SAN ANTONIO – The UTSA men's basketball team – on the road for its first five games of the year – will return home to welcome Wiley College in the 2019-20 home opener, with tipoff on Friday slated for 7 p.m. at the Convocation Center.
The game will be broadcast live on CUSA TV and on the Roadrunners Sports Network, with the Voice of UTSA, Andy Everett, calling the action. Fans can hear the game live on Ticket 760 AM and on goUTSA.com.
UTSA (0-5) will be facing Wiley College (2-2) on Friday after kicking off the 2019-20 season with a pair of road games – at Oklahoma and No. 17/19 Utah State – and with a three-game neutral-site tournament in Kissimmee, Fla. UTSA will start a three-game homestand with the outing vs. Wiley, also hosting Prairie View A&M on Nov. 30 and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Dec. 3.
The Roadrunners have been led through five games by junior guard Jhivvan Jackson, who is averaging 23.6 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Junior guard Keaton Wallace has averaged 13 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. Freshman center Jacob Germany averages 5.5 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, with junior forward Luka Barisic averaging 5.0 points and 2.6 rebounds per game. Freshman guard Erik Czumbel sports 4.4 points per game, with junior guard Knox Hellums adding 3.8 points per outing. Senior forward Byron Frohnen, who has made 105 consecutive starts to open his career, averaging 3.6 points and a team-leading 6.2 rebounds per game.
As a team, UTSA is averaging 63.6 points per game, shooting 34 percent overall and 27.7 percent from 3-point land. Opponents are averaging 81 points per game, with a 47.4 overall clip from the field and a 34.4 percentage from 3-point land.
Wiley College (2-2) is coming off a Wednesday night, overtime loss at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. The Wildcats got 18 points and five assists from guard Taylan Grogan, who played all 45 minutes, with forward Travious Grubbs logging 42 minutes, with 14 points, four steals and five rebounds. Forward Devin Ellis played 44 minutes and added 10 points and six rebounds.
The Wildcats – ranked No. 22 in the latest NAIA Coaches' Top-25 Poll – have played three Division I opponents in exhibitions in 2019-20, including an exhibition at Southern, falling 78-57 and losses at Louisiana Tech, 98-52, and at Tarleton State, 90-67. In Wiley's four official games on its NAIA schedule, the Wildcats are averaging 77 points per game, shooting 43.6 percent from the field and 34.7 percent from range, with a 63.9 clip from the charity stripe. Opponents are averaging 76 points per game and shooting 46.9 percent and 31.1 percent from 3-point land.
Grogran leads the team with 28.3 points per game, with Grubbs averaging 11.3 points and Devin Ellis chipping in 11.8 points per outing. Ellis leads the team with 8.3 rebounds per game.
This will be the first meeting between the two schools. Of UTSA's first six opponents in 2019-20, three have been first-time foes.
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