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Chicago State Cougars (5-7) at Creighton Bluejays (9-2) |
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Date |
Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013 |
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Time |
4:07 p.m. CT |
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Location |
Omaha, Neb. - CenturyLink Center (17,560) |
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TV |
FOX Sports 1 (no internet feed) |
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Radio |
WVON 1690 AM |
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Live Stats |
GoCreighton.com |
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Social Media |
@ChicagoStateMBB |
Complete Game Notes (PDF)
ALL TIME SERIES - Chicago State trails the all-time series with Creighton 0-2. The Bluejays defeated Chicago State 74-65 in 1988 and 95-61 in 2011. Current Cougar
Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) scored five points in the 2011 contest for Chicago State.
LAST TIME OUT - The Cougars fell 102-62 to Cincinnati on Dec. 23, 2013 at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati.
Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) scored 20 points in the loss.
HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE - Chicago State is 5-0 at home this year. It's the Cougars' first 5-0 start at home since 2008-09. Should the Cougars get a home win over UW-Green Bay on Jan. 7 the Cougars will own their best start at home since finishing the 1985-86 season 9-0 at home. The Cougars also went 7-0 at home in 1984-85, CSU's first year as a member of NCAA Division I.
DOUBLE DARE - Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) has scored in double-digits in 10 of the Cougars' 12 games this season.
NOT FARR FROM HOME - Chicago State assistant
James Farr played from 1987-89 for Creighton. He played in 61 games with 754 points scored and 191 rebounds.
FOUR IS MORE - Grand Canyon and Chicago State are the only two WAC teams with four individuals averaging 10 or more points per game.
FROM WAY DOWNTOWN - Eight different Cougars have made a 3-pointer this season.
DOUBLE TROUBLE - Six Cougars finished in double-digits in Chicago State's victory over Southern Illinois on Nov. 30. The last time the Cougars accomplished this task was Nov. 20, 2008 in an 84-74 win over Central Michigan.
UP NEXT - The Cougars play their first Western Athletic Conference game in school history on Jan. 4 when Chicago State heads to Idaho to play the Vandals. It is likely to be the Cougars' final trip to Idaho as the Vandals will leave the WAC for the Big Sky Conference following this season.
FRESH LEGS - Chicago State's freshmen have played 273 minutes this season. Last season a freshman didn't play a single minute for the Cougars.
WHAT ARE PROBABLE STARTERS? - Chicago State used 15 different starting lineups last season. This season, the Cougars have already used six different combinations.
START 'EM UP - Nine different Cougars have started at least one game this season.
CALL HIM THE ROCK - The lone name you can write in pen in the Chicago State lineup since the start of last season is senior
Matt Ross (Dixon, Ill./Dixon). Since arriving last season as a junior college transfer, Ross has started in 44 of 45 Chicago State games. The only game he didn't start was Senior Night last season against Eastern Illinois when then senior
Quincy Ukaigwe (Matteson, Ill./Rich Central) started for him instead.
YEAR-BY-YEAR -
Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) is shooting 52.1 percent (61-of-117) this season. Up from his 41.6 percent performance last season after his 34.6 percent shooting as a freshman.
NEARING 500 - Matt Ross (Dixon, Ill./Dixon) (461) and
Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) (494) are nearing the 500 mark for career points at Chicago State.
Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) (563) passed the 500 mark earlier this season.
FORCING MISTAKES - Dating back to last season, the Cougars have forced double-digit turnovers in 36 straight games. The stretch includes 10 games of forcing 20 or more turnovers. This year the Cougars are averaging 8.4 steals per game, ranking 32nd in the nation.
ON THE PLUS SIDE - The Cougars' +3.5 turnover margin is the best in the WAC. The total ranks 32nd in the nation.
SENIOR LEADERSHIP X8 - The Cougars have a WAC-high eight seniors on the squad.
REJECTED - The six blocks
Matt Ross (Dixon, Ill./Dixon) recorded Nov. 8 at Indiana are the most for a Cougar in a single game during the
Tracy Dildy era (2010-11 to present).
QP FOR THREE - Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) owns 95 career 3-pointers, ninth all-time in CSU history (Division I era, starting 1984-85). He is within striking distance of eighth place Terrence West's (1998-02) 101 and seventh place Tony Weeden's (2003-05) 103.
20/20 VISION - The Cougars have already had six 20-point performances this season. The Cougars only had five 20-point performances all of last season.
QP IS A PRESEASON PICK - Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) was named to the 2013-14 Preseason All-WAC Second Team by a vote of the league's coaches.
RELATIVE GREATNESS - Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) is the nephew of former Chicago Bull Scottie Pippen. Not surprising, Quinton wears No. 33.
PRESEASON POLL - The Cougars were picked to finish sixth in the Western Athletic Conference Preseason Poll by a vote of the league's coaches.
EDDIE IS READY - The final addition to the 2013-14 roster was senior
Eddie Denard (Chicago, Ill./Foreman). The 6-6 forward played last year at New Orleans University but was allowed to transfer without sitting out a season due to New Orleans' APR penalties barring them from postseason play this year. Denard started all 26 games last season at UNO, averaging 5.4 points and 3.8 rebounds. Denard is from Chicago, Ill. and played high school basketball at Foreman High School. He attended UIC his freshman year of college.
DEFENSE! - Chicago State limited opponents to just 69.0 points per game last season. It was the best defensive performance for a Chicago State team during the NCAA Division I era (1984-85 - present).
TAKING IT AWAY - The Cougars ranked seventh in the nation in steals per game last season by averaging 9.4 swipes a contest. The last time the Cougars finished a season ranking in the top 10 in the nation in a category was in 2008-09 when CSU ranked third in both scoring (84.2) and steals per game (10.0).
FOREIGN TOUR - The Cougars traveled to Costa Rica August 10-16 to play three exhibitions against international clubs. As per NCAA rules the team earned 10 extra practices to prepare for the trip. In between basketball the team went rafting, ziplined and volunteered at a local school.
THE FIRST SINCE - Chicago State's Great West Conference title last season was the first men's basketball championship for one of Chicago's Division I teams since UIC won the Horizon League Tournament in 2004.
TIME FOR MORE FIRSTS - Chicago State earned the program's first ever conference tournament championship and first ever postseason tournament berth last season by winning the Great West Conference Tournament and earning a berth in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. The Cougars fell to crosstown rival UIC in the CIT first round 80-69.
THE WAC IS WHERE IT'S AT - Chicago State became an all-sport member of the WAC on July 1, 2013. The WAC is Chicago State's first conference with an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament since 2006 as a member of the Mid-Continent (now Summit League).
