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 GM FG% 28-57 49.1% 22 Jayden Stone 13:58 1-3 1-2 0-0 2 0 2 2 0 3 2 2 0 0 0 3 3PT% 7-22 31.8% 30 Gabe McGlothan 19:27 2-4 0-1 2-2 4 8 12 4 1 6 0 0 1 0 1 8 FT% 18-24 75.0% [QUOTED] 2 Chance McMillian 18:32 4-8 2-5 1-1 0 0 0 3 2 11 1 0 0 0 0 22 Dead Ball Rebounds: 1, 0 21 Liam Lloyd 04:38 0-0 0-0 3-4 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 7 1 Dima Zdor 05:01 0-0 0-0 4-4 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 11 GCU HEAD COACH BRYCE DREW 11 Rashad Smith 02:28 0-1 0-1 1-2 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 24 Bryce Okpoh 03:33 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 3 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 10 15 Raef Gerdes 01:05 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 “Guys really responded. The biggest thing we wanted is we just wanted a lot more 31 Ethan Spry 01:05 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Team 4 0 4 0 3 overall effort and I thought we did it for 40 minutes tonight, which is great to see Totals 28-57 7-22 18-24 12 30 42 21 26 81 14 13 7 2 2 35 Technical Fouls::NONE from a coach’s standpoint because we had great stretches but we hadn’t had 40 Dixie St.