INDIANAPOLIS - The IU Indianapolis men's basketball team will return home to host Wright State (8-7, 3-1 HL) on Sunday (Jan. 4) inside the Jungle at 2:00 p.m.

The Raiders come in riding a three-game winning streak, including Horizon League victories over Oakland and Milwaukee. Conversely, the Jaguars are trying to snap a three-game skid and seeking a first Horizon League win this season. The Jaguars led much of their most recent trip to Northern Kentucky, but ultimately fell on the road to the Norse on New Years Day, 81-72. Junior Kyler D'Augustino finished with a game-high 20 points and Finley Woodward and Kameron Tinsley tossed in 10 apiece. The Jaguars led the bulk of the game but yielded a 14-0 run deep into the second half that turned a 10-point lead into a four-point deficit in the closing minutes. 

D'Augustino has tallied 20-or-more in each of the Jaguars' past three games and is scoring a team-high 17.1 points per contest. Fifth-year Matt Compas checks in at 11.1 points per game and true freshman Maguire Mitchell is scoring 10.0 points per contest. Woodward has continued to do a bit of everything, averaging 8.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game. 

Defensively, Mitchell has a team-high 27 steals and is one of four Jaguars with at least 20 steals this season. Senior Jaxon Edwards is tops on the team with 12 blocked shots and Tinsley is second with nine. 

ACCOLADES
Junior Kyler D'Augustino is the reigning Horizon League Men's Basketball Player of the Week, as awarded by the league office on Monday, Dec. 29. D'Augustino earned the weekly award after his 24-point, five rebound effort in a 91-78 road loss at Grand Canyon on Dec. 22. 

QUOTABLE
"Our margin for error is incredibly thin when it comes to winning games. I thought we did a lot of things really, really well. We rebounded, we moved the ball, we found the open man, we made our open looks. I thought we defended fairly well for the most part. We're close. We just didn't finish it out today," Howlett said following Thursday's loss at NKU. 

SCOUTING WRIGHT STATE
Wright State is 8-7 overall and 3-1 in Horizon League play. The Raiders are just 2-5 away from home with a road win at Stetson and a neutral site win over Radford in West Virginia. For the season, WSU shoots 48 percent from the floor and 35 percent from deep while limiting opponents to 44 percent overall and 30 percent from three. WSU also wins the glass by more than two rebounds per game and commits nearly three fewer turnovers per game than their opposition. 
    G- Dominic Pangonis (6-7, Soph.) - 8.4 ppg, 2.9 rpg
    G- Solomon Callaghan (6-2, R-Soph.) - 8.5 ppg, 1.6 rpg
    G- TJ Burch (6-1, Soph.) - 8.4 ppg, 3.0 apg
    F- Kellen Pickett (6-9, Fr.) - 5.0 ppg, 63.8 FG%
    F- Michael Imariagbe (6-7, Grad.) - 11.8 ppg, 5.8 rpg

INSIDE THE SERIES
IU Indy is 4-25 all-time against Wright State and 3-10 in 13 meetings in Indy. The two teams split the regular season series last season before the Raiders eliminated the Jaguars from the Horizon League Tournament in Dayton in the opening round.  

UP NEXT
The Jaguars will open a two-game trip, beginning with a Jan. 9 game at Green Bay at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN+.