Opening Tip
•     The Washburn Ichabod men's basketball team continues its busy week as they start a two-game road trip to Oklahoma starting with Northeastern State on Jan. 7 in Tahlequah. After the game with the RiverHawks, the Ichabods will face Central Oklahoma on Jan. 9 before returning home for a three-game homestand.
•    The Ichabods (9-3, 5-2 MIAA) are coming off their second-straight overtime win after an 86-64 win over Lincoln.
•    Northeastern State (2-9, 1-6 MIAA) is coming off a 78-74 loss at Northwest Missouri last time out.
•    The RiverHawks lead the series 5-2 and the Ichabods won the last meeting last season in Topeka 92-68 on Feb. 14, 2015 in Topeka.
•    The overtime win over the Lincoln last time out improved the Ichabods to 33-31 in extra-framed games. 
•    The last time the Ichabods had back to back overtime games was on Feb. 10 and Feb. 14 of 2007 when they topped Truman (68-58) and then fell to Northwest Missouri (87-85).
•    The Ichabods have never played into overtime in three straight games.
•    The Ichabods are averaging 16.0 ppg off opponent's turnovers compared to 13.2 ppg opponents are scoring off the Ichabods.
•    Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman recorded his 782nd win against Lincoln 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 22.8 ppg compared to 24.9 ppg for its opponents.
•    Washburn is scoring 34.5 ppg in the paint compared to 22.2 ppg for its opponents.
•    In Washburn's nine wins this season, they have overcome deficits of 14 against Augustana, 11 against Peru State, Fort Hays State and Lincoln, 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 eighth in the MIAA in scoring at 76.2 ppg and seventh in scoring defense allowing 73.9 ppg.
•    Washburn is second in the MIAA in field goal percentage defense holding opponents to 41 percent shooting.
•    The Ichabods are +5.8 in rebound margin this season, which is third in the MIAA.
•    Christian Ulsaker has played in 99 games at Washburn in his career.
•    Brady Skeens has had four blocks in each of the last two games.
•    Brady Skeen's 25 blocked shots is ranked 16th on the single season chart and his 2.1 blocks per game ranks first on the single season chart ahead of Dan Buie's 1.7 blocks per game (27 games) in 1995-96.
•    Robert Christopher set a career high with two blocks against Lincoln.
•    Randall Smith tied a career high with two steals against Lincoln.
•    Cameron Wiggins tied a career-high with 26 points against Lincoln … his 10 field goals made against Lincoln was a career high and his 16 field goal attempts tied a career high.    
    
 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 782-333 overall.
•     has 540 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 540.
•     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 459-86 going 408-75 in Lee Arena.
•     is third in all-time coaching victories in active NCAA Division II coaches.
•     his 782 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.

Northeastern State head coach Jason Tinsley . . .
•      is 9-29 in his second year at Northeastern State and 172-180 in his 13th as a four year men's coach.
•     is 1-1 against Washburn.
•    was the head women's basketball coach from 2010-14 at NCAA Division III Louisiana College in Pineville, La., where he led the program to an 89-25 record and three berths in the NCAA Division III Championship tournament.

  Last Time Out For The Ichabods
Washburn 88, Lincoln 86 -- Jan. 4, 2016
TOPEKA, Kan. -- The streak continues as the Washburn Ichabods won their 26th straight game over Lincoln with an 88-86 win in overtime topping the Blue Tigers.
The road to the 26th-straight win over the Blue Tigers (9-4, 5-2 MIAA) was not an easy one as Washburn (9-3, 5-2 MIAA) ended Lincoln's five-game winning streak while winning its second-straight overtime game. The Blue Tigers built an eight-point lead with 9:08 to play in the game after turning a 53-43 Ichabod lead into a 65-57 Blue Tiger lead after a 20-4 Lincoln run. 
Washburn rallied and tied the score at 68 with an 11-3 run of its own as Andy Wilson and Cameron Wiggins each connected on 3-pointers during the run. The Blue Tigers jumped back out to a five point lead at 73-68 after a 5-0 run before Washburn again came back and scored 7 of the last 9 points in regulation capped by a Randall Smith lay up with six seconds left tying the score at 75 sending the game to overtime as Brady Skeens blocked a Blue Tiger layup right before the buzzer with his fourth block of the game.
In overtime, Washburn jumped out to a 79-75 lead before Lincoln would come back and tie the score at 81 with 1:56 to play on a deep 3-pointer by Anthony Virdure, who scored a game-high 31 points leading Lincoln. The Ichabods finished the game with free throws by Javion Blake and Robert Christopher and then a lay up by Blake putting Washburn up 85-81 with 38 seconds to play. A 3-pointer by Virdure with 31 seconds to play cut the lead to one at 85-84.
Cameron Wiggins, who led the Ichabods with 26 points, hit 1 of 2 free throw attempts with 22 seconds to play and the Blue Tigers' 3-point attempt at the buzzer missed as the Ichabods picked up the win.
Other leading scorers for the Ichabods included Blake who scored 20 points and Smith who scored 11 points. Skeens finished with seven points and a game-high 11 rebounds adding four blocks for the second-straight game.
Following Virdure's 31 points, Jaylon Smith scored 26 points and O'Shai Clark had 19 leading the Blue Tigers.
Washburn led 42-41 at the break and finished 27 of 59 from the field and 9 of 21 from 3-point range. The Blue Tigers were 31 of 67 and hit 14 of 30 from 3-point range. Washburn was 23 of 35 from the free throw line and the Blue Tigers were 8 of 15.  

  About Northeastern State
•     The RiverHawks are 2-9 and 1-6 in the MIAA coming off a 78-74 loss at Northwest Missouri.
•    NSU has lost two straight and have gone 1-2 in home games this season.
•    Trey Mohair leads the team with 14.6 ppg and Dakota Caudill is scoring 14.0 ppg and Montre' Williams is scoring 10.1 ppg.
•    NSU is averaging 78.0 ppg and allowing 84.7 ppg.

  Series History with Northeastern State
•    Thursday's meeting will be the eighth all-time between the two schools and the RiverHawks lead the all-time series 5-2.
•    The RiverHawks won the first meeting on Jan. 24 in Tahlequah 80-73.
•    The teams split the regular season games in 2013-14 and the RiverHawks won 79-75 in a first round MIAA Tournament game in Topeka on March 4, 2014.
•    The Ichabods and RiverHawks played in the second round of the NCAA Tournament with Washburn falling 64-59 on March 15, 2003 in Stephenville, Texas.
•    The RiverHawks went on to win the NCAA National Championship in 2003.
•    Washburn is 0-2 in games played in Tahlequah falling 85-78 on Jan. 19, 2013 and 69-58 on Feb. 15, 2014.    

 Last meeting with Northeastern State
(Feb. 14, 2015) TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabod men's basketball team jumped out to a 16-3 lead and never looked back as they rolled past Northeastern State in a 92-68 win. 
Washburn (13-14, 8-8 MIAA) stormed to the lead after shooting a blistering 58 percent in the opening half as they raced to a 52-29 lead at the break. The RiverHawks (6-16, 4-11 MIAA) were not within double figures of the Ichabods from the 14:29 point of the first half to the end of the game. Kyle Wiggins scored 19 of his game-high 26 points in the first half after hitting 7 of 8 first half shots including 4 of 5 from 3-point range.
In the second half Washburn cooled off to 46 percent hitting 10 of 22 shots and 5 of 11 shots from deep as they outscored the RiverHawks 40-39 in the second half leading to the 24-point win.
Following Wiggins' 26 points on 9 of 11 shooting and 5 of 7 from 3-point range, Kevin House added a career-high 16 points on 6 of 7 shooting and Christian Ulsaker had 14 points. Alex North had a game-high 12 rebounds adding a career-high seven assists in the process.
Demone Harrison scored 20 to lead the RiverHawks. 
Washburn outrebounded the RiverHawks 39 to 22 and the Ichabod bench outscored the NSU bench 56 to 27 in the win..   

Last time out for Northeastern State
(Jan. 4, 2016) MARYVILLE, Mo. – The Northeastern State men's basketball team dropped a narrow 78-74 road decision to Northwest Missouri State Monday night inside Bearcat Arena.
NSU fell to 2-9 on the year and 1-6 in the MIAA, while NWMSU improved to 9-4 overall and 6-2 in the league.
Senior forward Dakota Caudill tallied a career-high 24 points while adding six rebounds in 27 minutes. Senior guard Trey Mohair poured in 18 points and fellow senior guard Killven Samuel added 12 off the bench. Samuel registered just four points total in the first half of the season and has erupted for 28 in his last two games.
NSU converted 50 percent (31-for-62) of its field-goal attempts, while shooting 33.3 percent (6-for-18) from behind the 3-point line and 46.2 percent (6-for-13) at the free-throw line. NWMSU shot 45.1 percent (23-for-51) overall, 44 percent (11-for-25) from distance and 75 percent (21-for-28) at the line.
Justin Pitts paced the Bearcats with 21 points, seven assists and six rebounds. Conner Crooker added 16, Zach Schneider netted 13 and Chris-Ebou Ndow tallied 11.
The RiverHawks dominated the glass by a 38-27 margin. NSU also led in assists (13-12), blocks (5-0), points in the paint (42-24), and bench production (27-12). Northwest Missouri State led in steals (7-2), points off turnovers (16-10) and fewer turnovers (8-11). 

  Ichabod basketball history
•     The Ichabods are 1,514-1,039-2 (.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 540-252 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 408-75 (.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 continue the roadtrip at 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.