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INDIANAPOLIS - IUPUI concludes its first home weekend of the conference season on Saturday, Jan. 18, when it welcomes Summit League newcomer Denver to The Jungle for the first time.

GAMEDAY INFORMATION

• The Jaguars and Pioneers will tip at 3 p.m. ET at The Jungle.
• Saturday's game will be streamed live through IUPUIJags.com, and live stats and live audio will also be available through IUPUIJags.com.
• Morgan Adcock will have the call beginning just prior to tip.

ABOUT DENVER

• The Pioneers enter Saturday's game with a 3-14 overall record and a 1-1 Summit League mark after dropping a three-point contest, 81-78, at Fort Wayne on Thursday.
• In that game, four players scored in double figures for Denver led by Theresa Wirth's 16 points, and she also grabbed 11 boards.
• Collectively, Denver averages 68.5 ppg and has four players scoring in double figures - Kailey Edwards (12.4 ppg), Paige Bradley (12.3 ppg), Theresa Wirth (10.9 ppg) and Morgan Van Riper-Rose (10.4 ppg).
• Opponents are shooting 43.8 percent from the floor against Denver, including 32.9 percent from three, and they have forced the Pioneers into 16.2 turnovers per game.

THE SERIES WITH THE PIONEERS

• Saturday's meeting will be the first in 17 seasons between the two schools and the series is tied at 1-1.
• The game will also serve as the first meeting between the two schools in Indianapolis and the first meeting as Summit League schools.

LAST TIME OUT ...

• DeAirra Goss scored a career-high 27 points and led an IUPUI offensive attack that shot 50.8 percent from the floor as the Jaguars handed South Dakota an 80-59 defeat Thursday evening at The Jungle.
• The win was the Jags second in six tries against the Coyotes and avenged three losses to USD a season ago as IUPUI moved to 12-6 overall and 2-1 in the Summit League.
• In addition to Goss scoring over 20 points for the fourth time this season, Akilah Sims scored 15 points on 7-of-10 shooting, Mikale Rogers came off the bench to score 14 points and lead the team with six boards, and Nicole Rogers hit four three's for the second game in a row to add 12 points. Additionally, Dawn Luster orchestrated the Jags attack dishing out a career-high eight assists while adding a game-high tying three steals.
• Two fouls each in the first two minutes for Nevena Markovic and Dee-Dee Bellamy put two IUPUI starters on the bench, but Parkinson received some early production from his bench in the absence of two of his best players.
• Trailing 12-9 five minutes in, IUPUI used four points from Goss and five points from Mikale Rogers during an 11-2 spurt to jump in front, 20-14, with 12:09 to play.
• The scoring pace slowed significantly over the next five minutes, but a Goss lay-up in traffic and a Nicole Rogers triple from the left wing in a 30-second span gave IUPUI a double-digit lead at 29-19 with 6:28 to go.
• The Coyotes trimmed their deficit to six at 30-24, but Goss scored five of the Jaguars final 11 points of the half to send IUPUI into intermission with a double-digit lead at 41-31.
• Nearly three minutes into the second half, the Coyotes cut their deficit to eight, 46-38, but a 10-0 Jags run featuring six points from Mikale Rogers allowed them to open a 56-38 cushion with 13 minutes remaining.
• A Nicole Rogers three - her fourth of the game - just before the midway point of the second half extended the Jags lead to 24, their largest of the game, and the lead remained at 20 or more until a Polly Harrington bucket brought USD within 19 with 6:52 on the clock.
• Down the stretch, the Jags proved to be too strong and South Dakota never really threatened as IUPUI finished off an 80-59 victory.

RETURNING TO FORM

• After scoring in double figures just four times in an 11-game stretch from Nov. 21 to Dec. 30, DeAirra Goss has started the New Year with an aggressive mindset over the past four games.
• Since the calendar turned to 2014, Goss is averaging 18.5 ppg and shooting 50.9 percent from the floor.(27-of-53).
• During this stretch, she has scored over 20 points twice, including a career-high 27 points on a career-best 11 made field goals against South Dakota on Jan. 16.
• When the shots aren't falling, Goss has been able to get to the line where she has hit 18 of her last 20 attempts (90.0 percent).

INSIDE OUT

• After a rough opener to Summit League action for both Nicole and Mikale Rogers, the duo has stepped up their game over the last two games helping the Jags to a pair of 20-plus point wins.
• In wins over North Dakota State and South Dakota, Mikale Rogers has been a force inside for the Jags averaging 15 ppg and 5.5 rpg on a combined 60.0 percent shooting from the floor (9-of-15).
• Rogers scored 16 points against the Bison on 6-of-7 shooting in just 21 minutes, before scoring 14 points, including eight from the line, in a career-high 32 minutes against South Dakota.
• By reaching double figures in IUPUI's last two games, it marked the first time in her career that she scored in double figures in back-to-back games.
• While Mikale Rogers has been a force inside, Nicole Rogers has found her shooting stroke the past two games.
• Prior to the North Dakota State game on Jan. 11, Nicole Rogers was a combined 3-for-25 from behind-the-arc in her previous three games.
• However, Rogers is shooting 57.1 percent (8-of-14) from deep in her last two games making four three's in each game.