HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - The IUPUI basketball team will continue a stretch of four straight road games on Sunday (Feb. 12) when the Jaguars take on Northern Kentucky (15-11, 10-5 HL) inside Truist Arena at 1:00 p.m. Sunday's game will be broadcast on ESPN+. 

The Jaguars (4-22, 1-14 HL) ran into a Wright State buzzsaw on Wednesday, falling on the road to the Raiders, 103-71. The Raiders shot a robust 58.1 percent from the floor and outscored the Jaguars 54-30 in the paint in an emphatic win. Sophomore Jlynn Counter had 22 points and eight rebounds in the loss and freshman Vincent Brady II added 15 points in the loss. Both DJ Jackson and Armon Jarrard contributed eight points apiece and Amhad Jarrard had six on a perfect 3-of-3 shooting. 

Wright State ended the suspense early with a 19-3 run in the opening stages to build a quick 21-7 advantage. The Jaguars did themselves no favors, leaving 11 points on the free throw line and committing 13 turnovers, which led to 23 WSU points. 

IUPUI enters Sunday's game seeking to avenge an earlier 55-42 loss to the Norse back on New Year's Eve.

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"(Wright State) is a really good offensive team. We knew that coming in and they showed it tonight. They can beat you down low with their bigs, they shoot the three really well and they have guys who can create. They're really efficient and we didn't do a good enough job of getting stops. They're a veteran basketball team and Coach Nagy has them playing really well," head coach Matt Crenshaw said following Wednesday's road loss. 

SCOUTING NORTHERN KENTUCKY
NKU is 15-11 overall and 10-5 in Horizon League play. The Norse are 12-3 at home this season, which includes a win over Cincinnati. NKU's two home losses in league play have come by a combined two points as the Norse suffered one-point defeats to Milwaukee and Oakland. Marques Warrick leads NKU in scoring (18.7 ppg) and threes made (60) while sophomore Sam Vinson checks in at 11.3 points per game. Chris Brandon is tops on the team in rebounding with 9.5 caroms per contest. 

UP NEXT
IUPUI will face Oakland University on Wednesday night (Feb. 15) at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN+. 

Tidbits heading into Sunday's game (click here for full game notes)   
    SEVEN AWARDS; THREE FRESH AWARDEES    
    IUPUI freshmen have collected seven #HLMBB Freshman of the Week Awards this season as Vincent Brady II has collected four honors, Armon Jarrard has been honored twice and DJ Jackson is the league's most recent recipient. 
    Brady is second on the team in scoring (10.5 ppg) and third in rebounding (4.0 rpg) and leads the team in minutes played (31.4 mpg, 15th in the HL) and threes made (43). Brady comes in having made at least one three in 21 straight games and in 24 of the team's 26 games this season. 

    A VERY BRADY DUNK
    Speaking of Brady, you may have seen him on your timeline recently as his dunk in the closing minutes of IUPUI's win over Green Bay went viral on social media. Brady threw down a vicious one-handed hammer with 2:40 to play over GB's Cade Meyer, later earning ESPN's #SCTop10's No. 1 play and 'Dunk of the Day' honors, along with additional mentions from Fox Sports, NCAA March Madness, House of Highlights and other social accounts. It received just under 1-million views on ESPN's SportsCenter account alone. 

    FRESH DUBS
    It would appear that Brady will be hovering around double-digits in scoring all season long as he sits at 10.5 points per game entering today's game.  
    Earlier this season, he had a stretch of four straight games with 15-or-more earlier this season, becoming the first IUPUI freshman to do so since Alex Young in 2008. 
    Freshmen scoring in double-digits has been a rarity for the IUPUI program as just two have done so in the program's Division I-era. The aforementioned Young went on to score 2,286 points in his four-year IUPUI career and George Hill scored 1,619 points in three-plus seasons before being drafted in the first round of the 2008 NBA Draft. 
    Here's the full list of IUPUI true freshmen to score in double digits for a season in the Division I era (1998-present). 
    Alex Young - 10.8 ppg (2008-09)
    George Hill - 10.7 ppg (2004-05)

    COUNTER POINTS
    It's safe to say that sophomore guard Jlynn Counter has emerged as the program's most important player this season. Here are a few nuggets about the Oklahoma City-native, including a recent five-game surge that has him among the top players in the Horizon League.
    -he's scored 20-or-more in five of IUPUI's last seven games
    -during that seven-game stretch, he's averaging 19.6 points and 4.3 assists per game while shooting 54.7 percent (52-95) from the floor, 40.9 percent (9-22) from three and 82.8 percent (24-29) from the foul line
    -he started the year 0-of-14 from three in the season's first 12 games, but has gone 11-of-30 (36.7 percent) since and made at least one three in six of IUPUI's last seven games

    ALL 12
    Following IUPUI's game at Cleveland State on Jan. 29, all 12 of the Jaguars' scholarship players have now started at least one game this season. Graduate student Jonah Carrasco started in place of an injured Chris Osten, becoming the 12th different IUPUI player to start a game and IUPUI's 12th different starting unit of the year. 

    TOPS IN THE COUNTRY
    IUPUI is tops in the nation, having had 14 different players miss at least one game due to injury or illness, 12 of whom are scholarship student-athletes. Highest on the list are Zach Gunn (out for the season), Bryce Monroe (22 games missed) and DJ Jackson (11 games). Other scholarship student-athletes who have missed multiple games this season include Amhad Jarrard (9 games), Daylan Hamilton (8 games), Armon Jarrard (7 games), John Egbuta (5 games) and Cooper Dewitt (3 games).
    Behind IUPUI, Wyoming and Iona have all had nine student-athletes miss time.  
    IUPUI has not had a game this season in which the entire roster was available. 

    THE ONLY ONE IS NO. 1
    True freshman Vincent Brady II is the only IUPUI player to have appeared in all 26 games this season and is tied with Chris Osten with a team-high 25 starting nods. 

    TEN HIT TEN
    Freshman DJ Jackson became the tenth different IUPUI player to have a double-digit scoring game for the Jaguars this season, doing so against Detroit Mercy on Jan. 21. Amazingly, of all 10 players who have scored in double-digits this season, none were on the IUPUI roster last season. 

    CHRIS DON'T MISS
    Graduate transfer Chris Osten is currently shooting 67.4 percent for the season, chasing the school record for single-season shooting percentage (Jon Avery - 67.9 percent in 2008-09). The 6-foot-9 forward is shooting an absurd 77.1 percent from the field (54-of-70) at home this year. 
    Coming into this season, he had scored in double-digits just one time in his Division I career
in stops at both Arizona State and Northern Illinois, and never had a double-double. However,
in 21 games this season, Osten has hit double-figures 12 times and registered four double-doubles.

    BUTA EMERGES
    The past eight games have seen a new star emerge off the IUPUI bench as John Egbuta has provided a huge lift. The New York-native has contributed 10.3 points and 4.4 rebounds per game while making 30-of-51 (58.8 percent) shots, including 6-of-11 from three. 

    SEEING 20-20
    IUPUI had a pair of 20-point scorers against Oakland last Thursday as freshman Vincent Brady II had a career-high 23 points (8-16 FG, 4-9 3's, 3-3 FT) and Jlynn Counter tallied 22 (8-16 FG, 1-2 3's, 5-6 FT). It marked the first time under head coach Matt Crenshaw that two players have gone for 20-or-more in the same game.