#18 UIndy Greyhounds (10-2) at #1 Colorado State-Pueblo ThunderWolves (11-0)
Saturday, Nov. 24, 2 p.m. EST, Pueblo, Colo.
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PLAYOFFS !?!
The Greyhounds continue their voyage into uncharted waters this weekend, with a second-round playoff match-up at top-ranked Colorado State-Pueblo Saturday.  UIndy is in the midst of its first-ever NCAA Division II playoff run and first postseason appearance since competing as a D-III team in 1975.

STREAM WEAVER
A free video stream will be available for Satruday's game.  Also, Colin Bowles and Jared Boomer will have the call for WICR, both on 88.7 FM and online.  Both video and audio links are above.

TICKET INFO
Five hundred seats are have been reserved specifically for UIndy fans this weekend.  The seats are in Section W, located on the east side of the Neta & Eddie DeRose ThunderBowl.  The $10 tickets can be purchased by calling Ben LoCascio at 719-549-2050, or online at the link above.  If ordering online, fans must create/register an account , then use "Visiting Fan" as the customer type and "RoundTwo" as the customer password.

ABOUT COLORADO STATE-PUEBLO
For the second consecutive year, the No. 1 ThunderWolves finished the regular season with a spotless 11-0 record.  They have won an impressive 26 straight regular-season games dating back to 2010.

The ThunderWolves secured the region's top seed for the second straight year.  Like this season, CSU-Pueblo earned a first-round bye in the '11 playoffs, but the ensuing home game ended in a 24-21 overtime loss to fourth-seeded Minnesota-Duluth.

“The Pack” features a balanced offensive attack, led by 1,000-yard rusher J.B. Matthews and quarterback Ross Dausin.  Both were recently named First Team All-RMAC.

FROM THE GROUND UP
CSU-Pueblo head coach John Wristen built the ThunderWolves' football program from nonexistent to a national power in just five short years..  He arrived on campus in July of 2007 with no coaching staff and no players, given the job of building the school's first football team since 1984 in just a 365-day window.

Since recording a 4-6 record in 2008, good for the fourth-best record in D-II history for a startup program in its first season of competition, Wristen owns a stellar 42-13 mark in his five years as the ThunderWolves' head man.

HOUNDS vs. THUNDERWOLVES
CSU-Pueblo is the 10th first-time opponent for the Greyhounds this year.  The Hounds are 9-1 in those first-time meetings, with the only loss coming at FCS Western Illinois in week two.

UIndy has not only never faced the ThunderWolves, but it has also never lined up against any team from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

LAST TIME OUT
UIndy kept its historic season alive last Saturday, downing fourth-seeded and eighth-ranked Midwestern State, 31-14, for its first-ever NCAA Division II playoff win.  Both teams came into the day with nine-game winning streaks, but it was the Greyhounds that came away with win No. 10.  The Key Stadium crowd of 6,235 saw MSU (9-2) limited to just 280 total yards -- nearly 200 yards below its season average.  The Hounds ultimately scored the game's final 24 points, with 17 coming in the fourth quarter.

RIPP-ED
With starting running back Klay Fiechter limited due the injury, the Greyhounds received a career-high 143 rushing yards and two touchdowns from sophomore Matt Ripp.  A native of nearby Fishers, Ind., Ripp delivered 107 yards and both TDs in the second half, helping the Hounds overcome a 14-7 third-quarter deficit.

NATURAL BORN PUNTER
Not lost during last week's win was the performance of the aptly-named Aaron Puntarelli.  The veteran punter averaged a season-high 46 yards on four punts -- three of which landed inside the 20.  Early in the first quarter, he got off a 51-yard boot that was downed at the Mustang five-yard line, and later managed a 54-yard boomer that settled at the MSU 10.

All-GLVC
The Hounds dominated the recently-released All-GLVC list.  Fourteen UIndy players garnered all-conference accolades, including a league-best 13 first-team honorees.  In addition, three Hounds picked up major year-end awards from the GLVC, as Mar'quone Edmonds was named the GLVC Offensive Player of the Year, Scott Miller the Special Teams Player of the Year and Bob Bartolomeo the Coach of the Year.

KING OF THE HILL
One of the Hounds' All-GLVC First Team members was Klay Fiechter.  The junior running back/return man was also named one of 24 candidates for the 2012 Harlon Hill Award, awarded annually to the country's top D-II player. Fiechter is the sixth UIndy football player to be named a Hill candidate, including teammate and 2011 candidate Chris Mills.  No Greyhound has advanced to become a finalist.

TACKLING THE ISSUES
UIndy defensive stalwart Max Davis continued a stellar collegiate career in this, his senior season.  The four-year starting linebacker and team captain has amassed 113 total tackles in 12 games, becoming just the sixth-ever Greyhound with three straight 100-tackle seasons.  Meanwhile, his 411 career tackles are good for fifth on the UIndy all-time list.

STREAKIN'
The Greyhounds, who haven't lost a football game in more than two months, head into the weekend as winners of 10 in a row, good for the program's second longest winning streak.  UIndy hasn't lost to a D-II team since dropping the season opener at now-fourth-ranked Ashland Aug. 30.

The program record for longest win streak is 12, set in 1953-54.  Including a pair of ties, the Greyhounds went unbeaten in 13 straight games spanning the 1984 and '85 seasons.

RECORD DEAL
A great number of both team and individual school records have fallen this year.  See below for a concise list.

INDIVIDUAL RECORDS, GAME	INDIVIDUAL RECORDS, SEASON
Most receptions - Edmonds (tied, twice)	Most rushing yards - Fiechter
Most extra-points made - Miller (tied)	Most rushing TDs - Fiechter
Highest completion percentage - Mills (tied)	Most total TDs - Fiechter
	Most all-purpose yards - Fiechter
INDIVIDUAL RECORDS, CAREER	Highest punt return average - Fiechter*
Most receptions - Edmonds	Most rushing yards per game - Fiechter*
Most receiving yards - Edmonds	Most receiving TDs - Edmonds
Most receiving TDs - Edmonds	Most extra points made - Miller
Most passing TDs - Mills	Highest passing efficiency - Mills*
	Most receptions - Edmonds
TEAM RECORDS, SEASON	Most receiving yards - Edmonds
Most points
Most TDs	*on pace to break record
Most rushing TDs
Most total offense
Most wins

(STILL) ON THE RECORD
Even with all those records already broken, there remains at least two major benchmarks in immediate danger Saturday.  Edmonds enters the weekend with 41 career touchdowns, just two shy of the school-record 43 TDs scored by UIndy-legend Dick Nyers from 1952-55, while Fiechter needs two rushing TDs to tie Jim Ware's career mark of 30, set in 1962.

PERFECT 10
UIndy's 10 victories represent a school record for wins in a season.  Before this year, the Hounds had not managed more than eight wins in a single season.

HOMELAND SECURITY
The Greyhounds have recorded a spotless 6-0 record at home is year.  They are a combined 11-1 at home over the previous two seasons, with their only loss coming to eventual national-runner-up Wayne State in the 2011 home finale.

POLL POSITION
In one of many firsts this season, UIndy made its first-ever showing in the American Football Coaches Association Division II Top 25 Poll.  After receiving votes in the AFCA preseason poll, the Greyhounds finally cracked the top 25 on Nov. 5, debuting at No. 19 before climbing to 18th in the final regular-season edition.  The Greyhounds are also ranked No. 18 in this week's D2Footbal.com media poll.

BIG PLAYS
The 2012 Hounds have shown a propensity to pick up yardage in chunks, as the team has combined for 71 plays of 20 yards more, including 33 plays of at least 30.  Both Fiechter and Edmonds have amassed 18 gains of at least 20 yards, with Fiechter notching six plays of 60 yards or more.

STAT HOUNDS
Among the statistics tracked by the NCAA, the Greyhounds rank in the top 10 in Division II in four categories and in the top 25 in seven.  UIndy ranks second among all D-II teams in sacks allowed per game (0.42), third in pass defense (149.2 ypg), fifth in punt return average (19.1 ypr) and ninth in total defense (284.7 ypg).  UIndy is also positioned highly in scoring defense (14th, 17.3 ppg), passing efficiency (17th, 156.4) and scoring offense (21st, 37.8 ppg).

GLVC FOOTBALL, YEAR 1
After 13 seasons as an associate member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC), the Greyhounds moved to the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) this fall.

The addition of football to the GLVC's 17 other sponsored sports allowed UIndy to compete as a full member of the largest Division II conference in the nation.  A founding member of the league back in 1978, UIndy was one of nine teams to compete for the first GLVC football crown this year, including full-timers Kentucky Wesleyan, McKendree, Missouri S&T, Quincy, Saint Joseph's and William Jewell and associate members Central State and Urbana.