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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - After a brief holiday respite, the IUPUI basketball team will return to action on Monday when it heads south to take on Memphis (8-2) inside the FedEx Forum. Monday's game will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools in basketball.
IUPUI (9-4) is coming off a 72-59 loss at Indiana State on Wednesday inside the Hulman Center in downtown Terre Haute. The Jaguars got 20 points each from
Leroy Nobles and
Alex Young and stormed out to an early 10-0 lead, but faltered down the stretch in the loss. Plagued by foul troubles throughout, frustration boiled over in the final seven minutes as Young was whistled for a technical foul for taunting after swishing a three from the baseline corner to cut the ISU lead to three. After ISU converted the technical into four points, IUPUI answered with a
Robert Glenn layup, but got no closer than five the rest of the way.
Young needed just eight field goal attempts to reach 20 points, marking his ninth straight game of double-digits. The sophomore hit 5-of-6 from three while Nobles was 4-of-7 from deep in defeat. Dwayne Lathan led ISU with 18 points and seven rebounds.
Memphis' only two losses of the season came at Kansas and on a buzzer beater against UMass in Boston. The Tigers are led by Duke-transfer Elliot Williams, who's scoring better than 20 points per game. Defensively, UM is forcing more than 19 turnovers a contest while turning the ball over just 12 times per at the other end. First-year Head Coach Josh Pastner landed the nation's top recruiting class for next season and the Tigers own the most wins in college basketball over the past four years.
IUPUI is 1-1 all-time against teams from Conference USA with a win against Rice in 2005 and a loss at Houston in 1998. The win over Rice came inside the Bradley Center in Milwaukee in the second round of Pepsi Blue & Gold Classic, hosted by Marquette. Houston, which was coached by Clyde Drexler at the time, beat the Jags on a putback in the final seconds of the 1998 meeting.
