• The Washburn Ichabods return to MIAA play hosting Newman on Dec. 5 at 3 p.m. in Lee Arena.
• The Ichabods are coming off an 89-54 exhibition loss to Kansas on Thursday night in Allen Fieldhouse.
• The Newman Jets are 0-2 this season and has been off since Nov. 24 from games as their Dec. 3 contest with Emporia State was postponed due to COVID-19 protocols for the Hornets.
• The Jets lost to No. 21-ranked Missouri Southern 82-79 and then to Pittsburg State 72-70 on Nov. 24.
• The Ichabods lead the all-time series with the Jets 24-7 and have won the last three in the series.
• The 2020-21 season marks the 116th season of Ichabod basketball.
  • Drew Maschoff leads the Ichabods in scoring averaging 18.0 ppg adding 5.5 rpg.
• Tyler Geiman is scoring 17.0 ppg adding 7.7 apg (which leads the MIAA) and 5.3 rpg.
• Jonny Clausing is scoring 11.7 ppg with 4.7 rpg.
• Tyler Nelson scored a career-high 23 points against Central Oklahoma hitting 8 of 10 shots overall going 7 of 8 from 3-point range (including 5 of 5 in the second half) and is now averaging 9.3 ppg.
• Jalen Lewis is averaging 9.0 ppg hitting 8 of 14 3-point attempts this season.
• Jace Williams leads the team with 5.7 rpg off the bench while scoring 5.7 ppg.
• The 2020-21 Washburn Ichabod basketball season will be one for the record books as the 22-game schedule will consist of only games against MIAA opponents as regional crossovers and non-conference matchups have been scrapped thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
• From a 16-13 team last season, Washburn returns four starters and 91 percent of its scoring, 86 percent of its rebounding, 94 percent of assists and 89 percent of minutes played a year ago while adding a returner from the 2018-19 season who returns from an injury. • The Ichabods return high percentages in all major categories for the 2020-21 season.
Percentage of Scoring ________________ 91.1 (1956/2147)
Percentage of Rebounds _______________ 86.0 (892/1037)
Percentage of Field Goals _____________ 90.8 (1542/1699)
Percentage of 3-Point FGs ______________ 88.6 (233/263)
Percentage of Free Throws ______________ 88.7 (309/348)
Percentage of Assists ___________________ 94.1 (398/423)
Percentage of Steals ____________________ 87.7 (150/171)
Percentage of Blocks _____________________ 89.4 (84/94)
Percentage of Minutes _______________ 89.1 (5191/5825)
  WASHBURN ICHABOD HEAD COACH BRETT BALLARD
• is 65-31 in his fourth season as the Ichabods' head coach and 98-61 overall in his seventh year as a head coach.
• has led the Ichabods to two NCAA postseason appearances in both seasons at Washburn.
• was named the Washburn Ichabod men's basketball head coach on April 6, 2017 after spending the 2014-15 to 2016-17 seasons as an assistant coach with the Wake Forest basketball program after working under head coach Danny Manning 2014-17 seasons and at the University of Tulsa during the 2012-14 seasons.
• he helped Wake Forest to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since the 2009-10 season following the 2016-17 season.
• while at Tulsa, the Golden Hurricane played in the postseason both years, including earning a No. 13 seed in the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Tulsa also participated in the 2013 CBI, finishing that season with a winning record of 17-16 overall.
• before joining Manning at Tulsa, Ballard spent two seasons as the head basketball coach at Baker University going 33-30 overall, including a 21-12 mark in his final season at the helm in 2011-12.
• prior to taking over the head coaching position at Baker, Ballard spent seven years on Bill Self's staff at Kansas, his alma mater.
• he played two years for the Jayhawks under head coach Roy Williams from 2000-02 after transferring from Hutchinson Community College in his hometown of Hutchinson, Kan. In his two seasons as a Jayhawk, the team reached the 2001 NCAA Sweet Sixteen and appeared in the 2002 NCAA Final Four in Atlanta.
• he earned his bachelor's degree in secondary education from Kansas in 2003 earning an Academic All-Big 12 selection as a senior for his efforts in the classroom.
• is 2-0 against Newman.
 
NEWMAN HEAD COACH R.J. ALLEN
• is 43-44 in his fourth season as the Jets' head coach.
• spent six seasons as an assistant at Newman.
• is 0-2 against Washburn.

LAST TIME OUT FOR THE ICHABODS
KANSAS 89 (3-1)
WASHBURN 54 (3-0)
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabods were within five points at 27-22 with 6:55 to play in the half, but a 22-10 run by the No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks to end the half led to a 49-32 lead en route to a 89-54 exhibition win over the Ichabods. 
Trailing by 17 to start the second half, Washburn (3-0) scored the first points of the second half on a layup by Will McKee, but then the Jayhawks (3-1) used a 14-0 run holding the Ichabods scoreless for a 6:56 stretch of the half leading to the win.
Tyler Geiman and Levi Braun had nine points each with Geiman adding seven assists and two steals. Jonny Clausing had eight points and five boards.
David McCormack led the Jayhawks with 17 points and Ochai Agbaji had 16.
After shooting 39 percent in the first half going 13 of 33 overall and 6 of 14 from 3-point range, the Ichabods cooled off to 7 of 27 overall and 3 of 12 in the second half to finish 20 of 60 for a 33 percent clip. Kansas finished 53 percent for the game hitting 32 of 61 overall.
  • The Jets are 0-2 after falling to No. 21 Missouri Southern 82-79 in their opener and Pittsburg State 72-70 on Nov. 24 in their last action.
• Branden Bunn leads the team in scoring at 23.5 ppg and Joel Boyce is averaging 11.5 ppg with a team-high 7.5 rpg. • Saturday's meeting with the Jets is the 32nd all-time.
• The Ichabods lead the all-time series 24-7.
• The Ichabods have won the last 19 of the last 21 meetings with the Jets and the last three overall.
• The Ichabods snapped a two-game losing streak in games played in Wichita with an 84-58 win over the Jets on Nov. 28, 2017.
• Overall Washburn is 2-4 in games played in Wichita against the Jets.
• Washburn is 19-1 against Newman in Topeka with the lone loss coming on Feb. 12, 1980 in a 68-56 defeat.     
  Jan. 25, 2020 -- TOPEKA, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabods used a 24-9 run over a 10-minute stretch midway through the second half to pull away from the Newman Jets in an 80-67 win on Saturday in Lee Arena as the Ichabods won their third in a row over Newman.
Washburn (11-7, 6-3 MIAA) never trailed in the game leading for 39 of 40 minutes in the contest as the Ichabods won its third game in a row. The Ichabods scored the first nine points of the game hitting 3 of 4 shots while forcing the Jets (8-12, 2-8 MIAA) into three turnovers to start the game. Washburn led by as many as the nine points to start the game before the Jets used a 17-9 run of their own to tie the score at 32 with 1:04 to play in the half before a jumper by Drew Maschoff sent the Ichabods to the break with a two-point lead.
The Jets cut the lead to one on three different occasions in the second half before the Ichabod mid-half spurt pushed the lead to 16 at 71-55 with 3:54 to go and would go on to lead by as many 18 with 61 second to play before Newman scored the final five points of the game trimming it to a 13-point Washburn win.
Tyler Geiman scored 13 of his team-high 19 points in the second half leading four Ichabods in double figures followed by Jalen Lewis with 17, Jonny Clausing with 12 and Maschoff with 11. Jace Williams had a team-high seven rebounds with three on the offensive end of the court. Marshawn Blackmon led the Jets with a game-high 20 points.
Washburn hit 20 of 23 free throws in the game including all 15 attempts in the second half for an 87 percent clip. Newman was 17 of 26 from the charity line. Washburn shot 50 percent from the field overall hitting 26 of 52 shots after shooting 54 percent in the first half. Newman was 22 of 50 overall.
The Ichabods outrebounded the Jets 34 to 27 and forced 15 turnovers leading to 17 Ichabod points.
  •  The Ichabods are 1605-1090-2 all-time in the 116th year in the program's history.
•  Washburn is the 10th-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 623-287 since joining the conference and the NCAA.
•  The Ichabods have recorded 28 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 456-94 (.848) all-time in Lee Arena.
•  The 2020-21 season marks the 37th season of play in Lee Arena.
•  The Ichabods are 36-1 all-time in home openers.
•  The Ichabods recorded a school-best 28-game winning streak from Nov. 19, 1993 to Feb. 8, 1995 in Lee Arena.
  • The Ichabods will be back on the road one week from today when they will face Rogers State in Claremore, Okla. Washburn will wrap up the 2020 calendar hosting Central Missouri on Dec. 17 and then Lincoln on Dec. 19. Washburn will return to action after the break on Jan. 2 in Tahlequah, Okla., facing Northeastern State.