INDIANAPOLIS - The IUPUI basketball team will kick-off the 2019-2020 home schedule on Monday night (Nov. 11) when the Jaguars host Anderson University on Military Appreciation Night. The Jaguars are looking to get on the winning side of the ledger after season opening losses on the road at Butler and Bradley. Tickets to Monday's game are just $15 for adults and $7 for youth (ages 3-12) and all active, retired and veteran military personnel can receive two free tickets to the game with valid military ID.

The game will also air on ESPN3 as Greg Rakestraw (pxp) and Bob Lovell (analyst) call the action. 

On the court, IUPUI (0-2) comes in seeking some home cooking after back-to-back road losses to open the season. Indianapolis-native Marcus Burk (16.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg) has been as good as advertised while classmate Jaylen Minnett (12.0 ppg, 40.0 3FG%) is coming off a strong shooting performance at Bradley as he connected on 5-of-8 three-point attempts. Head coach Byron Rimm II's squad is still seeking a third scoring option as junior Isaiah Williams tallied nine at Bradley and Jamil Jackson Jr., also a junior, made his IUPUI debut with six points off the Jaguars' bench. 

Colorado State-transfer Zo Tyson has been incredibly efficient off the IUPUI bench, averaging 5.0 points and 4.0 rebounds per game while hitting 5-of-6 field goal attempts. 

PROBABLE STARTERS
G- Jaylen Minnett (6-1, Jr.) - 12.0 ppg, 40.0 3FG%
G- Marcus Burk (6-3, Jr.) - 16.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg
G- Grant Weatherford (6-2, Jr.) - 3.5 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.5 apg
F- Isaiah Williams (6-8, Jr.) - 6.0 ppg, 4.5 rpg
F- Elyjah Goss (6-7, Jr.) - 5.0 ppg, 5.5 rpg

KEY RESERVES
G/F- Jamil Jackson Jr. (6-6, Jr.) - 6.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
G- Mike DePersia (5-11, Fr.) - 1.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
F- Zo Tyson (6-9, Gr.) - 5.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 83.3 FG%

SERIES NOTES: IUPUI is 13-8 all-time against Anderson and has won the last seven meetings in the all-time series. The two teams have played just two times during the Jaguars' Division I era (1998-present) after previously playing 19 times between 1978 and 1997. The series began in 1978 as Anderson defeated IUPUI 83-82 in Indianapolis. 

PRESEASON PICKS: IUPUI was picked to finish ninth in the Horizon League Preseason Polls, just ahead of Cleveland State. Wright State was a near unanimous pick for the league title while Northern Kentucky was picked second. Detroit Mercy sophomore guard Antoine Davis was pegged the league's Preseason Player of the Year and joined on the first team by Jalen Tate (NKU), Xavier Hill-Mais (Oakland), Tarkus Ferguson (UIC) and Loudon Love (Wright State). 

MINNETT NOTES: Junior Jaylen Minnett, the 2019 Horizon League Sixth Man of the Year, is unlikely to be a repeat winner of the award as he's assumed a starting job this season. The 6-foot-1 Terre Haute-native, averaged 12.0 points per game and drilled 78 3's last season, while coming off the bench in all but the season finale. Some other tidbits on Minnett include:
    -He currently owns the nation's fourth-longest streak of consecutive games with at least one made three at 38 games... Minnett made at least one trey in all 33 games last season and the final three games of the 2017-18 season... the last time Minnett went without a three in a game was against Oakland on Feb. 19, 2018 when he was held without a triple in 14 minutes.
    -Minnett enters play ranked eighth on IUPUI's all-time list with 135 made 3's in his career...he has some work to do to move up on the list as both Leroy Nobles and Akeem Clark are tied for the No. 6 spot with 186 makes each.
    -His 78 3's made last season was the 7th-highest single-season total in IUPUI history.
    -His 7.1 ppg scoring average as a freshman in 2017-18 was the highest by an IUPUI rookie since Alex Young average 10.8 points per game in 2008-09.
    -His 51 made 3's in 2017-18 were the most by an IUPUI freshman in the program's Division I era (1998-present).

LARGE CLASS
IUPUI boasts an eight-man junior class eligibility wise, tying for the eighth largest class in all of college basketball. Below are the lists of largest classes.
    11 total: Navy (freshman class), Utah (freshman class)
    10 total: Air Force (freshman class), TCU (freshman class)
    9 total: Colorado (jr. class), CSU Bakersfield (jr. class), Middle Tenn. (jr. class)
    8 total: Idaho (jr. class), IUPUI (jr. class)

REMEMBER THE RAVENS
The last time IUPUI faced off with Anderson back on Nov. 13, 2017, it came on the heels of an ugly loss on the road at Bradley. Fast forward two years later and it's a similar scenario as the Jags are coming off a lopsided loss at Bradley two nights prior. The last time, IUPUI responded with a 75-43 win over the Ravens after building a 41-21 halftime advantage. Aaron Brennan led the way with a career-high 18 points and T.J. Henderson added 10 points. The only two current Jaguars to have played in that game were Jaylen Minnett (5 pts, 34 min) and Elyjah Goss (8 pts, 12 reb, 3 blk).

BASKETBALL CENTRAL: IUPUI will be a big part of the center of the college basketball universe this March as the 2020 Horizon League Championships will be played at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum on Mar. 9-10 and the department will later serve as institutional co-host of an NCAA Men's Basketball Regional at Lucas Oil Stadium on Mar. 26-28, alongside the Horizon League and Indiana Sports Corporation. Both the men's and women's Horizon League Semifinals (Mar. 9) and Championship games (Mar. 10) will be played at Indiana Farmers Coliseum as 2020 marks the first of a three-year rotation.