Game #13
Northeastern State (2-10 MIAA) vs. Pittsburg State (6-7 MIAA)
Thursday, January 28 at 7:30 p.m. | Tahlequah, Okla. - NSU Event Center

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Opening Tip 

• Starting on Thursday, eight of the regular season's final ten games will be against teams NSU has played in the first half of the season.  The lone exception is Central Oklahoma, which was postponed to Feb. 15 due to COVID-19 protocols.
• Luck has not been with the RiverHawks in several games this season, with seven losses coming inside of ten points.  
• In the last four of the previous five games, NSU has led at the half.
• The RiverHawks have started the same five in the last seven games.  However, for the first time since the 2015-16 season, NSU will not have a player start every game this season.
• DeVonta Prince has had success on the glass against the Gorillas in two games. He is averaging 6.5 on the glass along with six points per outing.  Brad Davis is averaging ten points against Pitt State.
• Northeastern State is third NCAA Division II Men's Basketball with 294 free throw attempts and is fifth with 206 made free throws.
• Injuries, COVID-19, and personnel changes have limited the NSU roster this season.  Three of NSU's original starting five are out of the season.  Two players are out of the year due to injury, and three active players have missed a combined 11 games. 

NSU individual player notes are on page one of the game notes.

NSU's last five against Pitt State
12/5/20    L, 81-71 (A)
2/1/20      L, 59-64 (A)
1/19/19    W, 83-64 (H)
12/5/18    L, 78-86 (H)
1/19/19    W, 83-64 (A)

The Series with Pitt State

• Since 1969, Northeastern State has controlled the home half of the series, winning 11 of the last 14 games.
• This will be the 15th time NSU and Pitt State have met in January, and the third time they will meet on the 28th. 
• One of NSU's oldest active series, with the first meeting coming on Dec. 21, 1927.
• In Tahlequah, NSU is 14-17 against the Gorillas. 
• Head Coach Ja Havens is 0-2 against the Gorillas. 

About the Gorillas

• The Gorillas snapped a three-game skid Saturday with a 79-68 home win over Fort Hays State.
• Bobby Arthur-Williams Jr. is one of two at Pitt State who has started all 13 games this season.   He leads the Gorillas in scoring (14.3) and rebounding (7.5).  The senior leads the nation in free-throw attempts with 88.  
• Pitt State is second in the MIAA with 10.5 offensive rebounds per game.
• The roster features one Oklahoma player with R.J. Forney Jr., a Broken Arrow native and a graduate from Union High School.

Looking Back

• The Northeastern State RiverHawks (2-10 in MIAA) were 10-24 from 3-point distance for the game, but a hot-shooting Lincoln Blue Tiger (7-3 in MIAA) run was too much to overcome in a 91-76 loss to close out the Missouri road trip.
• Senior Troy Locke led the RiverHawks with 16 points, and he was joined in double-figures by classmate Brad Davis with ten, and freshman Christian Cook tallied 15. 
• The RiverHawks, as a collective group, shot well at 49.1 percent, 10-24 from 3-point range, and made a season-best 83.3 percent of their attempts at the free-throw stripe.