Men's Basketball | 1/18/2024 5:47:00 PM
SERIES HISTORY: College of Idaho holds a 35-23 advantage in the all-time series between the Yotes and Northwest. College of Idaho enters Friday's tilt with a 14-game winning streak in the series that dates back to 1998. College of Idaho has a 40-8 record in the all-time meetings against Evergreen State. The 24-game winning streak against the Geoducks matches the most against a Yote opponent as they also have 24-straight wins against Walla Walla.
POLL CHATTER: With wins over Corban and Bushnell, College of Idaho has moved up to the No. 3 spot. The eight weeks at No. 1 by the Yotes ranks 24th among NAIA programs and among CCC teams, it is second to Oregon Tech, who has spent 15 weeks at the top spot. The Yotes have spent the last 21 weeks ranked in the top 25 which is the fourth-longest active streak in the NAIA.
1,000-POINT PLATEAU: Jake O'Neil became the 31st player in program history to reach the 1,000-point mark in the 79-51 win over Multnomah in program history. He was joined in the 1,000-point club by
Johnny Radford, who reached the mark with his second 3-pointer in the win over Walla Walla.
Drew Wyman became the third Yote with over 1,000 career points with his 13-point effort at Bushnell. It is the first time in program history that the Yotes have had three 1,000-point scorers on the roster in the same year.
BEVO FRANCIS WATCH LIST: Samaje Morgan is one of 100 players named to the Small College Basketball Bevo Francis Watch List. The Clarence "Bevo" Francis Award is presented annually to the player who has had the finest overall season within Small College Basketball. Considerations will be season statistics and individual achievements, awards, personal character and team achievements. This is an incredibly prestigious award, as this award will only be given to one player within Small College Basketball per season.
STIFLING DEFENSE: The College of Idaho held Walla Walla to 15 first half points. It is the second time in 2023-24 that C of I has held an opponent under 20 points in the first 20 minutes. The 15 points by an opponent is the fewest by an opponent since Northwest scored 12 on January 7, 2023. Since 2019-20, five times C of I has stifled an opponent to under 20 points in a half.
BOARD WORK: Three players -
Caden Handran (10 vs. Hope International - 11/24/23);
Jake O'Neil (12 at Warner Pacific - 12/16/23; 10 vs. Montana Western - 11/25/23) and
Paul Wilson (10 vs. Montana Western - 11/25/23) - have had double-digit rebounds in a game in 2022-23. With O'Neil and Wilson each grabbing double-digit rebounds against Montana Western, the last time that C of I had two players with double-digit rebounds was at Multnomah on Feb. 4, 2023. Furthermore, the last HOME game with two players with double-digit rebounds was on December 7, 2019 against Multnomah when Talon Galloway had 10 boards and Connor Desaulniers had 16 against the Lions.
College of Idaho has outrebounded 15 of its last 16 opponents - dating back to 2022-23, the Yotes have outrebounded its 36 of its last 37 opponents.
DIALING LONG DISTANCE: Johnny Radford has made 39 3-pointers in 2023-24 for 209 in his career to move into fourth place all-time with Matt Ballinger. Next on the list for Radford is 220 by Neal Roberts.
THE 3-POINT FIELD GOAL GIFT: College of Idaho knocked down 15 3-pointers in the 101-41 win over Walla Walla on Friday, January 5. The most since they drained 16 at Multnomah on February 4, 2023, the most at home since they made 18 against Walla Walla on January 28, 2023. Last season, College of Idaho made 320 3-pointers, the most since a school record 368 in 2018-19.
HOME COURT EDGE: The J.A. Albertson Activities Center is arguably one of the toughest venues in all of NAIA Basketball, as the Coyotes posted a perfect 20-0 mark in 2022-23 and have posted a staggering 155-16 overall record on their home floor since the start of the 2013-14 season. The 20 home wins were just one win shy of a new school record held by the 2021-22 team. Since the Activities Center opened in 1991, the Yotes have recorded a 375-100 all-time record – with the mark ballooning to 492-109 when accounting the previous decade at O'Connor Fieldhouse.
JAM THE JAAC: College of Idaho led the NAIA with an average of a program best 1,494 fans at its home games in 2022-23. Since 2013-14, with the exception of the CoVID year of 2020-21, College of Idaho has averaged over 1,000 fans per home game.
