Tuesday's Game At A Glance• The Lindenwood men's basketball team looks to bounce back quickly after its first loss of the season when it travels to Illinois Springfield on Tuesday night for a 7 p.m. game.
• Lindenwood is now 3-1 on the year after falling to Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday by a 67-62 score. The Lions led 62-61 with 2:22 left in the game, but the Tritons scored the final six points of the game.
• Illinois Springfield is 2-1 on the season and currently riding a two-game winning streak. The Prairie Stars earned a 101-52 victory in its home opener last Wednesday against Robert Morris-Springfield.
• Lindenwood is 7-1 all-time against Illinois Springfield, and has won seven straight in the series. The teams have met three times since the Lions moved to the NCAA Division II level, with Lindenwood winning all three, including a 72-63 decision last year in St. Charles. Two of those three games though have been decided by fewer than 10 points. The Lions are 2-1 all-time in games played in Springfield, Ill., including an 89-84 victory during their last visit in 2012-13.
• Tuesday's game is the final road game for Lindenwood for over a month. The Lions start a six-game homestand on Dec. 1, and they will not be on the road again until a Jan. 2 game at Washburn.
Lindenwood Notes• Lindenwood has held three of its four opponents below 70 points this year, and it ranks 66th out of 301 teams in NCAA Division II in scoring defense.
• Lindenwood is one of the top all-around shooting teams in the MIAA, ranking second in field-goal percentage and free-throw percentage, and seventh in three-point percentage.
• The starters for the Lions this season are shooting 51 percent from the field, while the bench players are making 38 percent of its field-goal attempts.
• Lindenwood's top three post players,
Stanislas Heili,
Sam Mader, and
Zachary Biggs, are shooting 65 percent from the field.
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Cory Arentsen has scored at least 20 points in three straight games. In that span, he is shooting 53 percent from the field, 50 percent from three-point range, and is averaging 26.3 points a game.
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Cory Arentsen leads the MIAA by making 47.8 percent of his three-pointers, and 94.1 percent of his free-throw attempts.
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Brad Newman has scored in double-figures every game this season and is averaging 16.8 points a game. Fifty-five of his 67 points (82 percent) have come in the second-halves of contests.
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Stanislas Heili leads the conference with 2.50 blocks a game, and with two double-doubles on the year.
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Stanislas Heili has recorded double-figure rebounds in every game this season, including a season-high 15 against Missouri-St. Louis. He ranks ninth in the nation, and third in the MIAA, with 12.0 rebounds a game.
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Nick Van Osdale led the team off the bench with nine points against Missouri-St. Louis. On the season, Lindenwood has outscored its opponents by 34 points while Van Osdale has been in the game, the third-best mark on the team and the best mark per 40 minutes.
• Lindenwood has three double-doubles in four games this year, compared to four throughout all of last season.
Stanislas Heili has two double-doubles and
Cory Arentsen has one.
• The Lions have made 75.7 percent of their free throws this season, and are making 81 percent of their free throws in the final five minutes of games.
• Lindenwood had a season-high 23 second-chance points against Missouri-St. Louis, and is averaging 14.8 second-chance points on the season.
A Glance At The Illinois Springfield Prairie Stars• Illinois Springfield is 2-1 on the season. The program opened up the year by losing to Lake Superior State and defeating Findlay in Las Vegas, Neb. Last week, the team won its home opener over Robert Morris-Springfield.
• The Prairie Stars finished last season with an 11-16 mark, and they were 5-13 in GLVC play.
• Illinois Springfield has nine players averaging over seven points a game. Jamall Millison leads the team with 12.5 points a game, and Davi Austin and Zach Steinberg also average double-figures.
• The Prairie Stars are outrebounded teams by nearly five boards a game. Mark Weems has a team-high 6.0 rebounds, followed by Jamall Millison with 5.5.
