Complete Game Notes

GAME INFORMATION
Millersville (9-10, 4-4 PSAC East) vs. Cheyney (13-7, 3-5 PSAC East)
Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 - 8 p.m.
Cope Hall, Cheyney, Pa.

MEDIA INFORMATION
Audio Broadcast (MSBN)

SERIES INFORMATION
Millersville vs. Cheyney: 47-62
Series Streak: Millersville, 1
First Meeting: 1959 (Ville 87, CU 63)
Last Meeting: 2011 (Ville 73, CU 70)
Last 10: 5-5
Fred Thompson vs. CU, 16-11
Dominique Stephens vs. Ville: 3-2

ABOUT THE GAME
· Millersville and Cheyney meet Wednesday for the second time this season. With Millersville at 4-4 in the league and Cheyney at 3-5, there are plenty of playoff implications. Only two games seperate last place from second place in the PSAC East and all eight teams are still very much alive for the four postseason spots. Few rivalries have been as closely contest as Millersville-Cheyney. The Marauders survived 73-70 in the first game. Cheyney has won five of the last seven. Millersville holds a slight 13-11 edge since 2000. 15 of those 24 games have been decided by 10 points or fewer. Millersville has won four of the last six games played at Cheyney.
· Demond Vance was named PSAC East Athlete of the Week on Monday. He averaged 21.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game in wins over Shippensburg and Bloomsburg. He shot an impressive 46.7 percent from the field and hit 13-of-15 free throws. The Marauders have won four freshman of the week awards this year, but Vance was the first to claim athlete of the week honors. He was Millersville's first men's basketball athlete of the week recipient since Dec. 14, 2009. His 33 points was Millersville's first 30-point performance since Dec. 7, 2009 and the most points scored by a Marauder since Reggie Bates' 34 on Dec. 1, 2007.
· Millersville continues to climb up the PSAC free throw rankings. The Marauders rank fourth in attempts with 526 (27.7 per game) and are fifth in percentage (69.6). Over the last five games, however, Millersville is shooting 76.2 percent and has 164 attempts to its opponents' 117. The 39 made against Bloomsburg tied a school record. Mike Seibert ranks eighth in the league in percentage (.824). In the last five games, Seibert has hit 27-of-30 (.900). He is one of five players shooting over 50 percent in the stretch. The group includes: Vance (22-of-26), Elijah Obade (10-of-12), Bernard Brown (16-of-21) and Jaymes Miller has made (12-of-16).
· Bernard Brown has quietly turned in an impressive three seasons at Millersville. His 134 blocks ranks fourth all-time at Millersville and just 29 behind the school record. He's on pace to finish the season with 50 blocks, which would make him the only player in school history with two seasons of at least 50 blocks. He currently ranks fourth in the PSAC. His .533 field goal career field percentage also ranks him ninth all-time.
· When Millersville rebounds, it wins. The team is 6-1 when it grabs 40 or more rebounds and is 6-3 when it out-rebounds its opponent. Millersville has been slightly out-rebounded on the season, 37.9-37.1. That mark places the Marauders 13th in the 16-team league. Millersville, however, ranks sixth in offensive rebounds.

ABOUT THE OPPONENT
· Cheyney has been a tough team to figure out this year. After starting 10-2, the Wolves are just 3-5 in the PSAC East. Four of their five conference losses have come by eight points or fewer. Starting with Millersville's 73-70 win on Jan. 19, the Wolves lost three in a row. They seemed to get turned around with an 85-72 rout of first place Kutztown and a 69-62 win at West Chester. But East Stroudsburg went into Cheyney and won 75-72 on Saturday.
· In the Jan. 19 meeting, Millersville shot a season-best 50.8 percent from the field and held off a furious Cheyney charge for the victory. The Marauders torched the nets on 16-of-27 shooting in the first half and hit 4-of-5 from long range. That helped them out to a 39-26 halftime lead. With the PSAC's second-leading scorer, Sharif Bray, struggling for Cheyney, the Marauders extended the advantage to 17 points with 8:47 to go. Millersville, however, would go cold at the worst possible time. The team missed eight of its next 10 shots, and Cheyney ripped off a 16-4 run in a little over six minutes. Bray scored back-to-back layups to cut the lead to 72-70. Bruce Kennedy had a chance for the win but missed a 3-pointer with just over a second left.
· Cheyney has two of the most dynamic scorers in the PSAC. Bray, who led the league in scoring last year, is second this year at 20.1 points per game. He can hurt teams in multiple ways. He's taken more threes than anyone else in the league (111) and made 40. He's also attempted more foul shots than any other player in the league (130) and is fourth in free throw percentage (.862). Bray also ranks eighth in assists (3.4). Bray was held to 12 points on 6-of-17 shooting in the first meeting this year. David Burton nearly averages a double-double, ranking fourth in scoring (18.1) and fifth in rebounding (8.9). He and IUP's Darryl Webb are the only two players to rank in the top five of both categories. He also ranks sixth in blocked shots (1.7). He toatled 23 and 11 in the first meeting.
· Kennedy is a dangerous 3-point marksman. He's made 50-of-109 attempts to rank fifth in 3-point percentage. He's taken 10 more attempts than any other player ranked in the top 15 in the league.