December 21, 2007

 

Complete Game Notes

Game 11
Howard (3-8) vs. Illinois-Chicago (7-4)

Date: Saturday, Dec. 22
Time: 3 p.m. EST
Place: UIC Pavilion, Chicago, Ill.
Series: UIC leads 2-0

The Game
This is a non conference match-up between the Bison of Howard University from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and the Flames of the University of Illinois at Chicago.  The Bison (3-8) dropped their fourth straight, a 77-51 decision to Northwestern on Thursday night while the Flames (7-4) from the Horizon League defeated Toledo, 66-56 on Wednesday at home to extend their streak to four games.

Howard
Probable Starters

No.	Name	Pos.	Cl.	Ht.	2007-08 Stats
05	Adam Walker	F	Fr.	6-8	5.6 ppg/ 5.0 rpg
11	Kyle Riley	G	Fr.	6-3	9.7 ppg/2.9 rpg
15	Torrance Timothy	G	Fr.	6-5	1.8 ppg/1.4 rpg
00	Curtis White	G	So.	6-4	5.0 ppg/3.0 rpg
54	Paul Kirkpatrick	C	So.	6-9	3.5 ppg/3.4 rpg

Reserves

No.	Name	Pos.	Cl.	Ht.	2007-08 Stats
31	Theo Livingston	G	Jr.	6-2	1.6 ppg/1.8 rpg
1	Kandi Mukole	F	So.	6-8	7.0 ppg/4.5 rpg

Illinois-Chicago
Probable Starters

No.	Name	Pos.	Cl.	Ht.	2007-08 Stats
44	Jermaine Dailey	G/F	Jr.	6-3	5.1 ppg/3.4 rpg
2	Karl White, Jr.	G/F	So.	6-7	7.2 ppg/2.2 rpg
41	Scott VanderMeer	F	Fr.	8-8	10.0 ppg/6.2 rpg
25	Spencer Stewart	G	Fr.	6-6	7.1 ppg/2.9 rpg
1	Josh Mayo	G	Fr.	5-10	19.1 ppg/2.5 rpg

Reserves

No.	Name	Pos.	Cl.	Ht.	2007-08 Stats
3	Robert Kreps	G	Sr.	6-1	9.2 ppg/2.4 rpg
33	Jeremy Buttell	F	Fr.	6-6	4.9 ppg/5.6 rpg

The Coaches
Howard is coached by Gil Jackson (Elizabethtown College, '69), who is in his third season and has a 19-49 career record to date.  UIC is coached by Jimmy Collins (New Mexico State, '70), who is in his 12th season and has a 189-164 career record to date there.

Flames Notes
UIC is one of the top shot blocking teams in the country with 5.4 per game...Vandermeer has 36 for an average of over 3 per game while Dailey has 13...Mayo leads the team in scoring and in steals (13) and Stewart is averaging over 4 assists per game...the Flames are shooting 47 percent from the field as a team and 45 percent from beyond the stripe.

Bison Hooves
The Bison have had a different starting lineup in every game due to injuries...the team lost projected starting point guard and Chicago native Julius Hearn before the season started to a knee injury that required surgery...then both freshman forward Adam Walker and freshman guard Kyle Riley went down with injuries just before the season opener...they both returned only to have starting forward Randy Hampton suffer a concussion in the game against Hampton that caused him to miss the past three games...and if that was not enough, starting point guard Jeron Smith suffered a knee injury following a dunk in the game against American University that forced him to miss the past two games...and to complete the nightmare, leading scorer Eugene Myatt injured his knee in the VMI game causing him to miss the Northwestern game...Myatt leads the team in scoring, in three-point shooting, in assists and in minutes played...Riley led the team in scoring for the second straight game, collecting 14 against Northwestern...he also had a career-best 4 assists...the Bison had 8 blocked shots against Northwestern bringing the season total to 53...Adam Walker picked up three in that game, bringing his team-high total to 14...Kirkpatrick, who has had back-to-back good games, recorded a block, bringing his total to a career-best 12 on the season...as a team, Howard is shooting only 26 percent from three-point range...the Bison have had troubles rebounding as their opponents hold a 10-rebound per game advantage...Myatt's 30 three-point baskets are more than he scored in the previous two seasons combined.

Next Up
Howard returns to action on December 28 when it takes St. Mary's of California in the first round of the St. Mary's Tournament in Moraga, CA. while the Flames next take on Akron on December 29 at 6 pm on the road opener.