INDIANAPOLIS - The IUPUI basketball team will open a three-game homestand to cap the regular season on Monday (Feb. 19) when the Jaguars host Oakland University at 7:00 p.m. inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum. Monday's game will be broadcast on ESPN3 as Greg Rakestraw (pxp) and Hall of Famer Bob Lovell (analyst) are on the call. 

IUPUI (9-17, 6-9 HL) is fresh off an impressive overtime road win at Milwaukee on Friday night, having defeated the Panthers 76-71 for a season sweep of the series. Junior Evan Hall registered his fourth career double-double with 20 points and 10 boards and T.J. Henderson contributed 14 points, including the go-ahead three in the final minute. IUPUI built a 13-point first half lead and led the majority of the game before the Panthers pulled even late. 

The Jags outrebounded UWM 43-39 and outscored the Panthers 48-36 in the paint. 

IUPUI is looking to avenge an earlier loss to Oakland, having dropped an 82-74 contest in Rochester two weeks ago. Jaylen Minnett and Aaron Brennan led the Jags with 16 each in that loss and Henderson added 14. 

FREEBIES / ENTERTAINMENT / GAME SPONSORS / PROMOS
Monday's game is sponsored by Citizens Energy and is SPEA Night at the Coliseum. In addition, FREE IUPUI superhero capes will be distributed to students in attendance, while supplies last. The Avon Orioles Jump Rope Team will perform at halftime to entertain the crowd.  

QUOTABLE
"I think Ev did a better job of taking his time, being patient and then making his move. That's what he's capable of. I know he's been a little frustrated, but tonight, he was patient and did a good job of attacking them and attacking the glass," Gardner said of Hall's 20-point, 10-rebound performance at Milwaukee on Friday night (Feb. 16). 

SCOUTING OAKLAND
Oakland is 17-11 overall on the year and 9-6 in Horizon League play. Head coach Greg Kampe's squad is 7-7 overall on the road and 5-3 in eight league road games. Kampe collected his 600th career victory on Friday night at Cleveland State. 
    PROBABLE STARTERS:
    G- #1 Kendrick Nunn (6-3, Sr.) 25.4 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 3.9 apg, 43.7 FG%
    G- #2 Nick Daniels (6-1, Sr.) 8.5 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 3.7 apg, 38.5 FG%
    G- #12 Stan Scott (6-3, Fr.) 2.2 ppg, 1.7 rpg, 1.0 apg, 43.8 FG%
    F- #4 Jalen Hayes (6-7, Sr.) 19.3 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 1.9 apg, 52.3 FG%
    F- #10 Isaiah Brock (6-8, Soph.) 5.6 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 0.6 apg, 72.1 FG%
 
INSIDE THE SERIES
Oakland leads the all-time series, 27-15. The series began in 1975 and the two schools met 36 times from 1998-2013 as Mid-Continent Conference/Summit League foes.

UP NEXT
IUPUI will continue the three-game homestand to close the regular season on Friday (Feb. 23) when the Jaguars host Wright State at 11:00 a.m. inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum. The game will be hosted by Hubler Auto Group and there will be approximately 5,000 3rd graders from Central Indiana in attendance as part of the NCAA Readers are Leaders program.  

GAME NOTES (click here for PDF of the full games notes)
LAST TIME OUT
IUPUI is just removed from a thrilling 76-71 overtime win at Milwaukee on Friday night (Feb. 16) for the Jaguars' second road win of the season. Junior Evan Hall finished with a season-high 20 points and 10 boards for his fourth career double-double and classmate T.J. Henderson chimed in with 14 points off the Jaguars' bench. Henderson hit a go-ahead three in the final minute of overtime and freshman Jaylen Minnett iced the game at the free throw line, hitting 3-of-4 attempts in the closing seconds.
Jeremiah Bell led all players with 29 points in the loss.  

ONE HALL OF A NIGHT
Junior Evan Hall had one of the best games of his career at Milwaukee on Friday, finishing with 20 points (10-of-15 FG), 10 rebounds and a career-high four blocked shots in the victory. It was Hall's fourth career double-double and he closed one point shy of his career-high in the scoring column. It was his eighth career game with at least 10 rebounds and the first time this season he's led the Jaguars in scoring. 

NEW TREND
IUPUI has won the glass in each of its past five games by an average of 7.0 rebounds per game. Hall has keyed the effort, averaging 8.6 boards per game the past five games. 

BENCH NOTES
The IUPUI bench has been especially strong, averaging 25.2 points per game, including a season-high 43 at Oakland on Feb. 4. The past four years, the IUPUI bench has outscored opponents in 82 of 121 (67.8 percent) of its games, going 40-42 in those contests. 

BENCH NOTES, PART II
For the year, IUPUI is getting 37 percent of its points from reserves, primarily keyed by T.J. Henderson and Jaylen Minnett. The Jags bench has hit for 40-or-more points in a game six times this season, including two of the past four games. 

BENCH NOTES, PART II
IUPUI's top scorer has been a reserve 10 times this season. Four different players have contributed to those seven occasions.
Patterson (1): at Ball State (14 pts)
Kirby (1): at Purdue (16 pts)
Minnett (3): at Wright St. (11 pts), at UDM (12 pts), at Oakland (16 pts)
Henderson (5): at Gonz (18 pts), IUK (19 pts), at GB (13 pts), CSU (19 pts), YSU (22 pts)

SINCE OAKLAND
Since the second half of the Oakland game (Feb. 4), junior T.J. Henderson has been on a tear. He scored 14 points in the second half at Oakland and followed with back-to-back career-high efforts of 19 against Cleveland State (Feb. 8) and 22 against Youngstown State (Feb. 10). The past four games, Henderson is averaging 17.3 points and shooting 55 percent (22-of-40) from the field and 83 percent (20-of-24) from the foul line. 

NO. 1 FOR 6TH
Henderson is making a compelling case for Horizon League Sixth Man of the Year honors, leading the league in scoring (10.5 ppg) among those who have yet to start a game in league play. Wright State's Jaylon Hall (10.0 ppg) is just behind Henderson at this juncture.

THEFT ALERT
Junior D.J. McCall is currently second in the Horizon League (95th nationally) with 1.68 steals per game. After not collecting a steal in the season's opening three games, McCall has at least one steal in 20 of 23 games.
The junior guard has 42 steals this season, surpassing his career total of 41 entering this season in 63 games. 

ROSTER CHANGES
The IUPUI program had a few roster changes at the turn of the semester as one player departed the program and two others joined the Jaguars. Little used sophomore Noah Thomas left the program after having appeared in just two games in the first semester. Thomas, a 6-foot-9 center, totaled four points and four rebounds in eight total minutes.
On the flip side, the Jaguars brought in a pair of transfers as Mike Sagay (Boston College) and Trevor Johnson (Mesa [Ariz.] C.C.) joined the program. Sagay, a 6-foot-7 forward, comes to IUPUI with two-and-a-half years of eligibility, after having played 15 games at Boston College last season. A 3-star recruit, Sagay was ranked among Connecticut's top players as a senior at St. Thomas More High School.
Johnson, a 6-foot-2 guard, comes to IUPUI with two years of eligibility remaining. Johnson was an All-State performer while at Flagstaff [Ariz.] High School before attending Mesa Community College.
Both are able to begin practice with the team immediately.   

STARTER NOTES
In the early portion of the season, 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 26 games and Evan Hall is next with 25 starts. Nine of the Jaguars' 11 players have at least one start this season with freshman Evan Borgman getting the nod at Oakland. 
The group of Brennan, Hall, Ron Patterson, D.J. McCall and Nick Rogers started 15 straight games (5-10) before Gardner inserted Borgman for Patterson at Oakland on Feb. 4. 

WIN/LOSS SPLITS
In IUPUI's nine wins, the Jags have shot 47.2 percent from the field and held foes to 40.7 percent overall and 29.3 percent from deep. In addition, the Jags have outrebounded opponents by 5.2 boards per game in the nine wins.
In the Jaguars' 17 losses, IUPUI has shot just 40.7 percent overall and allowed opponents to shoot a robust 52.1 percent from the field and 40 percent from beyond the arc. In addition, IUPUI has been outrebounded by 2.8 boards per game in the 17 losses.

IN LEAGUE PLAY...
IUPUI has defended the three well in Horizon League play, yielding 32.4 percent from deep in 15 games. On the flip side, IUPUI is shooting 37.2 percent from deep in league play, led by Brennan (42.9) and Minnett (42.0). Patterson tops the team with 30 made 3's in league play while Minnett has 29.  
IUPUI has made as many or more threes than their opponents in 12 of 15 league games thus far. 

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 42-8 (.840) in games in which the Jaguars have shot a better percentage than opponents and just 4-67 (.056) 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 (43rd nationally - 12.2 rpg) and forcing turnovers (58th nationally - 15.0 to/g).
Because of those numbers, IUPUI has attempted 121 more shots than their foes for the year, good for 4.7 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.