INDIANAPOLIS - The IUPUI basketball team will look for a fifth straight home victory when the Jaguars host Youngstown State in a Saturday matinee inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum. Saturday's contest will tip at 1:00 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN3 as Greg Rakestraw (pxp) and Hall of Famer Bob Lovell (analyst) describe the action. 

IUPUI (8-16, 5-8 HL) got 19 points from T.J. Henderson and 17 from Aaron Brennan as the Jaguars upended Cleveland State inside the Coliseum on Thursday night, 78-73. The Jags shot an impressive 59.1 percent from the floor and built a 20-point lead near the midpoint of the second half before holding on for the win late. Henderson helped seal the win with a perfect 9-of-9 effort from the foul line, while also contributing five assists, four boards and three steals. Freshman Jaylen Minnett chipped in with 10 points off the bench and redshirt freshman Elyjah Goss added nine as the IUPUI reserves accounted for 40 of the team's 78 points. 

After falling behind early, IUPUI quickly rebounded and used a 9-0 run to take the lead for good. Henderson sparked the rally with a pair of assists sandwiched around a three-point play of his own. 

IUPUI will look to atone an earlier 23-point loss at Youngstown State as the Penguins coasted past the Jaguars on Jan. 20, 85-62. 

FREEBIES / ENTERTAINMENT / GAME SPONSORS / PROMOS
Saturday's game is sponsored by the IU School of Dentistry and will be Men's Basketball Alumni Day at the Coliseum as former players will be recognized on the court during the second half. In addition, the Pacers Power Pack will entertain the crowd with a halftime performance. Kids are invited on the court after tomorrow's game for a postgame layup line.  

QUOTABLE
"I liked a lot of what we did tonight, both offensively and defensively. I thought we got after them defensively and did a good job of getting stops, especially in the first half. We still didn't play a full 40 minutes and we let them back into the game, but I thought we did a good job of regrouping down the stretch and making enough plays to get the win. That's what I'm most proud of is that we stuck with it, made plays and got the win," head coach Jason Gardner said after Thursday's win over Cleveland State. 

SCOUTING YOUNGSTOWN STATE
Youngstown State is 6-20 overall and 4-9 in Horizon League play this season. The Penguins are 1-12 away from home with the lone road victory coming at Cleveland State on New Year's Day.  
    PROBABLE STARTERS:
    G- #1 Braun Hartfield (6-6, Soph.) 14.8 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 2.5 apg, 44.9 FG%
    G- #24 Cameron Morse (6-3, Sr.) 14.6 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 3.7 apg, 37.2 FG%
    G- #32 Garrett Covington (6-5, Fr.) 7.8 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 0.9 apg, 43.5 FG%
    F- #2 Devin Haygood (6-7, Jr.) 6.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 0.7 apg, 54.0 FG%
    F- #33 Naz Bohannon (6-6, Fr.) 7.0 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 1.3 apg, 39.1 FG%
 
INSIDE THE SERIES
IUPUI and Youngstown State have played 10 times in a series that dates back to 1975, which includes six meetings as foes in the Mid-Continent Conference from 1999-2001. YSU leads the all-time series 9-1, which includes an 85-62 victory over the Jags earlier this season. IUPUI's lone victory was a 55-48 victory in February 2000 in Youngstown.

UP NEXT
IUPUI will hit the road one final time in the regular season when the Jaguars travel to Milwaukee on Friday night (Feb. 16) for an 8:00 p.m. Eastern tip. That game will be aired on ESPN3 and can be heard in Central Indiana on Fox Sports 97.5 FM. The game will also be aired on the iHeartMedia app as Morgan Adcock (pxp) is on the call.  

GAME NOTES (click here for PDF of the full games notes)
LAST TIME OUT
IUPUI snapped a five-game skid on Thursday night when the Jaguars rolled past Cleveland State, 78-73. T.J. Henderson matched his career-high with 19 points off the bench and senior Aaron Brennan tossed in 17 in the win. The Jaguars' attack shot 59 percent from the floor and made a season-high 23 free throws in the victory.
The Jags led by as many as 20 in the second half before the Vikings cut it to a one-possession game late. However, Henderson helped seal the win at the foul line as part of a perfect 9-of-9 night at the stripe.
Stefan Kenic led CSU with 16 points and Tyree Appleby added 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting.  

BENCH NOTES
The IUPUI bench has been especially strong, averaging 24.8 points per game, including a season-high 43 at Oakland on Feb. 4. The past four years, the IUPUI bench has outscored opponents in 80 of 119 (67.2 percent) of its games, going 39-41 in those contests. 

BENCH NOTES, PART II
For the year, IUPUI is getting 36 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 each of the past two games. 

BENCH NOTES, PART II
IUPUI's top scorer has been a reserve nine 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 (4): at Gonzaga (18 pts), IUK (19 pts), at GB (13 pts), CSU (19 pts)

'J'AYLEN
Freshman Jaylen Minnett has hit in double-digits in each of the past three games, averaging 13.3 points and hitting 10-of-23 (43.5 percent) from three-point range. 
 His 16 points at Oakland on Feb. 4 were the most by an IUPUI true freshman since T.J. Henderson scored 16 against Omaha on Feb. 17, 2016.  

NO. 1 FOR 6TH
Junior T.J. Henderson is making a compelling case for Horizon League Sixth Man of the Year honors, ranking second in the league in scoring among those who have yet to start a game in league play. Wright State's Jaylon Hall (10.2 ppg) leads the group and Henderson is second overall at 9.3 ppg.

THEFT ALERT
Junior D.J. McCall currently leads the Horizon League (70th nationally) with 1.78 steals per game. After not collecting a steal in the season's opening three games, McCall has at least one steal in 19 of 21 games.
The junior guard has 41 steals this season, matching his career total 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 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 23 games and Evan Hall is next with 22 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 eight wins, the Jags have shot 47.4 percent from the field and held foes to 40.6 percent overall and 29.6 percent from deep. In addition, the Jags have outrebounded opponents by 5.4 boards per game in the eight wins.
In the Jaguars' 16 losses, IUPUI has shot just 40.3 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 3.7 boards per game in the 16 losses. 

IN LEAGUE PLAY...
IUPUI has defended the three well in Horizon League play, yielding 32.2 percent from deep in 13 games. On the flip side, IUPUI is shooting 37 percent from deep in league play, led by Brennan (45.9), Minnett (41.3) and Patterson (37.1).
IUPUI has made as many or more threes than their opponents in 11 of 13 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 41-8 (.837) in games in which the Jaguars have shot a better percentage than opponents and just 4-66 (.057) 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 (78th nationally - 11.8 rpg) and forcing turnovers (44th nationally - 15.3 to/g).
Because of those numbers, IUPUI has attempted 112 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.