Home Opener for Men's Basketball Friday at 3 p.m.

GAMEDAY INFORMATION vs. IPFW MASTODONS
Date & Time:	Friday, November 28, 3 p.m.	Dartmouth	Stats	IPFW
Location:	Hanover, N.H.	0-2	Record	3-1
Arena (Capacity):	Leede Arena (2,100)	Lost 2	Streak	Won 1
All-Time Series:	Mastodons lead 3-0	52.5	Scoring	76.5
Tickets:	Information	.392	FG%	.475
Broadcast:	Big Green Insider on the Ivy League Digital Network - Drew Galbraith play-by-play	.303	3FG%	.367
Logistics:	Directions // Parking // Seating Chart	.731	FT%	.649
Twitter:	@DartmouthSports // @DartmouthMBK	+2.0	Reb Margin	-2.3
Dartmouth Links:	Home // Roster // Schedule // Stats // Notes	9.0	Assists	16.8
IPFW Links:	Home // Roster // Schedule // Stats // Notes	19.0	TO	11.0

Hoping Home Opener Brings a Win
•   Dartmouth hosts IPFW in the Big Green's season opener as the two teams are meeting on the hardwood for a fourth consecutive year.
•   The Green have won their last two home openers, defeating Lyndon State last year and Maine the year prior, to climb back over .500 in home openers at Leede Arena at 14-13.
•   The last time Dartmouth played was nine days ago before the start of the fall term exams in a 53-48 road loss to Hartford.
•   The co-captains, Alex Mitola and Gabas Maldunas, led the Big Green on the court with 16 and 12 points, respectively. Mitola canned a trio of triples while Maldunas hit every shot he took that night (5-5 FG, 2-2 FT).
•   Maldunas just missed out on his 11th career double-double as he hauled in nine rebounds for the second straight game.
•   The only other Dartmouth player to have even two field goals in the game was reserve center Cole Harrison who was 2-for-3 from the floor.
•   The Big Green defense held the Hawks to just 32.7 percent shooting, the lowest for an opponent since consecutive games against Jacksonville State and New Hampshire last December.
•   Dartmouth has outrebounded its opponent in each of the first two games despite ending up on the wrong end of the score.

Series vs. IPFW
•   Prior to 2011-12, these two teams had never played against each other. The Mastodons have won each of the three years since.
•   IPFW never trailed in the game last year in Fort Wayne and enjoyed a double-digit advantage for the final 26 minutes in an 80-64 victory.
• The only players that have seen action in each of the three games and are still on the rosters are John Golden and Gabas Maldunas for Dartmouth, and Joe Edwards and Isaiah McCray for IPFW.
•   The first encounter provided the closest outcome as the Big Green led on the road with less than three minutes only to fall short, 56-51.
•   Head coach Paul Cormier is 0-3 in his career against IPFW, but he does have a win against another Summit League school having beaten Western Illinois while at Fairfield.

Scouting the Mastodons
•   With a 3-1 mark to start the season, IPFW picked up where it left off last year when it posted a 25-11 record and advanced to the second round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.
•   The lone Mastodon loss came on the road at Georgia Tech, 78-69. Their other road contest was a tight, 74-71 triumph at SIU Edwardsville.
•   IPFW has four players averaging between 12 and 14 points a game, led by six-foot guard Isaiah McCray (14.0) who is not only shooting over 60 percent, but leading the team on the glass with 7.8 rebounds a game.
•   Nine different players on the roster have at least one three-pointer, and as a team the Mastodons are shooting 36.7 percent (33-of-90) from long range.
•   Mo Evans runs the show at the point and has an excellent 21-to-8 assist-to-turnover ratio while scoring 12.5 points a night.
•   Opponents have shot just 42.4 percent against the IPFW defense (24.6 percent on threes), but have 2.3 more rebounds on average.
•   Jon Coffman is in his first season as the Mastodons' head coach after serving three years as an assistant. Other stops in his career have included Colgate, Stetson and College of Charleston.

Veterans of Series with IPFW
John Golden and Gabas Maldunas are the only seniors on the squad, and the only current members of the Big Green to have played in each of the first three meetings with IPFW. Golden, who has shot 72.2 percent (11-of-18) and averaged 11.7 points, won't get a chance to play in all four due to injury, but Maldunas is hoping to improve his modest numbers of 4.7 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting just 5-of-22 (.227) in the series.

The Mastodons also have two players who have played in each of the three contests in Isaiah McCray and Joe Edwards. The former has provided 10.0 ppg on 71.4 percent on field goals, and the latter 9.0 ppg on 55.6 percent shooting.

Defense Shines at Hartford
Although Dartmouth lost by five to the Hawks on Nov. 19, the Big Green defense proved to be formidable, holding Hartford to 32.7 percent shooting (17-of-52). The last opponent to shoot as poorly was New Hampshire on Dec. 18 of last year at 32.6 percent, also on its home court.

Maldunas on the Mark
After missing the final 13 games of 2013-14, Gabas Maldunas has been feeling his way back on the court. At Hartford on Nov. 19, he showed glimpses of his ability to dominate a game, scoring on three straight possessions to tie the game with 5:30 to play. The senior did not miss a shot all night, going 5-of-5 on field goals and 2-of-2 at the charity stripe.

Free Throws Hard to Come By
Part of the problem in the five-point loss at Hartford on Nov. 19 was getting to the free throw line, or the lack thereof. Dartmouth attempted just seven fouls shots (making six), its fewest freebies in a game since converting 4-of-7 against Princeton on Feb. 15, 2013.

Turnover Trouble
The most Dartmouth turned the ball over in 2013-14 was 18 times, just once, in a loss at Harvard. In both of the first two games of the 2014-15 season opener, the Big Green coughed it up 19 times. It is not a coincidence they lost both contests. The last time Dartmouth had 20 miscues? At Harvard in 2012-13 with exactly 20.

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