#HLMBB Weekly Notebook – December 14

#HLMBB Weekly Notebook – December 14

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INDIANAPOLIS – Non-conference play is winding down as teams prepare for #HLMBB play to return on Thursday, Dec. 29.

#HLMBB NEWS & NOTES
  • Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis is on the brink of being one of the most prolific scorers in NCAA history. On Dec. 1 he became the Horizon League’s all-time leading scoring, surpassing the previous record of 2,914 points set by Loyola’s Alfredrick Hughes (1981-85) and then on Dec. 10 became the 11th player in NCAA history to surpass 3,000 career points. The Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year sits 666 points away from Pete Maravich’s NCAA record of 3,667. He is the NCAA record holder with 122 consecutive games in double figures and his 476 3-pointers are first in Horizon League history and third in NCAA history, 33 away from Fletcher Magee's NCAA-record 509 and 28 away from fellow Horizon League alum Travis Bader of Oakland.

  • Davis has been named to four national awards list this season: John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 Watch List, Naismith Award for the Player of the Year, the Bob Cousy Award for the nation’s top point guard and the Lou Henson National Player of the Year.

  •  Four #HLMBB Players were named to the Lou Henson National Player of the Year award watch list, presented annually to the top mid-major player in Division I. The four players are Davis, Purdue Fort Wayne’s Jarred Godfrey, Oakland’s Trey Townsend and Northern Kentucky’s Marques Warrick.

  • Davis and Warrick have been two of the most prolific scorers in the country this season as they are both scoring over 20 points a game with Davis ranking second in the country at 24.3 points per game and Warrick averaging 20.4, good for 17th nationally.

  • Youngstown State’s Bryce McBride recorded the second triple-double in school history in a win over Westminster. He scored 11 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and dished out 15 assists. His 15 assists tied for the fifth-most ever by a Penguin. 

  • Purdue Fort Wayne is riding a three-game winning streak thanks to a two-game sweep in the state of Missouri including a 65-61 victory over Purdue Fort Wayne. The win for the Mastodons marked their first over a Missouri Valley Conference member in exactly nine years.

  • Detroit Mercy’s Gerald Liddell has made a huge impact for the Titans since transferring from Alabama State and becoming eligible on Dec. 1. In four games, Liddell is averaging 18.5 points and 14.8 rebounds per game and has tallied a double-double in all four games played, good for the second-most in the HL this season. In the win at Tulsa, the senior totaled 27 points and 12 rebounds.

  • Green Bay won back-to-back home games and picked up its first non-conference win of the season over Kansas City as Cade Meyer scored a career-high 25 points. GB scored a season-high 70 points in the victory and shot over 50 percent for the first time since Jan. 20, 2022.

  • Two of the highest individual scoring games in the country this year have been by Horizon League players. Warrick scoring the most points in a single game in Division I this season with 45 in a double overtime win on 18-made field goals, while Youngstown State’s Dwayne Cohill posted 43 points in a road win against Wright State on 16-of-19 shooting. Both are also 1-2 in most field goals in a single game this season

  • Northern Kentucky’s Chris Brandon sits eighth in the nation in rebounds as he is grabbing 10.6 per game. Not far behind is Youngstown State’s Adrian Nelson who is 36th in the nation in rebounds per game with 9.2. Nelson is also 12th in double-doubles in the country with five as he is scoring 12.3 points per game.

  • Four #HLMBB players rank inside the top-50 in the country in assists per game led by Oakland’s Jalen Moore at 5.9, followed by Cleveland State’s Deshon Parker at 5.3, Wright State’s Trey Calvin at 5.2 and RMU’s Michael Green III with 5.0.

  • Milwaukee’s Ahmad Rand is one of the top shot blockers in the country as he is seventh in total blocks (30) and 15th in blocks per game (2.5). As a team, the Panthers are 12th in the nation in blocks per game (5.8).

  • RMU’s Josh Corbin has been one of the top sharpshooters in the HL this season as he leads the League in 3-point field goal percentage at 46.3 and is ninth nationally with 3.5 3-pointers per game, trailing just Detroit Mercy’s Davis who is third in the country with 4.3 triples per game.

  • Youngstown State is the Horizon League’s highest ranked team in the NET at 112 with a 7-4 record. Three of its four losses this year have been by single-digits. The Penguins are also the No. 1 scoring offense in the HL and No. 8 nationally at 85.8 points per game.

  • The ‘Guins are one of the most balanced scoring attacks in the HL as three players are rank inside the top-15 in scoring led by Cohill with 16.7, followed by Malek Green with 14.3 and Nelson with 12.3. Cohill and Green are also ranked inside the top three in field goal percentage with Cohill leading the HL (min. 5 attempts/game) at 57.3 percent and Green third at 53.9 percent.

  • Purdue Fort Wayne is back to being one of the best shooting teams from distance in the country. The Mastodons are 19th in the country in 3-pointers made per game (10.1) and fifth in 3-point field goal attempts (30.0). Purdue Fort Wayne is also strong defensively as the No. 1 scoring defense in the HL and are holding opponents to a 26.6 shooting percentage from long range. 

  • Jarred Godfrey continues to do a little bit of everything for the ‘Dons as he is averaging 15.3 points, 5.9 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.6 steals per game, all top-15 in the Horizon League.

  • Wright State has one of the most efficient offenses in the country as it ranks 10th in field goal percentage at 50.4 percent led by underclassmen AJ Braun and Brandon Noel who are both shooting over 65 percent from the floor.

  • Oakland’s Trey Townsend continues to lead the Golden Grizzlies as he is third in the League in points (17.3), second in field goal percentage (54.9), seventh in rebounds (7.6) and tied for third in blocks (1.2).

  • Oakland’s Greg Kampe enters his 39th season at the helm of the Oakland men’s basketball program. He is the second-longest tenured active coach in Division I, only behind Jim Boeheim (Syracuse, 45 seasons) who faced one another on Dec. 6. Kampe’s 664 career wins ranks 13th among active Division I coaches.
RESULTS
DATE GAME RECAP
Wednesday, Dec. 7 RMU 71, Central Michigan 66 Box Score
St. Bonaventure 61, Cleveland State 42 Box Score
Detroit Mercy 76, Tulsa 72 Box Score
Purdue Fort Wayne 89, SEMO 68 Box Score
Washington State 68, Northern Kentucky 47 Box Score
Thursday, Dec. 8 Youngstown State 117, Westminster College 65 Box Score
Saturday, Dec. 10 Charlotte 82, Detroit Mercy 80 (OT) Box Score
Kent State 67, Cleveland State 58 Box Score
Marshall 69, RMU 60 Box Score
Western Kentucky 64, Wright State 60 Box Score
Green Bay 70, Kansas City 64 Box Score
Purdue Fort Wayne 65, Missouri State 61 Box Score
Sunday, Dec. 11 Ohio 81, Youngstown State 79 Box Score
Milwaukee 92, North Park 63 Box Score
Monday, Dec. 12 IUPUI 75, Spalding 53 Box Score
Tuesday, Dec. 13 St. Thomas 82, Green Bay 61 Box Score

NIKE #HLMBB PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

UPCOMING SCHEDULE (all times ET)
Wednesday, Dec. 14
Wright State at Akron, 6:00 P.M. (ESPN+)
Northern Kentucky vs. Eastern Kentucky, 7:00 P.M. (ESPN+)

Friday, Dec. 16
Youngstown State vs. Southern, 8:00 P.M. (ESPN+)
Green Bay at Stanford, 8:00 P.M. (Pac-12 Network)

Saturday, Dec. 17
IUPUI vs. Eastern Illinois, 12:00 P.M. (ESPN+)
Wright State vs. Northwestern Ohio, 3:00 P.M. (ESPN+)

Sunday, Dec. 18
Detroit Mercy at Eastern Michigan, 1:00 P.M. (ESPN+)
RMU vs. Mount St. Mary’s, 2:00 P.M. (ESPN+)
Northern Kentucky vs. Miami University (Hamilton), 2:00 P.M. (ESPN+)
Green Bay at Oregon State, 3:00 P.M. (Pac-12 Network)
Oakland at Boise State, 4:00 P.M. (Mountain West Network)
Cleveland State at Loyola Marymount, 5:00 P.M. (WCC Network)

Monday, Dec. 19
IUPUI vs. Southern Indiana, 4:00 P.M. (ESPN+)
Purdue Fort Wayne vs. Texas A&M Commerce, 7:00 P.M. (ESPN+)

Tuesday, Dec. 20
IUPUI vs. Texas A&M Commerce, 4:00 P.M. (ESPN+)
Purdue Fort Wayne vs. Southern Indiana, 7:00 P.M. (ESPN+)