Opening Tip
•   The Washburn Ichabod men's basketball team returns to Lee Arena and Schendel Court for a Thursday match up with Manhattan Christian at 7 p.m.
•   Washburn is 6-0 this season after going 3-0 at the 2016 Puerto Rico Clasico last week.
•   This season will be Bob Chipman's last season on the bench at Washburn … Chipman announced prior to the start of the season this year would be his last … Chipman has recorded a career-record of 794-343 at Washburn needing only six wins to reach 800 for his career becoming only the 14th coach to reach that milestone.
•   Washburn has never played Manhattan Christian.
•   Manhattan Christian is 2-4 this season and has an exhibition game at Oklahoma Christian on Tuesday night.
•   The Thunder lost to Newman on Nov. 18 82-76 in Wichita earlier this season.
•   Through three games, Cameron Wiggins is ranked 11th in the MIAA in scoring at 17.3 ppg and Javion Blake is 21st at 13.7 ppg … Wiggins' 3-point field goal percentage of 51 percent (26 of 51) is fifth in the MIAA and his 4.3 made 3-pointers per game is first in the MIAA.
•   Brady Skeens leads the league in rebounding at 11.5 rpg and is third in the MIAA in field goal percentage at 61 percent (31 of 51) and leads in blocks at 3.0 per game.
•   Randall Smith's 5.5 assists per game is second in the MIAA this season.
•   Brady Skeens' 91 blocks is fourth on the career chart at Washburn … he trails Bobby Chipman (94), Dan Buie (96) and Ewan Auguste (100) on the all-time chart.
•   David Salach is 19th in the MIAA in rebounding at 5.3 per game.
•   The Ichabods received votes in this week's NABC Division II Top 25 poll and was ranked 14th in the D2SIDA/Media Poll.   
 
  Ichabods on Radio
Washburn games will be broadcast on KTPK 106.9 FM radio with Jake Lebahn and Dan Lucero 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 38th season at the helm of the Ichabods.
•   a 1973 graduate of Kansas State earning both his undergraduate and master's degree in Manhattan.
•   is 794-343 overall.
•   has 552 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 555.
•   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 463-92 going 412-81 in Lee Arena.
•   is third in all-time coaching victories in active NCAA Division II coaches.
•   his 794 coaching wins is 17th 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.
 
Manhattan Christian head coach Shawn Condra
•   has been the Athletic Director and Men's Basketball Coach at Manhattan Christian College since 1994.
•   is beginning his 23rd season as head coach and he has compiled an overall record of 453-278.
•   in 1996 MCC captured the NCCAA IIA National Championship and he was named the NCCAA IIA Coach of the Year.
•   he has also been named the NCCAA Central Region Coach of the Year seven times (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 & 2009, 2015).
 
Last Time Out For The Ichabods
Washburn 65, Lubbock Christian 63 -- Nov. 26, 2016
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The Washburn Ichabods survived a late comeback and a pair of furious runs by Lubbock Christian in a 65-63 improving to 6-0 on the season. The win was Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman's 794th of his career.
Washburn jumped out to leads to 6-0 and 13-2 before the Chaps rallied cutting the lead to two at 15-13 with 11 minutes to play in the first half.
The Chapps then ripped off a 17-3 run to take a seven point lead over the break and took as lead at 39-31 with 17:56 to play in the game. Washburn came back with a 14-6 run of its own to take a 43-42 lead but LCU took the lead back by one at 46-45 before the Ichabods took the lead for good on a jumper by Brady Skeens at 47-46 jump starting an 11-0 run over the next 4:20 pushing the lead to 10 at 56-46.
However the Chaps (2-5) didn't go away as they trimmed Washburn's lead to one at 64-63 with five seconds to play. After a foul by LCU, Javion Blake hit 1 of 2 free throws locking up the 65-63 win for Washburn.
Randall Smith led the Ichabods with 14 points adding two assists and three rebounds and Cameron Wiggins and David Salach each had 13. Skeens finished with eight points and 13 rebounds adding three blocks.
Washburn shot 45 percent from the game hitting 6 of 19 3-pointers, but only 5 of 12 free throws.
The Chaps were 38 percent from the field hitting 25 of 66 overall and 7 of 20 3-pointers with 6 of 8 on free throw attempts. 
 
About Manhattan Christian
•   The Thunder is 2-4 this season heading to an exhibition game with Oklahoma Christian on Nov. 29 in Edmond.
•   They lost to Newman on Nov. 18 82-76 after jumping out to a 14-0 lead over the Jets.

 Series History with Manhattan Christian
•   Thursday's meeting will be the first between the two schools.
 
 Ichabod basketball history
•   The Ichabods are 1,526-1,049-2 (.592) all-time in the 112th 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 555-262 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 412-81 (.848) all-time in Lee Arena.
•   The 2016-17 season marks the 32nd 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 remain at home to take host Newman on Dec. 3 before opening MIAA play at Fort Hays State on Dec. 7 and at Nebraska-Kearney on Dec. 10. Washburn will wrap up the 2016 calendar year with MIAA contests against Lindenwood on Dec. 17 and Lincoln on Dec. 19 in Lee Arena.