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INDIANAPOLIS - The IUPUI basketball team will kickoff a season-long four-game homestand when the Jaguars host Drake (8-3) in a regionally televised game on WRTV6 and HomeTown Sports & News on Sunday (Dec. 29) at 2:00 p.m.. Scott McCauley (pxp) and Hall of Famer Bob Lovell (analyst) will call the game from courtside inside the Jungle. 

In addition, the game can be heard on WNDE 1260 AM and on the free iHeartRadio app as Morgan Adcock (pxp) is on the call. A free video stream will also be available at tip-off by clicking the link above. 

Adult reserved seats are just $10 and fans who bring their year end, tax deductible gift of $25 or more will receive a free IUPUI scarf on Sunday. 

After an abbreviated holiday break, the IUPUI (4-11) team looks to stop a four-game skid which included an 83-79 overtime defeat at Southeast Missouri State on Dec. 23. IUPUI led by as many as 13 in the second half, but saw the host Redhawks come all the way back, including hitting a three with 36 seconds left in regulation to force overtime. SEMO scored the first basket in overtime and led for the final 4:45 of the game after never leading in regulation. Sophomore guard Marcellus Barksdale finished with a career-high 22 points and 12 boards for his third consecutive double-double. Junior Ian Chiles pumped in 20 points and senior center Mitch Patton posted his fifth career double-double with 16 points and a career-high 13 rebounds. Junior Khufu Najee rounded out the Jaguars' double-digit scorers with 12 points off the bench. 

IUPUI held SEMO to just 37.3 percent from the floor, but yielded 17 second chance points and turned it over 12 times in the second half of the loss. Jarekious Bradley led three Redhawks in double-digits with 27 points and 10 boards and Tyler Stone closed with 15 points and 15 rebounds. 

Barksdale has been dynamite for the Jaguars of late, averaging 16.3 points and 11.0 rebounds per game during his current double-double streak. He's just the fifth player in the program's Division I era to have three straight double-doubles, joining Brandon Cole, Odell Bradley, Christian Siakam and current Indiana Pacer George Hill. Cole holds the program's Division I era record with five straight double-doubles in 2004. 

Chiles is the only player in The Summit League to have scored in double-figures in every game this season and is averaging 17.9 points and 4.1 caroms a game. Patton is quietly having a solid senior campaign, netting 12 points and nearly six rebounds a game in the frontcourt. The 6-foot-9 Patton is shooting better than 47 percent from the floor and nearly 68 percent from the foul line. 

IUPUI's offense has been in a slumber during the current four-game losing streak, netting just 61.5 points per game beginning with the Dec. 14 loss at Marquette. The Jaguars opened the month averaging 79 points per game in consecutive wins over Bradley, North Carolina Central and Cincinnati Christian. 

Drake is riding two straight wins including a 71-63 victory over Albany on Dec. 23. Senior guard Richard Carter leads the Bulldogs at 19.5 points per game and fellow guard Jordan Daniels checks in at 13.7 points per game. Off the bench, freshman center Jacob Enevold is contributing 6.4 points and a team-high 5.6 rebounds a game while Blake Danielak is scoring nearly eight points per game.

IUPUI is 1-0 all-time against Drake, having defeated the Bulldogs 88-82 in Des Moines, Iowa, on Nov. 14, 2009. The Jaguars shot 67.3 percent from the field in that win and 58.8 percent from three-point range. Former IUPUI star Robert Glenn finished with 37 points on 15-of-17 shooting, including an array of dunks and finishes in close. Leroy Nobles added 27 points on 5-of-7 from three, while Alex Young scored 19 points and hit five treys.