Army West Point Athletics
Friday, November 27
West Point, NY
7:30 PM
Army West Point
vs
Arkansas - Pine Bluff
Barclays Tournament Comes to West Point
November 26, 2015 | Men's Basketball
WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point men's basketball team returns home to Christl Arena following consecutive road losses to George Washington and Tennessee. The Black Knights will host Arkansas - Pine Bluff as part of the Barclays Center Classic Tournament on Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on the Patriot League Network.
HOW TO FOLLOW
TELEVISION • None
RADIO • 1260 WBNR-AM/1420 WLNA-AM
VIDEO • PatriotLeague.TV
AUDIO • Knight Vision • GoArmyWestPoint.com/watch
LIVE STATISTICS • sidearmstats.com/army/mbball/
TWITTER • @ArmyWP_MBB
GAME NOTES • Army Notes | Patriot League
STORYLINES
Prior to Army's game against the Golden Lions, Gardner-Webb and Southeastern Louisiana will tip off at 5 p.m. The winners of Friday's games will meet at 7:30 on Saturday evening and the two losing teams will start at 5 p.m.
Seniors Tanner Plomb and Kyle Wilson have each scored in double figures in the first five games of the season. Wilson set a new career standard with 36 points on eight three pointers in the win over FDU and Plomb enters Tuesday's game riding consecutive 20-point performances.
Wilson scored 21 points in the loss at Tennessee to tie Ella Ellis '13 for fifth on the all-time scoring list with 1,585 career points.
Together, Wilson and Plomb were the top scoring duo in the Patriot League in 2014-15 with an average of 33.3 points per game. Wilson was first in scoring in the conference at 17.5 points per game, while Plomb ranked fourth overall with a 15.8 points per game average. Plomb (21.4) and Wilson (20.8) are the top two scorers in the Patriot League in 2015-16.
Kevin Ferguson's 64.0 percent career field-goal percentage (307-of-480) is second among active NCAA Division I players. Belmont's Evan Bradds leads the list with a 68.5 career-field goal percentage.
As a team, Army is shooting 40.4 percent from three-point range (52-of-127), which ranks 31st in the nation and it is averaging 10.4 three-pointers per game, good for 18th in the country.
Army returned 91.6 percent of its scoring and 92.9 percent of its rebounding from last season, including seven seniors, which is tied for the most in program history. It returned 140 of a possible 150 starts from the 2014-15 season with Dylan Cox, Kyle Wilson, Larry Toomey, Tanner Plomb and Kevin Ferguson returning for their senior season.
With the wins over Ferrum and Binghamton, the Black Knights held consecutive opponents to 60 points or less for the first time since the 2013-14 season against Coast Guard and Lafayette.
In a vote of the league's head coaches and sports information directors, Army was chosen fourth in the Patriot League Preseason Poll. The Black Knights have never finished higher than fourth in the final Patriot League standings.
HOW TO FOLLOW
TELEVISION • None
RADIO • 1260 WBNR-AM/1420 WLNA-AM
VIDEO • PatriotLeague.TV
AUDIO • Knight Vision • GoArmyWestPoint.com/watch
LIVE STATISTICS • sidearmstats.com/army/mbball/
TWITTER • @ArmyWP_MBB
GAME NOTES • Army Notes | Patriot League
STORYLINES
Prior to Army's game against the Golden Lions, Gardner-Webb and Southeastern Louisiana will tip off at 5 p.m. The winners of Friday's games will meet at 7:30 on Saturday evening and the two losing teams will start at 5 p.m.
Seniors Tanner Plomb and Kyle Wilson have each scored in double figures in the first five games of the season. Wilson set a new career standard with 36 points on eight three pointers in the win over FDU and Plomb enters Tuesday's game riding consecutive 20-point performances.
Wilson scored 21 points in the loss at Tennessee to tie Ella Ellis '13 for fifth on the all-time scoring list with 1,585 career points.
Together, Wilson and Plomb were the top scoring duo in the Patriot League in 2014-15 with an average of 33.3 points per game. Wilson was first in scoring in the conference at 17.5 points per game, while Plomb ranked fourth overall with a 15.8 points per game average. Plomb (21.4) and Wilson (20.8) are the top two scorers in the Patriot League in 2015-16.
Kevin Ferguson's 64.0 percent career field-goal percentage (307-of-480) is second among active NCAA Division I players. Belmont's Evan Bradds leads the list with a 68.5 career-field goal percentage.
As a team, Army is shooting 40.4 percent from three-point range (52-of-127), which ranks 31st in the nation and it is averaging 10.4 three-pointers per game, good for 18th in the country.
Army returned 91.6 percent of its scoring and 92.9 percent of its rebounding from last season, including seven seniors, which is tied for the most in program history. It returned 140 of a possible 150 starts from the 2014-15 season with Dylan Cox, Kyle Wilson, Larry Toomey, Tanner Plomb and Kevin Ferguson returning for their senior season.
With the wins over Ferrum and Binghamton, the Black Knights held consecutive opponents to 60 points or less for the first time since the 2013-14 season against Coast Guard and Lafayette.
In a vote of the league's head coaches and sports information directors, Army was chosen fourth in the Patriot League Preseason Poll. The Black Knights have never finished higher than fourth in the final Patriot League standings.
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