MBB Makes First Trip To DePaul

Dec. 11, 2007

GAME AT A GLANCE

Last Game: Freshman center Andrew Ogilvy scored a career-high 26 points and senior guard Shan Foster added 21 to lead the No. 23 Commodores to a 90-67 victory over Lipscomb on Saturday night. Recap NO. 20 VANDERBILT (9-0) AT DEPAUL (2-3) Wed., Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. CT AllState Arena (18,500) Rosemont, Ill. TELEVISION: ESPN Classic Play-by-Play: Stephen Bardo Color: Eric Collins RADIO: 104.5 the Zone Play-by-Play: Joe Fisher; Color: Tim Thompson SIRIUS: Channel 114 SERIES INFORMATION Vanderbilt leads 1-0. LAST MEETING Vanderbilt won 83-78 in the first round of the 1965 NCAA Tournament (Mideast Region) on March 12 in Lexington, Ky. COACHES Kevin Stallings is in his ninth year at Vanderbilt (153-108) and his 15th overall (276-171). Jerry Wainwright is in his 3rd season with DePaul (34-32), and 14th overall as a head coach (220-176). DEPAUL TIDBIT DePaul has six new faces on the 2007-08 roster in junior Matija Poscic and freshmen Michael Bizoukas, Mac Koshwal, Mario Stula, Dar Tucker and Kene Obi. This is the most newcomers for DePaul since the 1998-99 season. PLAYER TO WATCH Senior guard Draelon Burns became the fifth DePaul player in history to score 30 or more points in consecutive games when he tossed in 32 points in the win over Texas A&M-CC on November 28. Burns, who also scored 32 against North Carolina A&T, joins George Mikan (1945), Mark Aguirre (who did it twice in 1980), Stanley Brundy (1988) and Tom Kleinschmidt (1994) in that exclusive club.

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Vanderbilt will hit the road for the last time until January 12 when the Commodores travel to Chicago to take on Big East member DePaul. Tip off is at 7 p.m. at Allstate Arena, and the game will be televised live by ESPN Classic. Joe Fisher and Tim Thompson will call the game on the ISP/Vanderbilt Radio Network.

The #21/20 Commodores moved to 9-0, the sixth time in school history that a team has started a season 9-0, after defeating crosstown foe Lipscomb, 90-67, on Saturday night at Memorial Gym. Freshman A.J. Ogilvy led the way with his first career double-double with 26 points and 10 rebounds, both career bests, and senior Shan Foster added 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting in the winning effort. After Lipscomb cut the lead to eight in the second half, the Commodores exploded from the field, hitting 56.7% of its shots from the floor (17-30), and 57.1% from three (8-14). Vanderbilt also went to the line 27 times and made 19 of them in the second half.

The Commodores won by its largest margin of the season against Lipscomb, and made 11 threes, its highest total of the year so far. Vanderbilt also held the Bisons to 37.5% from the floor, the third time this season VU has held an opponent under 40%. The Commodores also scored 90 or more points for the fourth time this season, and 80 or more for the seventh time.

Foster ended the game with 21 points, his 13th consecutive game in double figures, and he moved into 11th place all-time on the VU scoring list, passing Commodore great Dan Langhi. He now has 1,504 career points. He is five points away from #10 Barry Goheen (1,509) and 10 points from the ninth all-time leading scorer, Tom Hogan (1,514).

Foster and Ogilvy rank one and two, respectively, in scoring in the Southeastern Conference as of December 12. Foster pours in 20.4 points per contest, while Ogilvy adds 19.6 points per game. Ogilvy is the SEC’s leading freshman scorer by 3.5 points per game over Kentucky’s Patrick Patterson (16.1 ppg), and is the country’s sixth leading freshman scorer and the nation’s top international scorer.

Vanderbilt and DePaul will meet for only the second time in the history of the two schools, with the Commodores holding a 1-0 series advantage. The only meeting came in the first round of the 1965 NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Ky., a game Vanderbilt won, 83-78.

DePaul enters the game with a 2-3 record after losing at Kansas, 84-66, in their last time out. Senior guard Draelon Burns leads the team in scoring with 17.0 points per game. Freshman forward Dar Tucker adds 12.4 points per contest, and senior forward Karron Clarke chips in 10.6 points per game. Freshman center Mac Koshwal leads all Blue Demons on the glass with 8.4 rebounds per game.

DePaul head coach Jerry Wainwright is in his third season with the Blue Demons and has compiled a 34-32 record. Overall, Wainwright is 220-176 in 14 years as a head coach.

Vanderbilt owns a 21-36 record all-time against the Big East, and Commodore head coach Kevin Stallings is 1-2 all-time against DePaul as a head coach. All three meetings came while he was the head coach at Illinois State.

Vanderbilt freshman Andre Walker, from Flossmoor, Ill., returns to play in the Chicago area for the first time since signing with Vanderbilt. Walker attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School where he averaged 15 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game as a senior in 2006.

Tip-time is set for 7 p.m.

DEPAUL’S PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP

# Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. PPG RPG APG Hometown 1 Jabari Currie G 6’4 215 Jr. 6.8 1.6 3.9 Detroit, Mich. 2 Dar Tucker F 6’5 210 Fr. 12.4 6.4 1.1 Saginaw, Mich. 3 Draelon Burns G 6’4 210 Sr. 17.0 3.2 3.0 Milwaukee, Wisc. 5 Karron Clarke F 6’6 210 Sr. 10.6 5.6 0.5 Brooklyn, N.Y. 13 Mac Koshwal C 6’10 240 Fr. 7.6 8.4 1.1 Chicago, Ill.