WKU Game Notes 
| Campbellsville Game Notes | Conference USA Notes
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- The 97th season of WKU Hilltopper Basketball begins Saturday at 7:00 PM (CT), as the Hilltoppers host Campbellsville (Ky.) as part of the 2015 Gulf Coast Showcase.
WKU played two exhibition games last week and won both, serving as a preseason tune-up for the Hilltoppers' second season in Conference USA in 2015-16. In the exhibition games, Chris Harrison-Docks led WKU in scoring at 18.0 points per game, and Ben Lawson, Chris McNeal and Nigel Snipes all averaged 5.5 rebounds per outing. As a team, WKU shot 49.5 percent from the field in the two victories.
The game on Saturday is an on-campus game as part of the Gulf Coast Showcase, which also includes three games in Estero, Fla., Thanksgiving week, beginning with a matchup with Drake on Nov. 23.
WKU leads the all-time series against Campbellsville 4-0, with the most recent regular-season matchup being a 62-48 WKU win in Bowling Green on Nov., 18, 2008.
Saturday's game is an exhibition contest for the Tigers, who are 4-0 to start the 2015-16 season and play in the Mid-South Conference in the NAIA, which is the same conference as WKU's first exhibition opponent, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) College. The Tigers reached the Sweet 16 of the NAIA National Championships in 2015 after winning the MSC, and head coach Keith Adkins was named the NAIA National Coach of the Year last season.
After Saturday, WKU hits the road to face Belmont on Wednesday at 6:00 PM (CT).
GAME 1
WKU (0-0, 0-0 C-USA) vs. Campbellsville (Ky.) (4-0, 0-0 MSC)
November 14, 2015 | 7:00 PM (CT)
Bowling Green, Ky. | E.A. Diddle Arena (7,326)
QUICK SHOTS
- WKU has won 10 of its last 11 home openers and is 78-18 all-time in the season's first home game.
- Prior to last season's 77-70 win over Austin Peay, WKU had lost three-straight season openers dating back to a 98-70 win at Saint Joseph's to begin the 2010-11 campaign.
- WKU has won 19 of its last 23 regular-season home games, and the Hilltoppers are 42-12 at E.A. Diddle Arena under head coach Ray Harper (.778) and 26-7 over the last two seasons.
- WKU's home winning percentage of .813 in 2014-15 (13-3) was its best since going undefeated at E.A. Diddle Arena in 2008-09 (13-0).
- One year after bringing back 72.5 percent of its scoring and 54.3 percent of its rebounding, WKU returns 33.0 percent of its scoring and 37.6 percent of its rebounding in 2015-16.
- The 2015-16 WKU roster has combined for 11 varsity letters at WKU, which follows last year's roster combining for 17 and being the most experienced opening-day roster since 2008-09 (17).
- The team's leading returning scorer, redshirt-junior Chris Harrison-Docks, is 407 points away from becoming the 49th player in Hilltopper Basketball history to score 1,000 career points.
- Junior Ben Lawson blocked 53 shots in 2014-15, which was the most by a Hilltopper since Juan Pattillo swatted 56 in 2010-11, and his block-per-game average of 1.7 was fourth-best in Conference USA.
- WKU will be replacing the sixth-leading scorer in program history and the all-time leader in three-pointers (T.J. Price) and the 13th-leading scorer and eighth-leading rebounder (George Fant) in 2015-16.
- WKU was picked to finish sixth in the Conference USA Preseason Coaches Poll and had no players voted to the 10-member Preseason All-C-USA Team.
- WKU's 23 NCAA Tournament appearances are six more than the next closest Conference USA school (UTEP, 17), and the eight league schools with the fewest appearances in the Big Dance combine for 22.
- Entering 2014-15, WKU is tied for 16th in NCAA history in all-time victories (1,719) and tied for eighth in all-time winning percentage (.665).
BROADCAST
Listen: Hilltopper IMG Sports Network, TuneIn Radio (free) (Randy Lee, pxp | Hal Schmitt, analysis)
Watch: WKUSports.tv ($) (radio simulcast)
Live Stats: WKUSports.com (free)
PROMOTIONS
Military Appreciation Day: all military personnel and veterans can show a military ID and receive complimentary admission, and all friends and family may purchase additional tickets for $7 each
Youth League Day: all youth league players will receive a complimentary reserved ticket to the game, and all friends and family may purchase additional tickets for $7 each
Party 1 Kid Zone: free inflatable fun zone for kids opens one hour prior to tip-off on the third level concourse of E.A. Diddle Arena
TICKETS
WKU Ticket Office: online at WKUSports.com, in person at E.A. Diddle Arena, via phone at 1-800-5-BIG Red or 745-5222 locally
