Panthers and Spiders Set for Wednesday Showdown

Wednesday, December 9

Richmond, Va.

5 PM

University of Northern Iowa

Richmond

Photo by: Dave Eggenn/Inertia

Panthers and Spiders Set for Wednesday Showdown

12/8/2020 11:05:00 AM | Men's Basketball

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THE GAME
UNI (1-3) vs. #19 Richmond (3-0)
Wednesday, December 9 | 5 PM | Robins Center

THE SERIES
The Panthers and Spiders have played on twice before, a home and home series in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. Both teams won in their home venues, UNI won a 55-50 contest in the 2014-15 game and fell to the spider the following year 82-67 on the road.

THE PANTHERS

UNI picked up their first win of the season, beating the Fighting Bees of St. Ambrose 98-53.
Trae Berhow made his season debut against St. Ambrose, finishing with 19 points going 7-9 from the field while hauling in 6 rebounds and 5 assists.
Freshman stole the show against the Fighting Bees, Bowen Born finished with 16 points with 4 rebounds and 2 assists while Nate Heise totaled 11 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, and 1 block.
Freshman Bowen Born has averaged 14.8 points per game while shooting 41.5% from the field.
Sophomore Noah Carter is shooting 50% (10-20) from beyond the three-point arc, leading the Panthers and 3rd in the MVC.

THE SPIDERS

Richmond is 3-0 for the second straight season, making this the first time UR has opened a season with three straight wins in consecutive years since the 1953-54 and 1954-55 seasons.
Jacob Gilyard has registered six assists and five steals in each of his last two games. Over the last 10 seasons, no player in Division I has more games with six or more assists and five or more steals than Gilyard, who has 12.
Richmond has won seven straight games dating back to last season, its longest win streak since winning nine straight during the 2010-11 season.
The Spiders were picked to win the Atlantic 10 in the conference's preseason poll, receiving 19 of the 28 first-place votes from a panel of the league's head coaches and media members. It is the first time Richmond has been picked to win the A-10 since joining the conference in 2001.
In November, Jacob Gilyard was named to Preseason All-Atlantic 10 First Team and Grant Golden and Blake Francis were named to the Second Team. Richmond is first team to have three players on the Preseason All A-10 First Team or Second Team since Xavier in 2011.