Game Information
Opponent: Michigan
Date: Dec. 18, 2019
Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Crisler Center)
Radio: WPCC (https://tunein.com/radio/Large-Time-Network-1410-s21875/)
Announcers: Ryan Clary (PbP), Kenn Blankenship (Analyst)
TV Broadcast: BTN (https://www.foxsportsgo.com/)
Live Stats: https://mgoblue.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary
Twitter: @BlueHoseSports

Series Record:
First meeting between the two schools

Michigan
Record: 8-3
Ranking: 14/15
Last Game: Dec. 14, 2019, vs. Oregon, L 70-71 (ot) in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Head Coach: Juan Howard
Career Record: 8-3 (1st year)
MU Record: 8-3 (1st year)
vs. PC: 1-1

Presbyterian College
Record: 2-9
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Dec. 18, 2019 vs. Jacksonville, L 58-81, in Clinton, S.C.
Head Coach: Quinton Ferrell
Career Record: 2-9 (1st year)
PC Record: 2-9 (1st year)
vs. MU: 0-0

NOTES:
The Blue Hose travel to #14/15 Michigan Saturday for a noon tip-off ... It marks the first meeting between the two schools ...

The game marks the 16th time PC has faced a nationally-ranked opponent and first since last November when PC took on #24 Marquette on the on the 17th and #17 UCLA the 19th of that month ... The Blue Hose are 1-14, the lone win a 56-54 decision at #20 Cincinnati in 2011 ...  

Michigan is 8-3 after dropping a 70-71 overtime decision against Oregon ... The Wolverines are led by Isaiah Livers with 14.6 points per game ... Jon Teske, who is second in scoring with 13.4 ppg, leads the team on the boards with 8.5 rebounds per game ... Michigan is 5-1 at home this season and is averaging 77.7 points and 35.9 rebounds per game ...

PC is 2-9 overall and coming off a 58-81 loss to Jacksonville at home ... Two Blue Hose are averaging in double-figures with Cory Hightower pacing the team with 12.3 ppg ... Chris Martin is second with 10.4 ... Just outside looking in is Ben Drake with 9.9 ppg ... He leads PC in rebounds with 6.1 a contest ...

Jacksonville hit 13 three-pointers, including 10 in the first half, and shot over 50% in the second to pull away for the 81-58 win over PC in its last game ... Chris Martin tied his career-high with a team-leading 19 points ... Cory Hightower followed with 11 on the night ... 

Chris Martin is starting to find his touch this season, after recording double-digits in two of his first seven games, he has posted double-figures in his last four in a row, including two- career-high 19 point games ... He was six-of-nine for .667 percent against Jacksonville, which tied his career-high in field goals made ...

A young team in 2019-20, the Blue Hose have enlisted several new starters this season, including freshman Michael Isler who is averaging 27.7 minutes ... Ben Drake, a redshirt senior, saw limited action the last few seasons due to injury, has started every game, while Kody Shubert, who started three games as a freshman last season, has started the last three games ... 

Michigan will be the third and final team that PC faces this season from one of the Power 5 conferences ... The Blue Hose faced ACC's Clemson on Nov. 7 and Notre Dame Nov. 18 ... 

The Blue Hose are making marks in the PC DI season stats record book ... Currently PC is sixth in scoring average (62.7), third in rebounding average (33.5), second in defensive rebounding average (24.2), fourth in offensive rebounding average (9.3) and assists average (11.9), third in steals average (6.6), ninth in scoring defense (72.8), and sixth in three-point defense (.362) ...

With two three-pointers against Jacksonville JC Younger moved into second in the PC DI record book 207 for his career ... He is just eight from taking over the top spot ... He is also just 83 points from 1,000 for his career, which would make him the fifth player in PC DI history to reach the historic plateau ... Cory Hightower has 475 points and is just 25 from 500 for his career ...

Several Blue Hose are showing up in the Big South stats ... Cory Hightower is 13th in scoring (12.3), while Ben Drake is fifth in rebounding (6.1) ... Chris Martin is tied for fourth in assists (3.5), Hightower is 10th (2.8) ... Martin is second in steals (1.9) ... JC Younger is seventh in three-pointers made (2.0) ... Martin is fourth in assist/turnover ratio (2.3), while Hightower is second in minutes played (33.1) ...

A new season brings a new coaching staff with the addition of 2007 PC alum Quinton Ferrell ... An integral member of the basketball team as a student-athlete he served as an assistant coach from graduation to 2012 ... After stops at The Citadel and Army, he settled at College of Charleston for five seasons from 2014-19 ... In his fourth season the Cougars made a memorable run that included the program's second-straight 25-win campaign, an impressive 26-8 overall record and 14-4 mark in CAA play ... The co-regular-season champions won the CAA Men's Basketball Championship and earned their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1999 ...

Ferrell brought with him a new staff with the additions of Ben Korren, Trey Meyer, Nick Lagroone as assistant coaches, Trey Johnson as Director of Basketball Operations, and Erik Goldbach as Video Coordinator ... 

The Blue Hose are looking for another strong season at the Templeton Center in 2019-20, after finishing 12-3 at home last season ... The 12 wins at home was the most in its DI history ... PC is 1-2 at home so far this season ...

The 20 wins in 2018-19 by the Blue Hose were most in PC DI history ... The Blue Hose recorded 14 wins in 2011-12 (14-15) ... The record for most wins all-time is 27, set in 92-93 and 2002-03 ... The last time the Blue Hose won at least 20 games was in 2006-07, the final year of Division II, the team went 20-9 ... 

Last season PC posted nine conference wins (9-7), which was tied for the most in its DI history ... The Blue Hose were 9-9 in 2008-09 ... 

PC has made at least one three-pointer in the last 383 games ... 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 ...