INDIANAPOLIS - Winners of two of their past three outings, the IUPUI basketball team will be back on the court on Friday night (Jan. 12) when the Jags host Green Bay (7-12, 2-4 HL) at 7:00 p.m. inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum. Fans in attendance will receive a FREE ROAR t-shirt, while supplies last. In addition, Friday's game is Scout Night at the Coliseum and Boy Scouts and their family members can purchase tickets for just $6 apiece, which includes a FREE patch and the opportunity to shoot on the floor afterwards. Tickets are available by clicking here or by contacting Lauren Gronke at lgronke@iupui.edu.

The game will be broadcast on ESPN3 as Greg Rakestraw (pxp) and IUPUI Hall of Famer Bob Lovell (analyst) are on the call. 

IUPUI (5-11, 2-3 HL) hasn't lacked for dramatic endings recently, which was highlighted by #Evan Hall#'s game-winner on Wednesday night. Hall scored off a #Nick Rogers# feed as time expired to pick off Milwaukee, 72-71. While Hall's game-winner earned the headlines, it was the Jaguars' deft three-point shooting that was the story until that point. IUPUI hit a season-high 14 threes on just 25 attempts, keyed by four makes each from #Aaron Brennan# and #Ron Patterson#. Brennan scored a game-high 22 points and Patterson was 4-of-7 from deep, which included a pivotal 30-footer with 1:16 to play. Both D.J. McCall and #Jaylen Minnett# had two threes each. 

"This was a big time win for us," head coach Jason Gardner said. "The guys truly stuck with it until the final horn sounded and that's why we won. We never gave in and we never gave up on each other. I'm proud of our guys for getting it done tonight and taking care of our home floor. We knew it wasn't going to be easy, but that's what league play is all about. 

"Ev stepped up and made a big time play tonight. A really big time play."

The Jaguars' last three games have each been decided by fewer than five points, which includes IUPUI's 67-63 win at Green Bay just more than a week ago. In that game, Hall had a 10-point, 10-rebound double-double and T.J. Henderson had a team-high 13 points off the Jaguars' bench. Brennan and Rogers both had 11 points in that win as well.

FREEBIES / ENTERTAINMENT
FREE IUPUI ROAR t-shirts will be distributed before the game, while supplies last.  

GAME SPONSOR / PROMOS
Friday's game is Scout Night at the Coliseum and the IUPUI Hall of Fame Class of 2018 will be recognized throughout the evening. 

SCOUTING GREEN BAY
Green Bay is 7-12 overall and 2-4 to start Horizon League play. The Phoenix are 7-3 at home and 0-9 on the road this season. IUPUI won the first meeting between the two teams in Green Bay on Jan. 2, 67-63.    
    PROBABLE STARTERS:
    G- Sandy Cohen III (6-6, Jr.) 17.1 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 2.3 apg, 49.5 FG%
    G- PJ Pipes (6-2, Fr.) 7.6 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 2.1 apg, 38.9 FG%
    G- Khalil Small (6-2, Sr.) 17.6 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 2.9 apg, 45.6 FG%
    F- Manny Patterson (6-8, Fr.) 5.4 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 0.2 apg, 44.0 FG%
    F- David Jesperson (6-8, Sr.) 7.2 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 0.7 apg, 42.4 FG%
 
INSIDE THE SERIES
IUPUI is 3-3 all-time against Green Bay and won the most recent two meetings between the two teams. The Jaguars are 1-1 all-time against Green Bay in Indianapolis. The Jaguars won the meeting in Green Bay earlier this season, 67-63.   

UP NEXT
IUPUI will cap the current four-game homestand on Tuesday night (Jan. 16) against Detroit Mercy at 7:00 p.m. inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum. Tuesday's game is sponsored by Citizens Energy Group and X-Pogo will perform at halftime. For tickets, contact Lauren Gronke at lgronke@iupui.edu or click here on the Ticketmaster link. 

GAME NOTES (click here for PDF of the full games notes)
LAST TIME OUT
    IUPUI defeated Milwaukee in dramatic fashion on Wednesday night as Evan Hall dropped in a layup as the final horn sounded, lifting the Jaguars to a 72-71 victory. The Jags hit a season-high 14 threes in the win, paced by Aaron Brennan's 22 points and 12 points from Ron Patterson.    
    
STARTER NOTES
    In the early portion of the non-league slate, head coach Jason Gardner continued to tweak the Jaguars' starting five, using six different quintets. For the year, senior Aaron Brennan is the lone Jag to have started all 16 games and Ron Patterson and Evan Hall have each started 15 times. Eight different players have at least one start this season. 
    That said, the group of Brennan, Patterson, Hall, D.J. McCall and Nick Rogers have started IUPUI's last nine games. 

BENCH NOTES
    As a result of the shuffling lineups, the IUPUI bench has been especially strong, averaging 24.3 points per game, including a season-high 42 on two different occasions. The past four years, the IUPUI bench has outscored opponents in 74 of 111 (66.7 percent) of its games.  

BENCH NOTES, PART II
    IUPUI's top scorer has been a reserve in six of 16 games this season. Four different players have contributed to those six occasions. 
    Patterson (1): at Ball State (14 pts)
    Kirby (1): at Purdue (16 pts)
    Minnett (1): at Wright State (11 pts)
    Henderson (3): at Gonzaga (18 pts), IUK (19 pts), at GB (13 pts)

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    IUPUI made a season-high 14 treys in just 25 attempts against Milwaukee, finishing at a season-high 56 percent. 
    The 14 threes and 56 percent were the highest marks by the Jags since also making 14-of-24 (58.3 percent) against North Dakota State on Feb. 1, 2017. 

CHECK THE PERCENTAGES
    In IUPUI's five wins, the Jags have shot 47 percent from the field and held foes to 40.2 percent overall and 26 percent from deep. 
    In the Jaguars' 11 losses, IUPUI has shot just 40.0 percent overall and allowed opponents to shoot a staggering 53.9 percent from the field and 43.1 percent from beyond the arc. 

IN LEAGUE PLAY...
    IUPUI has defended the three well in Horizon League play, yielding just 29 percent from deep in five games. On the flip side, IUPUI is shooting 37.7 percent from deep in league play, led by Jaylen Minnett (47.8 percent - 11-of-23). 

EVAN ON THE GLASS 
    Junior Evan Hall has led IUPUI in rebounding the past four games, averaging 8.0 rpg during that span.  

MAKE SHOTS, WIN GAMES
    The most telling number of outcomes of games under head coach Jason Gardner has simply been field goal percentages. 
    IUPUI is 38-8 (.826) in games in which the Jaguars have shot a better percentage than opponents and just 4-61 (.062) when being outshot. 
    The Jan. 10 Milwaukee win is the only time this season IUPUI has been outshot and won the game. 

GETTING LOOKS
    Two areas where IUPUI has excelled this season are offensive rebounding (66th nationally - 11.9 rpg) and forcing turnovers (64th nationally - 15.5 to/g). 
    Because of those numbers, IUPUI has attempted 119 more shots than their foes for the year, good for 7.4 shot attempts per game. 

GRADE CHECK
    Ten members of the IUPUI basketball team earned at least a 3.0 grade point average during the fall semester - Evan Borgman, Aaron Brennan, Elyjah Goss, Evan Hall, T.J. Henderson, Chad Hudson, Ahmed Ismail, Maurice Kirby, D.J. McCall and Noah Thomas. 

LEAGUE OPENERS
    Head coach Jason Gardner is now 3-1 in league openers, having won all three of his Summit League openers before losing his Horizon League opener at NKU on Thursday. 
    1/4/15 - at Fort Wayne (63-58)
    1/1/16 - at South Dakota (77-66)
    12/31/16 - Western Illinois (89-71)
    12/28/17 - at Northern Kentucky (59-77)

AVOIDING 0-3
    With the win at Green Bay, IUPUI avoided the program's first 0-3 start to league play since the 2013-14 season. That year, IUPUI opened Summit League play 0-9 in head coach Todd Howard's final season. 

THEFT ALERT
    Junior D.J. McCall is currently second among Horizon League players (82nd nationally) with 1.9 steals per game. After not collecting a steal in the season's opening two games, McCall has 28 steals in 13 games (2.15 spg).
    By comparison, McCall had just 22 steals all of last season. 

NEW NIGHT, NEW SCORER
    It's seemingly been a new leading scorer every night for the Jaguars this season as six different players have been the team's top scorer and nobody has scored in double-digits in every game. Junior T.J. Henderson has a team-high 10 double-digit scoring games and Ron Patterson is next in line with eight. Aaron Brennan and Evan Hall both have seven double-digit scoring games.