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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - The IUPUI basketball team will cap its current four-game road stretch on Saturday (Dec. 8) when the Jaguars take on Western Kentucky (7-2) at E.A. Diddle Arena at 4:00 p.m. Eastern. The game will be televised on ESPN Full Court and ESPN3 as Michael Lee (pxp) and Hal Schmitt (analyst) call the action. IUPUI's radio broadcast will be heard on WNDE.com and through the free iHeartRadio app on smartphones as Scott McCauley (pxp) is on the call. Pregame coverage will commence at approximately 3:45 p.m..

Saturday's game will be a homecoming trip for sophomore guard Jordan Shanklin, who hails from Bowling Green and graduated from nearby Warren Central (Ky.) High School, along with WKU sophomore George Fant. The duo helped Warren Central to back-to-back 4th Region titles in 2009-10 and 2010-11 and a KHSAA Sweet 16 appearance their senior years.

Shanklin is one of five Kentucky natives on the IUPUI roster, joining juniors Ian Chiles and Donovan Gibbs and sophomores Marcellus Barksdale and Lyonell Gaines. Chiles, a preseason Second Team All-Summit League pick, has yet to play this season due to injury while Barksdale has missed the past four games with an injury.

On the court, IUPUI (3-7) is looking to snap a three-game losing streak on Saturday, coming off Wednesday's 87-55 loss at Butler. The Jaguars fell into a 20-2 hole at Butler and never seriously challenged the Bulldogs to drop to 0-4 all-time against the crosstown foe. Gibbs and Mitchell Patton led IUPUI with 10 points each and and senior John Hart added seven points in the loss.

IUPUI is 1-1 all-time against WKU after last year's 84-76 win in The Jungle on Dec. 10, 2011. Former IUPUI standout Alex Young scored a Division I era single-game record 43 points in leading the Jaguars to victory. The Hilltoppers won the initial meeting between the two schools back on Nov. 22, 2005, 89-75 at Diddle Arena. Saturday's game caps the current two-year home-and-home agreement.

WKU is off to a 7-2 start to the season, led by 6-foot-4 sophomore guard T.J. Price (16.9 ppg) and senior point guard Jamal Crook (14.4 ppg, 4.1 apg). The Hilltoppers are 4-0 at home this season with wins over Austin Peay, Western Carolina, Brescia (Ky.) and Southern Illinois earlier this week. Fant, a 6-foot-6 forward, comes in averaging 11.3 points and a team-high 7.3 rebounds per game. Head coach Ray Harper's team's only losses came at Southern Miss in overtime and to Iowa in the 2012 Cancun Challenge.

On the IUPUI side, Hart continues to lead the Jaguars in scoring (15.6 ppg) while Patton comes in at 14.6 points per game. Gibbs is the team's top rebounder at 7.9 per game while senior guard Greg Rice is tops in assists (31) and second on the team in steals (12).