Game Information
Opponent: at USC Upstate
Date: Jan. 20, 2019
Site: Spartanburg, S.C. (Hodge Center)
Radio: WPCC
Talent: Ryan Clary (PbP), Kenn Blankenship
TV Broadcast: ESPN+
Live Stats: www.upstatespartans.com
Twitter: @BlueHoseSports
PC leads series 14-13
last 2 meetings:
2018: PC 64, USCU 61
2016: USCU 76, PC 48
USC Upstate
Record: 5-15, 0-5
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Jan. 19, 2019, vs Winthrop; L 72-82, in Spartanburg, S.C.
Head Coach: Dave Dickerson
Career Record: 73-99 (6th year)
USCU Record: 5-15 (1st year)
vs. PC: 0-1
Presbyterian College
Record: 11-9, 3-2
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Jan. 19, 2019 vs Longwood; W 71-4, in Clinton, S.C.
Head Coach: Dustin Kerns
Career Record: 22-30 (2nd year)
PC Record: 22-30 (2nd year)
vs. USCU: 1-0
NOTES
PC heads up the road to USC Upstate Monday it the second meeting of the season ... The Blue Hose hold a 14-13 mark in the series after a 64-61 win in early January ...
PC had three players finish in double-figures as the Blue Hose held on for a 64-61 victory over USC Upstate in the last meeting ... Francois Lewis led the Blue Hose with 16 points ...
USC Upstate is 5-15 overall and 0-5 in the league after a 72-82 loss at Winthrop in its last game ... Malik Moore leads the Spartans with 16.0 points and 6.4 rebounds per game ...
The Blue Hose capitalized on a 12-0 run late in the second half to pull away in a close battle and then hold on through a late Lancer rally as PC came away with the 71-64 win over Longwood in Big South action Saturday ... Adam Flagler scored 21 points, while Cory Hightower posted his second double-double of the season with 11 points and a career-high 12 rebounds. ...
Two Blue Hose are averaging in double figures 20 games into the season, with Adam Flagler on top with 15.3 ppg, Francois Lewis is second with 14.3 ... Davon Bell sits in third with 9.8 ... Cory Hightower, who is close to double-figures with 9.3 ppg, is tops on the boards with 6.7 rebounds ...
After playing on the road for six of seven games, the Blue Hose are now home for five of their next eight games ...
With a 7-2 mark at home PC is off to one of its best starts at the Templeton Center ... PC was 9-2 at home during the 2008-09 season and 5-0 at home in 2007 ...
PC had two 20-point scorers against Hampton, marking the second game this season the Blue Hose have had multiple players with over 20 points ...
The Blue Hose have 11 wins so far this season, tying the 2017-18 team ... It is over double from the 2016-17 season and tied for its highest win total since the 14 victories in 2011-12 ...
The Radford game marked the second time this season five different players have scored in double-figures, the last coming against Boyce … PC has had at least three players score in double-figures in 15 contests this year …
The Radford game was the second game this year PC has outrebounded its opponent and lost (31-25), the Blue Hose are now 8-2 ...
PC outscored High Point and Radford in the second half, marking the third and fourth games of the season it has won the second-half battle but lost the game, the other games being UCLA and Dayton …
For the first time this season, the Blue Hose won despite being out-rebounded, when they defeated S.C. State, 72-70 ... The Bulldogs held a 37-22 advantage on the boards ...
PC pulled down 54 rebounds against Trinity Baptist, which ranked third in the PC DI record book ... This season the Blue Hose are 9-2 when out-rebounding their opponent, the two losses against Dayton and Radford ...
The 35 points for Francois Lewis against St. Francis ranked fourth in the PC record book, his 12 made field goals tying for second ... Davon Bell's 11 assists ranked second as well ... JC Younger's 30 points against VMI tied for ninth, his nine three-pointers also a record ...
For the first time in its Division I history, the Blue Hose faced two back to back top 25 teams with Marquette (11/17) ranking 24th, and UCLA (11/19) sitting at 17th ...
The game against Hampton was the seventh of nine this season against a new opponent ... If you count teams since Presbyterian joined the ranks of Division I than that number moves to 10, with the last meeting between the Blue Hose and CofC Cougars occurring when PC was in Division II ...
Several Blue Hose are showing up in the Big South statistics (as of Jan. 19) ... Adam Flagler is 10th in scoring (15.3), Francois Lewis is 15th (14.3) ... Cory Hightower is fourth in rebounding (6.7), while Davon Bell is third in assists with 5.4 ... Adam Flagler is second in three-pointers made (2.8) and third in percentage (.390) ... The assist/turnover ratio belongs to Davon Bell, who is first with 2.9 ...
In the NCAA national statistics PC is ninth in 3-pt field goal attempts (527), 11th in 3-pt field goals per game (10.5), seventh in 3-ptrs made (199), 14th in turnover margin (4.4), and 10th in turnovers per game (10.3) ... Davon Bell is 27th in assist/turnover ratio (3.06) and 17th in total assists (107) ...
The six steals by the Blue Hose against Marquette were a PC Division I record ...
Should these numbers hold this year's team will break several PC Division I season records, including scoring (77.9), 3-pt fg pct. (.372), rebounding (35.2), assists (14.9), and scoring margin (+6.9) ... PC is currently second in fg pct. (.447) ...
The 27 assists and 18 three-pointers against VMI ranked for third in the PC record book ... The 103 points tied for seventh ... Adam Flagler's 10 free throws tied for 11th in the PC DI record book, his 1.000 pct. tied for first ... The Blue Hose shot .667 from the perimeter, also a PC DI mark ...
Until it hit five against Jacksonville PC had hit at least 10 three-pointers seven games in a row, including 16 against Welch ... That snapped the previous record, a five-game streak that opened the 2007-08 season ... In its DI history the Blue Hose have just 56 games with double-digit three-pointers, which includes a 15-game mark in 2007-08, and a 10-game mark last season ... PC has 12 double-digit three-pointer games already this season ...
The Blue Hose had a three-game winning streak snapped at Marquette ... The streak was the longest since a five-game mark early last season ... During the three-game stretch, which included wins over Tennessee Tech, Welch, and Boyce, PC averaged 97.0 points, shot 50.7 pct. from the field, and averaged 44.3 rebounds per game ...
Should the 10.2 turnovers per game hold up for the year, it will break the PC Division I record for turnovers per game ... The record was 11.9 and was set last season, Coach Kerns' first season ... It dropped 3.1 points from the 2016-17 season ... The 6.3 steals per game, as well as the 1.5 assist/turnover ratio would be season records as well ...
Davon Bell is averaging 5.4 assists per game, should he increase that to 6.5 he will eclipse the Division I record for assists average in a season ...
When PC turned the ball over just five times against Boyce it tied for the Blue Hose Division I record ...
With 11 assists against SFC Davon Bell moved into first in career assists at PC with 355 ... He now has 414 ... Bell is also just 35 steals from taking over the top career spot of 185 ...
PC announced Nov. 14 the signing of forward Owen McCormack (Advance, N.C.), guard CJ Melton (Hoover, Ala.), and forward RJ Wilson (Raleigh, N.C.) to join the Blue Hose in the fall of 2019 ... According to Coach Kerns McCormack has a very high basketball IQ and is extremely skilled and stretches the floor with his ability to shoot the ball from 3pt ... He is an excellent student and fits the way they like to play with his skill set, but also has some toughness and ability to rebound the ball ... Melton has very high ceiling and can play multiple positions on the offensive end and provides some great length on the defensive end with his long wingspan... He is a worker and has a great passion to play and develop ... Wilson is a skilled big who is versatile and gives us some additional help in the front court ... He has great size combined with the skill set of a guard with his ability to pass and handle the ball ...
PC has made at least one three-pointer in every game this season, marking the 359th game in a row the Blue Hose have hit at least one three-pointer in a game ... PC has hit one three-pointer in several games, the last against Clemson in 2015, but has not been held without one in its entire Division I history ...
