Complete Game Notes (PDF)
ALL TIME SERIES - Thursday is the first ever meeting between Seattle U and Chicago State.
LAST TIME OUT - Chicago State fell behind Eastern Illinois 11-0 and never recovered in an 84-62 non-conference loss to the Panthers on Monday (Feb. 24).
UP NEXT - The Cougars play their final road WAC game of the season on Saturday at Division I newcomer Grand Canyon. Tip at the GCU Arena is set for 7 p.m. MT. Chicago State fell to the Dan Majerle led 'Lopes 76-75.
DOUBLE-DIGITS WINS - The Cougars' win over Kansas City on Feb. 8, 2014 was their 10th of the season. The win gave the Cougars their 10th double-digit win season since becoming NCAA Division I members in 1984-85. It also marks the third time in Division I school history the Cougars have earned 10 or more wins in back-to-back seasons.
MATCH GAME - The Cougars sit at 11 wins on the year, matching last season's total.
IN THE CLASSROOM TOO - 12 men's basketball players were named CSU Scholar-Athletes for accumulating a GPA of 3.00 or better over the last two semesters.
Quron Davis (Chicago, Ill./Simeon),
Eddie Denard (Chicago, Ill./Foreman),
Jared Dimakos (Lincolnshire, Ill./Lake Forest Academy),
Jamere Dismukes (Park Forest, Ill./Rich East),
Nate Duhon (Lansing, Mich./Sexton),
Arthur Gage (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield Central),
Corey Gray (Houston, Texas/Hightower),
Johnny Griffin (Ford Heights, Ill./Bloom Trail ),
Joshua Ramsey (St.Louis, Mo./Valley Park),
Matt Ross (Dixon, Ill./Dixon),
Markus Starks (Calumet City, Ill./Wirt (Ind.)) and
Aaron Williams (Chicago, Ill./Chicago Vocational) picked up the honor.
HOME SWEET HOME - Chicago State opened the season 5-0 at home. The start matched CSU's best ever start to a season at home. The 2008-09 club also opened 5-0 at home. Over this year and last year, the Cougars are 17-9 (.654) at the Jones Convocation Center.
DOUBLE DARE -
Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) leads the team in double-digit point games with 21.
OF LATE -
Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) has scored 19 or more points in six of the Cougars' last nine games.
FROM WAY DOWNTOWN - Nine different Cougars have made a 3-pointer this season.
BLOCK PARTY -
Matt Ross (Dixon, Ill./Dixon)' 68 career blocks ranks ninth all-time in blocks at Chicago State. He needs to reach 70 blocks to catch eighth place
Jeremy Robinson (Decatur, Ill./Eisenhower) (2011-13). Robinson and Ross were teammates last season.
ROSS ON THE BOARDS -
Matt Ross (Dixon, Ill./Dixon) has also broken into the top 10 in rebounding for a Chicago State career. His 406 boards rank eighth. Ahead of Ross is seventh place Desmond Rice (1991-95) (427).
FRESH LEGS - Chicago State's freshmen have played 557 minutes this season. Last season a freshman didn't play a single minute.
QP FOR THREE -
Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) owns 142 career 3-pointers, fourth all-time in Chicago State NCAA Division I history. Third place is held by Jermaine Hicks (1997-00) and his 151 3-pointers. Royce Parran (2003-07) sits in second with 165 3-pointers. Pippen will definitely not catch Chicago State's all-time leader in 3-pointers, David Holston (2005-09). Holston made 450 3-pointers, third in NCAA history in career treys.
HOLSTON'S SHADOW -
Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) has made 74 3-pointers this season. The mark has him tied with Troy Ivory (1995-96) for fifth most 3-pointers in a single season at CSU. David Holston holds each of the top four single-season records in school history. Pippen can break Holston's stranglehold on the top four by matching Holston's fourth place 79 in 2005-06 or third place 94 in 2006-07.
DOUBLE TROUBLE - Six Cougars finished in double-digits in Chicago State's victory over Southern Illinois on Nov. 30 at the JCC. The last time the Cougars accomplished this task was Nov. 20, 2008 in an 84-74 win over Central Michigan.
STARTING FIVE - The Cougars have used 11 starting lineups this season. Last year the Cougars used 15 starting combinations.
LINEUP CORNERSTONE -
Eddie Denard (Chicago, Ill./Foreman) is the only Cougar to start every game this season.
YEAR-BY-YEAR -
Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) is shooting 47.9 percent (136-of-284) this season. Up from his 41.6 percent performance last season after his 34.6 percent shooting as a freshman. Additionally, he has 11 games this season where he finished with a 50.0 percent or better shooting percentage.
TRYING FOR THREE - 16 times this season the Cougars have attempted 20 or more 3-pointers in a game. The Cougars are 3-13 in these games. Twice the Cougars have gone over the 30 attempt mark, firing up 36 at Indiana and 31 on the road at UTPA.
CSU 500 -
Matt Ross (Dixon, Ill./Dixon),
Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township),
Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) and
Nate Duhon (Lansing, Mich./Sexton) have each passed the 500 career points mark this year.
TIME FOR 400 -
Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) (392) and
Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) (394) are nearing 400 points this season. The last Cougar to record 400 points in a season was
Jeremy Robinson (Decatur, Ill./Eisenhower) with 408 in 2011-12.
STEALS ARE THE DEAL - This year the Cougars are averaging 8.5 steals per game, ranking 15th in the nation and first in the WAC.
STEALS HAVE GREAT APPEAL - Chicago State's 17 steals against Urbana are the most by a WAC team this year. The Cougars' 15 steals against New Mexico State on Jan. 16 are the most by a team in a WAC game this season.
ON THE PLUS SIDE - The Cougars' +3.1 turnover margin is the best in the WAC. The total ranks 22nd in the nation.
PIPPEN IN THE WAC -
Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) is shooting free throws at a 89.5 percent (34-of-38) clip in WAC games, best in the conference. He also leads the WAC in conference play in steals with 2.1 per contest.
TURN, TURN, TURN - Only four times this season the Cougars have committed more turnovers than they have forced. (Alabama State, Illinois, UTPA (home) and New Mexico State (road). The Cougars have lost each game.
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).
20/20 VISION - The Cougars have 14 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.
GRADUATION IS A FAMILY AFFAIR - Senior
Aaron Williams (Chicago, Ill./Chicago Vocational) and his mother Tonya will both graduate this May from Chicago State.
RELATIVE GREATNESS -
Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) is the nephew of former Chicago Bull Scottie Pippen. Not surprising, Quinton wears No. 33.
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RELATIVE GREATNESS X2 - Chicago State assistant
Dexter Young is the uncle to professional tennis player Donald Young.
RELATIVE GREATNESS X3 -
Corey Gray (Houston, Texas/Hightower) is the grandson of Chicago basketball legend Paxton Lumpkin. Lumpkin played at DuSable High School where his 1954 team was the first all-black team with a black head coach to play in an Illinois High School State Association State Championship game. Lumpkin went on to play for the Harlem Globetrotters after playing collegiately at Indiana and Indiana State. Lumpkin is a member of the IHSA Hall of Fame.
PRESEASON POLL - The Cougars were picked to finish sixth in the Western Athletic Conference Preseason Poll by a vote of the league's coaches.
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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.
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).
