IUPUI (2-3) vs. South Alabama (1-3)
Date:	Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 // 3:00 p.m. ET
Location:	Kennesaw, Ga. // KSU Convocation Center (4,600)
TV:	none
Live Video:	KSUOwls.com
Live Radio:	107.5 FM // Morgan Adcock (pxp)
Live Stats:	KSUOwls.com
Game Notes:	IUPUI // South Alabama
Twitter:	@IUPUIJaguars; @IUPUIMensBball

KENNESAW, Ga. - The IUPUI basketball team will cap the 2015 Legends Classic with a KSU Subregional consolation game with South Alabama (1-3) inside the KSU Convocation Center (4,600) on Tuesday afternoon (Nov. 24) at 3:00 p.m.. IUPUI fell to host Kennesaw State on Monday night while South Alabama lost a shootout to Belmont to move to Tuesday's consolation matchup. Both teams are trying to avoid an 0-4 record in this year's Legends Classic. 

Tuesday's game will be a rematch from a meeting in Indianapolis a season ago as IUPUI outlasted South Alabama, 71-65 in overtime on Dec. 20 as part of the Gotham Classic. DavRon Williams led the way for the Jaguars with 13 points and seven boards off the bench while Marcellus Barksdale had 10 points and seven rebounds and Mason Archie chipped in 12 points. IUPUI outscored South Alabama 22-9 at the foul line in that contest as Barksdale hit 8-of-10 attempts and Archie was 6-of-8. 

The Jaguars looked flat in Monday's 71-63 loss to Kennesaw State, shooting just 35 percent from the floor and 6-of-23 (26.1 percent) from three-point range. Archie scored a team-high 12 points and sophomore Jordan Pickett added 11 off the bench. Junior Nick Osborne just missed a double-double with 10 points and eight boards and freshman T.J. Henderson hit for a career-high 10 points, including two treys. Yonel Brown paced the victors with 19 points from his guard spot and Nigel Pruitt contributed 13 points and six boards. 

Tuesday marks IUPUI's fifth game in nine days, four of which have been away from home. 

JAGUAR TIDBITS
COACH NICK COMES HOME
    The two games in Kennesaw mark a homecoming for IUPUI Assistant Coach Jon-Michael Nickerson. Nickerson played collegiately at KSU, scoring 795 points in his four-year career (2006-10) and was a four-year starter for the Owls. 

68 STRAIGHT
    Senior swingman Marcellus Barksdale has started 68 straight games for the Jaguars, dating back to the opener of the 2013-14 season. Classmate Mason Archie and sophomore Aaron Brennan are second on the active roster, having each made 24 career starts. 

RECEVING VOTES
    After the season-opening road win at Indiana State, IUPUI received votes in the most recent Mid-Major Top 25 for the first time since the 2010-11 season. The Jaguars garnered six votes in the initial polls, but are no longer receiving votes.

10 HAVE HIT
    Head Coach Jason Gardner knew he had a better shooting team this season, but it's been evidenced by the sheer number of three-point weapons on the roster. IUPUI has already had 10 different players make at least one three this season through just four games, coming off a season in which nine Jags made a trey a year ago. 
    Percentage-wise, IUPUI is only shooting 31.2 percent and only Nick Osborne (4-6) is above 35 percent.  

7 IN DUBS
    Freshman T.J. Henderson became the seventh different IUPUI player to post a double-digit scoring game at Kennesaw State on Monday (Nov. 23), hitting for a career-high 10 points in the loss. He joins Combs, Archie, O'Leary, Pickett, Hall and Osborne on that list. Amazingly, not on that list is last year's leading scorer, Marcellus Barksdale, who is averaging 7.0 points per game and has scored nine points in each of the past two games. 

O'L3ARY
    After making just eight treys for the entire 2013-14 season at Loyola, Matt O'Leary has shown he's a dependable three-point threat in an IUPUI uniform. The 6-foot-8 O'Leary has already hit six treys this season, including four in his career-high 17-point effort at NC State last Wednesday. 

AIR JORDAN
    Sophomore Jordan Pickett has made an immediate impact since making his debut on Nov. 21. In two games, Pickett is averaging 13.0 points per game while shooting 40 percent from the floor and 81.8 percent from the line.  

UPSET THWARTED
    IUPUI had upset on the mind at Marquette last Monday night (Nov. 16) before ultimately falling in overtime, 75-71. The Jaguars had a potential game-winning three blocked at the end of regulation and were outscored 6-2 in the extra frame. 
    Darell Combs scored 16 of his game-high 21 points after halftime, including 12 straight at one point. The Jaguars trailed by as many as 10 in the first half, but battled back to knot the score at 36 at the break.  

CHARITABLE EFFORT
    IUPUI was a perfect 10-of-10 at the foul line at Marquette on Monday (Nov. 16). The last time previously IUPUI had been perfect at the line was on Feb. 6, 2014 when the Jags made all 11 in a loss at North Dakota State. 

FOR OPENERS
    IUPUI's season-opening win at Indiana State was the first season-opening victory since 2012 when the Jaguars started with a home win over Utah Valley. It was the first season-opening road win since 2009 when the Jaguars opened with an 88-82 win at Drake that season. 

DEBUTS
    Five of IUPUI's nine players that saw the floor at Indiana State on Friday (Nov. 13) were making their IUPUI debuts. All five showed well, including the two true freshmen Evan Hall and T.J. Henderson coming off the bench.
    Darell Combs (16 pts, 9-14 FT, 4 ast)
    Matt O'Leary (7 pts, 7 reb)
    Nick Osborne (9 pts, 8 reb)
    T.J. Henderson (4 pts, 1 ast, 26 min)
    Evan Hall (13 pts, 6-8 FG, 3 reb)

SEEING RED
    Sophomore guard D.J. McCall and freshman forward Noah Thomas are expected to redshirt the 2015-16 season. Two duo be joined by Syracuse-transfer Ron Patterson in anchoring the practice squad this season. 

THREE SIGNEES
    The IUPUI basketball program inked three signees on National Signing Day as Elyjah Goss (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield East), Anthony Jones (Indianapolis, Ind./Speedway/FCI) and T.J. Washington (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks) all made their commitments official. 
    Goss, a 6-foot-7 forward, is considered one of the top power forwards in the state of Illinois while Washington, a 6-foot left-handed point guard, is among the top guards in the state of Oklahoma. 
    Jones, a 6-foot-5 swingman, was among the city's top players at Speedway High School and is spending this season at Florida Christian Institute in Coral Gables, Fla.. 

TRENDING UPWARD
    Year one under Head Coach Jason Gardner saw huge gains for the IUPUI basketball program. The Jaguars increased their win total against Division I opponents from three to 10 last season and climbed from the basement of The Summit League to a sixth-place 6-10 finish a year ago. 
    The Jags' non-conference wins included victories at Milwaukee and Pepperine and home wins over Ball State and South Alabama. 

ATTENDANCE INCREASE
    IUPUI boasted the nation's 30th largest increase in home attendance last season, gaining more than 900 patrons per game in year one at Indiana Farmers Coliseum. The Jaguars averaged 1,527 fans per home game last season, led by the season-opening 3,159 at the game against Indiana State. 

BALANCED ATTACK
    For the first time in school history a year ago, IUPUI was without a double-digit scorer as then-junior Marcellus Barksdale scored a team-high 9.5 points per game. All total, IUPUI had nine different players average between 4.4 and 9.5 points per game, with five of those individuals returning to the 2015-16 roster. 
    Gardner tried virtually every combination available last season with 10 different players averaging more than 12 minutes per game. Barksdale was the lone IUPUI player to play more than 24 minutes per contest. 
 
BETWEEN THE LINES
    The Jaguars bring back six letterwinners from last year's team, most notably seniors Marcellus Barksdale and Mason Archie, II. 
    Barksdale was an honorable mention All-Summit Leaguer last season after posting a team-high 9.5 points per game and 52 steals. He was second on the squad in rebounding (4.7 rpg) and (2.4 apg) was easily the team leader in minutes played (32.0 mpg). Archie, who started 19 games, averaged 7.6 points per game while sinking a team-high 33 treys. 
    The other four returners are all sophomores - Aaron Brennan (6.4 ppg, 3.1 rpg), D.J. McCall (4.8 ppg, 2.9 rpg), Leo Svete (4.4 ppg, 30 3's) and John Hubler (0.3 ppg).