GWU Men Return Home For Tuesday Tilt Against High Point
November 26, 2007 | Men's Basketball
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – Gardner-Webb head coach Rick
Scruggs has seen his team tangle with some of the nation's best
teams so far this season, and has another tough test awaiting in
Paul Porter Arena Tuesday night.
His Runnin' Bulldogs (4-4) will do battle with preseason Big South
Conference favorite High Point (2-2) at 7 pm ET in Paul Porter
Arena. The game will be Gardner-Webb's first at home since November
13.
High Point, which has lost only to Utah and Charlotte so far this
season, is led by preseason Big South Conference Player of the Year
Arizona Reid – a 6-foot-5 forward who calls Gaffney, S.C.,
home. Reid is averaging 22 points and nine rebounds per game for
Coach Bart Lundy so far in 2007-2008 – and had 23 points and
eight rebounds in the Panthers' 65-51 win over Gardner-Webb last
December in High Point.
Gardner-Webb has played more games prior to December this season
than at any point in its Division I tenure, facing teams from the
SEC, Big East (twice), Big 12 and ACC already.
The Runnin' Bulldogs have held their own in those games, knocking
off No. 20 Kentucky on the road and giving Connecticut and Oklahoma
solid battles in Madison Square Garden.
Thomas Sanders (16.0 points, 10.5 rebounds), Grayson Flittner (15.9
ppg), Aaron Linn (12.4 ppg) and Nate Blank (11.4) have each taken
turns leading the team in scoring in its first eight games, with
all four topping the 20-point mark at least once.
Blank, a freshman from Terre Haute, Ind., averaged 20.5 points in
two games last week at UConn and No. 24 Clemson. The 6-foot-4
standout made 6-of-10 shots from three-point range en route to a
25-point effort at Connecticut.
Gardner-Webb holds a slight 17-16 edge in the all-time series
against High Point, which began in the early 1970s.
Fans interested in tickets for Tuesday night's return home for the
Runnin' Bulldogs can call the athletics department at (704)
406-4340.
