PORTLAND STATE VIKINGS (1-1) vs. WILLAMETTE BEARCATS (0-1)
Saturday, November 17, 2018, 7:05 p.m. • Viking Pavilion (3,094), Portland, OR
Live Stream: Pluto TV Channel 232, wwwPluto.tv,
www.WatchBigSky.com • Play-by-Play: Matt Richert
Live Stats: www.ViksLive.com
Complete notes and stats in pdf
Portland State resumes its early non-conference schedule at home on Saturday night when it hosts Willamette University in a 7:05 p.m. game.
The Vikings go into the contest at 1-1 after splitting its opening week games. PSU lost at 14th-ranked Oregon before taking a Viking Pavilion-opening win over UC Riverside, 71-64, last Saturday.
The opening was grand for the Vikings as a crowd of 1,424 showed up to see Portland State's new home venue. Three Vikings scored in double figures, led by 12 points and six rebounds from SR G
Derek Brown. SR F
Jamie Orme scored 11 points, SO C
Brendan Rumel had 10, and SO G
Holland Woods handed out six assists.
Portland State will look for improvement on the offensive end as the Vikings shot only .364 from the field, .151 from three-point range, and .533 at the free throw line in the two games. What the Vikings
did excel at was to be expected - forcing turnovers and offensive rebounding. PSU turned UC Riverside over 24 times, and had 37 offensive rebounds in the two games.
The game with Division III Willamette is the second of six non-conference games in PSU's new home facility. The Vikings hope to remain undefeated (!) in the Viking Pavilion. They would figure to be the favorites against the Wildcats whom they defeated 111-60 last season.
PSU has won 31 straight games against lower division opponents. Also, the Vikings have lost only eight non-conference home games in the last 12 seasons (50-8). PSU is 27-8 against Division I schools, and 23-0 against lower division schools over that span.
Willamette is 0-1 on the season and will face Concordia of Texas on Friday night prior to playing the Vikings.
Saturday's game is not televised but will be live streamed on Pluto TV Channel 232 and www.WatchBigSky.com. Live statistics are available at www.ViksLive.com.
COMING UP
PSU competes in the Vandal Holiday Hoops Showcase, Nov. 23-24, in Boise, ID. The Vikings will play UC Santa Barbara and Northwest Nazarene in games at Century Link Arena, home of the 2019 Big Sky Conference Championship Tournament.
The Vikings play six of their 11 non-conference games at home. The next road game is Nov. 28 at Stanford.
GAME NOTES: PORTLAND STATE vs. WILLAMETTE
• ALL-TIME SERIES: Portland State leads the all-time series, 6-5, including four straight since 2000-01. Prior to that, the teams had not met since the 1963-64 season.
• LAST YEAR: NOV. 14, 2017, PORTLAND STATE 111, WILLAMETTE 60: The Vikings routed the Bearcats in their first home game of the season. PSU forced 30 Willamette turnovers and turned them into 40 points. Seven players scored in double figures as the Vikings shot .573 from the field.
• PORTLAND STATE vs. LOWER DIVISION SCHOOLS: Portland State is 44-1 against lower division schools, including 31 in a row, since joining the Big Sky Conference in 1996-97.
• COACHES: Vikings Coach
Barret Peery (Southern Utah, 1996) is in his second season on the Park Blocks and has a 21-15 career record. Peery is 1-0 against Willamette. His only other head coaching experience is at the junior college level where he was 178-30 in six seasons (2005-08, College of Southern Idaho; 2011-14, Indian Hills (IA) CC)... the Bearcats are coached by Kip Ioane (Willamette, 2001) in his 10 season. Ioane is 64-163 all-time. He is 0-3 against the Vikings.
WILLAMETTE BEARCATS
• Willamette, located in Salem, is an NCAA III member of the Northwest Conference.
• The Bearcats were 11-14 last season, 6-10 and sixth place in the Northwest Conference.
• Willamette lost to LeTourneau (TX), 73-72, on a three-pointer at the buzzer last Saturday. The Bearcats hit 10 three-point field goals, but had 21 turnovers in the game. Trent Callan scored 17 points with six assists. Jordan Jenkins scored 15 points with 13 rebounds. Alec Barba added 15 points.
SUSTAINABLE AND RECYCLABLE VIKING QUICK NOTES
WINNING LINES
• Portland State is 1-1 on the season, 1-0 at home, 0-1 on the road.
Home Court(s)
• Portland State opens the Viking Pavilion at the Peter W. Stott Center in 2018-19. The Stoller Family Court will be PSU's fifth (and hopefully final) home court since joining the Big Sky Conference in 1996-97. The main home court was the old Peter W. Stott Center. However, the Vikings also used the Rose Garden (now Moda Center) and Memorial Coliseum occasionally over the years. In 2017-18, PSU used Lewis & Clark College's Pamplin Sports Center as a home court while the Viking Pavilion was being completed. Here is the breakdown:
- Viking Pavilion - 1 game, 1-0
- Peter W. Stott Center - 233 games, 168-65
- Rose Garden (Moda Center) - 28 games, 19-9
- Memorial Coliseum - 19 games, 13-6
- Lewis and Clark - 12 games, 7-5
- 23rd season - 293 games, 208-85 at home overall
• Since the start of the 2006-07 season, PSU is 121-46 at home, including 71-38 in Big Sky Conference regular season and tournament games.
• Portland State has lost only eight non-conference home games in the last 12 seasons (50-8). PSU is 27-8 against Division I schools, and 23-0 against lower division schools over that span.
WHO IS HOT
• VIKING DEFENSE: Portland State forced 38 turnovers in the first two games (19.0), turning them into 45 points.
• OFFENSIVE REBOUNDERS: The Vikings have 37 offensive rebounds in two games (18.5). They have converted them to 29 second-chance points.
• SAL ON THE BLOCK: Newcomer JR C
Sal Nuhu has four blocked shots through two games and ranks second in the Big Sky Conference.
WHO IS NOT
• VIKING SHOOTERS: Portland State is shooting only .364 from the field, .151 from three-point range and .533 at the free throw line after two games.
200 FOR BOO BOO: SO G Holland "Boo Boo" Woods has reached 200 career assists in 36 career games. He is 47 assists short of reaching the Portland State all-time top 10 for assists.
• Woods, the Big Sky leader in assists last season (5.6), has led the Vikings in assists in 27 career games.
NEW SEASON, NEW LOOK: Portland State Head Coach
Barret Peery had four new starters in his lineup for the first two games, along with returning starter SO G
Holland Woods. Also tipping it off were SO C
Brendan Rumel (three total starts in the previous two years), SR F
Jamie Orme (one start last year), JR F
Robert McCoy and SR G
Derek Brown.
• In addition to McCoy, also playing in their first games as Vikings were JR Gs
Michael Nuga and
Juwan Williams, JR F
Rashaad Goolsby and JR C
Sal Nuhu.
• SO C
Brendan Rumel played a career-high 26 minutes at Oregon, scoring nine points with three rebounds.
• SR G
Derek Brown grabbed a career-high seven rebounds to lead the team. He also led the Vikings with six boards against UC Riverside.
IF YOU BUILD IT: The crowd of 1,424 that attended Portland State's home opener against UC Riverside was the largest since a sellout crowd of 1,500 attended the Portland State/Oregon State game in the old Stott Center gym on Dec. 12, 2012.
WHAT IS PEERY PRESSURE?
Portland State Head Coach
Barret Peery emphasizes a full-court pressure defense that forces turnovers and creates transition opportunities. Then, on the offensive end, his team relentlessly attacks the offensive glass. The results proved out quite well in 2017-18. Here are the analytics of those two areas.
• The Vikings forced 18.1 turnovers per game and had a +5.4 turnover margin (1st in the nation).
• The Vikings averaged 14.5 offensive rebounds per game (2nd in the nation) while opponents averaged 10.2 offensive rebounds.
• In all, the difference in total turnovers (184) and total offensive rebounds (145) meant 329 extra possessions compared to opponents (9.7).
• It is no wonder the Vikings had 361 more field goal attempts and 199 more free throw attempts than their opponents last year and 85.2 points (3rd in the nation).
PEERY PRESSURE, PART II
In 2018-19:
• The Vikings have forced 19.0 turnovers per game and have a +7.5 turnover margin.
• The Vikings average 18.5 offensive rebounds per game while opponents average 8.5.
• In all, the difference in total turnovers (15) and total offensive rebounds (20) is 35 extra possessions compared to opponents (17.5 per game).
• As a result, PSU has 35 more field goal attempts than their opponents. Opponents have eight more free throw attempts.
SEASON HIGHLIGHT REEL
• Nov. 6: #14 Oregon 84, PSU 57: The Vikings opened the season with their usual aggressive approach on defense and the glass, but suffered through a woeful shooting night in a loss to the 14th-ranked Ducks. PSU made only 21-73 shots from the field (.288) compared to 27-50 for Oregon (.540). SO G
Holland Woods led the Vikings with 13 points and three assists.
• Nov. 10: PSU 71, UC Riverside 64: The Vikings held the Highlanders without a field goal for eight minutes late in the second half. PSU trailed by four with 8:24 to play but pulled away in the closing minutes leading by as many as 10. SR G
Derek Brown scored 12 points with six rebounds and three assists.
THE VIKING PAVILION
Portland State University held Grand Opening ceremonies for the new Viking Pavilion at the Peter W. Stott Center on April 9.
The long-awaited arena and events facility became a first-class venue for the university and the Viking Athletics program. Viking volleyball opened the Pavilion for Viking Athletics with the first official sporting events in August. The first major athletics event was on Apr. 28 when PSU hosted a Grand Opening Gala (Wine and Roses). Numerous other campus events have taken place over the past six months.
The Viking Pavilion, a 141,700-square foot facility seats just over 3,000 people for basketball. Seating is more than double the size of the old Stott Center main gym. The facility also has a new weight room, locker rooms, academic center and administrative offices as well as the new OHSU Sports Medicine Center. A new Viking Athletics Hall of Fame display will be completed in October. Other additions include five new classrooms, new student lounges and a new cafe.
The $52.1 million project, which was part renovation and part rebuild, was designed by Woofter Architects/Perkins+Will. Fortis Construction was the general contractor. $19.1 million came from private gifts and PSU project funds, $7.5 million was a sponsorship from OHSU, $24 million are from state bonds and $1.5 million are from student fees. None of the funding came from general operating funds or tuition dollars. Formal fund-raising began in 2013. An official ground breaking took place on April 23, 2016.
