Game Information
Presbyterian Blue Hose (5-12, Big South: 1-3) vs. Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs (7-9, Big South: 2-2)
Date: Wednesday, January 11 at 7 p.m.
Site: Clinton, S.C. (Templeton Center)
Watch: ESPN+
Radio: WSPG (98.3, 1400 AM Fox Sports Spartanburg) Ryan Clary (PxP)
Live Stats: GoBlueHose.com
Twitter: @BlueHoseHoops

PRESBYTERIAN
Record: 5-12
Big South Record: 1-3
Last Game: January 11, 2023 – Charleston Southern – L, 67-61
Head Coach: Quinton Ferrell
Career Record: 34-69 (4^th Season)
PC Record: Same
 
GARDNER-WEBB
Record: 7-9
Big South Record: 2-2
Last Game: January 7, 2023 – Radford – L, 63-59
Head Coach: Tim Craft
Record at Gardner-Webb:  163-143 (10th Season)
Career Record: Same

PROMOTIONS
The game sponsor is the restaurant: Break on the Lake.  
LAST TIME OUT
Crosby James led all scorers with 20 points but the Blue Hose lost to the Charleston Southern Buccaneers, 67-61, at the Templeton Center on Saturday afternoon.
 
James shot 9-for-11 from the free-throw line on the way to his 20-point performance. Jalen Forrest scored 13 points off the bench. Owen McCormack scored nine points. Terrell Ard, Jr. scored eight points and grabbed seven rebounds. Kobe Stewart led the Blue Hose with eight rebounds.

BLUE HOSE BY THE NUMBERS
James, who has scored in double-figures nine times, leads the Blue Hose in scoring, averaging 11.1 points per game. James is tied for the team lead connecting on 23 three-point field goals this season. Forrest, who has recorded seven double-figure scoring games off the bench, averages 10.6 points per game. Marquis Barnett averages 8.5 points per game and a team-leading 5.2 rebounds per game. Ard is second on the team in rebounding averaging 5.1 boards per game. Ard averages 6.9 points per game. Trevon Reddish-Rhone averages 7.1 points while dishing out a team-leading 2.4 assists per game. McCormack averages 8.1 points. McCormack is tied with James for the team lead in three-point field goals made with 23.
 
NOTES
FORREST TWO-TIME BIG SOUTH FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK - Forrest has been named Big South Freshman of the Week twice (November 28, January 9). Forrest is the fifth player in the program's history to garner multiple Big South Freshman of the Week awards.
 
BENCH POINTS - Presbyterian behind the double-figure scoring performances from Forrest, Houston Jones, Stewart, and Quadir Pettaway off the bench in the win over Allen (December 19, 2022), the Blue Hose scored a season-high 58 bench points. This marked the most bench points scored by the Blue Hose since tallying 67 bench points in a home win over UNC Asheville on March 5, 2019. In the 2018-19 season, the Blue Hose recorded four games with at least 51 bench points.
This season, Presbyterian has had 15 double-figure scoring games off the bench.
The Blue Hose average 22.1 points per game off the bench this season.
 
OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS - This season, Presbyterian averages 11.94 offensive boards per game, which ranks 64th in the nation. The Blue Hose have recorded 11 double-figure offensive rebounds games (Carolina University - November 7, at The Citadel - November 10, at East Carolina - November 12, at UAB, November 16, vs. Bucknell - November 21, VMI - November 29, Elon - December 15, Allen - December 19, Campbell - December 29, January 4, at Winthrop, and Charleston Southern - January 7). The Blue Hose grabbed a season-high 20 offensive boards at Winthrop, on January 4, 2023.
 
SAME STARTING FIVE - Presbyterian has used the same starting lineup in each of its first 17 games. Guards Barnett, James, Reddish-Rhone, and forwards Ard, Jr., and McCormack have been the Blue Hose's starting lineup in every game this season.
 
DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORERS – Ten Presbyterian players have recorded at least one double-figure scoring game this season. Reddish-Rhone, McCormack, James, Forrest, Barnett, Ard, Jones, Pettaway, Stewart, and Winston Hill have all tallied at least one double-figure scoring game this season.
 
COACH FERRELL - Quinton Ferrell is in his fourth season as the head coach of his alma mater, Presbyterian College. Ferrell, a former Blue Hose team captain and a 2007 PC graduate, is one of 52 coaches in the NCAA Division I ranks that are coaching their alma maters.
 
PRESBYTERIAN-GARDNER-WEBB SERIES
Wednesday's game marks the 56^th meeting between Presbyterian and Gardner-Webb, who leads the all-time series 32-23. Gardner-Webb has won the last four games between the two teams including a 76-68 win over Presbyterian in Clinton, S.C. on February 19, 2022. Presbyterian's last win in the series was a 65-61 victory at home on February 6, 2020.
 
SCOUTING GARDNER-WEBB
The Runnin' Bulldogs enter the game on a two-game losing streak after having won five straight games. This season, Gardner-Webb has wins over North Carolina A&T, Western Carolina, Carolina University, North Carolina Central, Bob Jones, Charleston Southern, and High Point. Three Gardner-Webb players average double-figure points led by junior Anthony Selden's 11.6 points per game. Gardner-Webb averages 71.9 points per game while their opponents average 63.6 points per game.