Bobcat Basketball GAME #5: MSU Heads to West Coast to Face Gauchos Saturday Bobcats Visit Dynamic UCSB in Beautiful Santa Barbara Basketball SID: Bill Lamberty

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‘18-19 RECORD 1-3 Home/Road/Neu 1-1/0-2/0-0 Conf./Record Big Sky/0-0

2-1 1-0/1-1/0-0 Big West/0-0

HEAD COACH Alma Mater At School/Years Overall/Years vs. Opponent

Joe Pasternack Indiana/’99 80-70/6th 25-10/2nd 0-0 (0-0/0-0/0-0)

SCHOOL INFO Nickname/colors Bobcats/Blue, gold Gauchos/Blue, gold Location Bozeman, MT Santa Barbara, CA Arena Worthington Arena The Thunderdome GAME INFO vs. UCSB Game #4 Montana State at UCSB Specifics Saturday, Nov. 17 at 3 pm MT in Thunderdome, Santa Barbara Audio Bobcat Radio Network/msubobcats.com (David Gascon) Video Big West TV Last Time UCSB 91-69 on December 9, 2017 in Bozeman Series 1-10 (1-4/0-5/0-1) Series Notes 10 straight losses to UCSB is MSU’s longest current streak

TEAM STAT COMPARISON Shooting Other FG Pct Own/Opp

MSU .422/.473 UCSB .494/.335

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Brian Fish Marshall/’89 51-78/5th same 0-1 (0-1/0-0/0-0)

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3FG Pct Own/Otepp

FT Pct Own

Reb Avg Own/Opp

TO Avg Own/Opp

Scoring Avg Own/Opp

.306/.281 .326/.217

.606 .742

34.5/37.8 42.0/30.0

17.0/11.3 14.0/10.0

66.5/82.5 75.7/60.0

A QUICK LOOK...

 MSU shot more free throws than its opponent in 12 of the last 15 games of 2017-18, led the league in free throws made (330) and attempted (445), but the Cats have shot 30 free throws fewer than its opponents through four games in 2018-19  The Colorado marked the 38th time (out of 68 opportunities) that Tyler Hall and Harald Frey have each scored in double-digits in the same game  Keljin Blevins’ 26-point, 15-rebound outing vs. Presentation was his second career double-double, matched his career scoring high, and set a personal rebound standard  Utah State’s 101 points was the most against the Cats in a season opener since UCLA’s 113 in 2014-15  Montana State’s 45-point loss at Indiana was its largest margin of defeat since falling 86-28 at Kentucky in 2014-15

ON THE OFFENSE...

 MSU’s 11.5% from three-point range at Indiana was lower than any 2017-18 game except Central Michigan (6.3%), and the Cats shoot just 26.0% from the arc so far in 2018-19  Montana State shot 37.2% from the arc at home last season, and is 16-47 (37.0%) after two games this season  The Bobcats shot 25.5% at Indiana, the team’s lowest shooting percentage since opening the 2006-07 season with the by shooting 25.5% in a loss at Utah Valley

Montana State’s road show continues Saturday, when the Bobcats meet UC Santa Barbara in a matinee. Tipoff is 3 pm MT at the Thunderdome. ON THE DEFENSE... The Gauchos enter Saturday’s game 2-1, with a road win at Wyoming.  The Cats blocked four Presentation shots, Devearl Ramsey leads a balanced attack with 11.3 points, shooting 52.6% and Tyler Hall leads the team averaging 1.0 from the floor. JaQuori McLaughlin averages 10.7. Tyler Hall’s 30 points per game led all players in MSU’s loss at CSU Wednesday.

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Tyler Hall...................................... 6-5 Keljin Blevins (like heavens) ........ 6-6 Devin Kirby (rhymes with heaven) 6-11 Harald Frey (fray) ........................ 6-2 Russell Daniels ............................ 5-11

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Exp 3V 1V 1V/RS 2V JC

PPG 16.8 13.5 6.8 9.8 1.5

RPG 3.8 7.0 5.3 4.5 0.8

Quickly 2nd in BSC history in three-pointers Career-high 26 points vs. Presentation Blocked one USU shot Season high 17 points at CSU Scoreless in last three g