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TULSA, Okla. - The IUPUI basketball team will cap a string of five straight road games on Wednesday night (Jan. 7) when the Jaguars take on Oral Roberts (6-8, 0-1 Summit) inside Mabee Center at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. The game will be broadcast nationally on ESPN3 and will be heard in Central Indiana on WNDE 1260 AM as Will Flemming (pxp) is on the call.

IUPUI (5-10, 1-0) upset preseason favorite Fort Wayne on Sunday night and is seeking the program's first 2-0 league start since the 2009-10 season. The Jags have already equaled the Summit League win totals from each of the past two seasons and are one win shy of matching the overall win total from the past two seasons. Head Coach Jason Gardner's team has shown uncanny depth this year with eight players scoring between 4.9 and 9.1 points per game.  

Wednesday's game with ORU is the first meeting with the Golden Eagles since February 2012 as the Tulsa-based school spent the past two years in the Southland Conference. Barksdale is the lone current Jaguar to have faced the Golden Eagles, having gone scoreless in 18 minutes of action in the two meetings (both ORU wins). 

QUICK HITTERS
- IUPUI will cap the five-game stretch of road games at Oral Roberts on Wednesday (Jan. 7) night. IUPUI is 2-2 in the previous four road games and 3-7 this year on the road. 
- IUPUI is coming off its first Summit League opening win since 2010 and first Summit League road win since 2012.
- This game is the first meeting between the two since Feb. 2012 as ORU played in the Southland the last two seasons. 
- A win tonight would give IUPUI consecutive Summit League wins for the first time since February 2012. 
- IUPUI has had nine different leading scorers this year. Mason Archie, II, Marcellus Barksdale, Leo Svete and DavRon Williams are the only Jags to have led the team in scoring in more than once. IUPUI has eight players scoring between 4.9 and 9.1 points per game. 
- More than 45% of IUPUI's points have come from the bench this season, including a season-high 44-points at Purdue.    
- IUPUI is just 12-22 all-time against Oral Roberts and 3-11 in games inside the Mabee Center.
- This marks the 43rd season of IUPUI basketball, beginning with the 1972 campaign.
- IUPUI will play every home game at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum this season in year one of a five-year pact. IUPUI last played home games at the Coliseum from 1975-79. The building was home to the Indiana Pacers from 1967-74.  
- More than half of IUPUI's 13-man roster is newcomers this year. All total, the Jaguars welcome seven new faces this year with four Division I transfers and three true freshmen.   

FIVE COUNT - QUICK TIDBITS FROM THE LAST GAME
IUPUI 63, IPFW 58 - Jan. 3 - Fort Wayne, Ind. (Gates Sports Center)
NO. 1 STUNNA
    IUPUI, picked to finish last according to the preseason polls, picked off preseason favorite Fort Wayne on Sunday, 63-58. Junior Marcellus Barksdale led the way with 19 points and freshman Aaron Brennan chipped in 12 in the upset victory. The win was the Jaguars' first Summit League opening win since 2010 and first conference road win since a Feb. 2012 74-68 win at NDSU. 

LOW TURNOVERS
    IUPUI's seven turnovers at Fort Wayne on Sunday were a season-low and led to just seven IPFW points off turnovers. The Jaguars had just two first half miscues en route to building a 34-25 lead at the break. 

WORKING INSIDE
    IUPUI outscored IPFW 36-18 in the paint, thanks largely to the work of Aaron Brennan (12 pts), DavRon Williams (8 pts) and Elijah Ray (6 pts). The Jaguars shot better than 58 percent (25-of-43) inside the three-point line, led by Brennan's 6-of-7 shooting night. 

SEASON-HIGH
    IUPUI shot a season-high 90.9 percent (10-of-11) at the foul line on Sunday, including making all five attempts in the final 34 seconds. Barksdale had a key three-point play with 33.6 seconds left and he and DavRon Williams each swished a pair apiece. 

NEW FIVE
    IUPUI used another new starting five on Sunday, re-inserting senior Khufu Najee and adding freshman Leo Svete for the first time all year. That duo was joined by Marcellus Barksdale, Aaron Brennan and Justus Stanback. Barksdale is the only Jaguar to have started all 15 games this season. 

UNCOMMON BALANCE
    Eight different IUPUI players are averaging between 4.9 and 9.1 points per game, led by Marcellus Barksdale's 9.1 scoring average. IUPUI has had nine different leading scorers (including ties) with P.J. Boutte, Marcellus Barksdale, Leo Svete, D.J. McCall, DavRon Williams, Jalen McCallum, Elijah Ray, Mason Archie and Aaron Brennan have each led the squad at least once. 
    IUPUI has nine players averaging at least 14 minutes per game and 10 in double-digits. 

LOW LEADER
    Barksdale's 9.1 points per game scoring average would easily be the lowest total to lead the Jaguars in a single-season in program history. The lowest scoring output to lead the Jaguars in a season is 12.4 points per game by Charles Price in 2001-02. 

HITTING 70
    IUPUI is 3-0 this season when scoring at least 70 points and 2-9 when failing to reach that number. 

SLIM WINS 
    IUPUI is 4-2 in games decided by five points or less this season and have won their five games by a combined 17 points. The Jaguars' largest margin of victory this season was the 71-65 victory over South Alabama on Dec. 20. 

LOOKING FOR 2-0
    IUPUI hasn't started 2-0 in Summit League play since 2009-10 when the Jaguars won three straight to open league play. The opening wins were a 79-57 win over SDSU and an 86-74 victory over NDSU. 

KNOCK DOWN
    IUPUI is 4-2 this season when shooting a higher field goal percentage than its opponent and 0-8 when being outshot. The Jaguars have yet to hit 50 percent or better from the field in a game this season. 

47 STRAIGHT
    Junior Marcellus Barksdale has now started 47 straight games, dating back to the 2012-13 season opener. No other IUPUI player has started more than 13 straight games (Aaron Brennan). Barksdale is the only Jag to start every game this season. 

BENCHMARKS
    Marcellus Barksdale hit some career milestones at N.C. Central on Dec. 29, scoring his 500th career point and grabbing his 350th career rebound. 

MR. INDISPENSABLE
    While Gardner has shown a deep and versatile bench, the one constant for the Jaguars this season is junior guard Marcellus Barksdale. The 6-foot-5 veteran is playing more than 32 minutes per game (almost six more than his closest competitor), ranking among the league's top players. Barksdale leads the team in scoring (9.1 ppg), free throws made (45) and steals (30) and is second in rebounding (4.5 rpg) and assists (2.3 apg).

BENCH PRODUCTION
    Through 15 games, IUPUI's bench has scored 404 of the team's 894 points, equivalent to 45 percent of the team's scoring. The IUPUI bench has outscored the opposition in 12 of the season's 15 games.

MR. REBOUND
    Senior DavRon Williams has earned his stripes on the glass this season, accounting for IUPUI's top six rebounding games of the year. Included among those six are three double-digit rebounding efforts, including a career-best 13 at N.C. Central.
    Williams has led IUPUI in rebounding in eight of 15 games, including the Jaguars' last three.   

GRADE CHECK
    Seven members of the team posted a 3.0 GPA or better during the fall semester. Included in that group were Aaron Brennan, Josh James, D.J. McCall, Khufu Najee, Matt O'Leary, Nick Osborne and Justus Stanback. 


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