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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The IUPUI basketball team will close out the 2009 calendar year when it heads up Interstate 69 to take on IPFW in a Summit League clash on Thursday at 1:00 p.m.. Pregame coverage will begin at approximately 12:45 p.m. as Scott McCauley (play-by-play) will call the action. The game will also be seen on a tape delay on Hometown Sports Indiana (Comcast/Brighthouse channel 81) as Greg Rakestraw (play-by-play) and Jan Boser (analyst) are on the call. Re-air times include Thursday at 8:00 and 10:30 p.m. and Friday at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m..

IUPUI (9-5, 2-0 Summit) comes in on a two-game losing skid, having dropped consecutive road games at Indiana State and Memphis.

Head Coach Ron Hunter's team is seeking its first true road win since knocking off Eastern Illinois in Charleston on Nov. 18. At Memphis on Monday, junior Leroy Nobles paced four Jags in double-digits with 18 points and sophomore Alex Young finished with 16 points and seven rebounds. Senior Jon Avery tied his career-high with seven made free throws and finished one point shy of matching his season-high, scoring 15 in the loss.

IUPUI led 13-11 in the early stages before the Tigers rattled off a 29-8 run to take control in front of 17,020 fans at the FedEx Forum. UM guard Elliot Williams finished with a game-high 27 points, marking the most by an IUPUI opponent this season.

IPFW (5-6, 0-1 Summit) is led by senior forward Deilvez Yearby and junior guard Ben Botts. Yearby, a transfer from Kansas State, comes in averaging 17.8 points and 9.4 rebounds per game and leads the Mastodons with 21 blocked shots. Botts is shooting 47 percent from three-point range and scoring 11.7 points per game. He and backcourt mate Zach Plackemeier are the only two 'Dons to have started all 11 games this season.

On the flip side, IUPUI has used the same starting five in all 14 games thus far. Glenn is leading the group, averaging 18.4 points and 6.8 rebounds a night and shooting 56 percent from the field. Young and Nobles have been the Jaguars' top marksmen from beyond the arc, both shooting better than 44 percent from three. Young is scoring better than 17 points per game and Nobles is netting nearly 16 per. IUPUI has never had more than three players average more than 15 points per game in the same season in school history.

The Jaguars swept last year's home-and-home series including a 57-55 win in The Jungle on Feb. 9, 2009 on a Glenn bank shot with 7.7 seconds left. Opting against calling a timeout, the 'Dons were unable to get off a shot before the final horn.