Game #16
Northeastern State (2-13 MIAA) vs. Fort Hays State (8-9 MIAA)
Saturday, February 13 at 3:30 p.m. | Tahlequah, Okla. - NSU Event Center

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Opening Tip 

• The RiverHawks played Thursday without most of its coaching staff due to COVID-19 protocols.  Lucas Hunter led NSU in the interim against Nebraska-Kearney.
• Retired head coach Larry Gipson (1997-2014) has supervised practices for the program while the entire coaching staff was under COVID-19 protocols. 
• Luck has not been with the RiverHawks in several games this season, with nine losses coming inside of ten points and two overtime setbacks. 
• The RiverHawks have started the same five in the last nine games.  However, for the first time since the 2015-16 season, NSU will not have a player start every game this season.
• Brad Davis and Trey Sampson lead NSU in scoring with 12 points a game when facing Fort Hays State.   Davis is shooting 10-for-21 against the Tigers. 
• Of NSU's projected lineup for Saturday's game, all players have faced the Tigers at least once.
• 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.   Additionally, NSU played one game without its head coach.

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

NSU's last five against Fort Hays State
12/18/20  L, 76-81 (A)
2/22/20    L, 80-87 (A)
1/9/20      W, 76-70 (H)
2/23/19    W, 72-62 (H)
1/10/19    L, 65-69 (A)

The Series with Fort Hays State

• The home team has won the last four games in the series. 
• Northeastern State is 5-3 against Fort Hays State while in Tahlequah. 
• Neither team has won by more than seven points in the last three meetings.  
• A single-digit final scoring margin has decided the last six meetings at NSU.
• An interesting note is in the first meeting on Nov. 14, 1981, at Fort Hays, NSU beat the Tigers in their 'Big Cheese Classic.'
• Head Coach Ja Havens has faced Fort Hays State once. 

About the Tigers

• Fort Hays State will come to NSU playing three games in four days.
• The Tigers saw a four-game winning streak end on Thursday with a 69-66 loss at Rogers State. 
• Jared Vitztum leads the Tigers in scoring with 18.1 points per game and surpassed the 1,000 career point mark on Wednesday against Central Oklahoma.  He currently leads the nation with nine double-doubles this season. 
• Quinten Rock leads the MIAA in free-throw percentage and is 19tn nationally (90.9).  
• Made national headlines for their exhibition win at Kansas State.  The game did count for the Wildcats, and it was the first non-Division I team to defeat a major conference team on the road since 2000 when Texas A&M-Corpus Christi topped Texas A&M.

Scheduling Shuffle

• Three of the eight final games in the regular season are a result of COVID-19 postponements.
• The final week of the regular season will season NSU play four games in seven days to play the full 22 game schedule. 
• In the 22 games regular-season schedule, the RiverHawks will have five that were postponed.
• The Feb. 22-23 games are both reschedule dates but played at two different locations.