IUPUI (10-7, 2-2) vs. Youngstown St. (5-13. 1-4)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 - 1:00 p.m.
Live Video:	ESPN3
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Series:	YSU leads 10-1
Last Meeting:	Feb. 10, 2018
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INDIANAPOLIS - The IUPUI basketball team will look to remain undefeated in the 2019 calendar year on Saturday (Jan. 12) when the Jaguars host Youngstown State (5-13, 1-4 HL) at 1:00 p.m. inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum. Head coach Jason Gardner's team is riding two straight wins including a 90-74 dismantling of Cleveland State on Thursday night (Jan. 10). The balanced Jaguars put six players in double-digits, powered by Elyjah Goss' 16-point, 13-rebound double-double. Camron Justice, D.J. McCall and Ahmed Ismail all tossed in 13 points and Nick Rogers had 12 off the bench. Evan Hall rounded out the double-digit scorers with 10 points. 

Goss, Hall and Ismail helped power the Jaguars to a 40-22 rebounding advantage and 50-36 scoring margin in the paint. 

IUPUI (10-7, 2-2 HL) has been elite on the glass since the start of league play, outrebounding opponents by a league-best 8.8 rebounds per game and grabbing 40 percent of its own misses. In addition, the Jags limit opponents to a league-low 29 rebounds per game since the start of league play. 

IUPUI will seek to finally solve Youngstown State as the Jaguars are just 1-10 all-time against the Penguins after being swept by YSU last season. 

Fans attending Saturday's game at the Coliseum are encouraged to allow extra time due to expected heavy traffic inside the State Fairgrounds throughout the day.

PROMOS: Saturday's game will be Scout Day at the Coliseum as boy scout members from across Central Indiana will converge on the Coliseum. In addition, Voices of IFD will perform the national anthem and the IUPUI Moving Company will provide halftime entertainment.

QUOTABLE: "I just brought energy from the start. Coach (Gardner) emphasized from the beginning of the game that I need to be a rebounding monster, so I just took that to heart. Once we get stops on defense, it translates to offense. We just try to emphasize defense as much as possible," Goss said after Thursday's win over Cleveland State. 

UP NEXT: IUPUI will hit the road to take on Green Bay on Thursday night (Jan. 17) at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on ESPN+. In addition, fans can listen to the action on IUPUIJags.com as Morgan Adcock (pxp) is on the call. 

QUICK NOTES (click here to access the full notes for Saturday's game): 
    JAGS MAKE IT TWO STRAIGHT WITH WIN OVER CSU
    IUPUI put six players in double-digits and sophomore Elyjah Goss had a career night as the Jaguars rolled past Cleveland State on Thursday night (Jan. 10), 90-74. Goss had a career-high 16 points and 13 boards for his third career double-double and IUPUI shot 59 percent from the field while holding the Vikings to just 43 percent. Camron Justice, D.J. McCall and Ahmed Ismail scored 13 each while Nick Rogers and Evan Hall added 12 and 10, respectively. 
    IUPUI led by just six early in the second half, but unloaded a 22-4 run to put the game away midway through the second stanza. The Jaguars' unselfishness led to 24 assists and the bigger Jags bullied their way to a 50-36 scoring advantage in the paint and a +18 margin on the glass (40-22), limiting Cleveland State to just 13 defensive boards. In fact, IUPUI had more offensive boards (15) than CSU had defensive boards (13). 
    Here are more notes on Thursday's victory:
    -IUPUI shot 62 percent from the floor in the second half to close at 59 percent.
    -No IUPUI player took more than nine shot attempts while seven different players had at least five attempts. 
    -McCall scored a season-high 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting.
    -Ismail and Rogers combined to hit 9-of-12 shots off the Jaguars' bench as the IUPUI reserves scored 35 points. 
    -IUPUI limited CSU's Tyree Appleby to just seven points on 3-of-10 shooting and forced him into eight turnovers - the most by an IUPUI opponent this year. 
    -Justice scored in double-digits for the 16th straight game with 13 points and was one assist shy of tying his career-high of seven. 
    -IUPUI opened the game just 3-of-11 from the free throw line, but warmed to hit 13-of-14 to close at 64 percent.     

    MILESTONES
    -Senior Evan Hall became the 15th player in IUPUI history to grab 500 career rebounds at UIC on Friday (Jan. 4). Fellow senior D.J. McCall is bearing down on that number with 461 in his career. 
    -Nick Rogers dished out the 100th assist of his IUPUI career at Wright State. 
    -Elyjah Goss grabbed his 200th rebound of his  two-year career at NKU.
    -Fifth-year senior D.J. McCall played his 2,500th career minute at NKU. 

    STREAKS
    Justice has scored in double-digits in 16 straight games.
    Minnett has made a three in 20 straight games, dating back to last season.
    McCall has started 44 straight games, dating back to last season.      

    INDICATORS
    As the season wears on, two trends have become indicators as to how IUPUI will fare.  
    1.) IUPUI is 10-0 this season when shooting a higher percentage than their opponent. That number has been consistent under Gardner as IUPUI is 53-8 (.869) in his first seasons when shooting a higher percentage than their opponent. 
    2.) IUPUI is 7-0 this season when holding opponents to 70 points or less. In IUPUI wins, IUPUI holds foes to 39.5 percent and an average of 67.3 points per game. In IUPUI losses, foes are shooting better than 50 percent and scoring an average of 81 points per game. 

    GLASS EATERS
    IUPUI has been strong on the glass all year long, outrebounding foes by 4.5 rebounds per game. However, the Jags have been particularly impressive on the glass to open league play, leading the league with a +8.8 margin in the opening four games, while limiting opponents to just 29 rebounds per game, also tops in the league. IUPUI is also tops in offensive rebounding percentage, grabbing 40 percent of its own misses. 

    DO IT INSIDE
    Bucking the national trend, IUPUI relies heavily on the interior for points this season. The Jags average 35 points per game in the paint and also rank among the nation's leaders in free throws made. 
    In league play, IUPUI is hitting a league low 5.5 treys per game while the next lowest in the league is making 8.0 threes per game. 

    HEAVY HITTERS
    IUPUI opened conference play with arguably the toughest opening schedule in Horizon League history, taking on the top three picks in the league's preseason polls, all on the road. The trio of Wright State, Northern Kentucky and UIC collected 39 of the 40 possible first-place votes and easily separated from the second tier of selections. 
    The Jaguars dropped the first two of the three-game stretch, losing at Northern Kentucky and Wright State, before rebounding to win at UIC last Friday (Jan. 4).

    FREE MONEY
    IUPUI enters play ranked 23rd in the country in free throws attempts (374) and 19th in free throws made (265). Junior Camron Justice is 28th in free throws made (81) and  58th in free throw attempts (92). Justice also ranks among the nation's top 40 in free throw percentage (88.0%). 
    Justice has done unprecedented damage at the free throw line already this season, boasting a pair of games with double-digit makes and no misses. He went 13-for-13 at Boston College, tying for the fourth most makes in a game in program history without a miss. He upped the ante against Bradley, hitting 15 without a miss, giving him the third highest total in school history without a miss (tops in the D1 era). 

    HE GO, WE GO - JUSTICE NOTES
    In this instance, 'he' being Camron Justice. IUPUI is 7-3 this season when Justice scores 20-or-better. Justice was recently the first IUPUI player to score 20-or-more in four straight games since Jan. 14-28, 2012 when Alex Young went for 27-27-26-22 in a four-game span.
    -The Kentucky-native has led IUPUI in scoring in 13 of 16 games after being held to just nine points in the season opener. In that game, he had just nine points before he was ejected midway through the first half for tripping an opponent, which was called a flagrant 1 foul.    

    TURN BACK THE CLOCK
    IUPUI got a skosh younger over the holiday break in terms of years of eligibility remaining. Grant Weatherford was awarded a clock extension from the NCAA in December, allowing him a sixth year in which to complete his four playing seasons - thus making him a sophomore eligibility-wise. IUPUI Associate AD for Compliance Laura Hue took the lead on applying for the successful waiver. 

    CALL ME ISMAIL
    After a slow start to his IUPUI career, senior center Ahmed Ismail is now making his presence felt off the Jaguars' bench. Ismail scored just 10 points total in his first five IUPUI games, but is since averaging 9.6 points and 5.6 rebounds in the past 12 games while shooting 41-of-65 (63%) from the floor. 

    CLASS ACTS
    Nine Jaguars were named to the department's Academic Advisor's List for the fall semester for earning a 3.0 GPA or better - Daniel Alston, Elyjah Goss, Jack Hansen, Jamil Jackson, Trevor Johnson, Jakoby Kemp, Brandon Kenyon, D.J. McCall and Grant Weatherford. Hansen notched a perfect 4.0 GPA during the fall semester.  

    BEST START SINCE...
    The Jags' 8-3 start was the program's best start in head coach Jason Gardner's five seasons and best start since the 2009-10 season. That squad  finished 25-11 overall and earned a spot in the CBI that season. This marks the first time Gardner has had IUPUI above .500 beyond the fourth game of any of his five seasons.

    ROLLING ON DUBS
    IUPUI has points-rebounds double-doubles from three different players this season as Elyjah Goss, Evan Hall and Ahmed Ismail have all pulled the trick. For perspective, IUPUI hasn't had three different players get double-doubles in a season since 2013-14 when four different players registered at least one (Marcellus Barksdale, Donovan Gibbs, Khufu Najee & Mitch Patton).  

    BLOW OUT THE CANDLES
    Head coach Jason Gardner celebrated his 38th birthday in style, collecting his 50th career head coaching win at Boston College on November 14. The win was the Jaguars' first over an ACC opponent since 2001 and first over a Power 5 school since winning at Seton Hall in 2009. 
    Gardner is third on the program's all-time wins list at 56, but is a far cry from the top two in program history. Current Georgia State head coach Ron Hunter (275) and IUPUI Hall of Famer Bob Lovell (195) own the top two spots in program history. 

    SHARING THE WEALTH
    IUPUI has had nine different players have hit for 10-or-more points at least once this season. Nick Rogers became the most recent player to tally double-digits, joining a group that includes Elyjah Goss, Evan Hall, Jack Hansen, Ahmed Ismail, Camron Justice, D.J. McCall, Jaylen Minnett and Grant Weatherford.   

    HOT BENCH
    A staple under head coach Jason Gardner has been his teams' bench scoring as the IUPUI leader likes to play 9-10 players and use his bench frequently. Gardner's teams have matched or outscored the opposition's bench in 105 of 142 games (74 percent), including 14 of 17 games this season. All total, the IUPUI bench is averaging 29 points per game this season and outscoring opponents' benches by 10 points per game. The Jags' bench scored a season-high 66 points in the win over IU Northwest.