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Final Non-Conference Game On Tap for the Men
1/18/2010 11:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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Opponent: St. Francis (N.Y.) Terriers
Date: Monday, Jan. 18
Arena: Leede Arena
Location: Hanover, N.H.
Tip-off: 7 p.m.
Radio: Dartmouth Sports Network
Finishing Up Non-League Play
• A quick foray into Ivy play over a week ago at Harvard is being followed up by the final non-conference game against St. Francis (N.Y.).
• Leede Arena has been generally kind of late to the Big Green as they have won two of their last three in the building.
• Dartmouth suffered a 76-47 loss back on Jan. 9 against the Crimson, who currently have an RPI of 59.
• As a team, the Green connected on 19 field goals for the fourth straight game, and committed a season-high 20 turnovers yet also had a season-best seven blocks.
• Ronnie Dixon was the lone Dartmouth player to score in double figures, hitting 5-of-10 from the floor with a pair of three-pointers for 12 points.
• Dartmouth has gone five straight games with just a single player topping 10 points — each time a different player doing the honors.
• This is the first game with Mark Graupe as the official interim head coach. The Harvard game will go on his record, since he served as the lead coach for the game prior to being named the interim head coach on Thursday, Jan. 14.
Series vs. St. Francis
• There isn't much history between these two schools on the hardwood, meeting just twice. Dartmouth won both contests.
• The first game was played on Jan. 7, 1981 here in Hanover but prior to the construction of Leede Arena. The Big Green triumphed by a 68-62 final.
• It has been 21-plus years since the last encounter, a 103-92 shootout here at Leede Arena in the opening round of the Dartmouth Invitational. The Green went on to win their own event by beating Maine the next night.
• Dartmouth is 11-16 against current NEC schools, having already lost to Quinnipiac at the end of December.
Scouting the Terriers
• St. Francis has been on a roll of late, winning three straight road games on a four-game trip. One week ago, the Terriers won at Columbia by six, then three days later at Mount St. Mary's in a conference game by three. Two days ago, Wagner fell to St. Francis by seven, 60-53, improving to 4-2 in the Northeast Conference.
• Leading scorer Ricky Cadell had 22 points against the Seahawks on Saturday, but the key to victory was forcing 22 Wagner turnovers.
• Cadell, at 15.6 points per game, is one of three Terriers averaging in double figures. Joining him are Akeem Bennett at 14.7 and Kayode Ayeni at 11.3.
• Ayeni is also the team's top rebounder at 6.2 per game, while Bennett averages 5.6 himself.
• While St. Francis attempts more than 20 triples a game, it is shooting just 31.3 percent from behind the arc. Cadell (40-of-117, .342) and Stefan Perunicic (36-of-105, .343) will do most of the damage from downtown.
• Defensively the Terriers will nip at Dartmouth's heels. They nab about eight steals on average and force more than 16 turnovers.
• St. Francis is a bit suspect at the line, shooting just 63.2 percent.
The Graupe Era Begins
On Jan. 14, first-year assistant Mark Graupe was named the interim head coach for the remainder of the 2009-10 season. He replaces Terry Dunn, who stepped down on Jan. 8 after five-and-a-half years at the helm. Graupe spent 12 years as a high school head coach in his native North Dakota before taking the lead at Lake Region State (N.D.) for seven seasons. Last year he was on the staff at Colorado State in his first year at the Division I level before being hired at Dartmouth this summer.
Tangled Up in Ivy
The start of conference play began for the Big Green on Jan. 9 at Harvard, only to have the Crimson handily beat Dartmouth, 76-47. The Green shot just 34.5 percent from the floor while Harvard clipped the nets at a 55.2 percent rate. Dartmouth will get another shot at the Crimson on Saturday here in Leede when Ivy play continues in earnest.
N-N-Nineteen, Saigon
OK, bad reference to an '80s song, but the number 19 has come up in the field goals total each of the last four games. It was fine when Dartmouth took just 42 shots for a .452 percentage in a 49-43 win over Bucknell to start the new year. But 19 was not enough with at least 50 shots taken in the other three games, all losses.
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