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INDIANAPOLIS - For the first time since 2007-08, IUPUI will take on in-state foe Evansville on Sunday, Dec. 21, in its final home game prior to Summit League play.
 
GAMEDAY INFORMATION

• Sunday's tip is set for 2 p.m. ET, and Morgan Adcock will have the call on IUPUIJags.com beginning just before tip.
• The game will be streamed for free.
• Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for youth ages 12 and under.

 
ABOUT EVANSVILLE

• The Purple Aces have won four straight to inch above .500 on the season at 5-4.
• Evansville has a balanced scoring attack, including three double-figure scorers, and it led by Sara Dickey's 19.9 ppg.
• Mallory Ladd also joins Dickey in double figures at 17.7 ppg, and she also leads the team in rebounding and assists.
• One of Evansville's strengths this season has been its ability to limit its turnovers. Through nine games, UE has a positive assist-to-turnover ratio dishing out 143 assists compared to 139 turnovers.
• The Purple Aces have also been able to get to the line at a consistent rate and have outscored their opponents, 116-84, at the charity stripe. On average, Evansville is making 12.8 free throws per game.

 
THE SERIES WITH THE PURPLE ACES

• Evansville leads the all-time series, 6-5, but Sunday's game will be the first since 2007-08.
• The Jags are 5-1 against Evansville all-time in Indianapolis, and the home team has won each of the last three meetings.

 
LAST TIME OUT ...

• IUPUI shot a season-high 59 percent from the floor and held visiting IU Southeast to just 27.5 percent as the Jaguars stormed to a 95-45 win over the Grenadiers in The Jungle on Thursday night (Dec. 18).
• Senior Nevena Markovic led five Jaguars in double-digits with 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting and Mikale Rogers contributed a double-double off the bench to lead the Jaguars to victory.
• Kelsi Byrd (13), Nicole Rogers (12) and Akilah Sims (10) also finished in double-digits for the Jaguars, who improved to 4-2 at home this season.
• Mary Dye and Megan Cureton led IU Southeast (8-5) with 11 points apiece.
• IUPUI (4-7) held the Grenadiers without a field goal for more than 11 minutes to start the game, building a 28-4 lead before Riley Kaiser rainbowed in a three from the left wing. While IUS plodded along offensively, IUPUI scored at will, including making its first five attempts of the game to jump ahead 11-2 in the opening three minutes, aided largely by three quick steals.
• The Jaguars never trailed with the lead growing to 48-17 at the break on a Markovic layup at the final horn. The Jaguars connected on 68 percent from the field in the first half while limiting IUS to just 4-of-24 (16.7 percent) in the opening 20 minutes. Head Coach Austin Parkinson's squad took full advantage of its size differential, outscoring the guests 36-4 in the paint in the first half and 58-20 for the game. IUPUI closed with a 48-22 rebounding advantage, including grabbing 17 offensive caroms that led to 23 second chance points.
• The Jaguars unselfishly dished out 27 assists on 43 field goals with 11 different players contributing at least one dime. Freshman Danielle Lawrence handed out a game-high six assists and both Kelsi Byrd and Martha Burse added four each.
• The only blip on the radar was a slow start to the second half, prompting Parkinson to call timeout less than three minutes into the stanza. His squad responded with a 10-0 run, capped by a Nicole Rogers trey off a Lawrence assist, pushing the lead out to 62-24 with 14:30 left. Even as Parkinson went deeper to the bench, contributions kept coming as the lead swelled to 47 on a Shanika Maddox layup near the midpoint of the second half. The Jaguars ended the game with the final six points on Caitlyn Tolen and Rogers threes as the final 50-point margin was the largest advantage of the night.
• Rogers made 4-of-10 threes off the bench for her 12 points while Mikale Rogers went for 10 points and 10 rebounds (five offensive) in just 11 minutes of action. The bench finished with 45 of the Jaguars' 95 points as Lawrence scored eight and Maddox and Jenna Gunn tallied six each.

 
TRIPLE THREAT

• Through a third of the season, the Jags have been one of the top-ranked 3-point shooting teams in the Summit League, and one of the better in the nation.
• The Jaguars are hitting 38.4 percent of their three's this season, which ranks 23rd in the nation.
• IUPUI has buried six or more three's in six of the team's 11 games, but its Top-2 three-point shooters are both shooting above 40.0 percent on the season.
• Nicole Rogers leads the way with a team-high 23 while shooting 47.9 percent from three, and Kelsi Byrd is next with 18 made three's at a 45.0 percent clip.
• Rogers is second in the league in 3-point field goal percentage, and her 2.1 3-point field goals made per game rank third in the league.
• Byrd is fifth in the league shooting 45.0 percent from three, and her 1.8 three's per game are tied for sixth.