GREEN BAY, Wisc. - The IUPUI basketball team will look to reverse its fortunes on Sunday (Jan. 5) when the Jaguars cap a quick two-game road trip at Green Bay (7-9, 2-1 HL) at 1:00 p.m. Central (2 Eastern) inside Resch Center. Sunday's game will be aired on ESPN+. 

IUPUI (4-12, 0-3 HL) is coming off back-to-back heartbreaking losses following Friday's 78-74 defeat at Milwaukee. The Jags had a potential game-tying layup go awry on their final possession on a night in which they built a double-digit first half lead and led for more than half the contest. The previous loss came at home to Cleveland State as the Vikings walked off a winner with a tip-in as the final horn sounded. 

Junior Elyjah Goss is coming off the best game of his collegiate career, finishing with a career-high 19 points, 16 rebounds and six blocked shots at Milwaukee on Friday night. Goss helped lead the Jaguars to a season-high 46 points in the paint, which the Panthers offset with 12 made triples. IUPUI hit a season-low two treys, both coming from Jaylen Minnett during a 13-0 run in the first half. Minnett closed with 18 points and Marcus Burk added 15 in the loss. Grant Weatherford chipped in 10 points and seven rebounds and freshman Mike DePersia had four points, five boards and a season-high five assists in 24 minutes off the bench. 

The loss dropped IUPUI to 0-6 in games decided by two possessions or less this season. 

On the flip side, Green Bay comes in having won four of its past five contests after defeating UIC, 85-71, on Friday night. Their non-conference wins include victories over Cal State Northridge, Montana State and Northern Illinois. 

IUPUI has just one true road win on the season, having won at South Florida, 70-53, on Nov. 13 for the program's first-ever win over an AAC opponent. 
 
ABOUT GREEN BAY
Green Bay is 7-9 overall and 2-1 to start Horizon League play, while going 4-2 in six home games this season. True freshman Amari Davis (15.9 ppg) leads four Green Bay players in double-digits, trailed by JayQuan McCloud (15.3 ppg, 39 3's), PJ Pipes (11.7 ppg) and Kameron Hankerson (10.9 ppg). Green Bay averages 82.3 points per game and shoots 37.6 percent from three-point range, tops in the Horizon League. 

PROBABLE STARTERS
G- Jaylen Minnett (6-1, Jr.) - 14.5 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 3.3 apg, 51 3's
G- Marcus Burk (6-3, Jr.) - 18.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 39.6 3FG%, 44 3's
G- Grant Weatherford (6-2, Jr.) - 7.3 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 2.5 apg
F- Isaiah Williams (6-8, Jr.) - 8.5 ppg, 4.7 rpg
F- Elyjah Goss (6-7, Jr.) - 8.9 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 1.3 bpg

KEY RESERVES
G- Jamil Jackson Jr. (6-6, Jr.) - 4.2 ppg, 1.1 rpg
G- Mike DePersia (5-11, Fr.) - 2.7 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 2.3 apg
F- Zo Tyson (6-9, Gr.) - 3.3 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 64.7 FG%

SERIES NOTES: IUPUI is 6-3 all-time against Green Bay and has won the last five meetings in the series. IUPUI is 4-0 against the Phoenix since joining the Horizon League prior to the 2017-2018 campaign.  

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). 

    COULDA, SHOULDA, WOULDA...
    While IUPUI is 0-3 to open Horizon League play, the Jags could just as easily be sitting at 3-0 at this point. 
    The Jags dropped their Horizon League opener to Youngstown State, 83-73, on a night in which they led with 5:00 to play and went 12-of-28 (42.9 percent) from the foul line. Two days later, IUPUI lost at a tip-in at the buzzer to Cleveland State, 82-80.
    At Milwaukee on Friday, the Jags had a potential game-tying layup on their final possession go long, ultimately resulting in a 78-74 defeat. 
    IUPUI is now 0-6 this season in games decided by two possessions (six points) or less.

    MILWAUKEE TIP-INS
    Some quick follow ups from Friday's loss at Milwaukee... IUPUI matched its season-high with 29 made field goals, but connected on a season-low two treys and a season-low 13 three-point attempts... junior Elyjah Goss had a career-high 19 points (7-13 FG, 5-6 FT), 16 rebounds and six blocked shots in the loss... junior Jaylen Minnett chipped in 18 points (6-17 FG, 2-7 3's, 4-5 FT) and Marcus Burk tallied 15 (7-14 FG, 0-4 3's)... the game featured  eight ties and 20 lead changes, the last of which came on a pair of free throws with 1:08 to play as Milwaukee closed the game with a 7-0 run... IUPUI scored a season-high 46 points in the paint while Milwaukee outscored IUPUI 36-6 behind the three-point line... the Jags led by as many as 11 in the first half and had a 37-34 advantage at the half. 

    BETTER THAN ALL THE REST
    IUPUI's early season win at South Florida (70-53 on Nov. 13) was widely considered the best non-conference victory by a Horizon League team this season. The Jags entered play as a 17-point underdog before defeating the AAC foe by 17 points. In addition, it was IUPUI's first-ever victory over an AAC opponent in program history. 

    MR. 1,000
    Junior Marcus Burk netted his 1,000 collegiate point in the Dec. 14 win over Purdue Fort Wayne with a three-point play at the 12:57 mark of the first half. Burk, an Indianapolis-native, tallied 776 in two seasons at Campbell and now has 292 this season, giving him 1,068 in his collegiate career. 
    Here are some more tidbits on Burk from the first half of the season:
    -Burk has undoubtedly been IUPUI's top offensive player all season, ranking No. 2 in the Horizon League in scoring (18.3 ppg) and third in the league in threes made (2.75/gm).  
    -Burk tallied a season-high 32 points (12-of-21 FG, 7-of-10 3's) against Loyola (Md.), falling one shy of his career-high 33 from his sophomore year at Campbell. Burk's 32 was the most by an IUPUI player since Darell Combs hit the same number against South Dakota on Feb. 25, 2016. 
    -While Burk is averaging nearly 20 points per game, no IUPUI player has averaged 20 points per game for an entire season since Alex Young averaged 20.4 points per game in 2011-12. Only three players - Odell Bradley (23.1, 2003-04), George Hill (21.5, 2007-08) and Young (20.4, 2011-12) - have averaged better than 20 points per game during the Jaguars' Division I era. 
    -Burk is currently second in the Horizon League with seven 20-point scoring games, trailing only Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis, who has 10 20+ scoring games. 

    MR. WINDEX
    Junior Elyjah Goss currently leads the Horizon League and ranks 21st nationally in rebounding at 10.4 per contest, more than a full rebound ahead of second place Naz Bohannon (YSU). He owns the three of the four highest single-game totals in the Horizon League this season, grabbing a school record 21 against IUSB (Dec. 10), 18 against Youngstown State (Dec. 28) and 17 at Morehead State (Dec. 4). His 21 boards against IUSB is the third-highest single-game total in NCAA Division I this season. 
    All total, Goss has led the Jaguars in rebounds in 14 of the team's 16 games. 
    Since returning to the starting lineup 11 games ago, Goss is averaging 10.6 points and 12.5 rebounds per game. 
    Goss is second in the league in offensive rebounds (3.75 rpg) and tops in defensive (6.68). He's also leads the league in blocked shots (21), double-doubles (5) and double-digit rebound games (8).  

    E'S RECORD BREAKING NIGHT
    Junior Elyjah Goss had a record breaking night against IU South Bend on Dec. 10, posting a school record 21 rebounds to go along with a career-high 17 points and four blocked shots in the Jaguars' 80-60 victory. Goss grabbed seven offensive boards and 14 defensive boards and hit 7-of-10 field goal attempts.
    The prior record was 20 on two different occasions, the most recent coming by Michael Boles in 1993. Goss became the first player in IUPUI history to grab at least 20 boards in the Jaguars' Division I era.  

    HEALTH CHECK
    The Dec. 7 game at Ball State was the first time all season that head coach Byron Rimm had his full roster as his disposal. Junior Jakoby Kemp missed the season's initial eight games due to injury and upon his return at Morehead State (Dec. 4), classmate Jamil Jackson was sidelined due to injury. Jackson missed two games before returning at Ball State.
    The Jags have played just five games at full strength as Isaiah Williams missed the game with Cleveland State and Jackson missed the most recent game at Milwaukee.

    SPLASH BROTHERS
    IUPUI's version of the Splash Brothers - Marcus Burk and Jaylen Minnett - has been impressive, both ranking among the Horizon League's top three in threes made and three-point percentage. 
    Burk leads the league in percentage (39.6%) and is third in threes made at 2.75/game. Minnett is second in both categories, having made 37.2 percent of his tries and 3.19 makes per game. By hitting a combined 5.9 threes/game, the duo is tops in the league for a tandem as Northern Kentucky's Dantez Walton and Tyler Sharpe are next in line at 5.37 threes/game. 
    Burk is fifth among active juniors (48th among all players) in college basketball with 202 career treys and Minnett is 12th on that list (84th overall) with 180 makes. 
    Minnett's 51 threes this season are tops in the Horizon League and third in the country while Burk's 44 is third in the league and 22nd nationally. 

    TOP GUNS
    Burk and Minnett are accounting for the bulk of the Jaguars' offense, having taken 50 percent of the team's field goal attempts (466 of 937) and 74 percent of the team's three-point attempts (248 of 337). In addition, the duo has accounted for 49 percent (524 of 1075) of the team's total points. 
    Burk (18.3 ppg) and Minnett (14.5 ppg) easily lead the team in scoring while Elyjah Goss is third at 8.9 ppg. 

    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's currently amidst a career-best nine straight games in double-figures, averaging nearly 17 points per game during that span. 
    -He currently owns the nation's third-longest streak of consecutive games with at least one made three at 52 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 180 made 3's in his career... 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).  

    WARM WEATHERFORD
    Junior Grant Weatherford is making a claim to join Burk and Minnett as an elite three-point shooter. After starting the season 0-of-6 from deep in the season's first eight games, Weatherford is 9-of-18 (50%) from beyond the arc in the Jaguars' last eight games, coinciding with his return to the starting lineup. 
    Since rejoining the starting unit, Weatherford has tallied in double-digits five times. During the eight games, Weatherford is averaging 10.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.1 steals per game while shooting 52 percent (30-of-58) from the field and 50 percent from three. 

    STORY TELLER
    In IUPUI's four wins this season, the Jags have held opponents to 37 percent shooting overall and 23.4 percent from three-point range. 
    In the Jaguars' 12 losses, foes have shot 50 percent overall and 38.9 percent from beyond the arc. 
    Seven of the 12 opponents to have beaten the Jags have shot 50 percent or better from the floor. 

    FREEBIES
    IUPUI enters play ranked 343rd of 350 teams in free throw percentage at 60.9 percent, which is well on pace to be the lowest mark in the program's Division I era. The current low mark was a 65.4 percentage for the 2008-09 season. The lowest single-season mark on record in program history was a 62.7 percentage in the 1976-77 campaign. 
 
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.