Preview: Chicago State Men's Basketball at Loyola Maryland Dec. 1 at 6 p.m.

The Chicago State men's basketball team will complete its current five-game road trip with a trip to Baltimore to face Loyola Maryland on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. at Reitz Arena.

The Cougars are 2-4, losing their last four games, all on the road, after opening with wins in consecutive home games to start the season. Loyola Maryland will enter Wednesday's contest with a 3-4 record, with a two-game win streak. The Greyhounds have only played one of their first seven games at home, a 75-70 win at Fairfield their last time out.

Chicago State will return home to the JCC on Saturday, December 4, hosting Tennessee State.

The Series...
Chicago State and Loyola Maryland have played one time in the history of the series. The Greyhounds came to Chicago on Nov. 9, 2019 and earned a 98-85 win. Andrew Lewis started that game and played 31 minutes, scoring 14 points and pulling down six rebounds.

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Chicago State Cougars at Loyola Maryland Greyhounds Date | Time Wednesday, December 1 | 6:00 p.m. CT Location Reitz Arena | Baltimore, Maryland Television ESPN+ Live Stats Live Stats Game Notes Chicago State Game Notes

Trending...
The Cougars dropped its fourth consecutive road game Sunday at Bowling Green after opening the season with a pair of home wins. CSU is currently undefeated at home and winless on the road. The last Chicago State road win was Dec. 4, 2019 at SIUE, a span of 22 games away from the Jones Convocation Center.

Coming out of Bowling Green...
Dominique Alexander recorded his first block of the season.

Teddy Bayi Ba Mendeng made his first start of the season, establishing season highs in minutes played (25), rebounds (9) and blocks (2) and tied season highs with two free throw attempts and one assist.

Brandon Betson, CSU's leading scorer in five of six games this season including Sunday at Bowling Green with 17. He has also led the team in assists in five of six games, including four against the Falcons. At Bowling Green, he tied a season high with 37 minutes played, field goals attempted (15) and assists (4) and established a season high with 10 three-point attempts.

Favour Chukwukelu tied season high with one three-point attempt and dished out first assist with the Cougars.

Jahsean Corbett tied a season and career high with 31 minutes played, six made field goals and established new season/career highs in field goal attempts with 13, three point field goals made (3) and attempted (6), rebounds (13) and points (16). Corbett has established season highs in points in back-to-back games, with 15 at Pacific followed by 16 at Bowling Green for 31 points in last two games.

J.J. Harris made his first career start at Bowling Green, tied season high with six field goal attempts and two steals Carlo Marble played a season high 10 minutes at Bowling Green, his third appearance in six games this season. He established season highs in field goal attempted (2), three point field goals attempted (1), free throws made (1) and attempted (2), rebounds (3), assists (1), blocks (2), steals (1) and points (1).

Freshman Bryce Johnson tied season highs with one block and four free throw attempts. Prior to Sunday's game against the Falcons, Johnson put together a pair of impressive scoring efforts. After not scoring in the first game against St. Thomas extending into the first half against SIUE, Johnson scored 17 second-half points to key the win. In a span of one minute, he nailed a three-point field goal (13:58), converted a traditional three-point play with a putback, foul and free throw and nailed another three pointer (12:57) to turn a one-point deficit into a seven-point Cougars lead. A little over a minute later, after SIUE cut the lead to five, he hit another three to account for 12 of CSU's 13 points in a two-minute span. Then, after being held scoreless in the first half at Pacific, he scored a game-high 24 second-half points on 8-of-13 shooting, including 5-of-9 three-point field goals.

Previously...
Cougars scoring leader Brandon Betson was held to a season-low 11 points at UCSB, but still led the team in scoring.

Betson was named the TicketSmarter Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for November 8-14. A junior guard from Hercules, California, he earned the honor leading the Cougars in scoring in their two season-opening wins. He opened the season with 22 points and four assists in a 77-72 win over St. Thomas, then added 18 points and three assists in a 67-56 win over visiting SIUE. On the week, he averaged 20.0 points per game on 14-of-27 shooting (.519). Betson was an all-conference performer at each of his two previous stops, earning first-team All-Central Conference at Daytona State as a sophomore where he had seven 20+-point scoring performances with a season-high 30 and was named first-team IEAC at San Bernardino College as a freshman where he averaged 19.5 points per game with 12 20+-point scoring performances with a season-high 45 points. He also averaged 45.2 percent from the field, including 41.5 percent from beyond the three-point arc.

Senior Coreyoun Rushin continues to fill up the stat sheet for CSU, leading the team in offensive rebounds (12) and overall boards (44, 7.3 rpg). Rushin, a 2017 Chicago Sun-Times All-State, Chicago Public League All-City and Red-West All-Conference performer, transferred to Chicago State from Idaho State. He played in just two games last season as a transfer for the Cougars, gaining immediate eligibility based on an NCAA Division I Council vote which granted a blanket waiver to allow all Division I transfers to play immediately in 2020-21. After just two games, CSU suspended the season.

Chicago State's season-opening win over St. Thomas was head coach Gerald Gillion's first as a collegiate head coach ... That win also snapped a 28-game Cougars losing streak, dating back to December 2019, an 89-81 win over SIUE in Edwardsville, Illinois ... The game against St. Thomas was the Cougars first action in nearly a year, last playing Dec. 20, 2020, in what turned out to be a nine-game, COVID-shortened 2020-21 season ... The Cougars win over SIUE (67-56) marked the Cougars first two-game win streak over Division I opponents since the 2014-15 season (Feb. 26 vs. GCU, W, 74-70; Feb. 28 vs. Utah Valley, 65-44).
 

About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title and made an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT).  The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. 

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