IUPUI (10-8, 2-3) at Green Bay (9-9. 3-2)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 - 1:00 p.m.
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Series:	IUPUI leads 4-3
Last Meeting:	Jan. 12, 2018
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GREEN BAY, Wisc. - The IUPUI basketball team will look to kickstart a new winning streak on Thursday night (Jan. 17) when the Jaguars head to Green Bay (9-9, 3-2 HL) for an 8:00 p.m. tip. Thursday's game will be broadcast on ESPN+ and can be heard on IUPUIJags.com as Morgan Adcock (pxp) is on the call. 

IUPUI (10-8, 2-3 HL) dropped a home game to Youngstown State last Saturday, 82-76. The Jags trailed by 12 with just more than two minutes to play, but cut it back to one possession before ultimately falling to the Penguins. D.J. McCall led IUPUI with 14 points and Camron Justice pumped in 13 in the loss. YSU shot 46 percent from three-point range, making 11-of-24 tries to help bury the Jags. 

The loss dropped IUPUI to 6-2 at home on the year and stopped the Jags' modest two-game winning streak. 

For the season, Justice continues to rank among the nation's top performers in scoring (19.9 ppg), free throws made and free throws attempted. Collectively, IUPUI ranks among the nation's leaders in free throws made (298) and attempted (420) coming into Thursday's game. 

Last season, IUPUI swept the Wisconsin portion of the Horizon League slate with home-and-home sweeps of both Green Bay and Milwaukee. 

QUOTABLE: "The most disappointing part is that you have to take care of your home floor in this league. That's simple math. You have to win your home games and then figure out how to sneak some wins on the road. (Youngstown State) knew that and came in here and stole one on our court. They threw the first punch and were the aggressors today. We can't let that happen. We've got to be better than that," head coach Jason Gardner said after Saturday's loss to Youngstown State. 

UP NEXT: IUPUI will cap the two-game road trip on Saturday night (Jan. 19) when the Jaguars take on Milwaukee at 6:00 p.m. Central (7 Eastern) on ESPN3. 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 Thursday's game): 
    JAGS HAVE TWO GAME WINNING STREAK HALTED IN LOSS TO YSU
    The Jaguars had a modest two-game winning streak snapped last Saturday afternoon (Jan. 12) when IUPUI dropped an 82-76 contest to Youngstown State inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum. Freshman Darius Quisenberry led YSU with 22 points, eight assists and four boards and Garrett Covington added 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting. YSU knocked in 11-of-24 3's (46 percent) and held IUPUI to just 44 percent overall to roll past the Jags. D.J. McCall led IUPUI with 14 points and six boards and Camron Justice added 13 points in the loss. 
    IUPUI trailed 79-67 with 2:11 to play before cutting it back to a one-possession game late in the contest. Below are more notes on Saturday's loss to YSU.
    -YSU's 46 percent shooting from three was the highest by an IUPUI foe this season. On the flip side, IUPUI hit just 1-of-10 from three in the first half before warming up to finish 5-of-20 (25 percent) for the game. 
    -D.J. McCall led the team in scoring for the first time this season and just sixth time in 108 career games. McCall also finished with six boards.
    - After outrebounding the three previous foes by double-digit boards, IUPUI was outrebounded by the Penguins, 36-33.     

    MILESTONES
    -Senior Evan Hall became the 15th player in IUPUI history to grab 500 career rebounds at UIC (Jan. 4). Fellow senior D.J. McCall is bearing down on that number with 467 in his career. 
    -Tonight will be Evan Hall's 100th career game played. 
    -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 17 straight games.
    Minnett has made a three in 21 straight games, dating back to last season.
    McCall has started 45 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 81.5 points per game. 

    GLASS EATERS
    IUPUI has been strong on the glass all year long, outrebounding foes by 4.2 rebounds per game to rank 81st in the country. However, the Jags have been particularly impressive on the glass to open league play with a +6.4 margin in the opening five games, while limiting opponents to just 30.4 rebounds per game. 

    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 and attempted. 
    In league play, IUPUI is hitting a league low 5.4 treys per game while the next lowest in the league is making eight 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 (420) and 21st in free throws made (298). Junior Camron Justice is 46th in free throws made (84) and  also ranks among the nation's top 40 in free throw percentage (87.5%). 
    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 18 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 9.5 points and 5.7 rebounds in the past 13 games while shooting 44-of-73 (60.3%) 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.