DARTMOUTH (3-3)
at BELFAST CLASSIC
Thursday, Nov. 29 vs. Marist (1-4) | 4:30 PM (EST)
CBS Sports Network | SSE Arena | Belfast, Ireland
Friday, Nov. 30 vs. Albany (2-4) or LIU Brooklyn (3-3) | Time TBA
CBS Sports Network | SSE Arena | Belfast, Ireland
• Less than 48 hours after flying back from an 84-65 defeat at San Francisco, Dartmouth hopped another plane to play in Ireland at the Belfast Classic.
• The games against Marist on Thursday and either Albany or LIU Brooklyn on Friday will be the first ever outside of the 50 states for the Big Green.
• Dartmouth's two leading scorers thus far — sophomores
Adrease Jackson (14.0 ppg) and
Chris Knight (13.5) — led the team against the Dons with 13 and 15 points, respectively.
• The Big Green's excellent outside shooting continued at USF, draining 11-of-27 (.407) 3-pointers.
• As a team, Dartmouth is second among Division I teams with 13.5 triples per game and 10th in 3-point percentage (43.5).
• Two Big Green players rank among the top six in long-range accuracy in juniors
Ian Sistare (15-of-21, .714) and
Brendan Barry (20-of-32, .625)
• Both Sistare and Barry average 11.5 points a game, and junior
James Foye (10.3 ppg), gives the Green a fifth scoring in double figures on a nightly basis.
• The Green have also been an unselfish team, ranking among the top 25 teams nationally in assists per game (18.0, 21st).
• Freshman
Taurus Samuels has earned more court time with his solid play of late, most recently hitting double figures for the first time in his career with 10 points at San Francisco.
Series vs. Marist
• This is the seventh meeting between these two teams with the Red Foxes owning a 4-2 lead.
• Dartmouth hosted Marist for the first time in the last meeting just two years ago, but came up short in a 75-69 defeat.
• Only three current Big Green players saw action in that contest with
Guilien Smith tallying 15 points,
Brendan Barry three and
Ian Sistare two.
• A 67-65 Dartmouth lead with three minutes to play was wiped out as Marist held the Green without a point until the last second while rattling off 10 straight points.
• Dartmouth head coach
David McLaughlin is 0-1 against the Red Foxes with that game in November of 2016 his only previous encounter.
Scouting the Red Foxes
• Marist was picked to finish in the middle of the MAAC pack this year — sixth out of the 11 teams — one year after going 6-25 overall and 4-14 in the league.
• So far this year, the Red Foxes have notched a win over Columbia in Poughkeepsie, 82-76, but dropped their other four contests.
• Three of the four losses have been by six or fewer points, with the lone exception coming in the last outing, a 76-49 defeat against No. 22 Buffalo, something the Green know about all too well.
• Marist has been effective from behind the arc, shooting 40.7 percent while making more than nine triples a night.
• Leading scorer Brian Parker (14.8 ppg) is shooting under 40 percent from the floor, but has tallied nearly 40 percent of his points at the foul line.
• Ryan Funk is the only other Red Fox scoring in double figures at 11.6 ppg thanks to hitting 14-of-36 (.389) 3-pointers to date.
• Parker and Isaiah Lamb share the team lead in rebounding with 5.0 per game as Marist has just about matched its opponents on the glass (31.8 rpg to 32.2) while playing at one of the five slowest paces in the country according to KenPom.com.
• John Dunne (Ithaca '92) is in his first season at Marist after a dozen years at the helm of league rival Saint Peter's where he went 153-225. Twice he won at least 20 games, parlaying a MAAC Tournament championship into an NCAA bid in 2010-11.
Sour Second Half
For 23 minutes, Dartmouth played San Francisco to a near draw out on the West Coast, trailing by three up to that point. But the Dons rattled off 15 straight points to take control of the game and send the Big Green to an 84-65 defeat on Nov. 24. Although Dartmouth has scored 18 more points in the second half than its opponents this year, the last two games have brought about a different result with the Green being outscored by a combined 34 points against No. 22 Buffalo and USF.
Lighting It Up
• After hitting 11-of-27 3-pointers at San Francisco, Dartmouth ranks second in the nation in 3-pointers made (13.5 per game) and eighth in percentage as a team (.435).
• The 81 treys are the Big Green's most in a six-game span ever, four outdistancing the previous record of 68 set early in the 2001-02 season.
• Dartmouth started the year with four straight games with at least 10 3-pointers, its longest such streak since a six-game stretch in 2002.
• The Big Green are on pace to knock down 405 triples this season, which would shatter the program record of 263 set in 2001-02.
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Ian Sistare ranks second in the country at 71.1 percent (15-of-21) behind the arc while
Brendan Barry is not far behind in sixth at 62.5 percent (20-of-32).
James Foye (14-of-29, .483) and
Adrease Jackson (12-of-30, .400) have also hit at least two per game while shooting 40 percent or better.
• The Big Green hit 22 trifectas in the season opener, breaking the team record of 18 set in a win over Albany on Jan. 20, 2001.
Bully on Taurus
Freshman point guard
Taurus Samuels continues to improve each time on the floor, and his performance at San Francisco was no exception as he scored in double figures for the first time in his career with 10 points. The rookie hit 3-of-5 from the floor with a pair of treys and both free throws.
Action Jackson
Nothing like a "classic" Carl Weathers film to pump up a player. Sophomore
Adrease Jackson leads Dartmouth in scoring (14.0 ppg) and rebounding (7.3 rpg) through six games this season, which puts him among the top 10 in the Ivy League in both categories (10th in scoring, 3rd in rebounds). He also is in the Ivy top 10 in free throw percentage (.857, 3rd), blocked shots (1.5 per game) and 3-pointers made per game (2.0, 8th).