SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – First place is up for grabs when California Baptist travels to San Rafael, Calif., to face Dominican University of California on Saturday, Jan. 7 in the PacWest Game of the Week.
Each week during the men's basketball season, the PacWest will spotlight a game that will be broadcast live over the Internet. The Lancers and Penguins will square off at 7:30 p.m. (PST).
Saturday's game will be radio broadcast at
http://radio.dominican.edu and a live video feed will be available at
www.dominicanathletics.com/livevideo.
California Baptist is currently 9-1 on the season with a 3-0 PacWest mark and has reeled off seven straight victories.
The Penguins are just 3-10 on the 2011-12 campaign but have pulled off a pair of victories over Dixie State and Grand Canyon this week to start 2-0 in conference play.
The Lancers are ranked first in scoring margin (+5.7), shooting (48.0%), three-point field goal defense (28.8%), and rebounding margin (+5.0), while the Penguins top the conference in steals per game (9.1).
CBU junior center Luke Evans (Oceanside, CA/El Camino) is leading the team in scoring and rebounding, posting 14.9 points and 7.6 boards per contest.
Senior forward Justus Von Wright (Arcadia, CA/Van Nuys) is contributing 13.1 points per outing.
Dominican is led by junior center
Jacob Noisat (Santa Rosa, CA/Elsie Allen) who is averaging 11.2 points and 6.8 rebounds per contest. He tops the Penguins in both scoring and rebounding. Noisat was recently featured on KPIX CBS Channel 5. Watch his inspiring story
here.
