Date: Jan. 31, 2013
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Topeka, Kan.
'Bod Quick notes
• The Ichabods will be playing only their fourth home game since Dec. 6 when the face the Lions on Jan. 31.
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Will McNeill is fourth on the NCAA Division II active steals chart with 210. Alex Falk of West Liberty leads all active players with 242.
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Will McNeill is fifth in active player free throws made with 425 in Division II.
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Will McNeill's 210 career steals is 14th in NCAA Division II history.
• The Ichabods are fourth in the NCAA in assist to turnover ratio at 1.54 and they are fifth in NCAA Division II with 10.5 turnovers per game.
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Will McNeill is 11th in the NCAA in steals at 2.94 per game.
Ichabods on radio
Washburn games will be broadcast on AM 580 WIBW with Mark Elliott and Jake Lebahn. The game will also be streamed live on the wusports.com website by following the listen live links on the men's basketball schedule page.
The coaches
• is in his 34th season at the helm of the Ichabods.
• a 1973 graduate of Kansas State earning both his undergraduate and master's degree in Manhattan.
• is 733-300 overall.
• has 492 wins since the Ichabods joined the MIAA, the most of any conference school since the 1989-90 season.
• has led the Ichabods to 12 MIAA regular season titles and a MIAA-coaching tops of five postseason tournament championships.
• has led the Ichabods to 12 NCAA National Tournament appearances.
• in home games, he is 422-78 going 369-67 in Lee Arena.
• is second in all-time coaching victories in active NCAA Division II coaches.
• his 733 coaching wins is 22nd in all-time NCAA coaches at all levels.
• led the Ichabods to the 1987 NAIA National Championship and a 2001 NCAA National game, which was later vacated by Kentucky Wesleyan.
• Chipman played for legendary coach Jack Hartman earning two letters.
• Chipman is 39-22 against Missouri Southern.
Missouri Southern Lions head coach Robert Corn . . .
• In his 24th season as head coach at Missouri Southern, he has guided the Lions to 19 MIAA Postseason Tournament berths (14 straight) and four trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
• Holds a career record of 384-290 (.559) at Southern, and is the winningest head coach in Lions basketball history.
• A 1978 graduate of Southern, he has led Southern to eight 20-win seasons.
• His 1999-2000 team went 30-3 and advanced to the NCAA-II Elite Eight semifinals. • He is fifth on the all-time MIAA wins list and third among active MIAA coaches.
• Has been named the MIAA Coach of the Year three times.
Last time out for the Ichabods • #24 Washburn 66, Lindenwood 63 • 1/26/13
ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- The No. 24 Washburn Ichabods held off a late charge by the Lindenwood Lions leaving Hyland Arena with a 66-63 win. Washburn will now start a four-game home stand starting with Missouri Southern on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
The Ichabods (12-4, 5-3 MIAA) led by 10 at 56-46 with 5:41 to play before the Lions used a 16-8 run to cut the Ichabod lead back to two at 62-60 with 15 seconds to play after a pair of free throws by Alex Bazzell.
Will McNeill hit back to back free throws to put Washburn back up four with 11 seconds remaining. After a miss by Lindenwood (12-5, 5-4 MIAA),
Christian Ulsaker was fouled and hit both free throws to go up 66-60. Bazzell hit a 3-pointer before the clock ran out trimming the Ichabod lead in half but it wasn't enough as Washburn held on for the win.
The Ichabods led 30-24 at the half after falling behind by as many as five in the opening frame at 11-6. Washburn rallied to tie the score at 11 with 11:29 to play on a 3-pointer by
Kyle Wiggins and would go up 14-11 on a three by
Leon Flowers. A pair of free throws by the Lions pushed them back in front at 19-16 after back to back jumpers with 8:21 to play.
Joseph Smith would start a 12-1 run over the next five minutes to push Washburn out in front by eight at 28-20 with 2:30 to play. A 3-pointer by the Lions with 1:22 to play in the half cut the lead back to six at 30-24. WU finished 11 of 26 from the field in the first half while the Lions were 9 of 29 including 1 of 9 from 3-point range.
McNeill led the Ichabods with 13 points going 6 of 6 from the free throw line with seven rebounds, five assists and two steals. Wiggins finished with 12 including a pair of 3-pointers and Smith finished with 12 as well.
Bobby Chipman finished with seven points and a team-high eight rebounds.
Cody Sorenson lead four Lions in double figures with 14 points and nine rebounds.
Washburn was 24 of 57 from the field for the game and finished 13 of 18 from the free throw line going 8 of 11 in the second half. The Lions came into the game averaging an MIAA-high 79.8 points per game, were 21 of 57 from the field for the game. Washburn had a 40-36 advantage on the glass for the game. The Ichabods had 13 offensive rebounds leading to 18 second chance points while outscoring the Lions 26 to 24 in the paint and Washburn held a 23 to 8 lead in bench points.
Series history with Missouri Southern
• Thursday's meeting will be the 73rd between these two schools in a series that dates back to 1968-69.
• Washburn leads the all-time series 46-26.
• Washburn is 23-13 in MIAA games against the Lions and 9-11 on the road against MSSU since joining the league in 1989-90.
• The Ichabods have lost six in a row on the road to the Lions with their last win coming in Joplin on Jan. 21, 2006 in a 60-56 win.
• The two teams have met at least once a year since 1976-77.
• The Ichabods are 3-2 against the Lions in the MIAA Tournament.
• In games played in Topeka, the Ichabods are 28-8 overall and 21-5 in games played in Lee Arena.
• The teams have met twice in the NCAA Tournament - on March 10, 2000 when the Lions picked up a 79-73 overtime win in Joplin and on March 12, 2011 when the Lions topped the Ichabods in overtime again 82-79 in Edmond, Okla.
About Missouri Southern
• Missouri Southern in 9-8 this season and 4-5 in MIAA play and have lost three straight.
• The Lions are 3-4 in road games this season.
• Marquis Addison leads the team in scoring at 17.8 ppg while averaging 19.3 ppg in MIAA play. He has hit 22 of 56 3-point attempts.
• He is also 86 of 100 from the free throw line overall hitting 55 of 62 (89 percent) in conference games.
• The Lions are averaging 71.1 ppg and allowing 69.7 ppg.
• Missouri Southern has made 109 more free throws than its opponents this season and attempted 122 more.
Last time out for Missouri Southern
(Jan. 26, 2013) -- Joplin, Mo. -- The Missouri Southern men's basketball team shot 31 percent from the floor, while Northeastern State shot 50 percent and the Lions fell to the RiverHawks, 73-54 at the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center.
The Lions (9-8, 4-5 MIAA) were led in scoring by 18 points and 11 rebounds from Jordan Talbert. He shot 7-14 from the field and 4-6 from the free-throw line. Cameron Cornelius scored a career-high 14 points on 3-7 shooting and 8-10 from the free-throw line. Marquis Addison added nine points.
Northeastern State (14-4, 7-3 MIAA) shot 48 percent in the first half and 52 percent in the second half as the RiverHawks led for nearly the entire game. Jermaine Bransford scored 20 points and added 17 rebounds, while Bryton Hobbs and Marcus Sheppard scored 12 points each.
The Lions scored the game's first point on a jumper from Addison with 19:11 left. Sheppard scored on a three for NSU the next trip down and the RiverHawks would lead from there on out. The lead reached as much as 14 points in the first half and 24 points in the second half.
NSU out scored the Lions 30-18 in the paint and the RiverHawks held a 15-6 advantage on points off of turnovers.
Bod bits
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Will McNeill was named a preseason All-American by the Basketball Times. He is the first Ichabod to receive preseason All-American honors since Travis Robbins prior to the 2004-05 season.
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Will McNeill has been named the MIAA Player of the Week twice on Nov. 26 and on Dec. 3.
• The Ichabods are +11.7 in scoring margin this season.
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Bryce Simons has missed the entire season with a knee injury.
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Alex North suffered a knee injury against Central Oklahoma and missed the last six games.
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Will McNeill is 18 assists shy of becoming the sixth Ichabod to reach at least 1,000 points and 200 assists joining Tom Meier (2,082/242), Greg Wilson (1,323/295), Mike Dickerson (1,130/214), Todd Alexander (1,099/215) and Shannon Kruger (1,014/341). He enters the Missouri Southern game with 1,462 points and 182 assists.
Bod tweets . . . 140-character or less notes on the Ichabods
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Will McNeill passed Ron Berkholtz (1,342 from 1965-69 in 101 games) for seventh on the all-time scoring chart. McNeill currently sits has scored 1,462 points in 106 games #Buckets
• Next on the chart is Dan Buie (1,484 - 1995-97) in sixth on the all-time chart #SelectCompany
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Will McNeill's 486 field goals is eighth all-time at Washburn #Scorer
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Bobby Chipman's 205 3-point attempts is 21st in school history #FromWayDowntown
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Bobby Chipman's 74 career blocks is fifth all-time at Washburn and can move into the top four with five more #RejectionCity
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Bobby Chipman's 479 rebounds is 20th all-time at Washburn #boards
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Will McNeill's 431 free throw made is fourth at Washburn #GetToTheLine
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Will McNeill's 548 free throw attempts is sixth at Washburn #LineTime
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Will McNeill's .786 free throw percentage is eighth all-time at WU #Automatic
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Martin Mitchell's career assist average of 3.6 per game is tied for ninth all-time at Washburn #Dimes
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Joseph Smith's 33 career blocks is 16th all-time at Washburn. #NoNos
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Will McNeill's 212 career steals is first at Washburn #NoBodyInFrontOfHim
• The MIAA record for career steals is 383 by Eddin Santiago #FastHands
• In scoring 13 points against Missouri Southern,
Will McNeill kept his double-figure scoring streak alive at 49 games with all 33 games in the 2011-12 season and the first 16 of this season. #DoNotTalkAboutTheStreak
Ichabod Basketball HIstory
• Washburn is 1,443-973-2 all-time in 2,417 games played
• The 2012-13 season is Washburn's 107th of basketball.
• Washburn is the ninth-winningest program in NCAA Division II history.
• The Ichabods are 492-216 since joining the NCAA Division II ranks, which is the most wins by any program in the MIAA since the 1989-90 season.
• Washburn has won ten MIAA regular season championships and 21 conference championships in school history.
• The Ichabods previously won the MIAA regular season championship in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2012.
Ichabods in the national rankings
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Washburn Ichabods jumped from No. 24 to No. 21 in the latest NABC top 25 rankings which were released Tuesday. The Ichabods picked up two road wins at Lincoln and at Lindenwood last week. Washburn now returns home for four straight and six of its next seven in Lee Arena. The Ichabods have been in the top 25 a total of 96 times since joining the NCAA ranks and they have been voted in the top 10 a total of 51 times since the 1989-90 season.
Home sweet home
• The Ichabods are 369-67 (.848) all-time in Lee Arena.
• The 2012-13 season marks the 28th season of play in Lee Arena.
• The Ichabods recorded a school-best 28-game winning streak from Nov. 19, 1993 to Feb. 8, 1995 in Lee Arena.
Up Next
The Ichabods will continue their homestand playing host to Pittsburg State at 7 p.m. on Saturday.
