Men’s Basketball Takes on Iowa Wesleyan on Tuesday

Tuesday, December 19

7:30 p.m.

St. Cloud State

Iowa Wesleyan University

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Dec 19 (Tue)

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ST. CLOUD, Minn. – The St. Cloud State men's basketball team (7-3, 4-1 NSIC) completes the home stand and hosts non-conference opponent Iowa Wesleyan (1-9) on Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at Halenbeck Hall.

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Scouting Iowa Wesleyan

Iowa Wesleyan is 1-9 on the season after defeating Blackburn College by an 88-85 score on the road on Saturday.
Brock Butler scored 29 points with six rebounds.
Mitchell Drey totaled 24 points with six rebounds, two steals and four assists.
The Tigers lost two weekends ago to Greenville University at home at the Ruble Arena by a 126-112 score in regulation.
The Greenville Panthers' up-tempo three-point style resulted in IW giving up 75 points in the first half.
The Tigers settled down and won the second half though 64-51.
Butler scored 39 points in the loss for IW.
Butler comes into the week averaging 24.8 points per game, while shooting 45 percent from the field, 38.9 percent from three-point range and 74.6 percent from the free throw line.
Butler also leads the team with his 54 rebounds (5.4 per game) and is second in assist (23) and third in steals (11).
He was named the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's (SLIAC) Player of the Week on Dec. 11.
Elijah Johnson is also scoring in double figures for the team with his average of 11 points per game.
Mitchell Drey is putting up 14.8 points per game and leads the squad with his 10 blocks.
Jake Neubauer leads the team with his 15 steals and is shooting 42.9 percent from the field in averaging 7.6 points per game.
Austin Banks has a team-high 25 assists.
IW is averaging 73.6 points per game, while shooting 42 percent from the field, 35 percent from three-point range and 67.4 percent from the free throw line.
The Tigers are coming off a 2016-17 season where they went 18-9 including a mark of 13-5 in the SLIAC.
Iowa Wesleyan is a Division III school located in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
The program is coached by Alex Huisman, who is in his fifth year leading the program after arriving from being on the coaching staff at Upper Iowa.

Prior Meetings

SCSU is 1-0 all-time against Iowa Wesleyan with the only prior meeting coming during the 2014-15 season.
The team defeated the Tigers by an 86-47 score (12/30/14).
Eddie Alcantara had a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds in that contest.
Jon Averkamp totaled 10 points and seven rebounds.
Scottie Stone totaled 15 points
James Fort registered 14 points and five blocks.
Andy Foley had eight points.

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Notables

The Huskies earned an 80-68 win over Minnesota Duluth in their only game last week to improve to 7-3 overall and 4-1 in NSIC play.
The program never trailed in the game against UMD for the fifth time this season.
Senior Jon Averkamp led the team with his 23 points.
It was his eighth time leading the team in scoring and the sixth time that he has scored 20 or more points in a game this season.
He also had four rebounds, a block and a steal.
Junior Sean Smith picked up 19 points and 11 rebounds for his third double-double of the season.
Smith's 19 points tied his career high set against Mayville State (11/17).
He also had two steals and two blocks
Junior Brindley Theisen scored 16 points plus had seven rebounds
Theisen and Smith tied for the team lead with five assists each.
Sophomore Trevon Marshall had four assists off the bench.
Junior Gage Davis made his home season debut with eight points, five rebounds, three assists, two blocks and a steal.
Senior Andy Foley had eight points and two steals.
SCSU is 6-0 when holding the rebounding the edge and 1-3 when being outrebounded.
St. Cloud State is 6-0 this season when scoring 69 or more points and 2-3 when allowing 69 or more points.
St. Cloud State ranks in the top half of the conference in assist-turnover ratio (1.29 – 6th), assists per game (14.6 – 5th), blocked shots (3.6 – 4th), defensive rebounds per game (26.20 – 5th), fewest turnovers (113 – 5th), field goal percentage defense (43.5 – 5th), offensive rebounds per game (10.00 – 5th), rebounding margin (2.2 – 6th), scoring defense (68.1 – 4th), steals per game (7.0 – 1st), total blocks (36 – 6th), total steals (70 – 6th), turnover margin (3.4– 3rd), turnovers forced per game (14.70 – 2nd) and win-loss percentage (70.0 -6th)
Averkamp is fifth in the NSIC in scoring at 19.7 points per game and fourth in field goal percentage (56.0)
He leads the conference in offensive rebounding (2.80) and is ninth overall in rebounding (7.1).
Averkamp ranks second in the league in three-point percentage (55.0).
Smith leads the conference in rebounds (9.5) and defensive rebounding per game (6.80).
He is second in block shots (2.30) and is third in offensive rebounds per game (2.70)
Smith is also third in the league in steals (1.60).
He has reached double figures in rebounds in five games including three double-doubles.
Smith is also averaging in double figures on the season at 12.0 points per game.
His 23 blocks represent 63.8 percent of the team's blocked shots this season (23-of-36).
Theisen is third on the team with his average of 14.2 points per game.
He has scored in double figures in nine of the 10 games
Theisen is sixth in the league in three-point field goals per game (2.60), fifth in minutes played per game (33:48), sixth in three-point percentage (39.4) and seventh in three-pointers made (26).
Heede-Andersen is ninth in the league in assists per game (3.9) and total assists (39) plus 11th in assists to turnover ratio (1.77).
He is also tied for second on the team in steals (11).
Seven players on the have played in all 10 games this season with four (Averkamp, Foley, Theisen and Smith) starting all of them.

Up Next

The Huskies are next in action and get on the road after Christmas to take on Minot State (10-1, 4-1 NSIC) on Saturday, Dec. 30, at 6 p.m. at the Minot State Dome and the University of Mary (2-7, 0-5 NSIC) on Sunday, Dec. 31, at 4 p.m. at the McDowell Activity Center
The program's next set of home games is on Friday, Jan. 5, against Bemidji State at 8 p.m. and Minnesota Crookston on Saturday, Jan. 6, at 6 p.m. at Halenbeck Hall.
The team is 9-3 all-time against Minot State in a series that started in 1946-47.
The program won both games against the Beavers last season.
The team defeated Minot State, 82-71, at home last December (12/30/16).
Gage Davis had 38 points and 17 rebounds.
Scottie Stone chipped in with 22 points and five rebounds.
The program downed the Beavers, 96-91, on the road in Minot last February (2/11/17).
Davis had 35 points, nine rebounds and 11 assists.
Stone totaled 20 points in the second meeting
Jon Averkamp put up 23 points
The team is 12-9 all-time against the University of Mary since the first meeting in 2006-07 including a pair of games last season.
The team defeated the University of Mary on New Years Eve last season at home by an 88-73 score (12/31/16).
Davis had 21 points, eight rebounds and five assists.
Stone scored 18 points.
Averkamp had eight points and 10 rebounds.
Trevon Marshall had a career-high 19 points.
The program fell to the Marauders by a 99-79 score on the road (2/10/17).
Davis had 36 points and 10 rebounds.
Averkamp scored a career-high 28 points in the loss.