#HLMBB Weekly Notebook – November 27
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INDIANAPOLIS – The third week of the college basketball season is officially over and Detroit Mercy and UIC are riding three game winning streaks, while Milwaukee and IUPUI have both won two in a row as we head into the month of December.
#HLMBB NEWS & NOTES
• Detroit Mercy picked up the team title at the Legends Classic Subregional as Antoine Davis was named the MVP with Derrien King being named to the All-Tournament Team and capped off the week with a win at in-state rival Eastern Michigan. IUPUI collected the title at the Niagara Regional of the Fort Myers Tip-Off with Camron Justice earning MVP honors and D.J. McCall picking up an all-tournament team nod. Oakland went 2-1 at the Men Against Breast Cancer Oakland Hoops Challenge with Xavier Hill-Mais being named the MVP and Jaevin Cumberland earning a spot on the all-tournament team.
• Northern Kentucky and Wright State are both receiving votes in the mid-major top-25 poll.
• The Panthers will head to Northern Ireland this week after coming off back-to-back wins against LIU Brooklyn and Albany in the first two games of the Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic for MKE’s first wins of the season.
• #HLMBB have been prolific from long range early this season as seven teams are averaging nine or more treys per game and rank in the top-100 in 3-pointers made per game with Detroit Mercy ranking fifth with 12.2 and UIC at 17th at 11.0. In addition, the HL holds the best 3-point shooting percentage of any conference in Division I at over 37 percent led by the Titans at 45.9 percent, good for fourth in the NCAA.
• Oakland has proved to be early on one of the best in the nation at holding on to the ball and also sharing it. The Golden Grizzlies are second in the NCAA in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.13, sixth in the country in assists per game (20.4) and 13th in the NCAA in turnovers per game (9.6).
• Antoine Davis is second in the country in scoring at 30.0 points per game as he leads all of Division I with 39 total 3-pointers and 6.5 triples per contest.
• UIC’s Tarkus Ferguson has been on top of his game for the Flames this season as he ranks top-100 in the NCAA in total assists (37, 18th), assists per game (6.2, 22nd), 3-point field goals made per game (23rd, 3.67), minutes per game (36:41, 25th), double-doubles (2, 47th). He is also the only HL player to have multiple double-digit assist games this season recording 11 at Duquesne and then 10 against Bradley.
RESULTS
| DATE |
GAME |
RECAP |
| Tuesday, Nov. 20 |
Detroit Mercy 82, Bowling Green 67 |
Box Score |
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Milwaukee 92, LIU Brooklyn 87 (OT) |
Box Score |
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Penn State 77, Wright State 59 |
Box Score |
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Oregon 83, Green Bay 72 |
Box Score |
| Wednesday, Nov. 21 |
SMU 77, Wright State 76 |
Box Score |
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Youngstown State 104, West-minster (PA) 66 |
Box Score |
| Friday, Nov. 23 |
Oakland 77, James Madison 69 |
Box Score |
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IUPUI 68, Saint Francis 48 |
Box Score |
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Milwaukee 79, Albany 70 |
Box Score |
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Ohio State 89, Cleveland State 62 |
Box Score |
| Saturday, Nov. 24 |
Detroit Mercy 78, Eastern Michigan 74 |
Box Score |
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Oakland 87, Oral Roberts 76 |
Box Score |
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IUPUI 80, Grambling State 69 |
Box Score |
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UIC 94, UW-Parkside74 |
Box Score |
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UCF 66, Northern Kentucky 53 |
Box Score |
| Sunday, Nov. 25 |
Northern Illinois 92, Oakland 72 |
Box Score |
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Purdue Fort Wayne 82, Cleveland State 79 |
Box Score |
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
| DATE |
GAME |
Time (ET) |
TV/Live Stream |
| Tuesday, Nov. 27 |
Wright State vs. Cedar-ville |
7 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
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Northern Kentucky at Morehead State |
7:30 p.m. |
ESPN3 |
| Wednesday, Nov. 28 |
UIC at Saint Joseph’s |
7 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
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Detroit Mercy vs. Kent State |
7 p.m. |
ESPN3 |
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Youngstown State at Robert Morris |
7 p.m. |
NEC Front Row |
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IUPUI vs. Bradley |
7 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
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Cleveland State at DePaul |
8 p.m. |
Fox Sports 2 |
|
Green Bay vs. Northern Illinois |
8 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Friday, Nov. 30 |
Milwaukee vs. Buffalo |
5:30 a.m. |
CBS Sports Network |
|
Northern Kentucky vs. UMBC |
7 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
| Saturday, Dec. 1 |
Milwaukee vs. TBA |
8 a.m. |
CBS Sports Network |
|
Oakland at Xavier |
Noon |
FS1 |
|
IUPUI vs. Ball State |
1 p.m. |
ESPN3 |
|
Cleveland State at Toledo |
2 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
|
Green Bay vs. Belmont |
2 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
|
Wright State at Indiana State |
2 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
|
Youngstown State at West Virginia |
4 p.m. |
WVUSports.com |
|
UIC vs. Loyola (IL) |
4:12 p.m. |
ESPN+ |
|
Detroit Mercy at Akron |
5 p.m. |
ESPN3 |