Opening Tip
•     The Washburn Ichabod basketball team will open the home slate on Monday at 7 p.m. in Lee Arena at Schendel Court when they will face Southwestern College.
•    The Ichabods enter the game with an 0-2 record after falling in a pair of regional games at the Sanford Pentagon Basketball Showcase losing to Augustana on Nov. 14 87-83 and then to No. 14-ranked Minnesota State 77-70 the following night.
•    Monday's game will count as an exhibition game for Southwestern who enters the game with a 7-0 record coming off an 81-80 win over Haskel on Nov. 13.
•    The Ichabods are looking to avoid their first 0-3 start since the 1965-66 season en route to a 5-20 season.
•    The Ichabods fell to 31-5 in season openers under head coach Bob Chipman after the loss to Augustana.
•    The Ichabods dropped to 76-33-1 as a program in season openers with the loss to the Vikings.
•    In home openers under Bob Chipman the Ichabods are 29-1 with the lone loss on Nov. 16, 1990 to Friends 89-88.
    
 Bod Notes
•    Alex North has recorded 12 double doubles in his career at Washburn … he has scored 778 career points in 90 games with 57 starts … he went over the 500-rebound total against the RiverHawks in the final game last season.
•    Kyle Wiggins went over the 800-point mark for his career  against Minnesota State … he has averaged 9.1 ppg in 88 games making 48 starts after averaging 15.0 ppg  average as a junior.
•    Ichabod junior Christian Ulsaker is averaging 9.5 points with 5.0 rebounds a game this season after coming back from a wrist injury which forced him out of all but four games last year.
•    The Ichabods have hit at least one 3-pointer in 311 games beginning the regular season opener against Augustana. The last game the Ichabods did not hit a 3-pointer was Dec. 30, 2003 at Missouri Western.
•    Prince Samuels leads the team in bench scoring after 12.5 ppg coming off the bench in each of the Ichabods' two games this season.
•    Kevin House leads the team in assists with 3.5 per game while averaging 3.5 rebounds and 6.5 points per game.
•    The Ichabods are 13 of 34 from 3-point range this season with Samuels going 5 of 8 from deep.
•    Washburn is 30 of 48 from the free throw line for a 63 percent average while their opponents are 50 of 68 hitting 74 percent of their charity stripe attempts.
•    The Ichabods have been called for 54 fouls compared to 44 for their opponents.
•    The Ichabods had leads of five against Augustana leading for 6:28 of the game and a lead of 10 against Minnesota State leading for 25:36 of the game.

 Ichabods on Radio
Washburn games will be broadcast on AM580 WIBW radio with Jake Lebahn and Pat Strathman calling the action. 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
Washburn Ichabod head basketball coach Bob Chipman 
•     is in his 36th season at the helm of the Ichabods.
•     a 1973 graduate of Kansas State earning both his undergraduate and master's degree in Manhattan.
•     is 757-316 overall.
•     has 516 wins since the Ichabods joined the MIAA, the most of any conference school since the 1989-90 season.
•    is the MIAA's all-time winningest coach by victories with 516.
•     has led the Ichabods to 12 MIAA regular season titles and a MIAA-coaching tops of five postseason MIAA tournament championships.
•     has led the Ichabods to 12 NCAA National Tournament appearances.
•     in home games, he is 440-82 going 389-71 in Lee Arena.
•     is second in all-time coaching victories in active NCAA Division II coaches.
•     his 757 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.

Southwestern College head coach Matt O'Brien
•     is 89-67 in his sixth season as the Moundbuilders head coach.
•    has gone 127-114 in his ninth season overall.
•    was previously the head coach at Central Christian College in McPerhson and spent seven seasons as an assistant coach at Friends.

 Last Time Out For The Ichabods
Minnesota State 77 • Washburn 70 • Nov. 15, 2014
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The Washburn Ichabod men's basketball team fell 77-70 to No. 14-ranked Minnesota State on Saturday. 
The Ichabods were led by Stephon Drane who recorded 15 points on 7 of 11 shooting from the field adding five rebounds. Prince Samuels scored 12 off the bench.
The Ichabods led by as many as 10 points early in the second half with 17:15 remaining after a lay up by Algie Key, but the Mavericks would go on a 21-7 run hitting 4 of 5 3-pointers during the 6:13 stretch to take a 54-48 lead with 12:32 to play. 
Washburn cut the lead to two points twice before pulling out to a six-point lead but the Ichabods would not get closer than five the rest of the way before the Mavericks took the 77-70 win.
Washburn led 37-31 at the break after shooting 12 of 31 from the field while holding the Mavericks to 8 of 22. However in the second half the Mavericks improved to 12 of 23 shooting going 6 of 10 from 3-point range. Washburn finished 42 percent from the field in the game hitting 25 of 59 shots while the Mavericks finished 20 of 45 overall for a 44 percent clip.
Washburn committed 19 turnovers in the game leading to 18 points for the Mavericks. Washburn had 16 offensive rebounds gaining 19 second chance points in the contest. Overall the Ichabods led the Mavericks in rebounding 40 to 23.

 About Southwestern College
•    The Moundbuilders are 7-0 this season coming off an 81-80 win over Haskell last time out on Nov. 13.
•    Cameron Clark leads the team in scoring with 20.7 ppg and 9.6 rpg.
•    Chris Waller is averaging 12.7 ppg and 7.1 rpg. William Tisdale averages 12.6 ppg and 6.9 rpg and Landers Riddle is averaging 10.0 ppg and 3.6 rpg.
•    The Moundbuilders are averaging 84.1 ppg and allowing 69.3 ppg.

 Last time out for Southwestern College
LAWRENCE, Kan. – For the second time in three games, Cameron Clark hit the game-winning jumper in the final seconds Thursday evening. Clark's 8-footer sent the Southwestern College men's basketball team to an 81-80 win over Haskell Indian Nations University inside the Coffin Sports Complex in Lawrence, Kan.
After leading by as many as nine in the first half, the Moundbuilders found themselves facing a two point halftime deficit. Haskell extended its lead to as many as 10 in the second half, but Southwestern caught fire from three-point range, and rallied late for the one-point win.
-Haskell (0-4) scored the first six points of the game, and held a 6-0 lead after a Randy July free throw just over a minute into the game. The Indians maintained a lead of at least three until the 16:01 mark, when Chris Waller's old-fashioned three-point play pulled Southwestern (7-0) to within one, 12-11.
-A Bryan Lipsey triple gave the Moundbuilders their first lead of the game, a 17-15 advantage with 14:20 to play that came in the middle of a 10-0 Southwestern run. The run gave the Moundbuilders a 21-15 advantage after a William Tisdale jumper with 10:48 to play.
-Southwestern pushed its lead to nine (32-23) on a Cameron Clark lay-in at the 6:19 mark. Landers Riddle answered a Haskell triple with a trey of his own to push the lead back to nine (35-26) with 4:25 to play. But the Indians finished the half on a 12-1 run, and took a 38-36 halftime lead.
-Haskell controlled the first five minutes of the second half, and took a 10-point (50-40) lead at the 14:49 mark.
-Southwestern began to chip away at the Haskell lead, and had clawed back to within six (66-60) with 4:44 remaining when Drew Hudson took over. The junior drained three triples over the next two minutes, and helped give the Moundbuilders a 73-72 edge at the 2:36 mark. The Indians countered with a triple of their own, and held the lead all the way to the 0:50 mark, when William Tisdale's jumper forced a 77-77 tie. Chris Waller added a jumper with 33 seconds left to give Southwestern a 79-77 edge, but red-hot Haskell countered with yet another triple to take an 80-79 lead with 0:13 to play.
-When it came to crunch time, head coach Matt O'Brien put the ball in the hands of his two-time Honorable Mention All-America selection, and Cameron Clark knocked down an 8-foot jumper from the base line to give Southwestern an 81-80 lead with 0:04 to play. Haskell failed to get a shot off out of a timeout, and the Moundbuilders escaped with an 81-80 win.

 Ichabod basketball history
•     The Ichabods are 1467-986-4 (.591) all-time in the 110th year in the program's history.
•    Since joining the NCAA the Ichabods are
•     Washburn is the eighth-winningest program in NCAA Division II history by victories.
•     Washburn is the winningest MIAA program since the 1989-90 season with an overall record of 516-233.
•    The Ichabods have recorded 25 20-win seasons and they have one 30-win seasons after going 35-4 during the 1986-87 NAIA Championship season.
•    Washburn has won 21 conference championships including 10 MIAA titles.
•    Washburn has received 12 NCAA Tournament bids going to three Elite Eight's appearing in the 2001 NCAA National Championship game.

 Home sweet home
•     The Ichabods are 389-71 (.848) all-time in Lee Arena.
•     The 2014-15 season marks the 30th 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 be back in action on Tuesday night in Lee Arena facing Peru State the at 7:30 p.m. After back to back games the Ichabods will travel to Wichita, Kan., to face Newman at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20.