• The Washburn Ichabods will be in action for the first time this season at home when they will take on William Jewell at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Lee Arena.
• The Ichabods went 1-1 in their first weekend of action of the 2022-23 season falling Henderson State 79-73 on Nov. 11 before taking down the No. 18-ranked Augustana Vikings the following day 75-46.
• William Jewell is 1-1 this season after defeating Davenport 90-76 before losing to Purdue Northwest 77-62 at the GLVC/GLIAC Challenge last weekend.
• The Ichabods fell 56-52 last season to William Jewell on Nov. 17, 2021 in Liberty, Mo.
• The Ichabods are 37-1 all-time in home openers with the lone loss coming on Nov. 16, 1990 to Friends in an 89-88 setback. Since then the Ichabods have won their last 31 Lee Arena debuts.
• The Cardinals are making their first trip to Lee Arena since Dec. 11, 1998 - a game the Ichabods won 98-61.
• The Ichabods are receiving votes in the 2022-23 NABC Preseason Coaches Poll.
• The Ichabods are coming off a 22-11 season recording the program's 30th 20-win season and the fourth under Ichabod head coach Brett Ballard in his five seasons.
• Washburn reached the second round of the NCAA Division II Playoffs falling to the eventual 2022 champion Northwest Missouri.
• The Washburn Ichabod basketball reached their fourth NCAA postseason in five years under head coach Brett Ballard last season.
• The Washburn Ichabod men's basketball team was tabbed fourth in both the MIAA Preseason Coaches and MIAA Preseason Media polls announced Oct. 11 by the conference at the annual Basketball Media Day held at the College Basketball Experience in Kansas City
• The 2022-23 season marks the 118th season of Ichabod basketball. • Levi Braun, Connor Deffebaugh and Jaden Monday lead the Ichabods in scoring after two games each averaging 12.5 points per game.
• Jaden Monday scored a career-high 22 points against Augustana.
• Levi Braun tied a career-high with 21 points in the season opener against Henderson State hitting 7 of 9 3-point attempts.
• Connor Deffebaugh scored 15 in the opener and 10 against Augustana while dishing out a career-high seven assists against the Vikings.
• Andrew Orr is scoring 9.0 ppg averaging 6.0 rebounds per game going 9 of 18 from the field.
• Jarmell Johnson is scoring 7.5 ppg off the bench and Zaid Dajani is scoring 7.0 ppg hitting both 3-point attempts.
• Jordan Vincent is scoring 6.0 ppg and Brady Christiansen is pulling down seven rebounds a game in two contests and is tied for the team lead in steals with 2.0 per game.
• The reigning MIAA Freshman of the Year Michael Keegan is scoring 3.0 ppg, but leads the team in blocks (2.5 per game) and rebounds (8.5 per game).
  WASHBURN ICHABOD HEAD COACH BRETT BALLARD
• is 105-50 in his sixth season as the Ichabods' head coach and 138-80 overall in his eighth year as a head coach.
• has led the Ichabods to four NCAA postseason appearances in five full 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 and Tulsa basketball programs after working under head coach Danny Manning 2012-17 seasons.
• he helped Wake Forest to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since the 2009-10 season following the 2016-17 season.
• 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 0-3 overall against  William Jewell going 0-2 while the head coach at Baker and 0-1 with last season's loss to the Cardinals.
 
WILLIAM JEWELL HEAD COACH CHRIS MCCABE
• is in his fourth season at the helm of the Cardinal program.
• is 31-50 overall going 19-41 in GLVC games.
• earned his undergraduate degree in social science at Kansas State and a master's in educational administration from Northwest Missouri State
• is 1-0 against Washburn.
  • William Jewell is 1-1 this season after defeating Davenport 90-76 before losing to Purdue Northwest 77-62 at the GLVC/GLIAC Challenge last weekend.
• Jordan Jermain leads the team in scoring at 19.0 ppg adding 5.0 rpg and Mason Alexander is scoring 13.0 ppg and 5.5 rpg.
• Mason's father Todd Alexander played basketball at Washburn from 1990-93 scoring 1,099 points which ranks 18th at Washburn on the all-time scoring chart … Todd finished his career as the all-time leader in 3-pointers with 212 in 93 games.
• Also averaging double figures is Kobe McKinley at 11.5 ppg, Grant Stubbs at 10.5 ppg and Trey Shannon at 10.0 ppg.
• As a team the Cardinals are averaging 76.0 points a game allowing 76.5 ppg in two contests.
  (Nov. 17, 2021)  LIBERTY, Mo. – A late run by the William Jewell Cardinals turned a two-point Washburn lead into a three-point deficit as he Ichabods fell 56-52 on the road Wednesday night. 
Trailing 38-34 with 9:03 to play in the game, the Ichabods (1-2) used a pair of free throws by Jeremy Harrell and a 3-pointer by Michael Keegan to take a 39-38 lead with 7:30 to go in the Cardinals' home opener. Washburn twice pushed its lead to two at 42-40 on a Harrell 3-pointer and a lay up by Jaden Monday and again on a lay up by Keegan with 2:54, but the Cardinals (2-1) used an 8-2 run over the next 2:01 going 3 of 3 from the field while the Ichabods were 0 of 4 from the field taking a 52-48 lead with 41 seconds to play.
Another lay up by Monday cut the lead to two at 52-50 with 27 seconds to play but the Cardinals hit 4 of 6 free throws down the stretch to hang on for the win.
The Ichabods trailed the Cardinals 21-17 at the break after shooting 6 of 27 from the field in the first half, but held the Cardinals to a 1 of 9 performance from 3 going 8 of 28 from the field overall. Washburn hit its first 3-pointer of the game on a deep make by Jeremy Harrell, but the Ichabods would then miss the next six shots from behind the arch.
Harrell led the Ichabods with 15 points and Keegan added 13 with six boards while Jalen Lewis scored 10 in his return to his hometown.
Washburn finished 20 of 60 from the field after improving in the second half to 14 of 33 shooting. Washburn was 4 of 18 from deep for the game while the Cardinals were 2 of 12. Washburn finished 8 of 9 from the free throw line and the Cardinals finished 16 of 22.
The Cardinals also had a 43 to 29 advantage on the glass and outscored the Ichabod bench 12-0.
  • The Ichabods lead the series 12-6 with the Cardinals taking the last meeting in Liberty last season.
zWednesday's meeting will be the first time the Ichabods and Cardinals have played each other since in Topeka since Dec. 11, 1998 when the Ichabods won 98-61. (Nov. 12, 2022) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Washburn Ichabods closed the first half on a 27-6 rolling to a 75-46 win over No. 18-ranked Augustana in the final game of the Central Region Challenge in Municipal Auditorium leveling its record at 1-1 on the season.
With the Ichabods trailing 13-7 with 14:39 to play in the opening half after starting the game 2 of 8 from the field, Washburn scored the next 12 points of the game hitting 4 of 6 shots holding Augustana (1-1) to an 0 of 7 spurt to go up 19-13 with 6:59 to play in the half. After a free throw by the Vikings, Washburn finished the frame on a 12-2 run taking a 34-19 lead into the break.
Washburn overall held the Vikings to 5 of 24 shooting in the first half while the Ichabods were 11 of 27.
The Ichabods pushed their lead to as many as 32 with two minutes left in the second half as Washburn continued to keep the Vikings cool from the field as Augustana was 9 of 23 in the second half and 1 of 7 from deep as Washburn outscored the 2022 NCAA Central Regional finalists 41 to 27.
Jaden Monday led the Ichabods with a career-high 22 points going 6 of 12 from 3-point range. Jarmell Johnson scored 13 off the bench and Connor Deffebaugh scored 10 with a career-high seven assists. Andrew Orr had a career-high nine rebounds adding eight points and Michael Keegan had nine boards and two blocks with two steals.
Washburn finished 28 of 58 from the field going 11 of 25 from 3-point range hitting 8 of 11 free throws. Augustana was 14 of 47 (29 percent) and 4 of 23 from 3-point range but remained close hitting 14 of 23 free throws.
Washburn held a 40 to 27 advantage on the glass and turned 22 Viking turnovers into 25 points.
  • The Ichabods are 1645-1109-2 all-time in the 118th year in the program's history.
• Washburn is the 10th-winningest program in NCAA Division II history by victories.
• Washburn is 661-305 since joining the conference and the NCAA.
• The Ichabods have recorded 30 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 16 NCAA Tournament bids going to three Elite Eight's appearing in the 2001 NCAA National Championship game.
  • The Ichabods are 476-99 (.848) all-time in Lee Arena.
• The 2021-22 season marks the 38th season of play in Lee Arena.
• The Ichabods are 37-1 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.
  • Washburn will return to the road for a pair of games starting with Rockhurst on Nov. 18 in Kansas City and then at Oklahoma Baptist on Nov. 22. Washburn is back at home on Nov. 26, the Saturday after Thanksgiving at 2 p.m. against Ottawa. On Monday, Nov. 28 the Ichabods will open MIAA play at Northeastern State and then face Emporia State on Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. in the conference home opener.