Men's Basketball Finishes Regular Season at Elon

Davidson Wildcats (15-14, 10-7 SoCon) vs. Elon Phoenix (8-21, 5-12 SoCon)

Date: Feb. 27, 2010
Time: 7 p.m.
Site: Alumni Gym (1,558 capacity) - Elon, N.C.
Audio: John Kilgo calls the action on the Davidson Radio Network (1350 AM, 95.7 FM and online at www.DavidsonWildcats.com)
Video: Live video available on Elon's Web site
Web sites: Davidson (DavidsonWildcats.com), Elon (www.elonphoenix.com)

Full game notes (PDF)

Layup Line
• The Wildcats cap the regular season with their fifth game in 11 days, a 7 p.m. contest at Elon Saturday.
• Davidson has locked up the third seed in the SoCon South Division and will play the sixth seed from the North Division in SoCon Tourney opening round action Friday, March 5, at 2 p.m., in Charlotte's Bojangles Coliseum.
• Davidson will have to play a first round game in the tourney for the first time since 2001.
• Davidson has won seven of its last 10 games overall and is coming off a 60-56 home victory over UNC?Greensboro Wednesday night.
• The Wildcats are 4-6 on the road, including 4-4 in SoCon games.
• It will be an emotional game for Davidson coach Bob McKillop and Elon coach Matt Matheny. Matheny, who is in his first year with the Phoenix, was an assistant coach on McKillop's staff for 16 seasons.
• Matheny played football and basketball for the Wildcats and is a 1992 Davidson graduate.
• Elon assistant coaches Tim Sweeney (2 years) and Will Roberson (3 years) were also members of McKillop's staff at Davidson, and Roberson is a 2002 Davidson graduate.
• Elon is 4-4 in its last eight overall and is coming off a 98-88 setback at Georgia Southern Thursday.
• The Phoenix are 4-6 at home and 3-5 in home league games.
• Drew Spradlin is averaging 12.9 points a game to lead the team, and Adam Constantine averages 12 points and 8.2 rebounds a game.
• Chris Long averages 9.4 points and 3.9 assists a game.

Series History
• Davidson leads the all-time series 31-11 and has won the last 14 meetings.
• It's the first game between the teams this season.
• The series began with a 25-17 Elon victory in the 1915-16 season.
• The 'Cats are 10-7 on the road, including 4-2 in Alumni Gym.
• Davidson is 15-2 against Elon during Bob McKillop's tenure.
• Davidson placed five players in double-figures scoring and used a late second-half run to fuel a 90-78 victory in the last meeting - March 2, 2009, in Alumni Gym.
• Stephen Curry led all scorers with 26 points and added five assists on the night.
• Steve Rossiter scored a career-high 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting, including a perfect 5-for-5 from the free throw line.
• Bryant Barr notched 18 points, including a team-high three 3-pointers, and Andrew Lovedale pulled down a game-high nine rebounds to go along with his 11-point effort. Will Archambault scored 11 of his 13 points in the second half to round out the double-digit Wildcats.
• Elon had four players reach the double-digit scoring total, led by Monty Sanders' 17 points, and Brett James, who added 16 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the charity stripe.

Leftovers from UNCG
• With the win in their final home game, the Wildcat senior class of Will Archambault, Bryant Barr, Dan Nelms and Steve Rossiter has now been a part of 100 career victories at Davidson.
• The Wildcats have now had double-digit SoCon victories in 16 seasons during Bob McKillop's tenure, including the last nine.
• Barr moved into sole possession of fifth on the Davidson career 3-pointers list with 185.
• Nelms made his first career start at Davidson.

Claw Marks
• Davidson finished the campaign with a 10-4 record at Belk Arena. It's the ninth straight season with at least 10 wins in Belk.
• With 35 blocked shots, Jake Cohen has moved into 10th on Davidson's single-season list.
• With nine at Western Carolina, Bryant Barr went over 700 points for his career and now has 727.
• With 1,054 points, Archambault is the 38th player to score over 1,000 points in school history. He needs 60 rebounds for 500 career caroms.
• With 562 points and 567 rebounds, Steve Rossiter is the 30th player in school history to record over 500 points and 500 rebounds.
• Davidson coach Bob McKillop is 18 wins shy of his 400th career victory.
• Brendan McKillop (117) and JP?Kuhlman (94) each have a chance to record 100-plus assists this season. That's happened just twice during the Bob McKillop era. Jason Richards (293) and Stephen Curry (104) did it in 2007-08 and Jason Zimmerman (135) and Chris Alpert (134) did it in 1992-93.
• The Wildcats played the first contest of each of their two-game series against SoCon South Division opponents on the road and went 3-2. The 'Cats finished the regular season 7-3 against South Division foes.
• Davidson has hit 13 or more 3-pointers in six games this season (Fredonia State, The Citadel -12/3, Gonzaga, TCNJ, Penn and Chattanooga).
• Davidson lost 91-88 to Cornell in overtime at the Holiday Festival in Madison Square Garden Dec. 20. It was the 'Cats' first overtime game since an 85-81 double-overtime loss at Charlotte Nov. 30, 2005.
• The 'Cats played their first overtime game in Belk Arena since 2005 against The Citadel Jan. 30, and posted a 67-63 win.
• Davidson's 61-52 victory over Hofstra Dec. 21, was the first time Wildcat coach Bob McKillop has coached against his alma mater.
• The Wildcats played their first four games away from home. It's the first time they have started a season with four road games since 2000-01.
• It's the latest Davidson has opened its home schedule since the 2002-03 campaign, when the 'Cats' first home game was Nov. 30 against Washington & Lee.
• Appalachian State's win Feb. 11 gives them a regular-season series sweep over the Wildcats. It's the first time Davidson has been swept in a regular-season series by a SoCon opponent since 2000-01. Wofford has also won both games of the season series against the Wildcats.

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