DAYTON, Ohio - The IU Indianapolis men's basketball team will take on the Horizon League's top team on Thursday night (Feb. 19) when they trek east to face Wright State (17-10, 12-4 HL) in their final regular season road game. The Jaguars come in having dropped three straight by a combined 12 points, including a five-point road loss at Purdue Fort Wayne on Sunday. The Jaguars (7-21, 3-14 HL) all but erased a 21-point second half deficit before missing a potential game-tying three in the final minute of regulation. 

Sophomore Micah Davis finished with a team-high 23 points and six rebounds while hitting five treys. Senior Jaxon Edwards registered his fourth double-double in Horizon League play with 14 points and a season-high 14 rebounds and junior Kyler D'Augustino closed with 15 points. 

The Jaguars seek to avenge an 81-77 loss to Wright State back on Jan. 4 when D'Augustino scored a season-high 31 points on 13-of-24 shooting. Edwards added 15 points off the bench in that game and senior Finley Woodward contributed 10 assists in 38 minutes. 

For the season, D'Augustino ranks among the Horizon League's top-10 in five different categories, including second in scoring (18.8 ppg) and fifth in field goal percentage (53.0%). He also ranks among the league's top-10 in minutes, assists and steals. Woodward, who's on pace to become the first player in program history to average better than five rebounds and five assists in a single-season, ranks second in the league in assists at 6.0 per game. 

QUOTABLE
"We got in way too big of a hole. It's nearly impossible to come back from 20 down on the road. I liked our fight the last 10 minutes and our response, but we shouldn't have put ourselves in that position to begin with. We missed some shots that we normally don't miss and I liked our gameplan overall, but we didn't always execute or made some careless plays in some key situations," head coach Ben Howlett said following Sunday's loss at Purdue Fort Wayne,. 
 
SCOUTING WRIGHT STATE
Wright State is 17-10 overall and 12-4 in Horizon League play, leading the league standings by two full games. The Raiders are incredibly efficient offensively, shooting 49 percent from the floor and 36 percent from three-point range while outrebounding opponents by nearly four rebounds per contest. Below is a look at Wright State's potential starting five. 
    G Dominic Pangonis (6-7, Soph.) - 9.5 ppg, 48.4 FG%
    G TJ Burch (6-1, Soph.) - 11.5 ppg, 3.5 apg
    G Michael Cooper (6-3, Fr.) - 13.4 ppg, 2.9 rpg
    F Kellen Pickett (6-9, Fr.) - 7.7 ppg, 5.2 rpg
    F Michael Imariagbe (6-7, Grad.) - 11.8 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 57.0 FG%

INSIDE THE SERIES
IU Indy is just 4-26 all-time against Wright State and 1-15 in 16 trips to Dayton. The program's lone win at Wright State came on Nov. 29, 1976. 

UP NEXT
The Jags will return home to host Oakland University on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. inside the Jungle.