The Jaguars close out a three-game road trip on Monday, Jan. 10, when they take on Oakland in Rochester, Mich., at the Athletics Center O’rena. Tip is set for 7 p.m. and Scott Taylor will have the call on IUPUIJags.com.

·         IUPUI returns to the Jungle for a pair of home conference meetings against South Dakota State and North Dakota State on Jan. 15 and Jan. 17, respectively.

·         Next week’s home games will be IUPUI’s only home games in January.

·         Jasmine Horne led all scorers with a career-high 23 points, but a 17-4 IPFW run midway through the second half sent the IUPUI women’s basketball team to a 72-55 loss Saturday afternoon at Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind.

·         Horne connected on a career-best eight field goals, including three treys, to lead the Jaguars in scoring, while also adding three rebounds, one assist, and one steal.

·         In recent games the Jags have found themselves in early deficits and the trend continued against the Mastodons. IPFW connected on its first four shots from the floor, including three buckets from Stephanie Rosado and a trey by Kayla Drake, as it jumped out to a 9-0 advantage.

·         Trailing 19-10 following a Kerah Nelson bucket, Horne became the hot hand for the Jaguars scoring eight of the team’s next 10 points, but the Mastodons continued to execute their offense pouring in 15 points during that stretch that pushed their lead to 16 points, 36-20, with a little more than five minutes to play in the opening stanza.

·         Erin Murphy inched the Mastodons closer to a 20-point first-half cushion with a lay-up at the 2:38 mark, but IUPUI held IPFW scoreless in the final 2:30 of the half and used triples by Gretchen Gaskin and Horne in the final 1:30 of the half to trim its deficit to 13 points, 41-28, entering the half.

·         IUPUI turned up the defensive intensity in the opening minutes of the second half to force three IPFW turnovers while shrinking its deficit to 10 points, 43-33, with 17:12 remaining.

·         Still trailing by 10 points, 48-38, following another Horne 3-pointer, the Jags could only buy one bucket and a pair of free throws over the next 8:12. During that stretch, a trio of three’s helped the Mastodons go on a 17-4 run to open a 65-42 cushion.

·         Despite the deficit, the Jags continued to battle until the final horn and outscored IPFW 11-2 in the final 2:08, but fell to the Mastodons, 72-55.

·         IUPUI’s front line of Janna Eichelberger and Clara Mitchell followed Horne’s lead posting eight and seven points, respectively. The duo each grabbed five rebounds as well.

·         As a team, the Jaguars shot above 70 percent at the free throw line for the second consecutive game hitting on 7-of-9 attempts from the charity stripe, while committing 17 turnovers, marking the first time this season IUPUI has turned the ball over fewer than 20 times in back-to-back games.

·         Oakland extended its seven-game home win streak with a 64-38 victory over Western Illinois at the Athletics Center O’rena on Saturday. The Golden Grizzlies have not lost at home since falling to Penn State in OT in the season opener.

·         Oakland is currently the top team in the league when it comes to scoring defense (59.7), defensive field goal percentage (36.5) and blocked shots (5.7).

·         OU tops The Summit League and ranks 11th nationally with an average of 5.7 blocks per game. Brittany Carnago leads the way with an average of 3.1 blocks per game, ranking 11th in the NCAA.

·         Bethany Watterworth leads the team and ranks second in the Summit League in scoring, averaging 19.6 ppg. Watterworth has been even more impressive in conference-only play scoring a league-best 21.2 ppg.

·         Watterworth also ranks among the Top 10 in the Summit League in rebounding and assists.

·         IUPUI has set its game time for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day against North Dakota State for 2 p.m., at The Jungle.

·         The IUPUI Athletics Department also announced changes to the basketball schedule for the month of February, affecting both the men’s and women’s slate.

·         IUPUI will now host Oakland University in a doubleheader at Conseco Fieldhouse on Feb. 5.

·         The women’s game will start at 4:30 and be followed by the men’s contest at 7 p.m..

·         Originally, the women’s game was to be played in The Jungle on Saturday, Feb. 5 and the men’s game was going to be on Sunday, Feb. 6 at Conseco at 1:30 p.m.

·         Since IUPUI’s game vs. Southern Illinois on Dec. 10, Jasmine Horne has slowly become one of the Jaguars most stable offensive threats.

·         Over the last six contests, Horne has scored in double-figures four times and is averaging a team-best 11.5 ppg.

·         One the season, she is averaging 7.1 ppg.

·         At IPFW on Jan. 10, Horne was IUPUI’s lone offensive scoring threat connecting on 8-of-15 field goals, including a career-high three treys, en route to a career-high 23 points, her first 20-plus point effort of the season.

·         In addition to her 11.5 ppg since Dec. 10, Horne is also shooting 50.0 percent from the floor, 40.0 percent from behind-the-arc, while tacking on 2.5 rpg, 2.0 apg, and 2.1 spg.

·         Four games into the conference season, several IUPUI players rank among the Top 10 in several statistical categories.

·         Shea Collins is 8th in the Summit League in 3-point field goal percentage (.464), while her 3.3 treys per game ranks second.

·         Janna Eichelberger ranks among the league’s best in two categories. Eichelberger is eighth in rebounding (6.8 rpg) and is tied for sixth in defensive rebounds (5.0).

·         Kerah Nelson finds herself in the Top 5 in field goal percentage ranking fourth at a .588 clip.

·         Dawn Luster ranks among the league leaders in assists (6th, 3.8) and assist-to-turnover ratio (9th, 1.3).

·         Del’Niqua Bellamy rounds out the group sitting in ninth with 2.5 thefts per game.

·         When the Jaguars head to Rochester, Mich., to take on Oakland, IUPUI will be looking to erase its road losing skid.

·         The Jags are 0-5 on the road this season.

·         IUPUI’s last road win came on Feb. 28, 2009, when the Jaguars closed out the 2008-09 regular season with a win over Western Illinois.

·         After going 0-14 away from home last season and dropping its five road games this season, the Jaguars will look to end their 19-game road losing streak.

·         Through 14 games this season, IUPUI has had seven home games and seven road/neutral games.

·         All three of IUPUI’s wins have come at home and the Jaguars have simply performed better when playing in The Jungle.

·         In home games this season, IUPUI is averaging 59.6 ppg, with four players averaging over 8.0 ppg led by Kerah Nelson’s 13.8 ppg.

·         When in the Jungle, IUPUI is averaging 20.4 turnovers per game, they are shooting 42.1 percent from the floor, and 16.6 assists per game.

·         However, in either road or neutral games, the Jags are averaging 45.3 points per game and Jasmine Horne leads the team in scoring, averaging 8.3 ppg.

·         In those seven road/neutral contests, IUPUI is shooting 31.9 percent from the field, committing 22.6 turnovers per game, and distributing 10.4 assists per game.