Opening Tip
•     The Washburn Ichabod men's basketball team will have a short turnaround as they will host Lincoln on Monday night at 7 p.m. on Schendel Court in Lee Arena, two days after a 68-66 overtime win over Lindenwood on Saturday at home.
•    The Blue Tigers, who are leading the league by a half game with a 5-1 MIAA record and who were picked last in the MIAA preseason coaches poll are coming off a 71-65 win at Emporia State moving their record to 9-3 overall and 5-1 in the MIAA.
•    Washburn (8-3, 4-2 MIAA) leads the series 25-3 with the Blue Tigers winning the last 25 games dating back to a Jan. 24, 1990 win in Jefferson City.
•    The Blue Tigers won the first three meetings in the series during the 1957, 1967 and 1968 seasons.
•    The overtime win over the Lindenwood last time out improved the Ichabods to 32-31 in extra-framed games. Washburn's last overtime game was an 87-86 loss with Nebraska-Kearney on Jan. 29, 2015 and its first overtime win since a 92-90 win at Pittsburg State on March 1, 2014.
•    The Ichabods are averaging 16.1 ppg off opponent's turnovers compared to 12.7 ppg opponents are scoring off the Ichabods.
•    Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman recorded his 781st win against Lindenwood moving him into 15th all-time on all-time NCAA coaching list passing former Arizona Wildcat head coach Lute Olson and Lou Henson who coached at Illinois and New Mexico State.
•    Next up on the all-time NCAA coaching chart is Lefty Driesell and Jim Smith with 786 wins.
•    Washburn's bench is averaging 23.5 ppg compared to 25.3 ppg for its opponents.
•    Washburn is scoring 34.7 ppg in the paint compared to 21.5 ppg for its opponents.
•    In Washburn's nine wins this season, they have overcome deficits of 14 against Augustana, 11 against Peru State and Fort Hays State, eight against Pittsburg State, six against Lindenwood, five against Southwest Baptist and four against Saint Mary.
•    Washburn's only win they led from start to finish was against Tabor.

 Ichabod Notes
•    Overall the Ichabods have a balanced scoring attack with four players averaging at least 9.0 points per game and they have six averaging at least 6.1 ppg.
•    Washburn is ninth in the MIAA in scoring at 75.3 ppg and fifth in scoring defense allowing 73.0 ppg.
•    Washburn is second in the MIAA in field goal percentage defense holding opponents to 41 percent shooting.
•    The Ichabods are +5.1 in rebound margin this season.
•    Robert Christopher scored a career-high 12 points hitting for career highs in free throws with eight and free throw attempts with 10.
•    Jeremy Lickteig had a career-high with 10 rebounds against Lindenwood.
•    Brady Skeens recorded a career-high 14 rebounds against Lindenwood.
•    Randall Smith tied a career-high with five rebounds against the Lions last time out.
•    Brady Skeen's 14 rebounds were the most by an Ichabod since Alex North recorded 20 against Northeastern State on Jan. 25, 2014.
•    The Ichabods had 50 rebounds as a team against Lindenwood, their most since tying a school-record of 64 against Tabor earlier this season.
    
 Ichabods on Radio
Washburn games will be broadcast on KTPK radio with Jake Lebahn and Pat Strathman calling the action. 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 37th season at the helm of the Ichabods.
•     a 1973 graduate of Kansas State earning both his undergraduate and master's degree in Manhattan.
•     is 781-333 overall.
•     has 539 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 539.
•     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 458-86 going 407-75 in Lee Arena.
•     is third in all-time coaching victories in active NCAA Division II coaches.
•     his 781 coaching wins is 15th 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.

Lincoln head coach John Moseley . . .
•    is 13-27 in his second year at Lincoln. 
•    is 0-1 against Washburn.
•    has the Blue Tigers off to their best start in over a decade. 
•    joined LU after helping North Carolina Central reach the second round of the NCAA Division I tournament in 2013-14 as the associate head coach.

  Last Time Out For The Ichabods
Washburn 68, Lindenwood 66 -- Jan. 2, 2016
TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabod men's basketball team scored the final seven points of the game capped by a buzzer-beating floater in the lane by Cameron Wiggins as the Ichabods defeated Lindenwood 68-66 in overtime in Lee Arena on Saturday night.
To open the extra frame, Lindenwood (8-4, 4-2 MIAA) scored the five seven points taking a 66-61 with 3:59 to play, however it would be the last points of the night for the Lions as the Ichabods (8-3, 4-2 MIAA) scored the final seven leading to the two-point win. Brady Skeens, who pulled down a career-high 14 rebounds pulled the Ichabods within three at 66-63 with 3:20 to play. 
Neither team scored again until Randall Smith recorded a traditional 3-point play with 1:31 to go to tie the score. On the Lions' next possession, they missed a 3-pointer and the Ichabods picked up an offensive rebound by Jeremy Licktieg off an Ichabod miss with 33 seconds to play. After a jump ball with 2.6 seconds left, Washburn's Wiggins slashed into the lane scoring the winning bucket as time expired.
The Ichabods led 32-28 at the break before the Lions ripped off a 21-5 run over the final two minutes of the opening half and the first nine of the second half taking a 43-37 lead with 11:51 to play in regulation. The Ichabods chipped away eventually taking a 55-52 lead on a 3-pointer by Javion Blake, but the Lions tied it with 59 with 43 seconds to play.
Smith led the Ichabods with 15 points adding four assists. Robert Christopher scored 12 points in his first start and Skeens finished with eight points, 14 rebounds and four blocks. Jeremy Lickteig had a career-high 10 rebounds adding eight points while Blake scored 13 points and Wiggins had nine points and five assists in the win. 
Cory Arentsen led the Lions with 23 points.
Washburn finished the game 24 of 63 from the field for a 38 percent average while the Lions were 24 of 67 for a 36 percent clip. Washburn was also 18 of 26 from the free throw line and outrebounded the Lions 50 to 37 turning 15 offensive rebounds into 12 second chance points.
Washburn will have a quick turnaround as the will face Lincoln, who defeated Emporia State 71-65 on Saturday improving to 9-3 and 5-1 in the MIAA.  
 
 About Lincoln
•     Lincoln is 9-3 on the year and 5-1 in the MIAA as they sit a half-game infront of everyone else in the league standings. 
•    The Blue Tigers are the top-scoring team in the MIAA at 86.5 ppg while allowing 75.5 ppg.
•    All three of their losses have come away from Jason Gym. 
•    Anthony Virdure leads the team scoring 24.4 ppg and Jaylon Smith is next at 20.0 ppg, who rank 4th and 6th respectively in the MIAA in scoring.
 
 Series History with Lincoln
•    Monday's meeting will be the 29th in the series history and Washburn leads 25-3.
•    Washburn has won the last 25 meetings in the series which began on Dec. 18, 1957 with the Blue Tigers winning 93-80. Lincoln won the next two and the teams did not meet again until Jan. 24, 1990 when the Ichabods won 98-93 on the road. 
•    Washburn has won the last 25 games in the series and the last six match ups by an average margin of 21 points per game. 
•    Overall the Ichabods are 11-1 against Lincoln in Jefferson City all-time having won their last 11 games with the lone loss coming in 1957 in the first meeting in the series. 
•    In Topeka, the Ichabods are 12-1 and have won the last 12 meetings.
•    In neutral site games Washburn is 2-1.    

 Last meeting with Lincoln
(Dec. 18, 2014) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Washburn Ichabods won its 25th basketball game in a row the Lincoln Blue Tigers with a 73-55 win on Thursday night in Jason Gymnasium. 
Ichabod senior Kyle Wiggins scored a career-high 31 points with 18 coming in the second half hitting 12 of 20 shots overall including 4 of 8 from 3-point range leading Washburn to its second-straight win. 
The Ichabods (6-7, 2-1 MIAA) only trailed at 6-4 with 15:56 to play as both teams jumped out to a slow start before the Ichabods would take a 34-17 lead into the break after outscoring the Blue Tigers (4-8, 1-2 MIAA) 30-13 over the remaining time in the half. 
The Blue Tigers would not get any closer than 11 in the second half at 64-53. 
The win was the 11th in a row over the Blue Tigers in Jefferson City as well and improved Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman to 25-0 all-time against the Blue Tigers. 
Washburn finished shooting 49 percent from the field hitting 29 of 59 shots overall and went 8 of 10 from the free throw line all coming in the second half while forcing 14 Blue Tiger turnovers leading to 19 points for the Ichabods. 
Following Wiggins' career-high scoring night was Alex North and Algie Key each adding 13. David Salach had six points and a game-high seven rebounds.   

 Last time out for Lincoln
EMPORIA, Kan. - Anthony Virdure scored 26 points and Richie Lewis had a double-double to lead the Lincoln men's basketball team to a 71-65 win over Emporia State on Saturday (Jan. 2). The Blue Tigers improved to 9-3 overall and 5-1 in the MIAA in the win, Lincoln's fifth in a row and first in a true road game.
Jaylon Smith made a pair of threes to help Lincoln take an early 12-3 lead, and a pair of Virdure free throws put Lincoln ahead by 11 with 14:18 left in the half. Emporia State (6-6, 3-3 MIAA) stormed back to cut the LU advantage to 23-19 at the 11:18 mark, but the Blue Tigers scored on three-straight possession to go back up by 10 by the second media timeout.
Emporia State shot .520 overall and .600 from long range in the first half, and as a result was able to close the gap down to 39-36 after hitting a buzzer-beating jumper just before halftime. The Hornets then began the second half on a 13-1 run, and led by six with 11:42 remaining.
An old-fashioned three-point play by Aaron Spudich began Lincoln's comeback, and Virdure sank a three to pull LU to within 53-51 with 10 minutes to play. The Blue Tigers then tied the game on a pair of free throws from Lewis before two shots at the line by Virdure and a layup from Tacourrus Mattox gave Lincoln a 57-53 advantage.
Lincoln would not trail again from that point forward, with a trey by Smith giving LU a 65-59 lead with 3:31 remaining. Emporia State scored five unanswered to close the gap down to one, but a jumper by Virdure and two more free throws by Lewis gave Lincoln a two-score advantage in the game's final minute. The Blue Tiger defense proved too tough to score on late, as ESU scored just one point in the contest's final two minutes.
Lewis and Smith each scored 12 points, with Lewis also grabbing 10 rebounds and dishing four assists. Mattox and Smith each tallied six boards, with Mattox additionally scoring six points, dishing a pair of assists and registering three steals. In addition to his game-high point total, Virdure also pulled down five rebounds and dropped two dimes.
O'Shai Clark added six points, a block, two assists and two steals to the LU cause while Spudich finished with five points and a pair of rebounds. Rod Ollison rounded out the scoring with four points and grabbed five rebounds.
As a team, Lincoln shot .479 from the floor and out-rebounded the Hornets, 37-31. LU defensively held ESU to .324 shooting in the second half, with Emporia State hitting just two of its 12 attempts from three-point land. With the win, LU now has nine victories in a season for the first time since 2001-02, which is also the last time the Blue Tigers had a five-game winning streak. 
 
 Ichabod basketball history
•     The Ichabods are 1,513-1,039-2 (.592) all-time in the 111th 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 539-252 since joining the conference and the NCAA.
•    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 407-75 (.848) all-time in Lee Arena.
•     The 2015-16 season marks the 31st 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 pack their bags for an Oklahoma two-stepping road trip starting at Northeastern State on Jan. 7 and Central Oklahoma on Jan. 9. The Ichabods will then start a three-game homestand with Missouri Western on Jan. 13, Northwest Missouri on Jan. 16 and Emporia State on Jan. 23.