2011-12 Men's Basketball View Book

Game Notes

AMHERST, Mass. – The Elon men’s basketball team will tip off the 2011-12 season on the road in the program's first-ever meeting with the UMass Minutemen. The Phoenix and Minutemen will square off at 9 p.m. on Friday, November 11 in historic Curry Hicks Cage in Amherst, Mass.

Site: Amherst, Mass.
Arena: Curry Hicks Cage
Series: First meeting
Radio: WPCM 920 AM — Taylor Durham (game will played on a delay due to high school football broadcast)

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FREE THROWS
• This is the 103rd season of men’s basketball at Elon.
• The Phoenix made the move to Division I competition in the 1999-2000 season.
• Elon is led by third-year head coach Matt Matheny. The long-time Davidson assistant took over the program in March 2009 after helping the Wildcats to nine postseason appearances, includ five trips to the NCAA Tournament. The Phoenix is 23-40 through Matheny’s first two years as head coach.
• Elon opens its season on the road for the sixth consecutive year.
• Elon is 59-39 (Record unknown during first four years of play) in season openers during its history and 4-8 in the first game of the season during its Division I era.
• The Phoenix opened up the 2010-11 campaign with a 94-79 loss at South Carolina. Elon’s last victory in a season opener was in the 2009-10 season as the Phoenix opened the Matt Matheny era with a 91-86 at Lipscomb.
• This will be Elon’s first-ever meeting with UMass. The Phoenix has only faced four of the current Atlantic 10 members — Charlotte, George Washington, Richmond and Xavier. Elon is 2-10 against those schools with wins against Charlotte and George Washington. The Phoenix’s last meeting against an A-10 school came in the 2009 Preseason NIT and was a 75-61 loss to Charlotte.

2010-11 TIDBITS
• Elon ended the 2010-11 season with a 78-60 loss to College of Charleston in the quarterfinals of the Southern Conference Tournament.  
• Elon finished fourth in the national rankings with 9.2 three-pointers per game. The Phoenix nailed 285 triples last season.
• Lucas Troutman blocked 47 shots in his rookie season, a mark that ranked fifth on Elon’s single season list and first in the SoCon with 1.6 per game.
• Elon’s four scholarship freshmen averaged double-figure minutes in 2010-11.
• Four of Elon’s top seven scorers were freshmen.

ELON VS. UMASS
• Elon and UMass have never met on the hardwood.
• The game will be played in historic Curry Hicks Cage — UMass will open its season at The Cage for the first time in two decades. It is just the second contest for the Minutemen in the venue in the last 18 years.
• Derek Kellogg, in his fourth season, graduated from UMass in 1995 where he was an All-Atlantic 10 selection in 1995. UMass is 39-53 with Kellogg at the helm.