ABOUT THE MARAUDERS
• After routing California (Pa.) and losing to No. 3 IUP by just one point to open PSAC play, the Marauders embark on a three-game road swing to the PSAC West. Millersville is 0-3 in true road games with losses at Shepherd (5-2), Jefferson (4-4) and Wilmington (4-3). Saturday's game at 1-5 Seton Hill is the first road game against a team with a sub-.500 record.
• There is very little difference in the Marauders' home/road offensive splits. Millersville has a .462 field goal percentage at home and a .460 percentage on the road. The Marauders shoot .380 from three at home and .365 on the road and .631 from the line at home and .677 on the road with almost an identical number of attempts. The defense is the difference. Opponents have shot .388 from the field and .308 from three inside Pucillo Gymnasium, but the Marauders have allowed teams to shoot .521 from the field and .448 from three in road games. Millersville has also forced an average of 17.9 turnovers per game at home while forcing just 14.3 per game on the road.Â
• The most notable shift in individual home/road splits is sophomore
Caden Najdawi, who is averaging 15.3 points and 6.8 rebounds per game at home but 6.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game on the road. He has reached the foul line just twice in three road games and has found himself in foul trouble, totaling 12 personal fouls in three road games compared to averaging 2.3 fouls per game in the four home games.Â
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Marcus Adkison scored 26 points in each of the first two PSAC contests and shot 13 of 24 from three in those games. He has topped 20 points in 27 of 63 career games (42.8 percent). The last time a Marauder scored 20 or more points at a higher rate (with a similar sample size) was Gerald Redding who totaled 25 20-point games in a 58-game span from 2001-03. Not including his freshman season numbers at Shepherd, Adkison's 184 3-pointers already ranks seventh all-time at Millersville. He is trending toward being the first Marauder since 1995 (Blaine Claiborne) to post a career percentage of higher than 40 percent from three. Among players with at least 400 attempts (Adkison has 443), only Lance Gelnett (.486 from 1988-92) and Matt Harris (.441 from 1988-90) own a better career percentage.
• Millersville travels to Greensburg for just the third time ever. The Griffins joined the PSAC in 2013-14 and the teams have played just three times as PSAC members. Seton Hill has one all three of those games and all three were by at least eight points.
Marcus Adkison and
Amadou Kaba are the only members of Millersville's current roster to have previously played at Seton Hill. Adkison scored a team-high 22 points and Kaba pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds in the 2016 meeting.Â
SCOUTING THE GRIFFINS
•    Seton Hill is in its first season under Kendrick Saunders, who was an assistant coach at Navy for the previous six seasons. He also coached at Princeton for two years and at Army. His team is 1-5 with four double-digit losses. Five of Seton Hill's first six games have come away from home, and Millersville marks Seton Hill's first home game since Nov. 17. Millersville and Seton Hill share a common opponent in Lincoln. Seton Hill went on the road and beat Lincoln 91-85 on Nov. 24. Millersville beat Lincoln 85-74 at home just two days later.Â
•    Senior Trevor Blondin, who was an All-PSAC West Second Team selection last year, ranks second in the PSAC in scoring average at 23.3 points per game. Nathan Davis is averaging 20.0 points per game, making Seton Hill the only team in the PSAC with two players ranked in the top 10 in scoring average. The duo has attempted 63 percent of the team's 3-point attempts and 52.3 percent of the team's total shot attempts.Â
•    Blondin has fouled out of four of the six games and has had at least three fouls in all six. Davis has taken double-digit shots in every game. Against Lincoln, he made 10 of 13 3-pointers for 39 points. He has topped 30 points twice this season.Â
THE LAST MEETING (Seton Hill 84, Millersville 76) - Dec. 3, 2016)
• Millersville held a second-half lead and was within 69-67 with 4:39 to play, but Seton Hill outscored Millersville 15-9 the rest of the way, making 9 of 11 free throws down the stretch. Seton Hill shot 50 percent while Millersville hit just 36.5 percent of its shots.
Marcus Adkison scored 22 points on 6 of 14 shooting, making 7 of 8 free throws.Â
ALL-TIME MEETINGS
2016-17 (at Seton Hill) - Seton Hill 84, Millersville 76
2015-16 (at Millersville) - Seton Hill 92, Millersville 77
2013-14 (at Seton Hill) - Seton Hill 83, Millersville 74
2006-07 (at Millersville) - Millersville 89, Seton Hill 79
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