MACOMB, Ill. -Â Western Illinois men's basketball (7-11, 0-7) continues Summit League play on the road Saturday (Jan. 23) at IUPUI (9-13, 5-2)... The two teams are slated to tipoff at 12 p.m. (CT) on ESPN3.
UP NEXT: After the Leathernecks hit the road beginning with a trip to Indiana to face IUPUI and Fort Wayne for contests on Friday and Sunday (Jan. 29 & Jan. 31), WIU plays host to Omaha on Wednesday (Feb. 3)... The Leathernecks then play three consecutive away games at Denver (Feb. 11), Oral Roberts (Feb. 13) and North Dakota State (Feb. 17).
LEATHERNECKS VS. JAGUARS SERIES HISTORY: IUPUI leads the all-time series 30-14... Prior to the Leathernecks winning six of the last eight meetings over the last five seasons, IUPUI had won 26-of-27 from 2000 to 2011... Through the first nine meetings between the two programs, Western captured seven victories... Below is a look at the last 20 meetings between the two teams.
vs. IUPUI • 44 Total Meetings • IUPUI leads 30-14
Jan 11, 2007 Â Â Â L, 55-68Â Â Â H
Feb 10, 2007 Â Â Â L, 47-69Â Â Â A
Dec 8, 2007 Â Â Â L, 47-64 Â Â Â H
Mar 1, 2008 Â Â Â L, 54-72 Â Â Â A
Dec 6, 2008 Â Â Â W, 58-48 Â Â Â A
Feb 28, 2009 Â Â Â L, 66-71 Â Â Â H
Jan 9, 2010 Â Â Â L, 54-67 Â Â Â A
Feb 6, 2010 Â Â Â L, 42-70 Â Â Â H
Mar 6, 2010 Â Â Â L, 68-77 Â Â Â N
Dec 30, 2010 Â Â Â L, 55-70 Â Â Â A
Jan 29, 2011Â Â Â L, 45-56 Â Â Â H
Dec 30, 2011Â Â Â L, 68-75 Â Â Â A
Jan 28, 2012Â Â Â W, 57-55 Â Â Â H
Jan 5, 2013Â Â Â W, 57-53Â Â Â H
Feb 2, 2013Â Â Â W, 68-59Â Â Â A
Jan 30, 2014Â Â Â W, 69-54Â Â Â A
March 1 , 2014Â Â Â W, 75-70Â Â Â H
Jan 30, 2015Â Â Â W, 63-59Â Â Â H
Feb 28, 2015Â Â Â L, 66-71Â Â Â A
Jan 14, 2016Â Â Â L, 60-67Â Â Â H
INSIDE WESTERN HALL: Western is 42-21 (.667) inside Western Hall since the beginning of the 2011-12 season... The Leathernecks went 10-4 (.714) during their 2011-12 campaign, 12-2 (.857) during the 2012-13 league slate, 7-5 in 2013-14 (.583), 8-6 (.571) in 2014-15, and are 5-4 (.556) so far this season on LeRoy A. Ufkes Court inside Western Hall.
ROAD RAGE: Western is 2-7 so far this season on the road... WIU is 16-49 (.246) on the road since the beginning of the 2011-12 season, and 1-26 (.037) in the last two seasons... The Leathernecks went 6-10 (.375) in 2011-12, they were above .500 in 2012-13 with a 7-6 (.538) road mark, struggled again during the 2013-14 season with a 1-13 (.071) record on the road, and went 0-13 (.000) in 2014-15.
THE LAST TIME OUT: Western Illinois was able to tie the game up early in the second half, but North Dakota State quickly pulled away and defeated WIU, 65-52, in Summit League action last Saturday afternoon (Jan. 23)... NDSU jumped out to an early 9-point lead, 15-6, but WIU was able to rattle off nine straight points and tie things up at 15, forcing a Bison timeout. North Dakota State answered with eight straight points and went into halftime with a 29-26... The Leathernecks quickly knotted the game at 31-31 two minutes into the second, but the Bison answered again, built their lead up to double digits, and improved to 4-3 in league play and 14-7 overall with the win. Western fell to 7-11 overall and 0-7 in league action... Seniors Tate Stensgaard and J.C. Fuller led Western with 10 points each, while juniors Garret Covington and Jabari Sandifer each tallied nine points. Covington also grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds and Stensgaard finished with seven rebounds.
TOP ALL-TIME: Garret Covington sits 19th all-time in Western Illinois career scoring with 1,157 points... He is 56 points away from sole possession of 15th... Dan Braun ranks 15th with 1,212... In Western's home game versus Eastern Illinois (Dec. 12) he became the program's 23rd player to join the 1,000 point club... Before Covington, the last person to join the club was Ceola Clark III.
1.    2,248 Joe Dykstra   1978-83
2.    2,128 Coleman Carrodine   1960-64
3.    1,577 Bob Anderson   1966-69
4.    1,555 Dwayne Banks   1977-8
5.    1,524 Marshall Stoner   1952-56Â
6.   1,508 Brad Bainter   1975-79
7.   1,496 Chuck Schramm   1954-57
8.   1,472 Ceola Clark III   2008-13
9.   1,448 Grady McCollum   1956-60
   1,448 Jamie Lilly   1979-82
11.   1,431 David Jackson   2004-08
12.   1,348 Garrick Vicks   1993-96
13.   1,228 Todd Hutcheson   1980-84
14.   1,219 Bill McAfoos   1953-56 Â
15.   1,212 Dan Braun   1967-70
16.   1,184 Gene Talbot   1957-60
17.   1,169 Jack Pensinger   1949-53
18.   1,166 Lupe Rios   1952-56
19.   1,157 Garret Covington   2013-Pres.
20.   1,150 Don Talbot   953-57
COVINGTON FOR THREE: Garret Covington has 180 career three-pointers which ranks fourth all-time at WIU… Brandon Creason ranks third all-time with 181 career three-pointers... Covington had 70 three-pointers as a freshman, 63 as a sophomore and has 47 so far as a junior... He has played in 75 career games, and has had seven games without making a 3-pointer, meaning he has made at least one triple in 68 games... He has 47 games with multiple 3-pointers... 20 games with one trey, 13 games with two triples, 14 games with three makes from long range, 13 games with four 3-pointers, six games with five connections from beyond the arc, and a career-high six 3-pointers in one game... He made his six triples consecutively in WIU's win over Idaho last season (Dec. 11, 2014).
1. Â Â Â 247 Ceola Clark IIIÂ Â Â 2008-13
2.    216 Bill Heisler   1997-01
3.    181 Brandon Creason   1995-99
4.    180 Garret Covington   2013-Pres.
5.    173 Cory Fosdyck   1997-02
SANDIFER IN TOP 10: Jabari Sandifer, who finished the 2014-15 Summit League slate ranked first out of all players in assists per game (3.8), has 302 assists in his career which ranks 5th all-time in WIU program history... He currently averages 4.0 assists per game and has played in 76 career games... As a freshman, he played in all 30 games and averaged a team-best 3.1 per game (92 total)… As a sophomore, he played in all 28 games and averaged 4.3 per game (119 total)... This season, as a junior, he has played in all of the teams' 17 games and is averaging 5.1 assists per contest (91 total).
1. 506 Dwayne Banks   1977-80
2. 464 Ceola Clark IIIÂ Â Â 2008-13
3. 361 Daryl Reed   1982-86
4. 318 Brad Bainter   1975-79
5. 302 Jabari Sandifer   2013-Pres.Â
MORE ON SANDIFER'S ASSISTS: Sandifer has at least one assist in all but two of his 76 career games played... He has multiple assists in 70 of those games... Two assists in 12 games... Three assists in 22games... Four assists in 15 games... Two games with five assists... Eight games with six assists... Four games with seven assists... Five games with eight assists... One game with nine assists... He logged a career-high 13 assists last year versus Greenville College (Nov. 29) while not turning the ball over in 29 minutes of play... His 13 helpers was two shy of WIU's single-game record. |
