#22 UIndy Greyhounds vs. Spring Hill Badgers
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 7 p.m. ET, Nicoson Hall, Indianapolis

ON TAP
The UIndy men's basketball team welcomes Spring Hill College to Nicoson Hall on Tuesday evening for the first time in program history. The Badgers are in their sixth season as a member of NCAA Division II. 

The Greyhounds are now 6-0, matching their start to the 2018-19 campaign. 

ABOUT SPRING HILL
The Badgers are off to a 1-4 start this season, despite being competitive in most losses. Spring Hill picked up its first win against Puerto Rico - Mayaguez in Daytona Beach on Nov. 16 in a 100-86 shootout. The Badgers kicked off conference play already, dropping the opener to Albany State last Saturday. 

Chase Shellman leads the team with 15.2 points and 7.2 rebounds per game this season, while Dwight Harris has dished out 14 asissts in five games. A redshirt senior, Shellman is coming off a medical hardship after drawing 56 starts over the previous three seasons. Shellman, along with Harris, are the lone Badgers averaging more than 30 minutes per contest this season, with Pat McNamara registering more than 26 minutes. 

Head coach Craig Kennedy is in his second season with Spring Hill, and has spent more than 30 years coaching collegiate women's basketball. 

CAGING THE PANTHERS
UIndy held a three-point lead last Friday against Ohio Dominican before fending off the Panthers to win, 71-69. The Greyhounds and Panthers began the Don Callan Invitational in Cedarville, Ohio, before the host Yellow Jackets battled Grand Valley State in the night cap. 

Three Greyhounds recorded 14 points in the win - Jimmy King, Trevor Lakes and Cory Miller Jr., with King and Miller Jr. each recording four steals. Both Miller Jr., along with Marcus Latham, drilled a pair of 3-pointers on three attempts. Latham knocked down the final four free-throw attempts to seal the victory. 

UIndy limited ODU's leading scorer to just eight points on three-of-15 shooting. Hasan Varence led the Panthers with 18 points and seven rebounds.

STINGING THE JACKETS
UIndy and Cedarville combined to shoot 29 of 60 from 3-point range on Saturday, but it was the Greyhounds' balanced attack that led the Crimson and Grey to victory. Jimmy King dished out a career-high 14 assists, while Trevor Lakes led five double-figure scorers with 23 points. 

UIndy shot 60 percent as a team in the second half, with Lakes knocking down of seven of 14 from beyond the arc in 39 minutes of action. Jordache Mavunga also chipped in 21 points, while he and Jacob Polakovich led the team with five boards apiece. 

The Cedarville attack was also in full force on Saturday, shooting 52.6 percent from the floor. The Greyhounds could not quite muster the dominance over a leading scorer as they did on Friday, as Yellow Jacket Conner TenHove tallied 27 points with five 3-pointers. 

DISHIN' JIMMY
Redshirt-senior Jimmy King handed out a career-best 14 assists in the win over Cedarville on Saturday, with the team recorded 24 helpers as a unit. Through six games this season, King is averaging 7.7 assists per game. 

The Roncalli product jumped into the program's top five for most assists in a career against the Yellow Jackets, and now has 390 as a Greyhound. King trails just Kyle Persinger for fourth-most, and is now 10 away from 400. 

LIVING LEGACY
UIndy freshman guard Ben Nicoson is a fourth-generation Greyhound, following in the footsteps of Angus (great grandfather), Dan (grandfather) and Brent (father). Nicoson Hall, home of UIndy basketball, is named after Angus, who is the program's all-time wins leader as a coach with 483 victories.

Ben is currently averaging 9.0 minutes per game as a true freshman.

LAKE SHOW
After a cold shooting night against Ohio Dominican, junior Trevor Lakes drilled a season-high seven 3-pointers in the win over Cedarville on Saturday. The Lebanon, Ind., native launced 14 shots from deep, matching a career high in attempts. Lakes went seven for 14 a season ago from 3-point range against Southern Indiana.

2020 VISION
UIndy head coach Stan Gouard announced the addition of two members to its 2020 recruiting class on Wednesday as part of the early signing period. Matthew Ambrose (Kildeer, IL) and Keegan O'Neill (Montgomery, IN) will both begin their senior seasons at their respective high schools this winter. 

Ambrose was named All-Area by three separate publications as a junior before choosing UIndy as his collegiate destination. Ambrose led Adlai E. Stevenson High School with 16 points/game, while grabbing seven boards and handing our four assists each contest.

O'Neill rounds out the small early-signing class for the Greyhounds, who comes from Montgomery, Ind. The 6-8, 245 lb. big man has averaged double figures the last two seasons with Barr-Reeve, including 15.4 points/game as a sophomore. As a junior, O'Neill averaged 11 points and six rebounds per game.

NEWCOMER LANE
UIndy boasts a high number of newcomers in 2019-20, with eight of the team's 16 players tabbed as newcomers this season. Of the eight, five are freshmen and three are transfers, with Dee Montgomery (Purdue Fort Wayne) and Trevor Banks (Arkansas Pine Bluff) coming in from NCAA DI programs. Cory Miller Jr. was named an All-America First-Team selection his final season at John Wood CC. 

Jesse Bingham was named an Indiana All-Star after his senior season at Warren Central, the lone NCAA DII commit to earn the distinction. Joining Bingham as rookies for UIndy are fellow all-state players Josh Bryan, Frankie Davidson and Kendrick Tchoua, along with Ben Nicoson. 

HOMEGROWN HOUNDS
UIndy has five players from the Indianapolis area, including Jesse Bingham (Warren Central) and Jimmy King (Roncalli). Overall, head coach Stan Gouard has 10 players from the state of Indiana.