Opening Tip
•     The Washburn Ichabod basketball team returns to Lee Arena for the first time since Jan. 2 hosting Missouri Southern on Jan. 19 with tip scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
•     Prior to the game start, Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman will be honored for recording career win No. 800 in a 74-69 win over Central Oklahoma last time out becoming the 17th coach in NCAA history to reach the milestone in his 38th season on the Washburn bench.
•     Washburn is 12-4 and 4-3 in the MIAA winning its last two games at Central Oklahoma last time out in a 74-69 win and at Northeastern State in a 67-55 win on Jan. 12.
•     Missouri Southern is 10-7 this season and 4-4 in the MIAA and has lost its last four games including the last two at home to Lindenwood in an 84-77 overtime loss ad a 75-72 loss to Lincoln last time out on Jan. 14.
•     The Ichabods are third in the nation in blocks at 6.1 per game and second in total blocks at 97 and Brady Skeens is third in the nation with 3.5 blocks per game.
•     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 a career-record of 800-347 at Washburn and became only the 17th coach to reach that milestone in the win against Central Oklahoma.
•     The Ichabods lead the all-time series with Missouri Southern 47-30 and will be looking to snap a four-game losing skid to the Lions … in two of the games the Lions have reached 100 points and have outscored the Ichabods 392 to 301 (98.0 to 75.3).
•     Washburn's last win over Missouri Southern was on Jan. 31, 2013 in a 62-57 win in Lee Arena.
•     Brady Skeens leads the Ichabods in scoring and is ranked 16th in the MIAA in scoring at 13.4 ppg, Cameron Wiggins is 18th at 13.1 ppg and Javion Blake is 22nd at 12.1 ppg, Randall Smith is 38th at 9.9 ppg and David Salach is ranked 40th at 9.7 ppg.
•     Wiggins' 3-point field goal percentage of 45 percent (41 of 91) is third in the MIAA and his 2.6 made 3-pointers per game is sixth in the MIAA.
•     Brady Skeens leads the league in rebounding at 10.5 rpg, field goal percentage at 67.9 percent (91 of 134) and blocks at 3.5 per game … he is also ranked ninth in assists with 3.4 per game and 14th in minutes at 31.7 per game … Skeens is ranked sixth in the nation in field goal percentage, third in blocked shots and third in total blocks.
•     Randall Smith's 3.9 assists per game is sixth in the MIAA and Javion Blake is ranked 10th at 3.3 per game.
•     Brady Skeens' 129 career blocks are the most in school after passing Ewan Auguste (100) on the all-time chart against Newman … he had a school-record 61 last season in 28 games … this season he has 56 in 16 games needing six to break his own single season block record.
 
  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 and final season at the helm of the Ichabods.
•     a 1973 graduate of Kansas State earning both his undergraduate and master's degree in Manhattan.
•     is 800-347 overall.
•     has 561 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 561.
•     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 467-93 going 416-82 in Lee Arena.
•     is third in all-time coaching victories in active NCAA Division II coaches.
•     his 800 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.
 
Missouri Southern head coach Jeff Boschee
•     is in his third season as the head coach at Missouri Southern and has gone 48-29.
•     served four seasons as an assistant and associate head coach.
•     was named the head coach of the Lions on July 1, 2014.
•     spent three years at the Barstow School in Kansas City where in 2010 his team went 22-4.
•     was the Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 1999-2000 and was a third team All-Big 12 pick his senior season. He helped lead the Jayhawks to a Final Four appearance in 2002 and previously held the conference record for three pointers made in a career with 338.
•     holds the Kansas record for three's made in a career and is second all-time in games started.
•     while at KU, he came to Topeka to work several of Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman's summer basketball camps.
•    is 2-0 against Washburn.
 
Last Time Out For The Ichabods
Washburn 74, Central Oklahoma 69 -- Jan. 14, 2017
EDMOND, Okla. -- Washburn Ichabod head coach Bob Chipman picked up career win No. 800 with a 74-69 win over Central Oklahoma on Saturday afternoon in Edmond.
With the win Chipman becomes the 17th head coach in NCAA history to record at least 800 wins. The Ichabods improved to 12-4 overall and 4-3 in the MIAA in the win.
Washburn shot a hot 54 percent from the field in the second half breaking a 33-33 deadlock at the break.
UCO took a one-point lead at 45-44 before the Ichabods regained the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Cooper Holmes with 13:12 to play. Washburn would go up by as many as 10 two times before UCO hit back to back 3-pointers cutting the lead to three at 72-69 before Isaac Clark hit two free throws with seven seconds to play wrapping up the scoring.
Washburn built a 11-point lead with 10:27 to go in the first half, but UCO outscored the Ichabods 19-8 the remaining of the frame to tie the score at 33 entering the break. Washburn shot 52 percent in the first half while the Bronchos were 13 of 28 for a 46 percent clip.
Clark led the Ichabods with 16 points and Randall Smith finished with 14. Javion Blake scored 13 and Cameron Wiggins scored 11 off the bench.

About Missouri Southern
•     Missouri Southern is 10-7 this season and 4-4 in the MIAA and has lost its last four games.
•     CJ Carr leads the team and ranks third in the MIAA in scoring at 21.3 ppg.
•     The Lions are the top-scoring team in the MIAA at 84.1 ppg, but ranked last in scoring defense allowing 80.2 ppg.
 
Series History with Missouri Southern
•     Saturday's meeting will be 77th between these two schools in a series that dates back to 1968-69.
•     Washburn leads the all-time series 47-30. 
•     Washburn is 24-16 in MIAA games against the Lions and 9-12 on the road against MSSU since joining the league in 1989-90.
•     The Ichabods have lost eight in a row on the road to the Lions with their last win coming in Joplin on Jan. 21, 2006 in a 60-56 win.
•     The two teams have met at least once a year since 1976-77.
•     The Ichabods are 3-2 against the Lions in the MIAA Tournament.
•     In games played in Topeka, the Ichabods are 29-10 overall and 22-7 in games played in Lee Arena.
•     The teams have met twice in the NCAA Tournament - on March 10, 2000 when the Lions picked up a 79-73 overtime win in Joplin and on March 12, 2011 when the Lions topped the Ichabods in overtime again 82-79 in Edmond, Okla.
•     The 110-73 win by the Lions over the Ichabods in Joplin on Dec. 7, 2013 was the largest defeat suffered by an Ichabod team since joining the NCAA Division II ranks.  
 
Last Meeting with Missouri Southern
(Feb. 6, 2016) TOPEKA, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabod men's basketball team had career nights from four players but it was not enough as the Ichabods fell 103-95 on Saturday night in Lee Arena to Missouri Southern.
Brady Skeens recorded a Lee Arena record with 22 rebounds while becoming the first Ichabod to record a game with at least 20 rebounds and 20 points finishing with career-highs in both categories. Javion Blake scored a career-high 20 points and Christian Ulsaker also scored 20 points in the loss for Washburn (12-9, 8-8 MIAA). Randall Smith finished one shy of the school record for single-game assists with 16, trailing only Jordan Canfield's 16 set against Missouri –St. Louis on Feb. 11, 1995.
After trailing by as many as 12 in the first half, the Ichabods responded by coming back to tie the score at 74 with 7:22 remaining in the game. A quick 5-0 run by Missouri Southern (14-9, 11-6 MIAA) pushed the lead out to 79-74.
After a layup by Smith cutting the lead to three with 5:48 to play in the game at 81-78, the Lions would hit a 3-pointer and Washburn would get within four on four different trips down the court but could not get any closer as the Lions went 9 of 10 the final 2:29 of the game from the free throw line securing the win.
The 22 rebounds by Skeens were one shy of a school game record set by Joe Luebcke against Emporia State in 1974 and he was the first Ichabod since Alex North to record at least 20 rebounds in a game. Andy Berlin, who shared the Lee Arena record for rebounds with North, had 20 rebounds and 19 points against Truman on March 1, 1995. The double double was Skeens' eighth of the year.
Cameron Wiggins also reached double figures for the Ichabods scoring 11 points.
Taevaunn Prince scored 32 to lead the Lions going 10 of 10 from the field and 10 of 10 from the free throw line hitting both 3-point attempts in the win.
Washburn was 34 of 75 from the field overall hitting 10 of 27 3-pointers. The Lions tied a school record with 15 3-pointers of their own going 34 of 60 from the field for a 57 percent average. The Lions also hit 20 of 22 free throws.
Washburn outrebounded the Lions 37 to 35 and outscored the Lions 42 to 20 in the paint.
 
Last Time Out For The Lions
Lincoln 75, Missouri Southern 72 -- Jan. 14, 2017
Joplin, Mo. – Despite a furious comeback in the second half that saw the Missouri Southern men's basketball team tie the game, the Lions couldn't complete the comeback and fell 75-72 to Lincoln University on Robert Corn Court inside the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center.
Southern (10-7, 4-4 MIAA) was led by 24 points and five assists from CJ Carr. Elyjah Clark scored 19 and added six rebounds and two blocks as he hit four three pointers on the night. JJ Cratit had nine points and five rebounds, while Lawrence Brown had six points and seven boards.
Lincoln (12-5, 5-3 MIAA) had four score in double-figures led by 20 points from Tacourrus Mattox and 19 from Anthony Virdure.
Lincoln got out to a 14-7 lead with 13:18 to go in the half, but a 6-0 run by the Lions cut the lead to just one (14-13) capped by a layup from Brown. The Lincoln lead reached ten (29-19) after a three from Maurice Mason, but the Lions went on a 9-2 run and got within three (31-28) after a pair of freebies from Clark.
A 9-0 run by the Blue Tigers, however, sent the Lions into the locker room, down 40-28 at the break.
Southern got to within eight points om multiple occasions in the first ten minutes of the second half, but a three from Clark with 6:45 left cut the lead to seven (64-57) and a jumper from Carr made the score 64-59 the next trip down.
A free throw from Carr and a three from Clark cut the lead to just four (67-63) with 4:30 to go. A 7-0 run by the Lions, capped by a layup from Frisbie with 2:16 left tied the game at 70, but the Blue Tigers scored five of the final seven points to secure the win.
The Lions shot 46 percent from the field and out-rebounded the Blue Tigers 40-31. Southern held a 13-8 advantage in second-chance points on the afternoon.
This is the first loss to Lincoln since December 1, 2000 as Southern had won 13 in a row and 16 of the last 17 against the Blue Tigers.
 
 Ichabod basketball history
•     The Ichabods are 1,532-1,053-2 (.592) all-time in the 112th year in the program's history.
•     Washburn is the fifth-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 559-264 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 416-82 (.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
•     Washburn will face Pittsburg State on Jan. 21 before heading out for road games at Southwest Baptist on Jan. 26 and at Central Missouri on Jan. 28 before returning to Topeka for home games with Nebraska-Kearney on Feb. 2 and a nationally-televised NCAA Division II Game of the Week with Fort Hays State on Feb. 4.