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INDIANAPOLIS - The IUPUI basketball team will continue its current four-game stretch away from home, albeit just up the road on Wednesday (Dec. 5) night when the Jaguars take on Butler (5-2) at Hinkle Fieldhouse at 7:00 p.m.. The game will be televised in the Indianapolis market on WNDY-TV 23 as Anthony Calhoun (pxp) and Nick Gardner (analyst) are on the call. IUPUI's radio broadcast will be heard on 1260 WNDE as Scott McCauley (pxp) describes the action. Pregame coverage will commence at approximately 6:45 p.m..

Despite the two campuses being separated by fewer than seven miles, Wednesday's game will be just the fourth in the series and the first since the 1999-00 season. Butler won the previous three meetings including a 70-59 beating of the Jags on Jan. 24, 2000 at Hinkle Fieldhouse in the early stages of what would become a 15-game winning streak.

Current IUPUI Assistant Coach Don Carlisle had a team-high 15 points and 12 rebounds in the loss and Charles Price added 13 points, five boards and three blocked shots. Rylan Hainje paced BU with 18 points that night.

Presently, IUPUI (3-6) is on a two-game skid after losses at Kansas City and South Dakota in Summit League play last week. The Jaguars fell to the Coyotes in Vermillion on Saturday 88-68, despite a career-high 29-point effort from senior guard John Hart. The hosts shot nearly 53 percent from the field and limited the Jaguars to just 39.7 percent shooting in the defeat.

Hart, a Purdue-transfer, comes in leading IUPUI in scoring (16.6 ppg), threes made (24), steals (15) and minutes (33.1 mpg). The 6-foot-3 guard is shooting better than 46 percent from the floor and 42 percent from three-point range. Hart has scored in double-digits in each of the past six games, topping 20 in three of those contests. Junior Mitchell Patton has been IUPUI's top interior weapon, averaging 15.1 points and 6.0 boards per game in nine starts. Classmate Donovan Gibbs is among The Summit League leaders in rebounding, coming in with a team-high 8.1 boards per game to go along with a 9.0 ppg scoring average.

Fellow junior #P.J. Hubert#, who recently took over a starting job, has been a bright spot offensively, upping his scoring average to 7.6 points per game while hitting 45.5 percent from three-point range.

Butler (5-2) boasts early season wins over Marquette, North Carolina and Ball State in the season's first month and has an RPI of No. 8 entering play. Arkansas-transfer Rotnei Clarke leads the Bulldogs in scoring (18.0 ppg) and is shooting 41.2 percent from three-point range in seven starts. Junior forward Khyle Marshall comes in averaging 13.1 points and 6.3 boards per game and rookie guard Kellen Dunham is netting 10.1 points per game.

Sophomore forward Roosevelt Jones has emerged as the Bulldogs' do-it-all weapon in his second season, registering 7.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and a team-high 3.1 assists per game.

Tickets to Wednesday's game are available through the Butler Box Office inside Gate 2 of Hinkle Fieldhouse or through any TicketMaster outlet.