Complete Game Notes

GAME INFORMATION
West Chester (5-1, 2-0 PSAC East) at Millersville (1-3, 0-1 PSAC East)
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 - 8 p.m.
Pucillo Gymnasium, Millersville, Pa.

MEDIA INFORMATION
All-Access Live Video
Audio Broadcast (MSBN)
Live Stats

TICKET INFORMATION
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Reserved Seating: $8
General Admission (Doubleheader): $6
General Admission (Single game): $5
Senior Citizen: $3
Visiting Students with ID: $3
Children under 6: FREE
MU Students: FREE with valid ID
Faculty and Staff: FREE with one guest with valid ID

GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS
First 100 Millersville students with valid I.D. receive a free t-shirt

SERIES INFORMATION
Series vs. WCU: 96-93
Series Streak: WCU, 2
First Meeting:  1904 (WCU 30, Ville 10)
Last Meeting: 2013 (WCU 73, Ville 62)
Last 10: 5-5
Fred Thompson vs. WCU: 14-19
Damien Blair vs. Millersville: 5-4

GAME NOTES
· Millersville returns to the court for the first time in 11 days to take on West Chester, which has raced to a 5-1 overall record and 2-0 PSAC East mark with one of the most high-powered offenses in the league. The Marauders are looking for their first PSAC East win, and are off to its first 1-3 start since 2001-02. It is only the third time in Fred Thompson's 16 seasons that the Marauders have started 1-3. The 2001-02 club, however, finished 17-10 overall and 10-2 in the PSAC East. The 1999-2000 team also reached the PSAC Tournament. Millersville has have been within striking distance in every game as all three of its losses have come by six points or fewer. All three losses have also come on the road. The Marauders are 150-63 (.704) at home under Thompson. Home court advantage is huge in the Millersville/West Chester series as the home team has won 25 of the 32 games during Thompson's tenure. Last year, however, both teams won away from their home gyms.

· The Marauders are certainly hoping for a faster start against West Chester. Opponents have outscored the Marauders by a 152-111 margin over the first 20 minutes, and Millersville has trailed at the half in every game. The Marauders are shooting just 31.8 percent from the field in the first half of games (41-for-129).  The second half is a different story, though. Millersville is averaging 44.5 points per second half and are outscoring teams 178-131 over the final 20 minutes. The team's shooting percentage spikes to 43.7 percent in the second period.

· Fred Thompson's teams have always thrived at the defensive end. Just last season, the Marauders ranked fifth in the PSAC in scoring defense and third in field goal percentage defense. That isn't the case this season with the Marauders ranking 17th in the PSAC in field goal percentage defense (46.0) and 18th against the three (42.5). That will have to changed against West Chester, which is tops in the league in 3-point shooting (40.5) and  sixth in field goal percentage (47.1).

· No team in the league has made more threes than the Marauders at 9.5 per game. The team, however, is shooting just 29.2 percent from three, which ranks 14th. Tyree Smith (38.9) and Nate Bollinger (46.2) have shot at a high percentage, though.

· Xavier Mumford is rebounding and swatting shots at a record rate. No Marauder since hall of famer John Fox in 1984-85. With double-digit boards in each of his first four games, Mumford leads the league and ranks fifth in Division II in boards per game (13.0). His 3.5 blocks per game also ranks sixth nationally.

ABOUT WEST CHESTER
· West Chester enters the game averaging 85.2 points per game and has scored more than 100 points in each of the last two games. West Chester is riding a five-game winning streak and has shot over 45 percent from the field in four consecutive games. Five players are averaging in double figures. Troy Hockaday missed the first three games of the season but has returned the lineup by averaging 24.0 per game. He scored 29 with six assists against Bowie State, and scored 24 in in just 25 minutes against Cheyney. Hockaday is shooting an incredible 62.5 percent from the field and 55.6 percent from three. R.J. Griffin is a Dartmouth transfer and a graduate student at West Chester. He's scored in double-figures four times and has scored 23 and 28 in his last two games.