Game Notes: Men's Basketball vs. North Dakota

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Oct 17

6 PM

Men's Basketball

Austin Peay

Carbondale, IL

Oct 29

Men's Basketball

Lindenwood

St. Charles, MO

Nov 3

7 PM

Men's Basketball

McKendree

Nov 7

7 PM

Men's Basketball

UMKC

Nov 12

Men's Basketball

Nevada

Nov 17

Men's Basketball

North Dakota State University

Nov 23

Men's Basketball

University of Delaware

Nov 24

Men's Basketball

UAB

CARBONDALE, Ill. - The SIU men's basketball team hosts North Dakota for games on back-to-back days December 17-18 at Banterra Center. Thursday's game will start at 1 p.m., and Friday's will tip off at 3 p.m. Both games will be streamed nationally on ESPN3.

SIU (3-0) vs. North Dakota (1-5)

Game 1 Date & Time » 1 p.m. on Thursday, December 17 // Carbondale, Ill. (Banterra Center)
Game 2 Date & Time » 3 p.m. on Friday, December 18 // Carbondale, Ill. (Banterra Center)
Watch (ESPN3) » Game 1 | Game 2 with Connor Onion, Mike Trude, and Kendra Sheehan
Listen » Saluki Sports Network with Mike Reis and Rodney Watson
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Game Notes » SIU (PDF) | UND

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OPENING TIP

SIU hosts North Dakota on December 17-18 at 1 p.m. (Thursday) and 3 p.m. (Friday). Both games will stream nationally on ESPN3.
The back-to-back format will mimmick the conference formats used by both the Missouri Valley Conference (SIU) and Summit League (North Dakota).
SIU jumped into CollegeInsider's Mid-Major Top-25 on Monday, coming in at No. 17.
SIU is 3-0 for the first time since 2015-16, when the Salukis started 5-0.
SIU is one of 58 remaining undefeated teams in the nation (min. 1-0), and one of 41 remaining undefeated teams that have played at least three games. (through games Dec. 14, 2020.)
Home Cooking. SIU...
- has won six-straight non-conference home games.
- is 14-3 at Banterra Center under Bryan Mullins.
- is 19-4 in its last 23 home games, dating back to Jan. 23, 2019.
SIU's win over Murray State (KenPom #98) was the best win for the Missouri Valley Conference this season. (Next best: Bradley beat #107 Toledo.)
Eighty-six percent of SIU's scoring this season is coming from freshmen and sophomores. Anthony D'Avanzo (35 points) and Jakolby Long (2 points) are SIU's only two available upperclassmen on the roster. (J.D. Muila and Will Keller will miss the season with injuries.)
Via Sport-Reference: SIU true freshman Dalton Banks leads all freshmen nationally in effective field-goal percentage and true shooting percentage. He ranks in the top-25 nationally among all players in both categories.
SIU is shooting 44.4% from the 3-point line, which ranks eighth-best nationally.

SERIES CHECK

SIU leads the series with North Dakota, 3-1.
SIU won in Carbondale in the 1955-56 season and then lost in overtime at North Dakota the following season.
SIU and North Dakota played in back-to-back College Division Final Fours in 1965 and 1966, with SIU winning both.
- "College Division," as it was known then, was the "Division II" of its day.
The 1965 SIU team was led by Walt Frazier, who would go on to be named one of the 50 greatest players of all-time. In the national title game, that 1965 SIU team lost to an Evansville team that was led by the late Jerry Sloan (a McLeansboro, Ill. native -- McLeansboro is 57 miles from Carbondale.)
In both 1965 and 1966, the North Dakota teams that faced SIU were led by Phil Jackson, who would win 11 NBA championships as a head coach.
SIU has not faced any current Summit League team since facing Oral Roberts in 1995.

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