FOLLOWING THE LIONS
TICKETS Tickets to LMU men’s basketball and all ticketed events through LMU Athletics has never been easier. Thanks to a partnership with TicketsWest, purchasing tickets can be done through LMULions.com/Tickets. The new print at home features helps you avoid lines and gets you to the game even faster. Check-out the new home for LMU TICKETS and order today! KXLU 88.9 FM The broadcast home of LMU for nearly 50 years is KXLU 88.9 FM. Catch all the games on LMU’s official student radio station with Jesse Kass on the call for the second season. • Lions’ All-Access The official video network of LMU Athletics. The LMU Sports Network will broadcast all non-televised home games. The LMUSN will broadcast more than 50 games this season, including men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and softball. In addition, LMU Sports Network is home to “Inside the Lions.” The “ITL” presented by Muscle Milk. A special look into LMU Athletics and its student-athletes. The show will highlight studentathletes and give an inside look to why LMU is such a special place. STATS, STATS AND MORE STATS Thanks to LMU’s partnership with CBS Interactive, fans can follow LMU sports as they happen thanks to GameTracker. GameTracker is the next generation in live stat presentation, powered solely by Flash and XML. In addition to GameTracker, LMU Athletics has partnered with StatBroadcast to provide StatMonitr and StatBroadcast. The StatBroadcast® Live system is a real-time live stats platform that allows fans to access stats via mobile devices as well as integrate directly with web browsers, streaming video and social media. • LIONS ON TV TELEVISION AND TheW.tv The West Coast Conference has launched its new broadcast network, TheW.tv and combined with an exclusive national television partnership with ESPN and a regional partnership with Time Warner Cable SportsNet, the Lions will becompletely covered throughout the 2013-14 season. Look to TheW.tv for all the action. Anytime. Anywhere. For the Lions on TV, it is recommended to contact your cable/satellite provider for channel information on TV games. Below is a list of where to watch: TELEVISION GUIDE (based on LMU zip code 90045): Network TWC|LA (HD) DirectTV Dish ESPN 64/252 (424) 206 140 ESPN2 65/253 (425) 209 144 ESPNU 251(467) 208 141 TWCSN (Time Warner Cable SportsNet) 59 (403) 691 n/a CSN-BA (Comcast SportsNet Bay Area) n/a 696 419 CSN-C (Comcast SportsNet California) n/a 698 409 ROOT-NW (ROOT Sports Northwest) n/a 687 426 ROOT-RM (ROOT Sports Rocky Mountain) n/a 683 414 BYUtv n/a 374 9403 CBS-SN (CBS Sports Network) 261 (474) 613 158 FSN-SD (Fox Sports Net-San Diego) n/a 694 408
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• The Lions have had double-digit offensive rebounds in 16 of the 24 games on the season, sitting No. 2 in the WCC with 12.8 per game. They went for 13 offensive boards in outrebounding Santa Clara 41-36. The Lions had a season-high 20 offensive rebounds good for 23 second chance points in the win over UC Riverside. They equalled that total with 20 against La Sierra, going for a season-high 25 second chance points. Against Long Beach State the Lions had 19 offensive boards and held a 45-30 edge on the glass. They used five of their 19 offensive rebounds in the final IN A LIONS UNIFORM: minute to get the win at LBSU. Freshman Gabe Levin is GAMES STARTED: seventh overall in rebounding at 7.5 and Osborne is 19th 1. Anthony Ireland (2010-14) 117 at 5.3 rpg. Levin is fourth in the WCC with 2.7 offensive 2. Mark Armstrong (1984-88) 109 rebounds per game. GAMES PLAYED
• Speaking of Osborne, he has been a force on the glass 1. Anthony Ireland (2010-14) 124 of late as he wraps up a blue-collar type career. He played 2. Terrell Lowery (1988-92) 119 in his 117th game against Saint Mary’s, good for a tie at 3. Charles Brown (2001-05) 117 3rd all-time. He is on pace to finish second all-time behind Mike Yoest (1984-88) 117 117 teammate Anthony Ireland for games played in a career. Alex Osborne (2009-14) And as his career wraps-up, he has been leading the Lions on the glass since WCC play began, including the Lions’ first 15-15 games since 2009. Osborne scored 20 points with 17 rebounds, eight of which were offensive, in the win over La Sierra. It was the first 15-15 game by a Lion since Dec. 28, 2009. He went 8-for-10 from the field, had two assists, two steals and a block in the win. Osborne is also ranked 15th in the WCC with 1.1 spg. His 105 career steals is ranked 23rd all-time in LMU history. • The Lions traveled 15,843 miles in their first 10 games this season, playing just one home game on Nov. 17 against Northern Arizona. They are coming off a six-game road swing that took them more than 15,500 miles before returning home to play Cal Poly. It started with a 7,543-mile swing to the Virgin Islands and continued with the shortest leg of the road trip, a 144-mile round trip to UC Riverside. The trip to Pittsburgh took the team 4,298 miles before heading out for the ON THE ROAD Miles traveled in non-conference: 3,564-mile road trip to face Valparaiso on Dec. 14. • The Lions needed all 11 of their scholarship players in uniform against South Dakota State as they were called for 37 fouls, equalling the program record set on Feb. 9, 2001 against Nevada. South Dakota State finished 37-for50 (74.0 percent) from the free throw line. The 37 made free throws equals an opponent’s record against the Lions as Santa Clara hit 37 on Feb. 24, 2011. No Lion actually fouled out of the game as six Lions had four fouls.
LMU to San Diego ............................ 250 LMU to Long Beach St. ...................... 44 Virgin Islands Paradise Jam.......... 7,543 LA to Miami 2,336 Miami to St. Thomas 1,105 St. Thomas to JFK 1,630 JFK to LAX 2,472 LMU to UC Riverside......................... 144 LMU to Pittsburgh.......................... 4,298 LMU to Valparaiso......................... 3,564 Grand Total................................. 15,843
• The Lions had three 20-point scorers in the win over South Dakota St., the first time that has happened since the record-setting LMU-USIU game on Jan. 5, 1991. They did it again against La Sierra. Against SDSU, Ben Dickinson had 22 points while Anthony Ireland and Gabe Levin had 20 points each. Against the Golden Eagles to end non-conference, Evan Payne had 24, Ireland had 21 and Osborne 20. Prior to this season, the last time it happened, the Lions set the NCAA record for points in a 186-140 win. Five Lions went for more than 20 points (Terrell Lowery - 34, Richard Petruska - 28, Chris Knight - 27, Rahim Harris - 24, Ross Richardson - 24). Against Northern Arizona, the Lions had a pair of players with double-doubles. Anthony Ireland had 18 points and 10 assists for his sixth career double-double while freshman Gabe Levin had his first with 15 points and 10 rebounds. • Max Good, who is in his sixth season in 2013-14, enters the season fifth all-time in program history in wins (75 - as of 2/3/14), sixth in conference wins (26) and second in WCC tournament wins (6). Good led the Lions to a 21-13 mark and its second postseason appearance in three years in 2011-12, LMU’s Centennial year. That season set standards going back to the Lions’ Elite Eight team of 1989-90, including its first 20win season, the most conference wins (11), most home COACHING WINS: wins (12), and the best road record (9-4), defeating a pair 1. William J. Donovan (1953-61) 107 of ranked teams away from home (UCLA, Saint Mary’s). 2. Paul Westhead (1985-90) 105 The 21 wins was the fourth most in school history and 3. John Arndt (1961-68) 91 the 11 WCC wins is tied with the 1967-68 team for the 4. Scott McDonald (1946-52) 83 third most. The Lions won a pair of games in the postsea- 5. Max Good (2008-pres.) 75 son, the first postseason wins since that Elite Eight team. Good was named WCC Coach of the Year following the Lions’ success that season.
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