Complete Game Notes (.PDF)
THE MATCH-UP
•   After a promising 3-1 start with only a one-point road loss, the Marauders have hit a skid with three consecutive road losses. The Marauders, however, are back home where they are 2-0 this season.
•   Home court is everything when Millersville and Edinboro play. Edinboro has never won at Pucillo Gymnasium. There have been 11 meetings in Pucillo Gymnasium since the first in 1990-91. Millersville is also 3-1 on neutral floors against Edinboro. The team's last met in November of 2017 with Edinboro winning. Millersville's last three wins in the series (all at home) have come by no fewer than eight points and by an average of 12.7 points per game.
•   In the first five games, in which Millersville lost two games by a grand total of three points, it averaged 87.2 points per game, shooting 51.5 percent from the field, 35.3 percent from three and made an average of 23 trips to the foul line per game. That stands in stark contrast to the last two games in which Millersville has averaged 59.5 points, shooting 34.9 percent from the field, 27.3 percent from the field with 26 total free throw attempts. The Marauders won the rebounding battle in each of the first five games with three 40-rebound efforts. In the last two games, the Marauders have been minus-30 on the glass.
•   A common denominator in the last two games has been the absence of point guard
Jaden Faulkner. Faulkner played just 17 minutes at Gannon and missed all of the Lincoln game with an injury. Faulkner averaged 23.6 points, 6.8 assists and 6.2 rebounds per game while accounting for nearly 37 percent of Millersville's free throw attempts in the first five games. In only seven games,
James Sullivan and
Khari Williams are the only Marauders to start every game. The projected starting lineup of Faulkner, Williams, Sullivan,
Caden Najdawi and
Justin Nwosu were together for just four games.
•   Sullivan has made at least one three in each game this season and is shooting 52.7 percent from the field and 46.4 percent from three. He has scored in double-figures in five of seven games. Sullivan also has at least two assists in every game. Sullivan ranks fourth in the PSAC in steals per game. He has at least one in each of the last 10 games he's played dating back to last season.
•   During the recent three-game road trip, Najdawi had back-to-back double-doubles against Mercyhurst and Gannon. Najdawi now has 12 career double-doubles. Before Tuesday's game at Lincoln, Najdawi had averaged 15.8 points and 9.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks while shooting 64.9 percent from the field.
SERIES INFORMATION
Series vs. Edinboro: 17-8
Series Streak: Edinboro, 1
First Meeting: 1986 (W, 107-86)
Last Meeting: 2017 (L, 74-85)
Last 10 Meetings: 6-4
Casey Stitzel vs. Edinboro: 1-1
Pat Cleary vs. Millersville: 2-2
SCOUTING THE FIGHTING SCOTS
• After starting the season 4-0, Edinboro has dropped its last two games--both on home court. Edinboro lost to Shippensburg 81-65 on Nov. 24 and then lost by 29 points to Lake Erie College on Dec. 1. Three of Edinboro's four wins came by a combined total of six points. Edinboro held its first three opponents to under 40 percent shooting, but Shippensburg and Lake Erie both shot 50 percent or higher. Four of the last five opponents have made 10 threes. Edinboro sank 14-of-29 from three against Lake Erie and has shot over 40 percent from deep three times. Five Fighting Scots average at least 9.0 points per game. The group is led by Anthony Coleman 16.7 points per game. Coleman (.438), Jaryn Simpson (.452) and Alex Jay (.444) are dangerous 3-point shooters.
THE LAST MEETING (Nov. 18, 2019 - Edinboro 85, Millersville 74)
• Edinboro's Mike Beck hit five 3-pointers and none was bigger than his triple with 1:39 remaining in Saturday's PSAC opener against Millersville. The Marauders had just cut Edinboro's lead to two, but Beck's three was a back-breaker for the visitors. Edinboro went on to win 85-74, pulling away at the free throw line in the final minute.
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