MILLERSVILLE FOOTBALL GAMEDAY INFORMATION
DATE	OPPONENT	TIME	LOCATION	STREAMING	LIVE STATS
Thursday, Nov. 14	Wilmington	7 p.m.	Pucillo Gymnasium Millersville, Pa.	Ville Sports Network	millersvilleathletics.com
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Complete Game Notes (.PDF)

THE MATCH-UP
• Millersville men's basketball makes its 2019-20 Pucillo Gymnasium debut on Thursday against a familiar non-conference foe in the Wilmington Wildcats. The Marauders went 10-5 at home in 2018-19. Millersville is also 17-4 in its last 21 home openers. Millersville lost to Wilmington in last season's home opener and hasn't lost back-to-back home openers since the 1996-97 and 1997-98 seasons. 
• Expect a close game Tuesday night. Nine of the last 11 meetings between the teams have been decided by six points or fewer. The programs have met in seven of the last eight seasons with Wilmington going 5-2 in that stretch. Dan Burke is 4-1 against the Marauders while Casey Stitzel is looking for his first win over the Wildcats. Wilmington won in its last trip to Pucillo Gymnasium in 2017-18. It was a 76-75 final score with Wilmington erasing a 17-point deficit with nine minutes to play. It ended on a Shawn Church 3-pointer with seconds to play. The last two meetings have come down to which team finishes the best. That has been Wilmington, which has out-scored the Marauders a combined 55-26 in the final 10 minutes of those games. Wilmington's last three wins in the series have come by a total of 12 points. 
• Junior guard James Sullivan was named the PSAC East Defensive Athlete of the Week after totaling seven steals in Millersville's opening two games. This is the first season that the PSAC will recognize a defensive athlete of the week. Sullivan matched a career-high with six steals against Fairmont State. No player in the PSAC totaled more steals than Sullivan in the opening weekend. He has at least one steal in five consecutive games dating back to last season. He ranked 17th in the PSAC in steals in both 2017-18 and 2018-19. Sullivan is averaging nearly 1.6 steals per game in his 60 games as a Marauder.
• Against Notre Dame College, Jaden Faulkner posted his second career 30-point scoring performance and also recorded his second career double-double, adding 11 rebounds. Over his last seven games played, Faulkner is averaging 21.3 points per game and he has nine consecutive games scoring in double figures. Through two games, Faulkner ranks ninth in the PSAC in scoring, sixth in rebounding, fourth in assists and ninth in blocks.
• Justin Nwosu missed the season opener but returned to the lineup against Notre Dame College and delivered his first career double-double with 10 points and a career-high 11 rebounds. 

SERIES INFORMATION
Series vs. WU: 10-6
Series Streak: WU, 3
First Meeting: 1969-70 (W, 114-62)
Last Meeting: 2018 (L, 71-77)
Last 10 Meetings: 5-5
Casey Stitzel vs. WU: 0-3
Dan Burke vs. Millersville: 4-1

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
• Coming off a 12-17 season in 2018-19, Wilmington has opened the season 0-2 but faced some stiff competition in a road game against perennial NE-10 power Bentley (109-74) and a neutral site game against No. 12 Saint Anselm (86-63). Senior Jermaine Head is averaging 20.0 points per game while shooting 48.3 percent from the field and 41.7 percent from three. Sophomore Tyler Norwood averaged 12.5 points per game in the first weekend but struggled shooting, hitting 29.4 percent from the field and 14.3 percent from three. Don't expect those struggles to continue as he averaged 17.5 points on 48.1 percent shooting (.387 from three) in 2018-19. The Marauders are plenty familiar with Norwood and Head. Norwood scored 23 to go with five assists in last year's meeting. In 2017-18, Head dropped 32 points and grabbed nine rebounds against the Marauders. 

THE LAST MEETING (Nov. 27, 2019 - Wilmington 77, Millersville 71)
• For the final 30-plus minutes, neither team led by more than six points, and it took a late run for the homestanding Wildcats to edge the visiting Marauders, 77-71. It looked like a runaway for Wilmington as it built a 15-point lead in the first 10 minutes of action. The Marauders outscored Wilmington 27-8 over the rest of the first half to take a 38-36 lead into the break. Millersville led 56-51 with just over nine minutes remaining. Wilmington outscored the Marauders 26-15 in the final 10 minutes.