DePaul University Athletics
Blue Demons Face IU Northwest in Exhibition Game
11/3/2017 12:00:00 AM | MEN'S BASKETBALL
Nov. 3, 2017
CHICAGO - DePaul plays its lone exhibition game of the 2017-18 preseason Sunday afternoon against IU Northwest. The Blue Demons and RedHawks are scheduled for a 3 p.m. start at Wintrust Arena.
The Blue Demons face IU Northwest for the first time in an exhibition game after defeating Rockhurst, 79-53, in last season's exhibition contest. Billy Garrett Jr. led the Blue Demons with 26 points and while Brandon Cyrus added 14 points.
DePaul opens the 2017-18 season on Saturday, Nov. 11 against Notre Dame. The game is the first for the Blue Demons at Wintrust Arena after playing the last 37 seasons in suburban Rosemont.
Looking at IU Northwest: IU Northwest stands at 1-1 and the RedHawks host Silver Lake College on Saturday afternoon prior to the exhibition game with the Blue Demons.
Rashad Richardson leads three players averaging in double-figures with 22 points per game. Chris Bolden adds a scoring average of 11.5 and Tyiwan Jones averages 10.5 points per game. John Mosser chips in 9.0 points per game with a team-high 8.0 rebounds per contest.
IU Northwest is a NAIA Division II program located in Gary, Ind. Head coach Javier Heridia is in his second season leading the program. A year ago, the RedHawks posted a 21-11 record to tie the program's record for most wins in a season.
What's Back: Entering the 2017-18 season, DePaul returns seven players including four starters from a year ago. Headlining the returners are senior Tre'Darius McCallum and junior Eli Cain. Cain led the Blue Demons last season with 15.6 points per game while McCallum averaged 9.7 points and a team-high 6.8 rebounds per contest.
Two of the top three scorers from last season return in Cain and McCallum while sophomore Brandon Cyrus was fourth on the team last season with 6.3 points per game. Overall, the Blue Demons return just over 60 percent of the scoring and nearly 80 percent of the rebounding from last season.
What's New: A total of 11 newcomers are on the 2017-18 DePaul roster including a graduate transfer, two now-eligible transfers, six freshmen and a senior. The freshmen class includes James Anderson, Jaylen Butz, Jason Malonga, Paul Reed, Justin Roberts and Pantelis Xidias while the graduate transfer is Marin Maric. Austin Grandstaff and Max Strus are now eligible to play after sitting out the 2016-17 season and senior Tobias Dwumaah has also joined the program.
In addition to the 10 eligible newcomers this season, transfer Jalen Coleman-Lands is sitting out the 2017-18 campaign after playing his first two years at Illinois. Anderson, Dwumaah, Malonga and Xidias joined the team in September as non-scholarship players.
Wintrust Arena Set for Opener: The new home of DePaul basketball opens its doors prior to the start of the 2017-18 in Chicago's McCormick Square neighborhood. The 10,387-seat facility near McCormick Place in the South Loop area of the city is a joint project between the City of Chicago, the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, and DePaul University. It features state-of-art amenities for the DePaul men's and women's basketball programs as well as fans in attendance with over 400 club seats and 22 suites.
The Blue Demons open the facility on Saturday, Nov. 11 against Notre Dame and will play all home games at Wintrust Arena. The women's program is scheduled to play six games at Wintrust Arena that includes a Friday, Dec. 8 date against Connecticut.
Transferrable: The 2017-18 DePaul roster features three players that started the collegiate careers at different programs. Austin Grandstaff and Max Strus sat out the 2016-17 season under NCAA guidelines while Marin Maric joins the program for the 2017-18 campaign as a graduate transfer.
Grandstaff played 10 games at Ohio State before transferring to Oklahoma in January 2016. He was a consensus four-star recruit ranked among the nation's top 50 players in the class of 2015 after averaging 29.0 points per game during senior year of high school.
Strus was a NCAA Division II All-American at Lewis University in suburban Chicago. He scored over 1,000 points in two seasons at Lewis and was one of 25 finalists (one of only two sophomores) for the Bevo Francis Award that recognizes the nation's top player in small college basketball.
Maric averaged 14.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game last season at Northern Illinois. He earned All-MAC third team honors each of the last two seasons for the Huskies.
2016-17 Notebook: Eli Cain's two 30-point games marked the first time since the 2012-13 season with a DePaul player recording multiple 30-point games... Cleveland Melvin scored 30 in games against Fairfield (Nov. 27, 2012) and Cincinnati (Jan. 15, 2013)... the Blue Demons were ranked third in the BIG EAST with 10.6 offensive rebounds per game and fourth with a team free throw percentage of .735... in conference games only, DePaul was also third in the league with 9.4 offensive rebounds per game and third with 7.2 steals per game... DePaul erased double-digit deficits in six different games this season... the Blue Demons accomplished the feat in non-conference games against Missouri State, Drake and Southeast Missouri State... in BIG EAST play, the Blue Demons have overcame the deficits against Villanova, Providence and Georgetown.
TV Time: All 30 regular-season games will be televised this season. The Blue Demons are scheduled for 16 appearances on FS1 and one on FS2. Four games will be televised on FOX Sports Networks and three others can be seen on CBS Sports Network. The FSN games can be seen locally in the Chicago market on The U Too. The final game of the regular season against Xavier will be on either FOX or FSN.
DePaul's game in the PK80 over Thanksgiving weekend will be on the ESPN family of networks while the matchup at Illinois is scheduled for the Big Ten Network. The Dec. 9 game at UIC will be televised on NBC Sports Chicago.
DePaul vs. IU Northwest
Sunday, Nov. 5 | 3 p.m.
Wintrust Arena | Chicago, Ill.
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CHICAGO - DePaul plays its lone exhibition game of the 2017-18 preseason Sunday afternoon against IU Northwest. The Blue Demons and RedHawks are scheduled for a 3 p.m. start at Wintrust Arena.
The Blue Demons face IU Northwest for the first time in an exhibition game after defeating Rockhurst, 79-53, in last season's exhibition contest. Billy Garrett Jr. led the Blue Demons with 26 points and while Brandon Cyrus added 14 points.
DePaul opens the 2017-18 season on Saturday, Nov. 11 against Notre Dame. The game is the first for the Blue Demons at Wintrust Arena after playing the last 37 seasons in suburban Rosemont.
Looking at IU Northwest: IU Northwest stands at 1-1 and the RedHawks host Silver Lake College on Saturday afternoon prior to the exhibition game with the Blue Demons.
Rashad Richardson leads three players averaging in double-figures with 22 points per game. Chris Bolden adds a scoring average of 11.5 and Tyiwan Jones averages 10.5 points per game. John Mosser chips in 9.0 points per game with a team-high 8.0 rebounds per contest.
IU Northwest is a NAIA Division II program located in Gary, Ind. Head coach Javier Heridia is in his second season leading the program. A year ago, the RedHawks posted a 21-11 record to tie the program's record for most wins in a season.
What's Back: Entering the 2017-18 season, DePaul returns seven players including four starters from a year ago. Headlining the returners are senior Tre'Darius McCallum and junior Eli Cain. Cain led the Blue Demons last season with 15.6 points per game while McCallum averaged 9.7 points and a team-high 6.8 rebounds per contest.
Two of the top three scorers from last season return in Cain and McCallum while sophomore Brandon Cyrus was fourth on the team last season with 6.3 points per game. Overall, the Blue Demons return just over 60 percent of the scoring and nearly 80 percent of the rebounding from last season.
What's New: A total of 11 newcomers are on the 2017-18 DePaul roster including a graduate transfer, two now-eligible transfers, six freshmen and a senior. The freshmen class includes James Anderson, Jaylen Butz, Jason Malonga, Paul Reed, Justin Roberts and Pantelis Xidias while the graduate transfer is Marin Maric. Austin Grandstaff and Max Strus are now eligible to play after sitting out the 2016-17 season and senior Tobias Dwumaah has also joined the program.
In addition to the 10 eligible newcomers this season, transfer Jalen Coleman-Lands is sitting out the 2017-18 campaign after playing his first two years at Illinois. Anderson, Dwumaah, Malonga and Xidias joined the team in September as non-scholarship players.
Wintrust Arena Set for Opener: The new home of DePaul basketball opens its doors prior to the start of the 2017-18 in Chicago's McCormick Square neighborhood. The 10,387-seat facility near McCormick Place in the South Loop area of the city is a joint project between the City of Chicago, the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, and DePaul University. It features state-of-art amenities for the DePaul men's and women's basketball programs as well as fans in attendance with over 400 club seats and 22 suites.
The Blue Demons open the facility on Saturday, Nov. 11 against Notre Dame and will play all home games at Wintrust Arena. The women's program is scheduled to play six games at Wintrust Arena that includes a Friday, Dec. 8 date against Connecticut.
Transferrable: The 2017-18 DePaul roster features three players that started the collegiate careers at different programs. Austin Grandstaff and Max Strus sat out the 2016-17 season under NCAA guidelines while Marin Maric joins the program for the 2017-18 campaign as a graduate transfer.
Grandstaff played 10 games at Ohio State before transferring to Oklahoma in January 2016. He was a consensus four-star recruit ranked among the nation's top 50 players in the class of 2015 after averaging 29.0 points per game during senior year of high school.
Strus was a NCAA Division II All-American at Lewis University in suburban Chicago. He scored over 1,000 points in two seasons at Lewis and was one of 25 finalists (one of only two sophomores) for the Bevo Francis Award that recognizes the nation's top player in small college basketball.
Maric averaged 14.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game last season at Northern Illinois. He earned All-MAC third team honors each of the last two seasons for the Huskies.
2016-17 Notebook: Eli Cain's two 30-point games marked the first time since the 2012-13 season with a DePaul player recording multiple 30-point games... Cleveland Melvin scored 30 in games against Fairfield (Nov. 27, 2012) and Cincinnati (Jan. 15, 2013)... the Blue Demons were ranked third in the BIG EAST with 10.6 offensive rebounds per game and fourth with a team free throw percentage of .735... in conference games only, DePaul was also third in the league with 9.4 offensive rebounds per game and third with 7.2 steals per game... DePaul erased double-digit deficits in six different games this season... the Blue Demons accomplished the feat in non-conference games against Missouri State, Drake and Southeast Missouri State... in BIG EAST play, the Blue Demons have overcame the deficits against Villanova, Providence and Georgetown.
TV Time: All 30 regular-season games will be televised this season. The Blue Demons are scheduled for 16 appearances on FS1 and one on FS2. Four games will be televised on FOX Sports Networks and three others can be seen on CBS Sports Network. The FSN games can be seen locally in the Chicago market on The U Too. The final game of the regular season against Xavier will be on either FOX or FSN.
DePaul's game in the PK80 over Thanksgiving weekend will be on the ESPN family of networks while the matchup at Illinois is scheduled for the Big Ten Network. The Dec. 9 game at UIC will be televised on NBC Sports Chicago.
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