Complete Game Notes

GAME INFORMATION
Shippensburg (2-15, 0-7 PSAC East) vs. Millersville (7-9, 3-4 PSAC East)
Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 - 3 p.m.
Pucillo Gymnasium, Millersville, Pa. 

MEDIA INFORMATION
Audio Broadcast (MSBN)
Twitter: @MarauderNews | @MSBN_Kuhns
Live Stats
Live Video

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

PROMOTIONS
· "Gold Rush" - Fans asked to wear gold Millersville shirts
· Millersville dance team selling promotional t-shirts for "Be the Change" event

SERIES INFORMATION
Series vs. SU: 114-62
Series Streak: Ville, 3
First Meeting:  1903 (SU 10, Ville 9)
Last Meeting: 2013 (Ville 79, SU 69)
Last 10: 6-4
Fred Thompson vs. SU: 14-12
Chris Fite vs. Millersville: 0-0

GAME NOTES
· Millersville returns to the friendly confines of Pucillo Gymnasium where it is 6-1 this season with four consecutive wins. The Marauders' last four losses have all come on the road and by an average margin of just five points. Still, they are in the thick of the PSAC playoff race with a 3-4 league mark, and five of the remaining nine games are at home. Shippensburg enters the game on a six game losing streak, and it has yet to defeat a PSAC team on the road this season. Millersville won all three games against the Raiders last season, including a first round PSAC Tournament game.  The Marauders have won six of the last eight games dating back to 2009-10 but five of those games were decided by fewer than 10 points.

· Anthony Coleman missed the first four games of the season and has yet to find the form he displayed in 2012-13 when he averaged 13.7 points per game. He is averaging 8.0 points per game with three double-figure performances. A game against Shippensburg may help him get rolling, though. Coleman has scored in double figures in six consecutive games against the Raiders, averaging 20.3 points per game while shooting 59.6 percent from the field and hitting 30-of-40 free throws. In 2012-13 alone, Coleman produced games of 25, 28 and 36 against the Raiders. He made 22-of-26 free throws in the final two games.

· Millersville leads the PSAC and ranks 11th in Division II in 3-pointers made per game at 9.8. The Marauders, however, have set season lows for threes made in back-to-back games. After making 147 through the first 14 games, the Marauders have made only 10 in the last two including just four against Lock Haven.  Millersville has attempted nearly 29 threes per game this season, putting it on pace to attempt 750, which would set a school record by  121. The record for makes is 216 (2000-01). This year's team is on pace for 255.

· Millersville suffered a blow this week, losing the services of leading scorer Tavon Parker and leading rebounder Xavier Mumford. Without them in the lineup, Carl Wallace stepped up his game against Lock Haven, scoring a career-high 14 points and grabbing a career-high eight rebounds. Wallace is among the team's most efficient players and ranks second in assist/turnover ratio, second in field goal percentage among players with at least 20 attempts.

· In addition to Mumford and Tavon Parker being out of the lineup, Nate Bollinger has missed the last two games with an injury. With so much roster instability, the Marauders have struggled to find a consistent rotation. Brandon Brown, Tyree Smith and J.C. Ricapito are the only players to have played in all 16 games. Millersville has used nine different starting lineups this season. Last year, four different lineups played 50-plus minutes together. So far this season, only two lineups have played together for more than 17 minutes. The most one starting lineup has played together was four consecutive games. The streak for most consecutive starts now belongs to Kelvin Parker at four games. 

ABOUT SHIPPENSBURG
· The Raiders are under the direction of first-year coach Chris Fite, who previously served as an assistant at Indiana (Pa.). Fite helped the Crimson Hawks qualify for the NCAA Tournament for five consecutive seasons. There have been some growing pains under Fite. The team has played without All-PSAC East center Dylan Edgar all season. Guard Joe Lococo ranks fourth in the PSAC in scoring average and 15th in assists. Freshman Abe Massaley is the league's top scoring freshman.  Ship ranks last in the PSAC in scoring margin at -11.2 and has struggled to take care of the basketball, ranking last in the league in tunrover margin (-3.18).