Men’s Basketball Opens Six-Game Homestand Tuesday

Game 7
Ball State (3-3, 0-0 MAC) vs. IU Kokomo (2-6, 0-0 River States Conference)
Tuesday, Nov. 29 (7 p.m.)
Muncie, Ind. (Worthen Arena)
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Opening Tip
• Ball State returns home for the first time since Nov. 15 to host IU Kokomo in Tuesday's contest at Worthen Arena. It is the first of six straight home games for the Cardinals, who have played five of their first six away from home.

• IU Kokomo is coming off a 90-76 loss Saturday against the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Trent Elliott leads the Cougars with 22.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.

• Ball State and IU Kokomo will be meeting for the third consecutive season. The Cardinals won 101-62 in November 2014 and 90-54 in November 2015, both in Worthen Arena.

• The Cardinals had a busy Thanksgiving week, going 2-1 with two wins in Las Vegas and a 79-73 loss at Valparaiso. Junior guard Sean Sellers averaged a team-high 14.3 points per game for the week on 63.6 percent shooting, while sophomore point guard Tayler Persons averaged 14.0 points, 7.0 assists and 5.0 rebounds.

• Ball State shot 50.9 percent in Sunday's loss at Valparaiso, topping 50 percent for the third time this season, but the Cardinals turned the ball over 23 times. BSU leads the Mid-American Conference in field goal percentage at 47.1 percent for the season.

• Senior forward Franko House became the 29th member of Ball State's 1,000-Point Club in Sunday's game at Valparaiso. House surpassed the mark with a three-point play in the second half and now owns 1,004 points for his career.

• Junior guard Francis Kiapway found his offensive rhythm at Valparaiso, scoring 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting and 3-of-6 from 3-point range. Kiapway, who entered the season shooting better than 40 percent for his career from beyond the arc, started the year 3 for 21.

• Franko House and Tayler Persons were held to single-digit scoring for the first time this season Sunday at Valparaiso. Persons ranks fifth in the MAC at 17.3 points per game, while House is averaging 14.8.

Moses' Efficiency
• Sophomore center Trey Moses has been highly efficient from the floor, especially since the season opener.
• After going 0 for 3 in the opener at Saint Louis, Moses has shot 66.7 percent (24 for 36) over the past five games.
• He has shot at least 50 percent in all five, scoring double figures in four of them.

Sellers Heating up
• Junior guard Sean Sellers found his shooting stroke during Thanksgiving week.
• Sellers connected on 10 of 16 attempts from 3-point range over three games last week, making at least three treys in each game.
• A 42.2 percent career 3-point shooter, Sellers was 3 for 12 from deep through the first three games of the season.

Men’s Basketball Opens Six-Game Homestand Tuesday

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Players Mentioned

Franko House

Francis Kiapway

Trey Moses

Tayler Persons

Sean Sellers