NR/No. 9 GANNON GOLDEN KNIGHTS (12-2, 7-0 PSAC West) at INDIANA (PA) CRIMSON HAWKS (7-7, 3-4 PSAC West)
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, January 8, 2024 | 7:30 p.m.
HOMECOURT/LOCATION: Kovalchick Conference and Athletic Advanced l Indiana, Pa.
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THE GANNON-INDIANA (PA) SERIES
Gannon leads 35-26
Gannon defeated IUP 3 times in 2023-24, the final coming within the PSAC Quarterfinals. The Crimson Hawks truly posed an amazing problem in two of the three conferences. After shedding the primary assembly by 26 factors Gannon received by simply two factors within the second assembly earlier than claiming the 94-89 win within the PSAC Match. IUP had received 9 of the final ten conferences earlier than Gannon handed the Crimson Hawks an 84-58 defeat at Hagerty Household Occasions Heart on January 13.
Gannon accomplished the common season sweep with an 91-89 win at IUP on February 10, the primary sweep by the Golden Knights because the 2013-14 season.
Final Assembly: March 6, 2024 – at Gannon 94, Indiana (Pa.) 89 I RECAP
Gannon defeated IUP within the PSAC Quarterfinals however not earlier than the Crimson Hawks gave the Golden Knights some anxious moments. IUP trailed by simply two minutes earlier than Gannon scored the following seven factors. IUP closed the hole to 2 factors once more with 13 seconds left earlier than Zach Hobbs made a pair of free throws and Derrick James (Columbus, Ohio/Canal Winchester) added one to clinch the win. Lyle Tipton (Glenside, Pa./Philadelphia Montgomery Christian Academy) led 4 Golden Knights in double figures with 23 factors. Ethan Porterfield led IUP with 34 factors and 10 rebounds.
ERIE, Pa. – The Gannon males’s basketball group will play its first PSAC West highway sport on Wednesday, January 8 at Indiana (Pa.). Tipoff on the Kovalchick Conference and Athletic Advanced is 7:30 p.m.
The Golden Knights are searching for their thirteenth straight win after opening the PSAC West portion of their schedule with a 108-71 win over a California (Pa.) group picked to complete first within the Western Division.
The margin of victory was the most important within the historical past of the collection because the Golden Knights reached the 100-point mark. Gannon comes into Wednesday’s sport with a 12-2 general document and is 7-0 in PSAC motion. A yr in the past Gannon escaped IUP with a 91-89 win to snap a nine-game shedding streak on the Kovalchick Advanced. That they had not received at IUP since 2013-14. The Golden Knights jumped from seventeenth to ninth when the D2CSC High 25 was launched on Tuesday.
Indiana (Pa.) is available in with a 7-7 document and is 3-4 within the PSAC West following a 81-65 loss at Edinboro on Monday. Lengthy-time head coach Joe Lombardi has received over 400 video games on the helm of the Crimson Hawks however had a serious rebuilding job after shedding quite a few standouts the final two years. He has turned to a full-fledged youth motion with three freshmen starters a lot of the season.
Gannon is enjoying the primary of back-to-back highway video games this week. On Saturday, January 11 Gannon performs at Edinboro in opposition to a much-improved Preventing Scots squad. They return house the next Wednesday to host Slippery Rock. The January fifteenth sport would be the first on the newly-refurbished Highmark Household Occasions Heart.
The Knight Watch:
File: 12-2, 7-0 PSAC West
Head Coach: Easton Bazzoli (1st yr)
- With simply three gamers again from final yr’s 32-3 squad Gannon opened the 2024-25 marketing campaign with back-to-back losses to nationally-ranked Nova Southeastern and Lake Superior State. However since that point the Golden Knights have run off 12 straight wins, together with a 108-71 win over California (Pa.) on Saturday to open PSAC West motion. That boosted Gannon to 12-2 general and 7-0 within the PSAC West. Gannon has climbed to seventeenth in the newest D2CSC Div. II High 25.
- Gannon received twice in a span of three days final week. In a rescheduled sport following the cancelation of the Gary Miller Basic the Golden Knights defeated West Virginia State, an NCAA playoff group a yr in the past, 97-81. They did so with out first-year head coach Easton Bazzoli, who was out resulting from sickness. Bazzoli would return on Saturday to guide Gannon to its largest margin of victory ever in opposition to Cal.
- After main Division II in scoring a yr in the past the Golden Knights are available in averaging 98.2 ppg., good for fourth within the nation. The 100-point effort in opposition to Cal was the sixth time this season Gannon has scored 100-or-more factors. As well as, the Golden Knights are second in Division II in turnovers compelled per sport (23.14) and third in turnover margin at +8.5.
- Cal Baptist switch Tasman Goodrick (Sydney, Australia/St. Joseph’s Faculty) loved a pair of giant efforts in opposition to West Virginia State and California (Pa.). He had 23 factors and 20 rebounds vs. WVSU, the primary 20-20 sport by a Golden Knight because the 2005-06 season. The 6-foot-9 ahead adopted that up with a 20-point, 13-rebound effort in opposition to California (Pa.) for his sixth double-double. Goodrick was named the PSAC West Athlete of the Week after beforehand being named the Defensive Athlete of the Week twice. He’s averaging 15.4 ppg. and 11.2 rpg., the latter determine rating second within the PSAC and seventh in Division II.
- Ernest Shelton (Philadelphia, Pa./Father Choose) leads the Golden Knights in scoring at 17.9 ppg. The 6-foot-5 sophomore has made 45-of-123 3-pointers, rating sixth within the PSAC in scoring and second in 3-pointers made per sport (3.2). He’s additionally third in free throw proportion at 89.4 pct. (42-of-47).
- Freshman Pace Prosser (Berlin, Pa./Berlin Brothersvalley) continues his spectacular play. He dropped in a season-high 27 factors in opposition to California (Pa.), essentially the most factors by a Gannon participant this season. The 6-foot-2 guard is averaging 14.1 ppg. and 5.0 rpg. and has made 35-of-76 3-pointers, main the PSAC in 3-point discipline purpose proportion at 46.1 pct. He’s second on the group with 59 assists and has a team-high 29 steals.
Scouting Indiana (Pa.)
File: 7-7, 3-4 PSAC West
Head Coach: Joe Lombardi (nineteenth yr)
High Gamers: Christian Moore (G, 6-1, Jr., 17.6 ppg., 3.7 rpg., 38-of-101 3’s); Kymani Merraro (G, 5-10, Fr., 13.4 ppg., 3.6 rpg., 61 asts.); Damir Brooks (F, 6-6, R-Jr., 12.4 ppg., 8.0 rpg., 25 blks., 60.2 FG%); Tyler Grove (F, 6-7, Fr., 11.0 ppg., 4.5 rpg., 22-of-75 3-pointers)
- Joe Lombardi is in his nineteenth season as the top coach at IUP and has loved nice success throughout that interval. He has led the Crimson Hawks to 12 NCAA match appearances, seven PSAC match titles (2010, 2011, 2013, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023), three Atlantic Area Championships (2010, 2015, 2022) and two Division II Nationwide Championship Recreation appearances (2010, 2015). He has a 424-128 profession document.
- It is a considerably totally different group for Lombardi after shedding a substantial amount of expertise over the past two years. Damir Brooks was the main returning scorer and he had simply 82 factors in 2023-24. He replenished the roster with Christian Moore, a 6-foot-1 junior who performed two seasons at New Hampshire plus a trio of freshmen led by Kymani Marrero and Tyler Grove. Moore, a 6-foot-1 switch from New Hampshire, is seventh within the PSAC in scoring at 17.6 ppg. and is fifth in 3-pointers made per sport (2.7).
- Merraro is a 5-foot-10 guard by means of Toronto. He has began all 14 video games, averaging 13.4 ppg. with 61 assists. Grove is 6-foot-7 freshman from Erie and McDowell Excessive College. He averages 11.0 ppg. and has made 22-of-75 3-pointers whereas beginning all 14 video games.
- Former Golden Knight Alfonzo Pickens is now on the IUP roster. A 6-foot-2 junior, he has appeared in seven video games.
Subsequent for the Golden Knights: Gannon performs the second of back-to-back highway video games on Saturday, January 11 at Edinboro. Tipoff is 3:00 p.m.
