Box Score Complete Game Notes

GAME INFORMATION
Millersville (7-12, 5-10 PSAC) at West Chester (10-9, 7-8 PSAC)
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 - 4 p.m.
Pucillo Gymnasium, Millersville, Pa.

MEDIA INFORMATION
Audio Broadcast (MSBN)
Live Stats

SERIES INFORMATION
Millersville vs. West Chester: 95-90
Series Streak: Millersville, 1
First Meeting: 1903 (WCU 30, Ville 10)
Last Meeting: 2012 (Ville 89, WCU 83)
Last 10: Ville, 6-4
Fred Thompson vs. WCU: 13-16
Damien Blair vs. Ville: 3-4

THE STARTING FIVE
(1) Millersville travels to West Chester Saturday for a crucial PSAC Eastern Division game. The Marauders trail West Chester for the final PSAC East playoff spot by two games. With an 89-83 win at home on Jan. 14, a win on Saturday would give the Marauders the tiebreaker with the Golden Rams. Millersville is coming off of a 75-68 win over Bloomsburg, which entered the game tied for first place in the division. Millersville has won four of the last seven games and has averaged 76.6 points per game while shooting 46.7 percent from the field. Five players are averaging in double figures durng that span. The group is led by Anthony Coleman's 16.3 points per game.

(2) Hollinger Field House has been a house of horrors for the Marauders in recent years, and home court means everything in this series. The home team has won each of the last seven meetings, and the Marauders have not won in Hollinger since the season finale of the 2007-08 season. Millersville is just 2-15 in the building since 1996 and is 1-14 during the regular season. The last three losses at Hollinger have been by an average of 24.7 points per game. Expect a low scoring game. Millersville has not scored more than 70 points in Hollinger since Feb. 14, 2004 and has averaged 43 points in the last two games.

(3) In the first meet of this season, Anthony Colema erupted for a career-high 31 points and made 6-of-7 threes. Five Marauders scored in double figures. Larry Grant produced a double-double of 13 points and 11 assists while committing just one turnover. Millersville shot 57.9 percent from the field and 9-of-17 from 3. West Chester also had five players score in double figures. Jaleel Mack led the team with 23 points. He made 5-of-7 3's.

(4) Mike Seibert's last 3-pointer was the 144th of his career, which moved him past Jim McClintock into ninth place in school history. He now trails Kevin Towns (1992-96) by seven for eighth place. Seibert has made 191-of-232 career foul shots. His 82.3 percent shooting places him just ahead of MU Hall of Fame inductee Lance Gelnett for best all-time. Seibert missed this year's game against West Chester because of an injury. He's played agains thte Golden Rams five times and has scored in double figures twice. His best performance against West Chester was 24 points on 6-of-9 shooting at home on Jan. 22, 2011.

(5) Millersville needs its defense to improve. The Marauders rank 13th in the PSAC in scoring defense (77.7), 14th in field goal percentage defense (46.3) and last in 3-point field goal percentage defense (39.2). Seven of the last eight opponents have made at least 33 percent of its 3's. In the team's 12 losses, opponents are shooting 43.8 percent from 3. In the seven wins, Millersville has held teams to 33.0 percent from 3.


THE GOLDEN RAMS
·    Damien Blair is in his fourth season at West Chester. During his playing days with the Golden Rams (1991-95), he scored 2,025 points, which ranks ninth in PSAC history. He has West Chester firmly in the mix for the playoffs with a two-game lead on Millersville. His club's 10-9 overall record and 7-8 PSAC mark is indicative of its statistical ranking in the conference. The Golden Rams rank smack in the middle--eighth--in the league in scoring offense (74.3) and 10th in scoring defense (73.4). West Chester ranks 15th out of 16 teams in field goal percentage, though, shooting just 41.8 percent from the field. It makes up for its inaccuracy from the field by leading the PSAC in free throws shooting. It has hit 346-of-447 foul shots for a 77.4 percentage. Only four teams have made more free throws. In contrast, Millersville has attempted nine more free throws but has made 47 fewer.
·   Lance McDowell (15.3) and Jon Breeden (14.5) both rank in the top 20 in the PSAC in scoring.  McDowell also ranks eighth in rebounding (7.7), making him one of only three players to rank in the top 15 of both statistical categories. Breeden is deadly from the free throw line. He has hit 87-of-94 (.926), which ranks No. 1 in the PSAC and No. 3 in Division II.