Game #10
Northeastern State (5-4) at Missouri S&T (2-6)
Monday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. | Rolla, Mo. | Gibson Arena
Opening Tip
- Furthest trek of the season and third straight road contest for the RiverHawks.
- Second to last non-conference contest of the season.
- Nine day gap in-between games for NSU.
- In eight games this season, NSU has went on at-least a 10-0 run against a foe.
- Tanner Mouse is leading the RiverHawks in scoring with 14.8 points a game, and is shooting 51.2-percent from the field.
- Caleb Smith is second on the NSU roster with 14.7 points a game and has 3.7 assists per outing.
- Northeastern State is second in the MIAA in field goal defense at 41.1-percent and tied for second in rebound margin at +8.4.
- Northeastern State has dropped its last five road contests.
About the Miners
- Will come into Monday's meeting on a six game losing streak.
- All six losses have been ten points or under.
- The Miners are 0-2 against teams in the MIAA and they are 0-5 when playing NCAA Division II programs.
- Both NSU and Missouri S&T have played Central Christian (Mo.).
- Led in scoring by Jordan Newt who is averaging 14.3 points per game.
- The Miners have five players averaging over ten points a game.
- Outside their first two contests, the Miners are scoring 77.5 points a game, while allowing 85.3 points.
- Was picked to finish in last place by the coaches in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC).
- Led by ninth year head coach Jim Glash.
RiverHawks vs. Miners Series
- 12,078 days or 33 years, 25 days in-between meetings with Missouri S&T.
- Michael Jackson's Billie Jean was on top of the charts the last time NSU played in Rolla. (Nov. 28, 1983)
- Northeastern State is 0-1 at Missouri S&T.
- The Miners led the series 3-2, with Northeastern State winning the last two games.
- First meeting with Missouri S&T for head coach Mark Downey.
Looking Back
- Caleb Smith matched his season high with 19 points.
- D'Angelo Jackson put NSU within three (67-64) on a jumper with eight minutes left in the contest but they could not get over the hump trailing by two possessions most of the way to the final horn.
- In the second half, the RiverHawks shot 20-for-36 from the field to out-pace Missouri Southern by six on the scoreboard.
- Aaron Givens and Trent Cantrell both had 13 points, while Tanner Mouse and Jackson scored ten.
- Fourth time this season that Northeastern State had five players in double-digits.
- The RiverHawks were up at the free throw line a season low ten times.
- Northeastern State held the Lions to a season low 49.1 field goal percentage.
Already at 1,000+
Senior transfer
D'Angelo Jackson starts the season with 1,203 career points in-between stops at Eastern Illinois and Highland CC. Jackson has a career average at over 15 points per game and was selected as a NJCAA All-American.
- In nine games, Jackson is averaging 10.4 points, and is shooting 50% from the field.
Double-Double x2
For the first time since Feb. 10, 2010 at Southwestern Okla., the RiverHawks had two players with a double-double on a box score.
Josh Ihek and
Aaron Givens both hit double-doubles on Nov. 27 against Bacone by hitting double-digits in points and rebounds.
Inside Men
NSU's post players,
Aaron Givens and
Josh Ihek are shooting a combined 72.3-percent and accounting for 12.1 rebounds per game. On the offensive glass the two is averaging nearly five rebounds per game, and scoring 15.3 points a game.
4-Year
Tanner Mouse has scored ten or more points in 13 of the last 14 games for the RiverHawks. The senior is pacing NSU with 14.8 points an outing which is nearly double his career average during his first Mouse's three seasons (7.7 ppg).
Benchmark
The RiverHawks broke a facility scoring record in its last two contests inside the NSU Event Center. Northeastern State set a new bar with 118 points on Nov. 30, 2018 against Central Christian (Mo.), a mere 72 hours after braking the prior record that has held for five years.
Here is a quick look at the other 100 point games in the Center's 5+ year history...
1. 118 vs. Central Christian (11/30/18)
2. 107 vs. Bacone (11/27/18)
3. 102 vs. Ecclesia (11/9/13)*
4. 101 vs. Hillsdale Free Will Baptist (11/13/13)
* - First game in the complex
Quick Runs
Northeastern State runs of ten or more unanswered points during the 2018-19 season.
10-0 - 3:43 at Missouri Southern (12/8/18)
10-0 - 4:03 vs. Bacone (11/27/18)
10-0 - 3:50 vs. Dallas Baptist (11/24/18)*
10-0 - 2:44 vs. Dallas Baptist (11/24/18)#
10-0 - 2:15 vs. Southwestern Oklahoma (11/9/18)
11-0 - 3:59 vs. Oklahoma Baptist (11/19/18)
11-0 - 2:06 at Rogers State (11/14/18)
12-0 - 3:23 vs. Bacone (11/27/18)
12-0 - 2:45 vs. Northwestern Oklahoma (11/10/18)#
13-0 - 3:38 vs. Central Christian (11/30/18)
13-0 - 4:31 vs. Bacone (11/27/18)
18-0 - 4:03 vs. Central Christian (11/30/18)
20-0 - 5:04 vs. Central Christian (11/30/18)
* - Start of the game
# - Spans the half
Up Big
Largest leads of the season for Northeastern State.
58 - 1:28 (2nd Half) vs. Bacone on Nov. 27, 2018
22 - 11:28 (2nd Half) vs. Southwestern Oklahoma on Nov. 9, 2018
21 - 14:46 (2nd Half) vs. Northwestern Oklahoma on Nov. 10, 2018
14 - 2:23 (2nd Half) vs. Oklahoma Baptist on Nov. 19, 2018
14 - 00:34 (1st Half) at Rogers State on Nov. 14, 2018
10 - 16:10 (1st Half) vs. Dallas Baptist on Nov. 24, 2018
Our Colors
Northeastern State's uniform record during the 2018-19 season.
3-1 Gray
2-0 White
0-2 Green
0-1 Black
An older group
Northeastern State has one freshman on its roster this season with nine juniors, and four seniors.
Former Rangers
Jahmel Bodrick,
Michael Bowers, and
Caleb Smith all come to Northeastern State from Ranger College (Texas) and played for Former Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie.
