INDIANAPOLIS - The IUPUI basketball team will seek a third straight win and can move above .500 in Horizon League play on Tuesday night (Jan. 16) when the Jaguars host Detroit Mercy (6-13, 2-4 HL) inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum at 7:00 p.m.. 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 (6-11, 3-3 HL) is riding back-to-back home wins, capped by last week's 67-61 win over Green Bay. Senior #Ron Patterson# had 16 points, five boards and three steals and fellow senior #Aaron Brennan# registered his first double-double of the year with 15 points and 11 boards. The Jaguars led virtually the whole way, including building a 16-point lead with just under six minutes to play. Green Bay charged late, but IUPUI fended off the Phoenix for a season sweep of the league's northernmost school. Despite an off shooting night, T.J. Henderson had eight points off the bench and junior #Evan Hall# closed with six points and 10 boards. IUPUI beat up Green Bay on the inside, outrebounding the Phoenix 46-38, including 17 offensive boards. 

Brennan has scored in double-digits in each of the past four games, averaging 16.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game during that stretch. Patterson has regained his shooting stroke the past two games, hitting 7-of-15 (46.7 percent) from three-point range and scoring 14 points per night. 

FREEBIES / ENTERTAINMENT
X Pogo will perform at halftime of Tuesday night's game and the Dave and Buster's Street Team will be in attendance, providing giveaways throughout the night. 

GAME SPONSOR / PROMOS
Tuesday's game is sponsored by Citizens Energy Group and is also Housing/ResLife Night. 

SCOUTING DETROIT MERCY
Detroit is 6-13 overall and 2-4 in Horizon League play. The Titans have a road win (at Saint Louis) and neutral site win (vs. Houston Baptist) among their six wins this season. UDM recently snapped an 11-game losing skid with back-to-back home wins over Cleveland State (85-84) and Youngstown State (93-91).  
    PROBABLE STARTERS:
    G- Jermaine Jackson, Jr. (5-10, Fr.) 12.4 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 3.2 apg, 35.5 FG%
    G- Corey Allen (6-3, Soph.) 16.8 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 2.6 apg, 45.5 FG%
    F- Roschon Prince (6-6, Gr.) 7.2 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 1.1 apg, 59.3 FG%
    F- Cole Long (6-8, Soph.) 2.5 ppg, 1.8 rpg, 0.9 apg, 34.9 FG%
    F- Gerald Blackshear (6-9, Jr.) 2.9 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 0.2 apg, 69.4 FG%
 
INSIDE THE SERIES
Tuesday's game marks the first-ever meeting between the two schools.   

UP NEXT
IUPUI will hit the road to face Cleveland State on Thursday night (Jan. 18) at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN3. The game marks the first of five straight away from home for the Jaguars. 

GAME NOTES (click here for PDF of the full games notes)
LAST TIME OUT
IUPUI is riding a two-game winning streak after defeating Green Bay 67-61 last week at the Coliseum. Senior Ron Patterson led the way with 16 points and five boards and senior Aaron Brennan registered his second career double-double (15 points, 11 rebounds) in the victory. Junior Evan Hall added six points and 10 rebounds as well.
IUPUI shot just 37.7 percent from the floor, but held Green Bay to 36 percent shooting and 4-of-16 (25 percent) from three-point range.   

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 17 games and Ron Patterson and Evan Hall have each started 16 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 10 games (4-6). 

BENCH NOTES
As a result of the shuffling lineups, the IUPUI bench has been especially strong, averaging 24.1 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 112 (66.1 percent) of its games.  

BENCH NOTES, PART II
IUPUI's top scorer has been a reserve six times 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)

CHECK THE PERCENTAGES
In IUPUI's six wins, the Jags have shot 45.2 percent from the field and held foes to 39.4 percent overall and 26.1 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 28.4 percent from deep in six games. On the flip side, IUPUI is shooting 35.4 percent from deep in league play, led by Jaylen Minnett (44 percent - 11-of-25).
IUPUI has made more threes than their opponents in each of the six league games thus far. 

EVAN ON THE GLASS 
Junior Evan Hall is averaging 8.4 rpg over the past five games, including a pair of 10-rebound efforts 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 39-8 (.830) 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 (59th nationally - 12.1 rpg) and forcing turnovers (68th nationally - 15.4 to/g).
Because of those numbers, IUPUI has attempted 119 more shots than their foes for the year, good for 7.0 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 tied atop the Horizon League players (63rd nationally) with 1.9 steals per game. After not collecting a steal in the season's opening two games, McCall has 31 steals in 14 games (2.21 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. Junior T.J. Henderson has a team-high 10 double-digit scoring games and Ron Patterson is next in line with nine. Aaron Brennan, the team's top scorer, has eight double-digit scoring games.  

SNAPPED AT 13
Senior Ron Patterson opened the year in 13 straight games to start the season - his longest stretch of his college career. His longest streak last season was 10 straight games from Jan. 5-Feb. 8.