Nov. 27, 2017 2017-18 MEN’S BASKETBALL @BigSouthGameDay | #BigSouthMBB 2017-18 BIG SOUTH MEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS SID CONTACTS Big South Overall Big South .........................................Mark Simpson [email protected] Team W L PCT W L PCT Home Road Neu L10 Streak 704-341-7990 Charleston Southern 0 0 .000 4 2 .667 2-0 2-2 0-0 4-2 W4 @BigSouthSID Liberty 0 0 .000 4 2 .667 3-2 1-0 0-0 4-2 W2 UNC Asheville 0 0 .000 4 2 .667 3-0 1-2 0-0 4-2 W3 Campbell .........................................................Stan Cole Radford 0 0 .000 3 2 .600 2-0 1-2 0-0 3-2 W1 [email protected] Winthrop 0 0 .000 3 3 .500 3-1 0-2 0-0 3-3 W1 910-893-1331 Campbell 0 0 .000 3 4 .429 3-2 0-2 0-0 3-4 W1 @GoCamelsMBB High Point 0 0 .000 2 3 .400 2-1 0-2 0-0 2-3 L1 Charleston Southern ...Kevin O’Rourke Presbyterian College 0 0 .000 2 5 .286 1-0 0-4 1-1 2-5 W1 [email protected] Gardner-Webb 0 0 .000 2 6 .250 2-0 0-4 0-2 2-6 L3 843-863-7289 Longwood 0 0 .000 1 5 .167 1-3 0-1 0-1 1-5 W1 @csusports Gardner-Webb .....................................Marc Rabb [email protected] PLAYERS OF THE WEEK - NOV. 27 704-406-4355 @GWUSports PLAYER OF THE WEEK - MARCUS BURK, CAMPBELL, G, SOPH (INDIANAPOLIS, IND.) Burk averaged 24.3 points, 3.8 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.5 steals in four games last week. He shot 67.9 percent from High Point .........................Tom Fenstermaker the fi eld (36-of-53), made 22-of-37 threes ( =59.5 percent) and earned All-Tournament honors at the Creek Classic. Burk [email protected] opened the week with a 31-point effort vs. Johnson & Wales on 12-of-16 shooting (7-of-11 from long distance), and fol- 336-841-4605 lowed with 22 points on 9-of-12 from the fi eld vs. Abilene Christian. He scored 18 points vs. Bowling Green and fi nished @HighPointUBball with 26 against future Big South member USC Upstate, which included 8-of-11 three-pointers against the Spartans. Liberty ..........................................Steven Gonzalez FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK - CARLIK JONES, RADFORD, G, R-FR (CINCINNATI, OHIO) [email protected] Jones averaged 10.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in two games off the bench last week. He opened with eight 434-582-2294 points and career-high eight boards in Radford’s narrow loss at Elon, and followed with 13 points, three rebounds, three @libertyfl ames assists, one steal and one block in the Highlanders’ 69-68 victory over James Madison. He was 8-of-16 from the fi eld ( =50.0 percent) in the two games. Longwood .................................................Chris Cook [email protected] 434-395-2718 THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE @LongwoodLancers MONDAY, NOV. 27 SATURDAY, DEC. 2 Presbyterian ..........................Simon Whitaker Howard at LIBERTY .............................................................................................. 7:00pm UNC Greensboro at LIBERTY ................................................................. 1:00pm [email protected] RADFORD at VMI ...................................................................................................... 1:00pm 864-833-8252 TUESDAY, NOV. 28 Reinhardt at WINTHROP .............................................................................. 2:00pm @BlueHoseSports HIGH POINT at Pittsburgh ......................................................................... 7:00pm Fayetteville State at LONGWOOD ................................................ 3:00pm UNC Greensboro at PRESBYTERIAN ......................................... 7:00pm North Carolina A&T at PRESBYTERIAN ............................... 4:00pm Radford ...................................................Nathan Wise VMI at CHARLESTON SOUTHERN ................................................... 7:30pm USC Upstate at GARDNER-WEBB .................................................. 7:00pm [email protected] RADFORD at Vanderbilt .............................................................................. 8:00pm 540-831-5736 SUNDAY, DEC. 3 @RadfordMBB WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29 UNC ASHEVILLE at Clemson ................................................................ 3:00pm Bluefi eld State at LONGWOOD .......................................................... 7:00pm UNC Asheville ....................................Brian Hand USC Upstate at UNC ASHEVILLE .................................................... 7:00pm [email protected] WINTHROP at Furman .......................................................................................7:00pm 828-251-6932 @ashevilledogs THURSDAY, NOV. 30 CAMPBELL at Stetson ...................................................................................... 7:00pm Big South school in ALL CAPS All Times Eastern and subject to change Winthrop .............................................Brett Redden [email protected] FRIDAY, DEC. 1 803-323-2129, ext. 6246 Johnson & Wales at HIGH POINT ................................................... 7:00pm @WUEagles 2017-18 BIG SOUTH MEN’S BASKETBALL THREE BALL ISCELLEANOUS TATISTICS Winthrop leads the Big South in three-pointers per game with 12.5, which is pacing as the third- M S highest per game total in league history. The Big South single-season record for three-pointers GAMES WITH 20-OR-MORE POINTS made per game is 13.69 set by VMI in 2008-09. The Eagles have drained at least 10 treys in a Player 20-24 25-29 30+ Total game four times already -- including three efforts with 15-or-more, and are on track for 375, which Marcus Burk, CAM 1 1 2 4 would rank as the third-most all-time in a season in conference annals. Meanwhile, Campbell is Isaiah Walton, LW 2 1 3 David Efi anayi, GWU 1 2 3 averaging 10.7 3FG per outing, followed by Radford at 10.2. The Big South has never had multiple Andre Fox, HPU 2 1 3 teams average at least 10.0 threes per contest in the same year. Reggie Dillard, PC 2 1 3 Davon Bell, PC 2 1 3 THE BOOK ON BURK D.J. Laster, GWU 3 3 Campbell sophomore MARCUS BURK is averaging a league-high 19.3 points and is third in the Chris Clemons, CAM 1 1 2 conference in 3FG shooting at 53.4 percent (31-of-58). Burk, who averaged 8.0 points and 40.1 per- B.K. Ashe, LW 1 1 2 cent from beyond the arc last season as a freshman, has scored 130 points in his last fi ve games Shane Whitfi eld, CAM 1 1 -- a 26.0 scoring average. He has made 30 of his last 50 three-point attempts in that span for a Brandonn Kamga, HPU 1 1 60.0 percentage. Jahaad Proctor, HPU 1 1 MaCio Teague, AVL 1 1 Kevin Vannatta, AVL 1 1 BIG SOUTH’S 1,000-POINT CLUB GROWS BY TWO Liam O’Reilly, GWU 1 1 Two players joined the Big South’s 1,000-point club last week, as Presbyterian’s REGGIE DILLARD Eric Jamison, GWU 1 1 became the 148th player during PC’s game against Nicholls State, while UNC Asheville’s KEVIN Lovell Cabbil, LU 1 1 VANNATTA became the 149th player with the milestone Sunday vs. Wofford. The Big South now Scottie James, LU 1 1 has fi ve active players with 1,000 career points, and below is a look at their respective all-time Anders Broman, WU 1 1 scoring rankings in Big South history, as well as the overall number they entered the 1,000-point Xavier Cooks, WU 1 1 club. Josh Ferguson, WU 1 1 34. 1,578 Chris Clemons, Campbell 144 64. 1,335 Xavier Cooks, Winthrop 145 TEAMMATES WITH 20 POINTS, SAME GAME 103. 1,172 Ahmad Thomas, UNC Asheville 147 2 Gardner-Webb 138. 1,036 Reggie Dillard, Presbyterian 148 (O’Reilly - 24, Efi anayi - 24, Jamison - 20, 145. 1,001 Kevin Vannatta, UNC Asheville 149 Laster - 20, 11/18) (Efi anayi - 27, Laster - 20, 11/26) 1 High Point 2,000-POINT ODYSSEY (Proctor - 28, Fox - 22, 11/10) Campbell junior CHRIS CLEMONS is averaging 24.8 points per game, but does not qualify for the 1 Presbyterian Big South or national leaders as he has played less than 75 percent of Campbell’s games. Clemons (Dillard - 25, Bell - 22, 11/11) is 34th all-time in Big South history with 1,578 points, and needs 422 to become the 11th player 1 Longwood in league annals with 2,000 in a career. Should he reach the milestone this season, he would be (Ashe - 31, Walton - 20, 11/26) the fi rst junior ever to hit the 2,000-point plateau in the history of the conference. Meanwhile, Clemons’ career scoring average of 22.23 points is second in Big South history, just behind REGGIE WILLIAMS’ record mark of 22.82. GAMES WITH 10-OR-MORE REBOUNDS Player 10-14 15-19 20+ Total MOUNTAIN MEN D.J. Laster, GWU 3 3 Scottie James, LU 2 2 UNC Asheville seniors AHMAD THOMAS and KEVIN VANNATTA are the 24th pair of four-year Big Josh Ferguson, WU 1 1 South classmates with 1,000 points each during the same four-year span. Thomas’ career total Brooks Cluxton, CAM 1 1 stands at 1,172, while Vannatta sits at 1,001 entering this week for a combined total of 2,173. The Abdul Sarki, CSU 1 1 fi fth set of Asheville teammates with the achievement during the Big South era, they are 81 points Travis McConico, CSU 1 1 away from moving into the 23rd spot among the league’s all-time four-year teammate soring Liam O’Reilly, GWU 1 1 combos with 1,000 points each. Brandon Miller, GWU 1 1 B.K. Ashe, LW 1 1 TOP CHEF Charles Glover, LW 1 1 Winthrop senior forward XAVIER COOKS is just the third player in Big South history with more Ed Polite Jr., RAD 1 1 than 1,000 career points (1,335), 750 rebounds (764) and 150 blocked shots (164), and needs 236 Ahmad Thomas, AVL 1 1 boards to become the league’s only player with 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 150 blocked Xavier Cooks, WU 1 1 shots. He is currently tied for 20th all-time in rebounding, and would be the fourth player with 1,000 boards should he reach the milestone.