Opening Tip
•     The Washburn Ichabod basketball team will continue its busy stretch to the start of the 2014-15 season as they will play four games in five days starting on Nov. 24 when they will take on Hawaii-Hilo at the Vulcan's Thanksgiving Classic. The following day they will take on No. 22-ranked Seattle Pacific and then wrap up the classic with Northwest Indian College on Nov. 26. Following the game with NIC, the Ichabods will leave the big island of Hawaii and fly to Oahu to face BYU-Hawaii on Nov. 28.
•    Washburn is 2-3 this season after falling at Newman on Thursday in Wichita in a 90-79 loss to the Jets.
•    The Ichabods have 31 regular season games scheduled this season and also had three exhibition games against NCAA Division I members Kansas, Kansas State and Oklahoma to have 34 games before the MIAA Tournament starts.
•    The Ichabods have played five games in seven days from the start of the season in Sioux Falls to the Newman game on Nov. 20.
•    Washburn will return home to open MIAA play with Southwest Baptist on Dec. 4 and Missouri Southern on Dec. 6.
    
 Bod Notes
•    Alex North has recorded 12 double doubles in his career at Washburn … he has scored his 800th career point against Southwestern and has played in 93 games with 60 starts … he went over the 500-rebound total against the RiverHawks in the final game last season and enters the Hawaii trip with 824 career points.
•    Kyle Wiggins went over the 800-point mark for his career against Minnesota State earlier this season … he has averaged 9.2 ppg in 91 games making 49 starts … he has scored 836 career points at Washburn.
•    Ichabod junior Christian Ulsaker is averaging 8.2 points with 6.4 rebounds a game this season … he recorded his first career double double against Peru State with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
•    The Ichabods have hit at least one 3-pointer in 313 games … the last game the Ichabods did not hit a 3-pointer was Dec. 30, 2003 at Missouri Western.
•    Prince Samuels is averaging 8.0 points a game off the bench and Turon Parker is scoring 8.2 points a game off the bench.
•    Kevin House leads the team in assists with 2.6 per game while averaging 3.0 rebounds and 5.4 points per game.
•    Algie Key is averaging 6.2 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game leading the team with 12 steals.
•    Jeremy Lickteig scored a career-high 14 points against Peru State in 13 minutes of play.
•    The Ichabods are 32 of 97 from 3-point range this season with Kyle Wiggins and Prince Samuels each hitting six. Ichabod opponents are 45 of 120 from 3-point range this season.
•    Washburn is 81 of 124 from the free throw line for a 65 percent average while their opponents are 90 of 129 hitting 70 percent of their charity stripe attempts.
•    The Ichabods have been called for 108 fouls compared to 106 for their opponents.
•    Washburn is +4.6 in rebounding margin and outrebounded Peru State 53 to 33 in its last game.
•    Korey Fisher tied career highs of five free throws and six free throw attempts against Newman.
•    Algie Key had season highs of four assists and tied a season high with four steals against Newman.
•    Prince Samuels tied a season high with eight field goal attempts against Newman.

 Ichabods on Radio
Washburn games in Hawaii will be broadcast on AM580 WIBW radio with Jake Lebahn 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 759-317 overall.
•     has 518 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 518.
•     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 442-82 going 391-71 in Lee Arena.
•     is second in all-time coaching victories in active NCAA Division II coaches.
•     his 759 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.

 Last Time Out For The Ichabods
Newman 90 • Washburn 79 •  Nov. 20, 2014
WICHITA, Kan. -- A hot-shooting Newman Jets team was too much to overcome as the Ichabods dropped to 2-3 on the season in a 90-79 loss on the road in Wichita. The Ichabods will be back in action on Monday in Hawaii when they will face Hawaii-Hilo.
The Ichabods trailed 40-36 at the break after jumping out to a 23-14 lead after a bucket by Korey Fisher, who scored 13 in the first half. The Jets switched to a 2-3 zone and then Newman came back with a 16-2 run of its own going up 30-25 before Washburn came back with a 7-0 to take back the lead at 32-20 with 5:52 to play in the frame. The Jets used another run, this time a 10-0 burst taking a 40-32 lead before the Ichabods came back with four points cutting the margin to four at the half.
Washburn was 13 of 34 in the first half going 2 of 14 from 3-point range. 
In the second half the Jets pushed their lead to eight with 11:34 to play going back in front after Washburn cut the lead to one at 50-49. 
Newman went up by nine at 61-52 with 11:02 to play, but a foul on the Jets put the Ichabods in the bonus with 10:28 to play in the game. 
The Jets pushed their lead up to 13 after a 13-6 run over a four-minute stretch hitting three 3-pointers while holding the Ichabods to 2 of 6 from the field while Washburn committed four turnovers during the run.
A 7-0 run by the Ichabods trimmed the lead back to six at 68-62 with 6:30 to go but again the Jets pushed it back to nine and then to 11 after a pair of free throws in 5:26 remaining.
A traditional 3-point play by Kyle Wiggins cut the Jets lead back to six at 73-67 with 4:51 to play and after forcing a shot clock violation, a lay up by Algie Key after a miss cut it to four at 73-69 with 3:59.
The teams traded lay ups with 3:19 to go and the Jets held a 75-71 lead before being whistled for a foul sending the Jets to the line. Newman hit them both and the Ichabods had a turnover on their next possession and then scored to go up 79-71 and the Ichabods would not get closer the rest of the way as the Jets held on for the 11-point win.
Fisher led the Ichabods with 14 points with all but one coming in the first half. He was the only Ichabod to reach double figures. Christen Ulsaker and Alex North each had six rebounds.
Reggie Baker scored 30 points to lead the Jets and Jeremy Espinoza scored 21. Overall the Jets were 10 of 27 from 3-point range in the game.

 About Hawaii-Hilo
•     The Vulcans are coached for the second year by former Central Washington assistant GE Coleman. They opened the season in Bellingham, splitting a pair of games against GNAC teams. 
•    UHH defeated Northwest Nazarene 89-81 on Nov. 14 and lost to host Western Washington 84-73 on Nov. 15. 
•    Junior forward Tre Johnson is averaging 24.0 points and 5.0 rebounds. 
•    The Ichabods and Vulcans are tied in the all-time series 1-1 and have not met since Nov. 27, 1993 when Hilo won 73-68 in Hilo. That Ichabod team went on to finish the season 29-4 reaching the NCAA National Semifinals.
•    The Ichabod lone win in the series came on Nov. 28, 1986 in Hilo in an 81-73 win. 

 About Seattle Pacific
•     The Falcons are in the middle of eight games in 13 day stretch.
•    SPU is 2-1 this season and they are led by Cory Hutsen, a 6-8 senior who is averaging 14.7 ppg.
•    The Ichabod lead the all-time series with the Falcons 2-1 with all three games taking place in Las Vegas.
•    The teams have not met since Dec. 20, 2003 when the Ichabods won 81-69. Seattle Pacific won 70-66 on Dec. 20, 1998 and the Ichabods won the first meeting between the two schools 78-59 on Dec. 18, 1997.

 About Northwest Indian College
•     Northwest Indian College is an independent program located in Bellingham, Wash. who frequently plays against four-year NCAA or NAIA institutions. 
•    The Eagles lost two games at Simon Fraser, on Nov. 14 and 15 by scores of 160-99 and 135-103.
•    NIC has beaten 35 other Tribal Colleges to win three consecutive American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) national tournaments.
•    Washburn has never faced NIC.

 About BYU-Hawaii
•     The Seasiders open the season with their own tournament this weekend. They toured South Korea in July and finished third in the Asia Pacific U-Basketball Challenge. BYUH was picked fourth in the PacWest coaches poll following a 15-12 season in 2013-14. 
•    BYUH leads the Ichabods in the all-time series 2-1 and the two teams have not met since Dec. 17, 2008 in Honolulu in the Hoop and Surf Classic in when Washburn won 75-68.
•    The Seasiders won the first two meetings in an 84-76 win on Dec. 2, 1986 and an 80-73 win on Jan. 12, 1989. The first meeting was played in Hilo and the second was played in Laie, Hawaii.

Ichabod basketball history
•     The Ichabods are 1469-987-4 (.591) all-time in the 110th year in the program's history.
•     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 518-236.
•    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 391-71 (.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
•    Washburn will return home to open MIAA play with Southwest Baptist on Dec. 4 and Missouri Southern on Dec. 6.