Senior Brendan McKillop will be playing his final home contest.
Men's Basketball Hosts UNCG in Home Finale
2/25/2011 5:41:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Davidson Wildcats (16-13, 9-8 SoCon) vs. UNCG Spartans (6-22, 6-11 SoCon)
Date: Feb. 26, 2011 - 2 p.m.Site: John M. Belk Arena (5,223 capacity) - Davidson, N.C.
Audio: John Kilgo calls the action on the Davidson Radio Network (95.7 FM, 1450 AM, 1350 AM and online at DavidsonWildcats.com)
Video: Live on Davidson All-Access
Web sites: Davidson (DavidsonWildcats.com), UNCG (UNCGSpartans.com)
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Layup Line
• The Wildcats cap the regular season with a home conference game against UNCG Saturday afternoon.
• It's the second meeting between the Wildcats and Spartans this season as UNCG posted a 77-69 home victory in the first meeting Jan. 17.
• Davidson has won eight of its last nine and is coming off an 83-75 win over Elon Thursday. The 'Cats are 8-2 in their last 10 overall.
• Davidson coach Bob McKillop is one win shy of his 400th career victory.
• Davidson is locked into fourth place in the SoCon South Division and will play the fifth-place team in the North Division in the upcoming SoCon Tournament.
• The opponent will either be UNCG or Elon as both are tied for fourth in the North. Elon owns the tiebreaker by virtue of sweeping the regular-season series against the Spartans. A Davidson win over UNCG or an Elon win over Georgia Southern means Davidson would play UNCG. A combination of a UNCG win and an Elon loss means the Wildcats would play Elon.
• UNCG is 1-4 in its last five and coming off a 57-56 victory at Georgia Southern Thursday.
• The Spartans are 3-10 on the road and 3-5 in road league games.
• Brandon Evans leads UNCG in scoring, averaging 11.6 points a game, and Trevis Simpson, who netted 33 against the Wildcats in the first game, averages 11.2 points.
• The Spartans have played the 12th-toughest non-conference schedule in the country, according to KenPom.com. That slate includes games against ACC schools Florida State, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Maryland, Wake Forest, Duke and Miami.
Big Day in Belk
• It's Senior Day, and Davidson will honor student director of operations Billy Thom as well as guard Brendan McKillop and forward Ben Allison prior to the game.
• Davidson is also celebrating the Men of the Lefty Driesell Years and Mike Maloy '70 with a reunion this weekend.
• Charles “Lefty” Driesell along with many of his former players, including Terry Holland '64, Jerry Kroll '70, Fred Hetzel '65 and Dick Snyder '66, and assistant coaches and support staff are back on campus and will be honored at halftime of today's game.
• The weekend includes a special remembrance and celebration of the life of Mike Maloy '70, Davidson's first African-American varsity scholarship athlete who Driesell called “the greatest player I ever coached.”
• On the court, Maloy led the Wildcats to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including two straight Elite Eight runs, and off the court, he was a pioneer who used his prominence as a national basketball star to improve race relations both on campus and in the Town of Davidson community.
• The college has established a permanent tribute to Maloy that will reside in the Nisbet Lobby of the Baker Sports Complex. It will be on display for the first time at today's game.
• In addition, the college, with the leadership of several of Maloy's former teammates and fraternity brothers, has committed to a $1-million fundraising effort to establish the Mike Maloy Basketball Scholarship.
Series History
• Davidson leads the all-time series 20-8 and has won nine of the last 10, but the Spartans posted a 77-69 victory in the season's first meeting.
• The series began with a 69-68 Wildcat road win in 1998.
• The 'Cats are 10-2 against the Spartans at home, and all 28 games in the series have come during Bob McKillop's tenure.
• Trevis Simpson scored 33 points off the bench, and UNCG shot 59 percent in the second half in the last meeting.
• JP Kuhlman scored 19 points to lead the Wildcats, and Jake Cohen posted 16 points and eight rebounds. Nik Cochran scored 10 points off the bench.
• Simpson was 12-for-15 from the floor, 4-of-6 from 3-point land and 5-for-5 from the free-throw line for the Spartans. Aaron Brackett finished with 11 points and eight boards.
• The Spartans forced 19 turnovers, scoring 12 points off them in the second half, and had eight blocked shots in the game. UNCG also held the 'Cats to 39 percent shooting in the contest while shooting 48 percent, including 16-for-27 in the second frame.
• The Wildcats led 35-28 at halftime and had a 10-point cushion early in the second half. Trailing by seven, the Spartans erupted for a 20-4 run to open a 58-49 advantage with 9:50 remaining. Simpson scored nine points, while Davidson committed five turnovers during the stretch.
• The margin ballooned to 13 points before Davidson made a run late in the contest. A 6-2 run, capped by a Tom Droney layup, made the score 73-67 with 39 seconds left. But the Spartans broke out of the 'Cats' press, and Brendan McKillop was whistled for an intentional foul trying to take away the easy layup.
• Brackett made 1-of-2 from the line and was fouled again on the Spartans' ensuing possession. He hit 1-of-2, making the margin eight points with 34 seconds left and putting the game away.
• Kuhlman scored 14 points to lead Davidson to a 60-56 victory over UNCG in the last meeting in Belk Arena, last February.
• Will Archambault finished with 11 points and a team-high seven rebounds. Kuhlman added five rebounds and five assists, while Cohen scored 13 points. Brendan McKillop tallied nine points and six assists.
• Kendall Toney scored 16 points for UNC Greensboro, and Kyle Randall posted 15 points, seven boards and four steals. Brian Cole scored 14 points.
Claw Marks
• Davidson went 3-7 in January but is 6-1 in February.
• Davidson has been within six points or less (two possessions) of its opponents in the last five minutes in eight of its 13 losses this season, including four of the last five. The 'Cats have been within three points or less (one possession) in the last five minutes of five of their losses.
• The Davidson bench has outscored its opponent by an average of 6.3 points a game.
• Brendan McKillop has been named one of 66 candidates for the Bob Cousy Award, which recognizes college basketball's top point guard.
• Jake Cohen was named to the MSG?Holiday Festival All-Tournament Team after averaging 15.5 points, seven rebounds and two blocked shots in two games.
• Davidson has held its opponents to under 40 percent shooting in eight games and won all eight.
• Davidson began the season by playing 10 of its first 13 games on the road. The 'Cats home opener was the sixth game of the year, the latest during the 22-year tenure of head coach Bob McKillop.
• Davidson won its home opener for the 19th consecutive season.
• The Wildcats opened SoCon play with two games in Charleston for the second-straight campaign.
• Davidson's 83-56 win over Georgia Southern Feb. 16 was its largest margin of victory in a league win since the 'Cats topped the Eagles 99-56 at home Feb. 28, 2009.
• The Wildcats' 80-52 loss at No. 24 Vanderbilt Jan. 2, was their worst loss since a 75-47 setback at then eighth-ranked Duke in 2006.
Milestone Watch
• Brendan McKillop is 218 points away from 1,000 for his career. He also needs 22 3-pointers to pass his older brother, current assistant coach Matt McKillop, to move into third place on the career list at Davidson. The game against Furman Jan. 12, was his 100th career contest.
• Jake Cohen has 78 career blocked shots, placing him eighth on Davidson's career list, seven away from seventh. Frank Ben-Eze needs 18 to crack the top-10.
• Cohen needs 253 points for 1,000, and Kuhlman needs 228.
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