GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Purdue (1-1) | Tuesday, Dec. 1 | 3 PM | Mackey Arena | West Lafayette, Ind. |
Live Stats
BROADCAST COVERAGE
TV:
Big Ten Network | RADIO:
106.7 WLLZ HD-2, iHeart Radio app
GAME NOTES
ROCHESTER, Mich. -- The Oakland men's basketball team continuous its rigorous non-conference schedule en route to its fifth game in seven days as the Golden Grizzlies take on Purdue Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette on the Big Ten Network.
Oakland (0-4) is coming off an overtime heartbreaker to No. 25 Michigan, falling to the Wolverines 81-71 led by a 21-point performance from junior-transfer
Jalen Moore. Moore's 21 points was coupled with nine boards, six assists and two steals.
Purdue (1-1) enters Tuesday's game coming off a 1-1 split at the Space Coast Challenge last weekend.
THE MATCH-UP
> Tuesday's game marks just the third meeting between Purdue and Oakland
> Purdue leads the series 2-0
> The last meeting was on 11/21/10 in West Lafayette
> The first-ever meeting was 12/2/01
NOTES
> Oakland hasn't started 0-4 since the 2014-15 season
> Tuesday's matchup marks the fifth game in seven days for the Golden Grizzlies
The Golden Grizzlies have featured three different starting lineups is four games. Moore, Oladapo, Parrish, Townsend, and Young, who started the last two games, have record 77 percent of points scored
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Jalen Moore is averaging 15.5 points, 4.5 assists, 4.3 rebounds, and 2.5 steals per game
> Freshmen
Micah Parrish and
Trey Townsend lead the Golden Grizzlies in rebounds, averaging 7.3 and 5.0 per game respectively
> The Golden Grizzlies return one lone senior to this year's squad in
Kevin Kangu. Kangu appeared in all 33 games last season, making 18 starts, leading Oakland in assists (114), and averaging 5.1 ppg
> Oakland added seven newcomers to the 2020-21 squad, including two transfers in
Zion Young (Western Illinois), and
Jalen Moore (Olney Central College)
> Oakland was picked to finish sixth in the 2020-21 Horizon League Men's Basketball Preseason Poll announced by the league office. The preseason poll was voted on by the league's head coaches, media members, and men's basketball media contacts throughout the league
> Rashad Williams earned preseason accolades, being named second team all-league. The junior guard is coming off a 2019-20 campaign where he led the team in averaging 19.5 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. Williams, a transfer from Cleveland State missed 18 games last season due to NCAA transfer rules, but started the remaining 15 games of the season after receiving a waiver from the NCAA on Jan. 16.
