Sunday, January 15, 2012

Bison on the Air

Radio: WPRT 102.5 The Game (Jonathan Seamon, play-by-play; Justin Seamon, color analyst)

The Game

The Lipscomb Bison welcome the Stetson Hatters to Allen Arena Monday evening for a 6:30 p.m. Atlantic Sun Conference matchup.  

This is the first meeting between Lipscomb and the Hatters since former Belmont assistant Casey Alexander took over the helm at Stetson.  Stetson leads the all-time series 11-8 and the NCAA era series 9-8.  Lipscomb has won three of the last four meetings and seven of nine matchups in Allen Arena.

Lipscomb is led by senior all-conference selection Jordan Burgason who averages 15.6 points and makes 3.6 three-pointers per game.  True freshman Zavion Williams posts 10.5 points a game while running the point for the Bison.   Glenn has emerged in his senior year to average 9.1 points and 7.1 rebounds.

Saturday night Lipscomb lost 84-80 in overtime to Florida Gulf Coast.  FGCU led the battle on the boards 53-40 and scored 40 points in the paint.  Lipscomb was 10-of-21 from the free throw line.  Burgason led four Bison in double figures with 18 points.
    
Quick Hits

• Lipscomb is 4-3 in Allen Arena and Stetson is 2-6 on the road.  Lipscomb is 98-43 all time in Allen Arena.
• Freshman Marvin Williams had a career best eight rebounds against Florida Gulf Coast.
• Freshman Martin Smith had a career highs 14 points and three 3-pointers and tied highs for rebounding (4) and steals (2) against Florida Gulf Coast.
• Jacob Arnett has scored in double figures in three of the last four games
• In the previous two games, Zavion Williams has six points on 3-of-19 shooting
• Lipscomb holds opponents to 66.0 points in wins and give up 82.0 points in losses
• Jordan Burgason averages 19.3 points over the last six games
• Burgason has hit 27 of his last 43 3-point attempts (62.8% over seven games).
• Burgason has moved into 8th place in the A-Sun record book for 3-pointers made (258)
• Justin Glenn shoots 75.5 percent averaging 11.4 points in wins.
• Glenn averages 9.2 rebounds in A-Sun games.  His overall field goal percentage is 63.8 for the 2nd best average in the conference.