Game Information
Presbyterian Blue Hose (5-19, Big South: 1-10) at Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs (12-11, Big South: 7-4)
Date: Saturday, February 4 at 2:00 p.m.
Site: Boiling Springs, N.C. (Paul Porter Arena)
Watch: ESPN+
Radio: WSPG (98.3, 1400 AM Fox Sports Spartanburg) Ryan Clary (PxP)
Live Stats: Statbroadcast.com
Twitter: @BlueHoseHoops

PRESBYTERIAN
Record: 5-19
Big South Record: 1-10
Last Game: February 1, 2023 – Radford – L, 67-59
Head Coach: Quinton Ferrell
Record at Presbyterian: Same
Career Record: 34-76 (4^th Season)

GARDNER-WEBB
Record: 12-11
Big South Record: 7-4
Last Game: February 1, 2023 – at Charleston Southern – W, 67-59
Head Coach: Tim Craft  
Record at Gardner-Webb:  168-145 (10^th Season)
Career Record: Same

LAST TIME OUT
The Blue Hose came up short in a 67-59 loss to the Radford Highlanders at the Templeton Center last Wednesday.
 
Terrell Ard, Jr. led the Blue Hose with 17 points and eight rebounds. Crosby James scored 11 points off the bench. Owen McCormack scored nine points and grabbed seven rebounds.
 
BLUE HOSE BY THE NUMBERS
Jalen Forrest, who leads all freshmen in the Big South in scoring, is Presbyterian's leading scorer averaging 12.2 points per game. Forrest leads the Blue Hose in free throws made (73) and attempted (96). James, who has scored in double-figures 12 times, is second on the team in scoring averaging 10.4 points per game. James has connected on a team-leading 34 three-point field goals made. Marquis Barnett averages 8.8 points per game and is second on the team in rebounding averaging 5.1 boards per game. Ard leads the Blue Hose in rebounding averaging 5.6 rebounds per game. Ard averages 7.6 points per game. Trevon Reddish-Rhone averages 6.8 points while dishing out a team-leading 2.3 assists per game. Kobe Stewart averages 6.8 points while grabbing 4.0 rebounds per game. Owen McCormack averages 7.5 points and 4.0 rebounds per game while connecting on 29 three-point field goals.
  
NOTES
FORREST FOUR-TIME BIG SOUTH FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK - Forrest has been named Big South Freshman of the Week four times (November 28, January 9, January 16, and January 30).
 
BENCH POINTS - Presbyterian behind the double-figure scoring performances from Forrest, Stewart, Houston Jones, 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 18 double-figure scoring games off the bench. The Blue Hose average 20.7 points per game off the bench this season.
 
OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS - This season, Presbyterian averages 11.29 offensive boards per game, which ranks the Blue Hose 85th in the nation in offensive rebounds per game. The Blue Hose have recorded 14 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, Charleston Southern - January 7, USC Upstate - January 18, at UNC Asheville - January 25, and Radford – February 1). The Blue Hose grabbed a season-high 20 offensive boards at Winthrop on January 4, 2023.
 
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.
 
DOUBLE-DOUBLES - The Blue Hose have had three double-doubles this season. Barnett has tallied two double-doubles: vs. Campbell (December 29) with 11 points and 12 rebounds and at USC Upstate (January 18) with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Ard recorded his first career double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds at UNC Asheville (January 25).
 
PRESBYTERIAN-GARDNER-WEBB SERIES
Saturday's game marks the 57^th meeting between Presbyterian and Gardner-Webb, who leads the all-time series 33-23. Gardner-Webb has won the last five meetings between the two teams including a 79-78 overtime victory at the Templeton Center earlier this season on January 11, 2023. Stewart led the Blue Hose with 22 points while shooting 7-for-7 from the field and 4-for-4 from beyond the three-point arc.
 
SCOUTING GARDNER-WEBB  
The Runnin' Bulldogs enter the game on a four-game winning streak with road wins over Winthrop and Charleston Southern and home wins over USC Upstate and High Point. Junior guard DQ Nicholas leads the team in scoring averaging 12.4 points per game. Senior forward Kareem Reid averages 10.4 points and a team-leading 5.2 rebounds per game. Gardner-Webb averages 71.7 points per game while their opponents average 64.1 points per game.