•      The Washburn Ichabods will play their final regular season home game on Saturday when they will face Central Oklahoma on Schendel Court in Lee Arena.
•      It will be the final regular season home game for lone senior Christian Ulsaker for the Ichabods.
•     The Ichabods (14-10, 10-9 MIAA) are coming off a 70-67 loss to Northeastern State on Wednesday.
•     The Bronchos (12-13, 8-11 MIAA) are coming off an 80-70 loss at Emporia State on Feb. 17 and have lost their last four games in a row.
•     Central Oklahoma won the first meeting 98-92 in overtime in Edmond on Jan. 9.
•     The Ichabods trail in the all-time series with Central Oklahoma 14-10.
•     The Ichabods enter the game in sixth in the MIAA standings. The Ichabods are one game behind both Fort Hays State and Lindenwood who are tied for fourth with 11-8 records. The Ichabods have the tie breakers over each school after sweeping Lindenwood in two meetings and topping the Tigers in December. Northwest Missouri has clinched the MIAA regular season title and the top seed in the tournament. Nebraska-Kearney is second in the standings at 12-7 and Missouri Southern is third at 12-8. The top four teams in the final standings receive a bye to Kansas City, while teams five through eight will host a first round game on campus on March 1 at the higher seed hosting those teams who finished ninth through 12th in the standings.
•     Brady Skeens' broke the Ichabod single-season record with his 52nd and 53rd blocked shots at Lindenwood … his 2.3 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 … his 65 career blocked shots is eighth on the career chart and his 1.8 career blocks per game average is first …  Skeens' 53 blocks are a Ichabod sophomore class chart breaking Dan Buie's 45 set in 1995-96 season.
•     The Ichabods have played in four overtime games this season going 2-2. Washburn is 33-34 all-time in overtime games. The Ichabod single season record for overtime games is five set during the 1994-95 and 2006-07 seasons.
•     In Washburn's 14 wins this season they are averaging 75.7 ppg while allowing 67.9 ppg … in the 10 losses they are averaging 74.3 ppg while allowing 84.3 ppg.
•     In Washburn's 14 wins they are +9.2 in rebound margin, while in the losses they are -5.7 on the glass.
•     From the field in the Ichabod wins, they are shooting 47 percent while opponents are shooting 39 percent … from the free throw line the Ichabods are 66 percent in the wins and 69 percent in the losses.
•     From 3-point land the Ichabods are shooting 77 of 205 (38 percent) in the wins and 32 percent in the losses (64 of 203) … opponents are shooting 100 of 269 (38 percent) in the Ichabods' 10 losses from 3-point range.
•     In the 10 losses, opponents have shot 18 and made 18 more free throws than the Ichabods.
•     The Ichabods are averaging 13.8 ppg off opponent's turnovers compared to 13.2 ppg opponents are scoring off the Ichabods.
•     Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman recorded his 786th win against Central Missouri moving him into a tie for 14th on the all-time NCAA coaching chart is Lefty Driesell and Jim Smith with 786 wins.
•     Next up on the all-time win chart is Eddie Sutton with 806 wins.
•     Washburn's bench is averaging 21.8 ppg compared to 24.1 ppg for its opponents.
•     Washburn is scoring 32.8 ppg in the paint compared to 24.5 ppg for its opponents.
•     In Washburn's 14 wins this season, they have overcome deficits of 14 against Augustana, 13 at Central Missouri, 11 against Peru State, Fort Hays State and Lincoln, eight against Pittsburg State, six against Lindenwood, five against Southwest Baptist, four against Saint Mary and the second meeting with Lindenwood and two in the second meeting with Central Missouri.
•     Washburn's led from start to finish against Tabor, Missouri Western and Emporia State.
 •     Overall the Ichabods have a balanced scoring attack with four players averaging at least 10.0 points per game and they have five averaging at least 6.0 ppg.
•     Washburn is seventh in the MIAA in scoring at 75.1 ppg and seventh in scoring defense allowing 74.7 ppg.
•     Washburn is second in the MIAA in field goal percentage defense holding opponents to 41 percent shooting.
•     The Ichabods are +3.0 in rebound margin this season, which is third in the MIAA … the Ichabods lead the MIAA in rebounding at 39.0 per game and second in the league in offensive rebounds at 12.2 per game.
•     Christian Ulsaker has played in 111 games at Washburn in his career, which is the most by an current Ichabod.
•     Javion Blake's 335 points is fifth on the Ichabod freshman scoring chart as he passed Eric Carter against Northeastern State … he needs two more points to pass Ryan Murphy for fourth and 10 to pass Harold Brown for third  and 18 to pass Greg Wilson for second … the freshman scoring record is 380 points set by Washburn all-time points leader Gary Carrier from the 1981-82 season … Blake's 47 3-pointers are second on the Ichabod freshman chart … the freshman record is 54 set by Shannon Kruger during the 1998-99 season.
•     Cameron Wiggins has hit 49 3-pointers this season, which leads the Ichabods and ranks fourth on the Ichabod sophomore chart … the sophomore record is 83 set by Todd Alexander during the 1990-91 season … Mike Dickerson is third on the chart with 55.
•     Randall Smith's 110 assists this season are third on the Ichabod sophomore class chart … Canfield's 183 assists during the 1993-94 season is the sophomore class record … Bobby Sumler recorded 127 during the 1986-87 season for second.
•     Brady Skeens 10.2 rebounds per game average is fifth on the Ichabod single season chart … he has recorded 244 rebounds this season which is 16 from being on the top 15 on the single season rebound chart.          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.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 787-340 overall.
•      has 545 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 545.
•      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 462-90 going 411-79 in Lee Arena.
•      is third in all-time coaching victories in active NCAA Division II coaches.
•      his 787 coaching wins is 14th 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.
 
Central Oklahoma head coach Tom Hankins . . .
•     is 12-13 in his first year at Central Oklahoma
•     is 1-0 against Washburn.
•     took over the reigns last  May, coming to UCO after spending the previous 18 seasons in the Division I ranks.
•     is a native of Tulsa and was an assistant coach for 15 years at Oral Roberts before serving the last three seasons as associate head coach at Southern Illinois-Carbondale.
•     helped ORU capture five Summit League championships and made three NCAA Division I national tournament appearances during Hankins' tenure there. 
•     went to SIU in 2012 as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator, spending three seasons there before coming to UCO.Northeastern State 70, Washburn 67 -- Feb. 17, 2016
TOPEKA, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabods lost a 70-67 battle on Wednesday night on Schendel Court at Lee Arena as they had their two-game winning streak snapped by Northeastern State.
 In a game which saw 15 lead changes, the RiverHawks took the lead for good after six straight trips to the free throw line in a 14 second span as a one-point Ichabod lead flipped to a five-point RiverHawk lead at 51-46.
 Northeastern State (8-15, 7-12 MIAA) would go up by six with 4:52 to play in the game before a 3-pointer by Andy Wilson cut the lead in half at 59-56 with 4:30 to play.
 After a pair of free throws by Ulsaker cut the RiverHawk lead to one at 59-58 with 3:43 to go, NSU scored the next five points to go up 63-58 with 2:07 to play, however a 3-pointer by Javion Blake trimmed the lead back to two with 1:52 to go.
NSU pushed the lead back to five with 17 seconds to play at 66-61, but a dunk on a 3-point play by Brady Skeens cut it back to two. NSU went to the line and hit both free throws going up 68-64 with nine seconds to play.
Cameron Wiggins hit a 3-pointer with five seconds to play cutting the back to one at 68-67 before NSU hit both free throws with two seconds remaining to pick up the 70-67 win.
The Ichabods  (14-10, 10-9 MIAA) were led by Skeens who recorded his ninth double double of the season with 13 points and 18 rebounds leading a total of four Ichabods in double figures. Randall Smith and Wiggins each had 12 points and Blake finished with 10.
Killven Samuel led all scorers with 19 points.
The RiverHawks finished the game 29 of 40 from the free throw line going 21 of 30 in the second half and 7 of 8 in the final five minutes. Washburn finished 8 of 15 from the charity stripe.
Washburn turned the ball over 16 times leading to 21 points for the RiverHawks in the game. Each team finished with 40 rebounds.
Washburn finished the game 25 of 58 from the field (43 percent) while the RiverHawks were 19 of 56 overall (34 percent).   •      Central Oklahoma is 12-13 on the season, 8-11 in the MIAA.
•     They are tied for 11th in the MIAA in scoring at 75.4 ppg and eighth in scoring defense allowing 76.5 ppg.
•     On the glass, UCO is ninth in the MIAA in rebound margin at -1.0 ppg.
•     Cornell Neal leads the team in scoring at 14.1 ppg and Kendahl Amerson is averaging 12.0 ppg and Garen Wright is scoring 10.9 ppg.•     Saturday's meeting will be the 25th in the series history.
•     The Bronchos lead the series 14-10 after UCO won the first meeting earlier this season.
•     The Ichabods lost the first match ups as MIAA schools on Jan. 5, 2013 67-72 in Edmond and in the MIAA tournament quarterfinals on March 3, 2013 99-88 in Kansas City.
•     Washburn's two highest-scoring combined games in school history came against UCO. In 1992 the two teams scored 246 points (132-114, UCO) and in 1998 they scored 218 points (111-107, UCO).
•     WU has scored at least 100 points against UCO three times and the Bronchos have done so twice.
•     Bob Chipman is 9-10 coaching against UCO.    
  (Jan. 9, 2016) EDMOND, Okla.-- The Washburn Ichabod lost a heartbreaker in overtime at Central Oklahoma after battling back from a 14-point deficit to force overtime falling 98-92.
Washburn (9-5, 5-4 MIAA) led by four with 41 seconds to play after a 3-pointer by Javion Blake. UCO (7-8, 3-6 MIAA) came back with a lay up cutting the lead to 79-77 with 27 seconds left. After a pair of free throws by Randall Smith with 20 seconds left, UCO came back with another pair of free throws with 14 seconds left.
Washburn was then fouled and missed the front end of a 1 and 1 and UCO's Cornell Neal tied the game with eight seconds to play with a layup and the Ichabods' 3-point attempt at the buzzer missed sending the game to overtime.
In the Ichabods' third overtime game in the last four contests, UCO scored the first five points and Washburn twice got within two but would get no closer as the Bronchos held on for the win.
Washburn was 1 of 8 from the field in overtime on a 3-pointer by Andy Wilson and the Bronchos were 3 of 7 with all three field goals coming from 3-point range.
Washburn trailed 48-40 at the half after shooting 14 of 30 shots but only 3 of 11 from 3-point range while the Bronchos hit 7 of 14 shots from deep and 45 percent in the half.
Washburn had five players in double figures paced by Blake's career-high 23 points on 8 of 13 shooting hitting 5 of 9 3-point attempts. Randall Smith finished with 22 points hitting 10 of 13 free throws before fouling out. Tyas Martin scored 12 off the bench followed by Andy Wilson's 11 points on 4 of 5 shooting (3 of 4 from 3-point range) and Robert Christopher's 10 points. Brady Skeens led the Ichabods with nine rebounds.
Cornell Neal and Kendahl Amerson each had 22 to lead UCO.
UCO outrebounded the Ichabods 48 to 36 while Washburn had 26 second chance points compared to 15 by UCO.   (Feb. 17, 2016) EMPORIA, Kan. (Feb. 17) – Emporia State used a sizzling first-half shooting stretch to open up a big lead and short-handed Central Oklahoma never quite recovered in dropping an 80-70 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association decision Wednesday night at W.L. White Auditorium.
 The Bronchos trailed just 22-20 after Corey Alpough's blocked shot led to a fast-break layup by Cornell Neal, but the Hornets responded with a back-breaking 22-3 run during a rapid-fire four-minute spurt.
 ESU made eight straight shots – including four 3-pointers – in stretching its lead to 21 (44-23) with 1:55 left in the half and a furious late-game rally that got UCO within nine wasn't enough.
 It was the third straight loss for the Bronchos, who fell to 12-13 on the season and 8-11 in league play.
 Neal led UCO with 19 points, while Seth Heckart added 13 points and three assists.  Jordan London and Alpough chipped in nine points each.
 The Hornets held a big 41-26 rebounding advantage behind a 27-point, 14-rebound effort from 6-foot-11 Kevin Allen.
 The Bronchos were without two of their top-three scorers after losing Kendahl Amerson to suspension last week and Garen Wright to injury prior to the game.
 UCO got off to an awful start, committing four turnovers and missing its first two shots in falling behind 6-0 early.
 It was a 21-12 deficit at the 7:44 mark before Heckart and Neal hit back-to-back 3-pointers followed by Neal's layup after the Alpough block in an 8-1 run that got the Bronchos within 22-20.
 The Hornets responded with their hot stretch to take the big lead and were up 46-30 at intermission.
 UCO crawled within 13 twice early in the second half, at 50-37 following an Alpough layup and again at 55-42 after a Jordan 3-pointer from the corner.
 ESU answered back with seven straight points in going up 62-42 and the deficit was back to 21 at 65-44 midway through the second half when again the Bronchos battled back.
 Neal's fast-break layup off a turnover pulled UCO within 14 (72-58) with 5:56 remaining and Heckart drilled a trey from the top of the key at 3:38 to make it an 11-point game at 74-63.
 ESU scored a follow shot on the other end, but Heckart made a 15-footer and Neal drove in for another layup after a turnover to cut the deficit to nine (76-67) at 2:01.
 But there would be no miracle comeback as the Hornets hit a corner 3-pointer 20 seconds later to clinch the win.
 •     Cameron Wiggins - tied for 14th on 3-point attempts chart (142)
•     Cameron Wiggins - 23rd on 3-pointers made (49)
•     Javion Blake - 21st in 3-point field goal percentage (.412)
•     Brady Skeens - 19th total rebounds (244 rpg)
•     Brady Skeens - fifth in rebounding (10.2 rpg)
•     Randall Smith - 18th total assists (110 apg)
•     Randall Smith - 10th in assists per game (4.6 apg)
•     Brady Skeens - first in blocks (53) - broke Travis Robbins record of 52 against Lindenwood
•     Brady Skeens - blocked shots per game (2.2 bkpg) - second highest is Dan Buie in 1995-96 at 1.7 bkpg
•     Javion Blake - 19th in minutes played per game (31.3 mpg)
•     Brady Skeens - freshman field goal percentage (.648) - school record is .651 held by Tom Meier from 1983-84 season•      The Ichabods are 1,519-1,046-2 (.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 545-259 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.•      The Ichabods are 411-79 (.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.
 •     The Ichabods head out on the road two more times with games at Missouri Western on Feb. 24 and at Emporia State on Feb. 27 concluding the regular season. The MIAA Tournament will start on March 1 with first round games on campus and the winners of those games will advance to Kansas City for the MIAA Tournament quarterfinals starting March 4.
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