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Game No. 1
Washburn Ichabods at No. 4 Kansas Jayhawks
Thursday, November 15, 2007
7:00 p.m.
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Where: Lawrence, Kan.
Arena: Allen Fieldhouse
Capacity: 16,300
Rankings: WU unranked; KU No. 4 in AP and No. 4 in ESPN/USA Today polls
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WU Record: 0-0
KU: 2-0
Series Record: KU leads 27-4
Last Meeting: KU 90-65 on 12/30/96 at KU
Last WU win: 40-35 in 1944-45 |
WU Coach Bob Chipman: 628-240 (.724) in his 29th season at WU and overall
KU Coach Bill Self: 107-29 (.787) in 5th year at KU and 314-134 (.701) in 15th year overall
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Radio
106.9 FM KTPK
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TV
Jayhawk TV
KSNT 27
Cox Channel 7 in the Topeka area
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Live Stats
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Link available at game time |
Game 2 • Washburn Ichabods vs Lincoln Blue Tigers
Friday, November 16 • 5:30 p.m.
Missouri Western Hillyard Classic • St. Joseph, Mo.
MWSU Fieldhouse (3,750)
Radio: 580 WIBW AM •
Listen Online (Free)
Game 3 • Washburn Ichabods vs Upper Iowa Peacocks
Saturday, November 17 • 5:30 p.m.
Missouri Western Hillyard Classic • St. Joseph, Mo.
MWSU Fieldhouse (3,750)
Radio: 106.9 FM KTPK •
Listen Online (Free)
Three games in three days tip off 103rd season of basketball for Ichabods
After playing a pair of exhibition contests against NCAA Division I opponents, the Ichabods will begin the regular season at DI No. 4 Kansas Thursday at 7 p.m. in Allen Fieldhouse. The game will be carried live on 106.9 FM KTPK in the Topeka area and on TV on KSNT Channel 27.
After facing off with the Jayhawks the Ichabods will be kept on their toes with two more games the next two days in the Missouri Western Hillyard Classic. They will face Lincoln at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and then Upper Iowa on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. The Friday game will be carried on 580 WIBW AM and the Saturday game will be on KTPK.
Washburn dropped a pair of preseason tuneups, most recently falling, 79-75 at Missouri-Kansas City after dropping a 77-47 decision at Nevada-Las Vegas.
About the Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas in 2-0 after wins over Louisiana-Monroe and Missouri-Kansas City to start the season. The Jayhawks were picked No. 4 in both major NCAA Division I polls and stayed in the same spot in the most current poll. Sophomore guard Sherron Collins leads the team this year with 16 points a game after putting in 22 against ULM but will be out of action after having foot surgery this week. Last year he was fourth on the team with 9.3 points. Brandon Rush, last year's leading scorer with 13.8 points a game, will also be out with injury. Mario Chalmers is the second-leading scorer on the team this year with 15.5 a game and he's shooting 53 percent.
Head coach Bill Self is in his fifth year at KU with a 107-29 record (.787) and he's 314-134 (.701) overall. Self also spent time as a coach at Illinois, Tulsa and Oral Roberts before coming to KU.
Series notes
• The two teams have faced off in exhibitions in recent years but this will be the first regular season game for WU against Kansas since 1996-97.
• The Jayhawks lead the series 27-4 with Washburn last winning on December 4, 1944. The two teams only met three times since then.
• The two teams played in 2000-01 in a game that counted as an exhibition for WU and a regular season game for the Jayhawks.
• Senior forward
Brady Sisk has scored 14 points with eight rebounds in two exhibitions against KU while
Paul Byers has 10 points in one game.
• Last year the Ichabods lost 99-69 to the Jayhawks in an exhibition. Byers scored 10 points in that game off 4-of-6 shooting.
Washburn against NCAA Division I schools
The Ichabods will be looking for their first win over a Division I school since
Bob Chipman took his team to Oklahoma State and defeated the Cowboys 67-66 on November, 29, 1984. Washburn played in the NAIA then and is 0-4 against DI schools since joining Division II.
Washburn vs DI schools since joining DII in 1989-90
11/21/06 at UNLV L 55-83
11/18/98 at Kansas State L 60-76
12/30/96 at Kansas L 65-90
12/06/93 at Kansas L 68-82
'Bods and Jayhawks play after facing common opponent UMKC
After the Ichabods got a chance to see Kansas play UMKC on Sunday they returned the favor and played the Kangaroos Tuesday. The Jayhawks defeated UMKC 85-62 while Washburn fell 79-75. Both teams shot well against the Kangaroos with KU shooting 53 percent and Washburn shooting 45 percent. The Jayhawks were 41 percent from 3-point range while WU was 39 percent. Both teams collected 36 rebounds against UMKC but WU limited the Kangaroos to 25 while Kansas allowed 31. The Jayhawks had all five starters reach double figures while four Ichabods scored 10 or more, including three starters.
About the Lincoln Blue Tigers
The Blue Tigers will begin their season against the Ichabods Friday after going 7-19 last year. Washburn leads the all-time series with Lincoln 17-3. The Tigers won the first three meetings in the series from 1957 through 1969 but the Ichabods have since won 17 straight. The two last met on November 26, 2004 with Washburn winning 110-76 in Lee Arena.
Brady Sisk scored 17 points in that game off 8-of-10 shooting.
About the Upper Iowa Peacocks
The Peacocks will also start their season at the Hillyard Classic, taking on Missouri Western Friday before facing Washburn on Saturday. The Peacocks went 3-25 last year and tied for ninth in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference with a 2-16 record. UIU went 1-2 in exhibitions this year, beating Dream Builders before losing to Oral Roberts and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Washburn and Upper Iowa have never met before.
A winning history
• The Ichabods are 1,336-925 (.591 in 2,261 games) and are in their 103rd season of basketball.
• Starting their 24th season in Lee Arena, the Ichabods are 308-55 (.849).
• In 18 seasons now as an NCAA II school, the Ichabods have 10 NCAA tournament appearances and nine MIAA titles.
• Washburn won the 1986-87 NAIA national championship with a 35-4 record under head coach
Bob Chipman in his eighth year as coach.
• The Ichabods suffered their first losing season in 2005-06 since 1976-77 and first of head coach
Bob Chipman's career. They also failed to advance to the MIAA tournament for the first time since joining the league in 1989-90.
Ichabods picked to finish 9th in conference
Washburn was picked ninth in the MIAA preseason poll voted on by the league head coaches. The Ichabods are coming off an 8-19 season last year in which they finished last in the MIAA at 4-14.
Head coach
Bob Chipman will return for his 29th season at Washburn with four seniors on the team and three returning starters. Joining the six total returning letterwinners will be eight newcomers and a returning redshirt.
Northwest Missouri State was selected to repeat as league champions after sharing the title with Central Missouri last year. The Mules were selected second in the poll. Washburn received 26 points in the voting, one less than No. 8 Truman and four more than 10th-ranked Missouri Southern.
Ichabods finish 2006-07 seventh in the nation in average attendance
For the sixth straight year Washburn finished in the top 10 in NCAA Division II average attendance. With over 29,000 fans watching the Ichabods last year in 11 home games they averaged 2,652 fans per game, the seventh highest total. As a conference the MIAA finished second in the nation with an average of 1,894 fans per game and Washburn was the second highest ranked conference school. The Ichabods' season high attendance was January 3 when then-No. 8 Emporia State came to town and the two played in front of 3,750 fans.
Darnell Kimble led the Ichabods in exhibitions
Junior forward
Darnell Kimble led the Ichabods with 14 points in his Washburn debut Tuesday at UNLV and then he scored 11 more at UMKC. He was 5 of 9 from the floor and 4 of 7 from the free throw line against the Rebels and then a perfect 4 of 4 against the Kangaroos and 3 of 3 from the line. Kimble is a transfer from Brown Mackie Community College where he scored 15.0 points a game with 8.0 rebounds last year. He scored in double figures 22 times with six double-doubles while shooting 58 percent from the field.
Byers moves up career blocking record chart
Junior forward
Paul Byers is ninth in school history with 48 career blocks. He needs nine more to move to eighth and 18 more will get him into the top five. He had 17 blocks last year and in 2005-06, his freshman year, he had 31, the eighth highest single-season total at Washburn. Byers begins the year fifth in school history with 0.9 blocks a game.
In the exhibition at UNLV he blocked two shots. He also led the team with 14 rebounds, enough to be a career high if it where a regular season game. His current career high is 11 against Barry last year. Byers averaged 9.0 points a game in the two exhibitions this year with 12 against UMKC and six against UNLV.
Meile returns after starting every game last year
Senior guard
Andrew Meile will return for his fourth season after being the only Ichabod to start all 27 games last year. He finished second on the team with 9.1 points a game and second with 2.0 assists. He led the team with 1.3 steals and 48 made 3-pointers.
Meile led the Ichabods against UMKC with 19 points and four assists. He scored two points against UNLV to average 10.5 while shooting 50 percent from the field (8 of 16) and 50 percent from 3-point range (5 of 10). He led the team in the two games with seven assists.
Bods and Ends
• Washburn set a school and MIAA record last year with five overtime games. The Ichabods went 3-2 in the games, taking two of them to double overtime.
• WU is 3-16 on the road in the last three years.
• The Ichabods are 30-24 all-time in overtimes with three wins and two losses last year. Washburn is 6-7 all-time in 13 games that went into at least double-overtime.
• The Ichabods reached approximately over 25,000 miles of travel last year dating back to the summer trip to China. That's about 23 miles longer than the equatorial circumference of the Earth.
Up Next
The Ichabods will return home to host the Holiday Classic November 23-24 and will play Missouri Baptist and Kansas Wesleyan. WU is 22-1 in home openers at Lee Arena.
