Men's Basketball Plays at Eastern Washington on Saturday

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POCATELLO, Idaho- The Idaho State men's basketball team plays at Eastern Washington on Saturday, January 3. Tipoff is at 3 p..m (MDT). The game will be heard live on 930 AM and 102.5 FM with Jerry Miller calling the action. To follow the game online with live video, audio and stats, log onto isubengals.com.

Eastern Washington leads the series 41-28. The two teams split the series last year, with ISU winning 83-72 in Pocatello and losing 77-69 in Cheney. ISU has lost 12 straight games in Cheney, with the last win being a 65-63 victory during the 2002-03 season.

Eastern Washington is 10-4 and averaging 80.9 points a game. The Eagle are shooting 49.1 percent from the field and 41.4 percent from the 3-point line. Eastern Washington averages 34.5 rebounds, 13.1 assists a game while shooting 71.2 percent from the free throw line. Tyler Harvey leads EWU in scoring at 23.9 points a game while Venky Jois is scoring 19.3 points and averaging eight rebounds a game.

Hansen Putting up the Points
Chris Hansen became the 20th Bengal in ISU men's basketball history to reach the 1,000 point mark. He scored nine points vs. Bakersfield and he now has 1,027 points in his career. Here is where he ranks on the all-time scoring list.

1. Les Roh        1952-56    1964
2. Steve Hayes        1973-77    1933
3. Donn Holston        1982-87    1819
4. Jim Potter        1991-95    1810
5. Arthur Crump        1961-64    1557
6. Willie Humes        1969-71    1510
7. Lloyd Harris        1955-58    1489
8. Lawrence Butler        1977-79    1420
9. Frank Swopes        1959-62    1304
10. David Schroeder    2002-03, 2004-07    1265
11. Amorrow Morgan    2006-10    1221
12. Ron Boone        1965-68    1221
13. Jim Rodgers        1956-59    1186
14. Dave Wagnon        1964-66    1183
15. Nate Green        1993-97    1141
16. Matt Stucki        2005-09    1079
17. Chris Hansen        2011-13    1027

Cleaning the Glass
Jeffrey Solarin proved to be one the best rebounders in the Big Sky Conference last year as he averaged 8.5 rebounds a game. In the first 13 games of the 2014-15 season he is averaging 8.9 boards a game. He had a season-high 14 rebounds at Denver and vs. Northwest Nazarene.  Solarin has eight rebounds or more in 22 of the 41 games he has appeared in as a Bengal.

Long Range
Chris Hansen enters his senior season ranked third all-time for 3-pointers made and attempted.  He needs two 3-pointers to move into second place and pass Austin Kilpatrick's 183. Hansen has made 182 three-pointers on 488 attempts. David Schroeder holds the record for most 3-pointers made in a career with 211 and Austin Kilpatrick holds the top mark for three-pointers attempted with 510. Kilpatrick is second in the career record books for 3-pointers made with 183 and Schroeder is second in 3-pointers attempted with 490.

Playing it Close
ISU has five losses by nine points or less this season. Last year 16 of the Bengals 18 losses were by eight points or less during the 2013-14 season. The only double-digit losses are at Arizona State (88-60) and Washington (85-66). Here is a closer look at just how close ISU has been.

Losses by 8 points: at Utah, at Eastern Washington
Losses by 7 points: at Northern Colorado
Losses by 6 points: at Weber State, at Sacramento State, at Montana State
Losses by 5 points: vs. North Dakota, vs. Montana
Losses by 4 points: at North Dakota, at Idaho, vs. Bakersfield, at Portland State
Losses by 2 points: at Bakersfield, at NAU
Losses by 1 point: at Montana, vs. NAU

Bengal Bites
- In the last nine seasons the most road games ISU has won in a season is five in  2005-06.
- Assistant Coaches Andy Ward and Jay Collins played for Bill Evans at SUU.
- ISU is 5-63 in non-conference road/neutral court games over the last six years. ISU is 19-14 in non-conference home games over that same time period.  Before the 93-90 overtime win at USF, the last road non conference win was Nov. 28, 2009, a 68-65 at UMKC. The Bengals beat Troy, 77-73 on Dec. 22, 2010 at Utah State.
- Jeffrey Solarin has a league-best four double-doubles this year.

Here is a look where the Bengals rank in the conference stats for all- games played.
- Scoring 12th, 60.1
- Scoring Defense, 1st, 65.1
- Free throw percentage, 12th, 62.8
- Field goal percentage, 10th, 40.4
- Field goal percentage defense, 1st, 40.9
- 3-point field goal percentage, 12th, 28.1
- 3-point field goal percentage defense, 3rd, 32.6
- Rebounding, 5th, 33.9
- Blocks, 8th, 2.6
- Assists, 11th, 10.2
- Steals, 4th, 6.9

Here is where the Bengals rank in the individual conference stats for all-games played.
- Chris Hansen, 8th, scoring 15.7 points.
- Jeffrey Solarin, 2nd, rebounding, 8.9
- Jeffrey Solarin, 5th, field goal percenrage 57.5
- Ben Wilson, 9th, assists, 3.2
- Nnamdi Ezenwa, 4th, steals, 1.5
- Chris Hansen, 5th, steals, 1.4
- Chris Hansen 3-pointers made per game, 6th, 2.5
- Jeffrey Solarin, 1st, offensive rebounds, 3.6