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GAME #26
UC Irvine (12-13, 6-6) vs. UC Riverside (5-18, 2-9)
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 – 7:00 p.m.
Bren Events Center (5,000) – Irvine, Calif.
Series Record: UCI leads 29-23
Last Meeting: UCR won 68-58 (1/19/13 in Riverside)
Radio: KUCI/88.9 FM (Mark Roberts, 19th Season, & Steve Henkle)
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UC IRVINE HOSTS UC RIVERSIDE WEDNESDAY NIGHT
● Third-year head coach Russell Turner's UC Irvine squad (12-13, 6-6 Big West) hosts UC Riverside Wednesday night as the Anteaters play four of their last six conference games at home this season. UCI, 8-1 at home this season (5-0 Big West), hosts Cal State Fullerton Saturday night at 8:00 (FOX Prime Ticket).
● Wednesday marks the 53rd meeting in the UCI-UCR series with UCI leading 29-23. The Highlanders defeated the 'Eaters, 68-58, in Riverside Jan. 19 as Chris Patton scored 21 points and Chris Harriel 17. Senior Daman Starring scored a game-high 22 points for UCI, including 20 in the second half. The 'Eaters hit just 6 of 30 shots in the first half and were 31.7 percent from the field for the game.
● UCI dropped a pair of road games last week to level its Big West record at 6-6. The 'Eaters lost to Cal State Northridge, 70-61, last Thursday and 78-72 to Hawai'i Saturday night in Honolulu.
● The 'Eaters built a 17-point lead at 26-9 over Northridge in the first half, but the Matadors gradually closed the gap and outscored UCI, 13-4, in the final 1:50 of the game. Daman Starring led the 'Eaters with 15 points, junior Chris McNealy scored 12 and freshman Alex Young 10.
● In Saturday's loss at Hawai'i, UCI led 42-35 with 16:47 left before going scoreless for seven straight minutes as the Rainbow Warriors reeled off 14 straight points to take control. Alex Young scored a career-high 20 points for the 'Eaters, hitting 8 of 13 field goals. He tied his career high with seven rebounds and added seven assists.
● UCI drew UT Arlington in the Ramada Worldwide BracketBusters and will face the Mavericks Feb. 23 at 5:00 p.m. (CST) at the College Park Center in Arlington, Tex. This will be the first meeting between the schools.
UC IRVINE NOTES
● As of Monday, UCI ranked 20th in the nation in assists per game (15.9), 28th in field-goal percentage defense (.387) and 32nd in assist/turnover ratio (1.26).
● Alex Young ranks 21st in the nation in assist/turnover ratio at 2.68 and Will Davis II is 41st in blocked shots at 2.17 per game.
● Will Davis II, with 52 blocked shots this season, is looking to break his single-season school record of 55 set last season.
● Alex Young, with 102 assists this season, is on pace to record the most assists in a season by a UCI player since Aaron Fitzgerald had 190 in 2005-06.
● Young has averaged 14.0 points over the last three games, hitting 15 of 26 (.577) shots.
● For all games, UCI ranks first in the Big West Conference in field-goal percentage defense (.386), three-point field goal percentage defense (.322) and blocked shots per game (4.4).
● Individually for all games, Alex Young leads the Big West in assist/turnover ratio (2.68). Will Davis II is first in blocked shots per game (2.17), Young is fifth in assists per game (4.1) and Daman Starring is fifth in three-point field goal percentage (.422).
● In conference games only, Davis is first in blocked shots per game (2.2), Young is second in assist/turnover ratio (2.8), Adam Folker is third in offensive rebounds per game (.3.2), and Davis (.605) and Folker (.563) rank third and sixth, respectively, in field-goal percentage.
● Will Davis II is 39 of 62 (.629) from the field in the past nine games.
● UCI is 7-0 this season when holding the opposition to under 60 points and 8-3 when leading at halftime. UCI is 8-5 this season when the opponents have shot below 40 percent from the field.
● The lineup of Alex Young, Daman Starring, Michael Wilder, Adam Folker and Will Davis II has started 14 games this season, including the last 10. The 'Eaters are 8-6 overall with that starting unit, 5-5 in league games.
● Senior Daman Starring is the only UCI player averaging in double figures at 13.5 points per game, leading the team in scoring in 11 games this season and recording five 20-point games.
● Starring has 924 points in 89 career games at UCI.
● Senior post Adam Folker has 568 career rebounds to rank 15th in the Anteater record book.
● Senior Michael Wilder has 954 points and 528 rebounds in his UCI career. His 528 career boards rank 17th in Anteater history. Fifteen previous UCI players have scored 1,000 points and grabbed 500 rebounds in their careers.
● Wilder ranks No. 4 in UCI history with 196 career threes and Daman Starring is 10th with 129. Michael Hunter (2006-10) is the school's career leader with 236 threes.
DEFEND THE BREN
The Bren Events Center on the UCI campus marked its 26th anniversary in January. The center opened Jan. 8, 1987, when the 'Eaters defeated Utah State, 118-96, on the strength of 43 points by Scott Brooks. Brooks is head coach of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder and the 2010 NBA Coach of the Year.
UCI is 201-145 all-time at the Bren Center. The 'Eaters are 120-48 (.714) in the Bren dating back to February 2000. UCI is 8-1 at home this season.
A LOOK AT UC RIVERSIDE
● Sixth-year head coach Jim Wooldridge's Highlanders are 5-18 overall and 2-9 in the Big West. Five of UCR's conference losses are by 10 points or less, including three by five points or less.
● Junior forward Chris Patton scored a career-high 36 points in last Saturday's 79-67 loss to Cal State Fullerton, hitting 14 of 16 field goals.
● Patton leads UCR in scoring at 13.5 points per game and is averaging 5.5 rebounds.
● Freshman forward Josh Fox leads the Highlanders in rebounding at 6.7 boards per game and is averaging 10.2 points. Chris Harriel is averaging 10.9 points per game.
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