GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) --- The Green Bay men's basketball team will continue its two-game road swing on Tuesday night, paying a visit to Indiana State for a 6 p.m. CT tip-off. The Phoenix dropped a high-scoring 100-77 affair on Saturday night against a talented Missouri team and will look to pick up its first road win of the season against the Sycamores. ISU has won two out of its last three games and is 3-1 at home this season.

CATCH THE ACTION: Tuesday, Dec. 12 - 6:00 PM CT // Terre Haute, Ind. (Hulman Center)

Game Notes: Green Bay Notes   |   Indiana State Notes

Matchup: Green Bay Phoenix (3-5, 0-0 HL) at Indiana State Sycamores (4-5, 0-0 MVC)

Opponent Preview: Indiana State

Where to Follow Stats: SIDEARM Live Stats

Where to Watch: Online: ESPN3

Where to Listen: WNFL 101.9 FM, 1440 AM with Brian Kuklinski on the call

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RP40 NOTES

• Green Bay lost in shootout in its most recent game, falling 100-77 at Missouri on Saturday night. The Phoenix hit 11 3-pointers and had four players finish in double-figures, led by a career-high 17 points by senior David Jesperson. Jesperson went 5-for-6 from the 3-point line and 6-for-7 from the field. The Phoenix jumped out to a 13-4 lead early in the game, but the Tigers would make a surge to take a 60-40 halftime lead and would lead by as many as 26 points in the second half. Khalil Small added 12 points, while a pair of freshmen recorded career-highs with Will Chevalier scoring 11 points and Hunter Crist recording 10.
   
• Head coach Linc Darner and the Phoenix have not played a team from the Missouri Valley Conference over the course of his first 3 seasons at the helm. In fact, Tuesday's meeting with Indiana State will serve as the first-ever game for Darner against MVC opponent. The year before Darner's arrival, the Phoenix went 1-1 against teams from the MVC, beating Drake in the regular season before losing at Illinois State in the First Round of the NIT.
   
• Through 8 games of action, GB continues to lead the Horizon League in field goal percentage defense, allowing its opponents to shoot just 41 percent from the field. Additionally, the Phoenix also leads in 3-point field goal percentage defense, allowing just 25.4 percent shooting from beyond the arc. GB also leads the HL in both rebounding offense and defensive rebounds as well.
   
• Senior Khalil Small has now scored in double-figures in all 8 games to open the season, after recording 12 points at Missouri. Small enjoyed his best shooting performance of the season against Eastern Illinois, going 8-for-10 from the field and a perfect 3-for-3 from 3-point range on his way to scoring a season-high 20 points. The 20 points scored by Small are the most he has scored in a game since his 22-point performance in the team's 2016 NCAA Tournament game against Texas A&M in Oklahoma City. Small ranks 7^th in the HL and leads his team in scoring with 15.1 PPG. Small leads the HL in free throw percentage at 92.9 percent, going 39-for-42 from the charity stripe this season. Small has now started in 68-straight games overall, the longest stretch of any player in the Horizon League.
   
• GB's 59-57 dramatic comeback victory over EIU served as junior Sukhjot Bains' coming-out party, with the Canadian scoring a career-high 10 points, including the game-winner with 17.5 seconds left in the game. Bains also hit the 3-pointer the possession prior, which tied the game at 57-57, after he recorded his career-high fourth steal of the game. The forward played a career-high 24 minutes, leading Coach Darner to add "this was the Sukhjot (Bains) that we recruited and expected."
   
• Head coach Linc Darner has now rolled with the same starting lineup for five-straight games, with Green Bay going 2-3 over that stretch. Kam Hankerson, Khalil Small, PJ Pipes, David Jesperson and Manny Patterson comprise that starting five. To start the second half in the team's last game against Eastern Illinois, Darner deployed Hankerson, Small, Patterson, TJ Parham and Sukhjot Bains, a move that proved beneficial with the Phoenix then overcoming a 13-point halftime deficit.
   
• The 18-point deficit Green Bay overcame in its last win over Eastern Illinois are the most points overcome in a victory since the team came back from 15 points down to beat Northern Kentucky in conference play on Jan. 10 of last season. GB's largest lead on Wednesday night was two points, which was also the winning margin.
   
• Even though Darner has built his reputation and success on an up-tempo, high-scoring style of play, the 16-year veteran has watched his 2017-18 team now win TWO games this year only scoring in the 50s. Darner entered this year having never won a game in the 50s, but now has two on his ledger, which speaks high volumes to the effort his team has given defensively. In fact, this year's team has not allowed a Division I team to score 60 points in two games already, something Green Bay has done only twice combined in the last two seasons.

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