Marist on Tap for Men in Doubleheader at Leede on Saturday

DARTMOUTH (0-2) vs.
MARIST (1-0)

SATURDAY, NOV. 26 • 3 P.M.
LEEDE ARENA (2,100), HANOVER, N.H.
Video: Ivy League Digital Network
Audio: KOOL 93.9 (93.9, 96.3 FM)
Announcers: Brett Franklin (play-by-play), Jill Glessner (analyst)
Live Stats: DartmouthSports.com
All-Time Series vs. Marist: Red Foxes lead 3-2
Last Meeting vs. Red Foxes: Nov. 17, 2015 — Marist 73, Dartmouth 63

Holiday Hoops
• Dartmouth, in search of its first win of the 2016-17 campaign, hosts Marist in its first game in 11 days.
• This is the 30th season for Leede Arena, having opened for the 1987-88 season, and the 116th for the Dartmouth basketball program.
• For Marist head coach, Mike Maker, this is a homecoming of sorts with his first trip back to Leede since spending 11 seasons as an assistant coach for the Big Green (1991-2002).
• The Big Green dropped a 79-62 decision against Fairfield back on Nov. 15, falling to 16-14 in home openers at Leede Arena. The loss snapped a four-game win streak in home openers and kept them winless against the Stags in four meetings.
• Last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Evan Boudreaux, led Dartmouth with 18 points against Fairfield, pushing him past 500 career points in his 29th career game.
• The Big Green have struggled shooting the ball a bit thus far at 34.5 percent from the floor and 23.1 percent from behind the arc.
• Last year's top three-point shooters — Boudreaux, Taylor Johnson and Miles Wright — have gone a combined 2-for-17 from downtown. Guilien Smith has almost half of the team's nine triples, going 4-for-10.
• The free throw line has been a haven, however, where Dartmouth is shooting at an 81.0 percent clip. Boudreaux is a perfect 12-for-12, and Mike Fleming (6-for-6) and Wright (5-for-5) have been spot on as well.
• Freshman Ian Sistare has played well in a reserve role, averaging 28 minutes in the two games. Against Fairfield, he tied for the team lead in both rebounds (6) and assists (3).

Series vs. Marist
• Dartmouth dropped a 10-point decision at Marist last year, 73-63, in the first meeting between the two in exactly 15 years.
• The Red Foxes hold a slim 3-2 advantage in the all-time series that dates back to 1983.
• Boudreaux had a double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds in the loss, while Marist's Khallid Hart stole the show with 27 points thanks to a 14-of-16 performance at the foul line.

Scouting the Red Foxes
• Marist, picked to finish eighth in the 11-team Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, lost its first three games before knocking off Brown, 87-79, on a neutral court.
• After the win, the Red Foxes fell to Grand Canyon by 12, 84-72, this past Sunday.
• Preseason All-MAAC first-teamer Khallid Hart led Marist in scoring in each of the first four games, with a season-high 27 thanks to six three-pointers in the win over the Bears.
• Hart is averaging just under 20 points a game while shooting 50 percent overall and 80.6 percent at the line, plus has a team-best 14 assists.
• Also scoring in double figures thus far are guard Brian Parker (14.2 ppg) and wing Ryan Funk (11.2).
Despite being 6-2, Parker is tied for the team lead at 4.2 rebounds per game, along with 6-9 center Tobias Sjoberg.
• Opponents have shot a robust 52.1 percent against the Red Fox defense, and they have a rebound edge of more than 10 per game.
• Marist is shooting 74.2 percent at the line with Hart taking one-third of the attempts.
• Maker is in his third year with the Red Foxes, entering this game with a record of 15-52. But he spent six years at Williams where he put up a robust 147-32 mark with two appearances in the Division III Final Four.

Year 4 of Ivy League Digital Network
All home games and every Ivy League contest — a total of 19 games — will be streamed live in high-definition this season through the Ivy League Digital Network. Six of the conference games will be simulcast on ESPN3 as well. Visit ildn.tv for information on how to subscribe to the ILDN and watch the action on your computer, tablet or phone.

Boudreaux Reaches 500 Points
Sophomore Evan Boudreaux recorded his 500th career point with his second of two free throws with 7:35 left in the first half against Fairfield on Nov. 15. By reaching the milestone in his 29th career game, he is the fifth-fastest Big Green player to hit the mark. Paul Erland '72 got there the quickest, needing just 22 games to do so, followed by Adam Sutton '76 (26), then James Brown '73 and Bill Raynor '74, both of whom scored their 500th point in game number 27.

Guilien Feelin' It
At the outset of the 79-62 loss to Fairfield on Nov. 15, sophomore Guilien Smith single-handedly kept Dartmouth tied with the Stags at nine apiece by scoring all nine Big Green points on three three-pointers. The trio of triples are the most the guard has hit in a game in his career, and it took him just 3:30 to do so.

Cashing In For Free
It's only two games, but Dartmouth has gotten off to a good start at the foul line by converting 81.0 percent of its free throws. That rate puts the Big Green in a tie for ninth nationally with second-ranked Villanova. Four players have knocked down every foul shot thus far, led by Evan Boudreaux with 12, followed by Mike Fleming (6), Miles Wright (5) and Taylor Johnson (2). Last year Dartmouth shot 72.3 percent at the charity stripe, ranking 80th in the country.

Boudreaux Getting Board
With six rebounds against Fairfield on Nov. 15, sophomore Evan Boudreaux shared the team lead with Miles Wright and Ian Sistare. It is the 14th consecutive game in which Boudreaux has played that he has led Dartmouth on the glass, and the 23rd time in 29 career games.

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