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Men’s Basketball Hosts Husky Hoopster Classic This Weekend

11/15/2017 7:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – The St. Cloud State men's basketball team (1-1) returns home to host the Husky Hoopster Classic this weekend at Halenbeck Hall. The program will open the tournament with a 7 p.m. contest against Mayville State (1-2) on Friday, Nov. 17. The other game on Friday night will be Saint John's and the College of St. Scholastica at 5 p.m. The second day of the tournament on Saturday, Nov. 18, consists of Mayville State and the College of St. Scholastica playing at 4 p.m. and the Huskies hosting the Johnnies at 6 p.m. that evening. The SCSU game is the Alumni Game where all alumni are encouraged to come back and watch the program play.

For complete information for tickets, please visit www.scsutickets.com or call 1-877-SCSUTICKETS. As always, all SCSU students with a valid SCSU student ID card will be admitted to all four games for FREE. Just show your card at the gate and you get in FREE!

Scouting Mayville State

The Comets are coached by Darren Tighe, who is entering his first year running the program.
He has the team off to a 1-2 start
The team started the season with a 111-52 victory over Providence College.
The program then lost to Peru State, 79-70, and Briar Cliff, 89-76.
Mayville State has been led this season by Daniel Lingren, who is averaging 23.3 points per game.
He is one of three players averaging in double figures this season along with Creighton Pfau (10.0 pts. per game) and Eric Staebler (10.0 pts. per game).
Taylor Delaughter leads the team with his average of 10 rebounds per game.
The Comets are averaging 85.7 points per game and getting 55.7 rebounds per contest.
Mayville State has played a pair of exhibition games over the last week against South Dakota (L, 87-59) and Minot State (L, 81-46).
The program went 9-18 last season and had a mark of 2-14 in the North Star Athletic Association.
Mayville State in an NAIA school located in Mayville, North Dakota.

Scouting Saint John's

The Johnnies are coached by Pat McKenzie, who is starting his third season in charge of the program.
The Johnnies are opening their 2017-18 season this week with the two tournament games.
Saint John's went 19-9 last season including a mark of 13-7 in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
The program, who are the preseason favorites in the MIAC and ranked No. 20 nationally in Division III, are expected to be led this season by David Stokman
Stokman averaged 18.1 points per game as a sophomore and was selected earlier this season for the D3hoops.com Preseason All-American Team.
He shot 50.3 percent last season from three-point range to rank second in all of Division III.
Stokman also shot 88.5 percent from the free throw line to place ninth nationally.
The program returns each of the top six scorers from last season including four that averaged in double figures.
Also returning in Tyler Weiss, who averaged 16.8 points and 6.1 rebounds per game as a junior, Jubie Alade, who sported an 11.8 points per game average as a freshman, and Patrick Strom, who totaled 11.7 points per game as a junior.

Prior Meetings

SCSU is 7-0 all-time against Mayville State since the first meeting in 1948-49.
The last meeting was an 88-73 SCSU victory during the 2015-16 season also in the Husky Hoopster Classic.
This will be the 113th meeting between SCSU and Saint John's with SCSU holding a 65-47 advantage since the first game in 1924-25.
The Huskies defeated the Johnnies by a 95-77 score last season in Collegeville.
Gage Davis had 21 points and 10 rebounds.
Andy Foley put up 18 points and eight assists.
Mark Hall has 19 points.
The Johnnies defeated SCSU by an 83-80 margin the last time these teams met in Halenbeck Hall during the 2015-16 Husky Hoopster Classic.
The teams have split the last four games of the series.

Listen to The Game
Both games will be aired live on Granite City Sports (1390 AM) with J.W. Cox on the call. All SCSU games can also be heard online at www.1390granitecitysports.com

The majority of the SCSU games can also be heard on the KVSC Sports Stream

Live Stats/ Live Video Anyone?
St. Cloud is running live stats / live video on the website for all the tournament games this weekend.

Read This Week's Game Notes
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Notables

The Huskies started the season with a 76-70 victory over Missouri Southern State last weekend at the MIAA/NSIC Challenge.
It was the first win in three all-time meetings with the Lions.
The program fell to the host schools Pittsburg State, 72-62, on the second day
SCSU and Pittsburg State have now split the four all-time meetings.
Coach Matt Reimer is 2-2 all-time in the season opening game.
Senior Jon Averkamp had 25 points in each of the first two games.
He is second in the NSIC in scoring with his average of 25 points a contest.
Junior Brindley Theisen picked a career-high 23 points in the win over Missouri Southern State.
It was his first time scoring more than 20 points in a game.
Theisen also reached double figures in scoring in the second game with 16 points.
He is ninth in the NSIC in scoring at 19.5 points a game.
Theisen is also eighth in the league with his six made threes.
Junior Sean Smith had a strong opening game at MSSU with 14 rebounds.
His 14 boards were the most for the program since Jon Averkamp also had 14 rebounds against Minnesota Duluth last season (1/17/17).
Smith ranks third in the NSIC in rebounding through the first week of the season with his average of 9.5 rebounds per game.
Adam Heede-Andersen led the team in assists with five in each game.
Heede-Andersen is fifth in the NSIC in assist per game (5.0).

Up Next

The Huskies play a single non-conference game against conference and state rival Minnesota State next Saturday, Nov. 25, at 4 p.m. in Mankato, Minn.
The Mavericks are off to a 1-1 start this season.
The Huskies are 95-85 all-time against Minnesota State, but have dropped seven straight games to the Mavericks.
The team lost twice to MSU last season by identical scores of 79-62.
The last game played on the road was on Feb. 4 and saw Gage Davis have 26 points with 10 rebounds.
Jon Averkamp put up 16 points and five rebounds.