Raiders set to faceoff against HL-leading Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE - The Wright State men's basketball team wraps up its Wisconsin road trip with a Saturday matchup at Milwaukee. The Raiders come into the contest winners of three of their last four games, including a Thursday victory at Green Bay, while Milwaukee has won four straight and leads the Horizon League. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. ET from UWM Panther Arena.

Fans can follow the action several ways - via live stats, by watching on ESPN+ or by tuning in on WONE 980 AM. Chris Collins and Jim Brown will have all the play-by-play on the radio feed.

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LAST TIME OUT
Brandon Noel recorded a new career-high 32 points on Thursday on the way to his fourth straight double-double as he paced Wright State to a 99-67 road victory over Green Bay as the Raiders shot 72 percent as a group overall. Wright State finished the night shooting 71.9 percent from the floor, marking the second time this season the Raiders have finished at over 70 percent shooting. On Thursday, the Raiders did nearly all their work inside, tallying 64 points in the paint while hitting just four three-pointers.

MILWAUKEE MATCHUP
Milwaukee enters Saturday at 12-5 overall on a four-game winning streak while sitting atop the Horizon League standings with a 6-1 HL record. The Panthers are 8-1 at home and coming off a Thursday victory over Northern Kentucky. The teams have met 68 times overall, with the Raiders holding a 36-32 lead over Milwaukee in the overall series, including wins in seven of the last nine meetings. The first meeting came back on Jan. 17, 1977 in Milwaukee, a 75-66 Panther win. The first Wright State home game was the following year - a 71-69 Raider win on Feb. 13, 1978.

A WIN WOULD. . .
A victory would be Wright State's first sweep in the Wisconsin road trip since the 2012-13 season. The Raiders have split the last six such trips to the Badger State.

PANTHER POINTS
-Milwaukee is 12-5 overall and 6-1 in Horizon League play, having won 8 of 9 home contests to date. The Panthers are currently 4-4 on the road, but are currently in the middle of a four-game homestand.
-Milwaukee opened the Horizon League schedule with five of its first six games on the road, going 5-1 over that stretch. The Panthers are now 6-1 in HL play entering Friday, their best opening to a league slate since the 2011-12 campaign as they are in first place in the HL standings all alone for the first time since January 2012.

COMING OF AGE
Brandon Noel tallied a career-high 32 on Jan. 12 at Green Bay as he recorded his fourth straight double-double dating back to Jan. 2 at IUPUI and sixth double-double of the season overall. Noel has upped his scoring in HL play, averaging a double-double in League action with his 16.1 points/game and 10.9 rebounds/game marks.

WISCONSIN HOMECOMING
Wisconsin native Alex Huibregtse played his first collegiate game in his home state of Wisconsin on Thursday, tallying nine points in 22 minutes of action, and will have a cheering section Saturday in Milwaukee, with Grafton just 25 minutes from Panther Arena. The Grafton, WI native and the Raiders hosted both Green Bay and Milwaukee in the COVID-altered 2020-21 season and Huibregtse missed last season's road games with injury.

Amari Davis returned to Green Bay for the first time since transferring following the 2020-21 season, finishing with 15 points in 27 minutes of action. Davis was the Horizon League Freshman of the Year and broke Green Bay's all-time freshman scoring record in 2019-20. He was a second-team 2020-21 All-Horizon League selection as a sophomore.

BUCKING THE TREND
Wright State has split the Green Bay-Milwaukee matchups yearly dating back to the 2015-16 campaign (the Raiders didn't travel to Wisconsin in the COVID-altered 2020-21 season). Dating back to 2010-11, Wright State has won both games on the trip just once - beating Green Bay in double OT Feb. 7, 2013 and following that with a victory at Milwaukee on Feb. 9, 2013 during the 2013-14 campaign. The Raiders have split the trip or lost both contests (2011-12 & 2013-14 seasons) in all other trips over the last 12 seasons.

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Players Mentioned

Amari Davis

Alex Huibregtse

Brandon Noel

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