CSU Back Home To Host Arkansas State Wednesday night

2019-20 Colorado State Men's Basketball
Game #5 - Colorado State (3-1) vs. Arkansas State (4-1)
Nov. 20, 2019 • 7 p.m. MT • Moby Arena (8,038) - Fort Collins, Colo.

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Complete Game Notes: Colorado State / Arkansas State

Opening Tip
• The Rams are back home to host Arkansas State in Moby Arena on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
• The game will be streamed on the Mountain West Network, including CSURams.com
• Live audio is available on the Colorado State Sports Network, including Power 102.9 FM (flagship). Brian Roth is on the play-by-play for the Rams, with Adam Nigon handling the analysis. Audio is also available via CSURams.com and the TuneIn App on all smart phones and mobile devices.
• The game will also have live stats on CSURams.com.

The Leaders
• Colorado State Head Coach Niko Medved (Minnesota, '97) is in his second season at CSU as head coach with a 13-21 mark and has a 92-108 overall record is in his seventh season as a head coach.
• Arkansas Head Coach Mike Balado (St. Thomas, '98) is in his third season at Arkansas State and as a head coach overall with a 28-41 mark.

A Quick Look at Arkansas State
• Returning one starter and seven letterwinners from last season's 13-19 squad that finished ninth in the Sun BeltConference with a 7-11 mark, the Red Wolves were picked to finish 10th in the league's preseason poll.
• Junior guard Marquis Eaton is the team's lone returning starter and paces the Red Wolves in minutes, three-pointers, assists and free throw percentage. Senior forward Malik Brevard is the team-high rebounder, while guard Canberk Kus leads in points, blocks and steals.
• Last time out, the Red Wolves finished a three-game sweep in the Red Wolves Classic, defeating Idaho for the title on Sunday, 82-68.

History Versus Arkansas State
• The two teams have met three times in history, with the Rams winning all three, including two at Moby Arena, as CSU is 13-4 all-time against current members of the Sun Belt Conference.
• The last meeting was on Nov. 28, 1995 in Fort Collins, with CSU earning a 91-67 victory.
• CSU leader Niko Medved has never faced Arkansas State as a head coach.
ARKANSAS STATE - 3-0
Home: 2-0 / Away: 1-0
    Date              Loc.       W/L      Score           Att.
!   3/25/1988      Home       W       64-49       10409
    12/22/1994      Away        W       86-64         4218
    11/28/1995      Home       W        91-67         4723
! NIT Quarterfinals

CSU vs. Sun Belt Conference
School                     Overall Home Away   Neut.
Appalachian State       1-0         -          -        1-0
Arkansas State           3-0       2-0      1-0         -
Arkansas-Little Rock   0-2       0-1       0-1         -
Georgia State              1-0        1-0        -          -
Louisiana-Lafayette     1-1        1-0        -        0-1
Louisiana Monroe        1-0        1-0        -          -
South Alabama            1-1        1-0       0-1         -
Texas State                2-0       2-0        -          -
Texas-Arlington          2-0       1-0       1-0         -
Troy                            1-0        1-0        -          -
Totals                        13-4      10-1     2-2       1-1

Moby Arena Home Court Advantage
• CSU has a record of 555-235 (.703) record all-time at Moby Arena.
• The Rams had finished at least .500 in each of the last nine years prior to last season. This dated back to the 2008-09 season when the program was 6-9, prior to 2018-19's 8-9 mark.
• Current head coach Niko Medved was part of a coaching staff at CSU that posted two of the top records in program history at home, as the 2012-13 team set the best mark at 16-1 with the 2011-12 team going 14-1. Overall as an assistant at CSU, he was part of a team that went 97-97 overall and 59-30 in Moby Arena and improved their overall record in each successive season.

Carvacho Growing On the Floor
• Redshirt-senior center Nico Carvacho showed his increased comfort level on the floor, growing extensively the last two seasons.
• Carvacho started the 2018-19 season No. 20 on the CSU career rebounding chart. With his 12 rebounds against San Diego State Feb. 12, he became the all-time leading rebounder at CSU. He now has a Mountain-West record 996 (tops in NCAA among current active players), passing previous leader Pat Durham (1985-89) at 851.
• Carvacho also is first in CSU offensive rebounds with 346 and in CSU career defensive rebounds with 650 (since tracking of the two categories began).
• His 37 career double-doubles are fourth in the league's history (tied for second among current active NCAA Division I players).
• Carvacho became the 29th CSU player in history to reach the 1,000 point mark in his career, accomplishing that feat in the opening round of the 2019 MW Championship.
• He was also named to the preseason watch list for the 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced. Last year, he was a finalist as one of final 10 players from which the top center in men's college basketball will be recognized.
• Carvacho was named to the Preseason All-MW team entering this season by the league's media representatives.

Martin Stepping Up His Role
• Redshirt-senior Kris Martin is expected to be one of the leaders this season.
• The guard led CSU in its opening win over Denver, Nov. 5, scoring a team-high 18 points and adding five rebounds, two assists and two steals.
• The senior currently is third for CSU at 11.3 points per game while playing 30.5 minutes a contest, second on the team. He is shooting 37.0 percent from the field and 71.4 from the charity stripe while also adding 5.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists a game.

Moving On Up
• Sophomores Kendle Moore and Adam Thistlewood are going to be looked at to help lead this team as two of the four returning starters.
• Thistlewood and Moore both had their best games of the young season in the win over Omaha, Nov. 13.
• Thistlewood was 5-for-11 on field goals, including 5-for-8 from the three-point arc, and hit all four free throws for a career-high 19 points. He also added seven rebounds, two off his career best earlier this year against Denver.
• Moore tallied a season-best 16 points, including five triples against the Mavericks.
• Thistlewood is now fourth on the team at 11.0 points and second at 6.8 rebounds per game, while Moore is fifth at 7.0 a contest.

Newcomers With Early Impact
• Head coach Niko Medved has played four freshmen each in the first two contests.
• Guard Isaiah Stevens has started four games and tied for game-high honors with forward David Roddy with 12 points at #4 Duke, Nov. 8.
• Dischon Thomas and John Tonje have both played in the first two contests and contributed off the bench.
• Roddy also added six rebounds and a steal in his 21 minutes of action.
• Stevens followed it up with a pair of solid efforts against Omaha, Nov. 13, tallying 11 points and a team season-high five assists in the win and at Loyola Marymount, Nov. 16, with a game-high 21 points, five rebounds and five assists in the come-from-behind win.

Looking Ahead
• The Rams will take to the tropics for a neutral site tournament, playing in the Cayman Islands Classic, Nov. 25-27.
• CSU opens the tournament against New Mexico State on Monday at 9 a.m. MT
• The game will be broadcast on Flohoops.com (subscription required) along with the Colorado State Sports Radio Network (along with online at CSURams.com), with Brian Roth and Adam Nigon on the call.
• CSU Sports Network broadcasts can be also accessed on mobile devices through the TuneIn app (free on all Apple, Android, Windows, Blackberry and Amazon Kindle devices) – once downloaded, search "Colorado St. Rams Sports Network" in the app for the games and coaches' show broadcasts.

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