INDIANAPOLIS – The IUPUI basketball team will cap its longest homestand of the 2010-11 season when the Jaguars host Oral Roberts at 7:00 p.m. inside The Jungle on Saturday (Dec. 4) night. Pregame coverage with Scott McCauley (play-by-play) and Angelo Smith (analyst) will begin on 88.3 FM / The Walk, beginning at approximately 6:50 p.m.. In addition, the game will be available via the IUPUI LIVE! subscription service for $4.95.
The athletics department will be hosting a number of promotions, including the distribution of Red Zone gameday t-shirts prior to both the men's and women's games, while supplies last. Half will be distributed at 3:30 prior to the women's tip and the remainder will be issued at 6:30 before the men's tip-off. In addition, as part of the annual Summit League Food Fight, IUPUI will be collecting goods to benefit the Ronald McDonald house. Those donating will be eligible to win some special prizes throughout the evening.
Saturday night's game is co-sponsored by
Indiana Members Credit Union and
Riley Towers. IMCU will also be providing a giveaway prior to Saturday's game.
On the court, IUPUI (4-4, 1-0 Summit) is seeking a three-game home sweep after wins over IU East and Centenary earlier this week. On Thursday night, senior
Leroy Nobles scored 20 points including the 1,000th of his career and junior
Alex Young tallied a game-high 22 as the Jaguars outlasted Centenary, 77-69. Freshman pivot Mitchell Patton scored a career-high 13 points, including IUPUI's first nine of the game, and senior
Nick DeSchepper contributed a career-high eight off the bench in the win.
IUPUI led by as many as 23 early in the second half, but Centenary shot 56 percent from the floor in the second half and hit a flurry of jumpers late to close the final margin.
Oral Roberts (3-4, 1-0 Summit) is coming off an impressive 71-58 win at Western Illinois on Thursday night behind junior Dominique Morrison's career-high 35 points. Morrison leads ORU at 19.1 points per game and true freshman Steven Roundtree comes in netting 12 points and seven boards per contest. Sophomore sharpshooter Warren Niles comes in averaging 14.4 points per game, primarily off the bench.
ORU leads the all-time series 17-10, however IUPUI took two-out-of-three a year ago including an overtime thriller at Conseco Fieldhouse and a meeting in The Summit League Tournament semifinals.
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