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NIU (10-15, 4-10 MAC) at Toledo (18-9, 10-4 MAC)
Date / Time: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 / 6 p.m. CT (7 p.m. ET)
Site: Savage Arena • Toledo, Ohio
TV: ESPN3
Radio: WLBK 1360-AM, 98.9-FM (DeKalb) or online at NIUHuskies.com
Live Stats: UTRockets.com
Twitter Updates: @NIUscores
All-time Series: Toledo leads 43-24
Last Meeting: Jan. 31, 2015 • Toledo 80-69

HUSKIE QUICK HITS
• Anthony Johnson scored a career-high 23 points against Eastern Michigan (Feb. 21), including a career-best five three-point field goals. Johnson currently ranks 12th in the MAC in league play shooting 37.7 percent (20-of-53) from three.
• With 127 career steals, junior guard Travon Baker is tied for sixth in school history on the career steals list with Kenny Battle (1984-86). Baker is just eight steals behind second-place Vaurice Patterson (135).
• Over the last six games, Travon Baker is averaging 13.0 points per game, shooting 49.1 percent (28-of-57), from the field, including 50 percent (13-of-26) from three.
• Anthony Johnson has scored in double figures in seven of the last nine games, averaging 12.4 points per game, shooting 48.3 percent (42-of-87) from the field.  
• Over the last five games, the Huskies are shooting 46.4 percent from the field (136-of-293) including 40 percent (38-of-95) from three.
• The Huskies have scored 25.7 percent of their points from the charity stripe, the fifth-largest percentage in the country. Towson leads the nation at 27.2 percent.
• Aaric Armstead leads the Huskies in scoring averaging 11.2 points per game, 21st in the MAC, and is third on the team in rebounding at 5.0 boards per contest, 18th in the MAC. Armstead is averaging 15.0 points per game in conference road games this season.
• Just four Huskies, Travon Baker, Chuks Iroegbu, Michael Orris and Jordan Threloff, have appeared in every game this season.

ABOUT TOLEDO
• The Rockets enter Tuesday's contest with an 18-9 overall record, 10-4 in Mid-American Conference play. Toledo has won eight of
Its last nine games with the lone blemish in that stretch being a 76-75 overtime loss against Kent State.
• Four players are scoring in double figures for Toledo, led by 16.7 points per game from Julius Brown. Justin Drummond (13.0 ppg), J.D. Weatherspoon (12.6 ppg) and Jonathan Williams (10.7 ppg) are also scoring in double figures for the Rockets.
• Toledo has started the same five (Brown, Drummond, Weatherspoon, Williams and Nathan Boothe) in all 27 games this season.

THE LAST MEETING
• NIU fell at home to Toledo, 80-69, on Jan. 31. The Rockets shot 55 percent in the second half to pull away after leading by two at the intermission.
• Three Huskies scored in double figures, led by 18 points from Darrell Bowie. Aaric Armstead added 14 points and Anthony Johnson scored 12. It was the first conference game in which NIU's two leading scorers, Bowie and Armstead, both played.
• Four players scored in double figures for Toledo with Justin Drummond leading the way with 20 points, including 12-of-12 from the free-throw line.
• Toledo shot 87.1 percent from the charity stripe (27-of-31), including 95 percent (19-of-20) in the second half.

THE ALL-TIME SERIES
• Toledo leads the all-time series, 43-24, including a 27-7 advantage all-time at home against the Huskies.
• The Rockets have won the last three games in Toledo against the Huskies; NIU's last victory at Toledo was a 75-70 overtime win on Feb. 26, 2011.
• Toledo has won four of the last five overall in the series. The Huskies and Rockets split last season's two meetings, with both teams winning at home. Toledo won the first meeting this season, 80-69, on Jan. 31, 2015 in DeKalb.

EASTERN MICHIGAN RECAP
• NIU fell, 73-65, to Eastern Michigan on Feb. 21, at the NIU Convocation Center. Anthony Johnson scored a career-best 23 points to lead the Huskies.
• The Huskies trailed by 16 at the half and shot 52.2 percent in the second half to rally within four after the intermission.
• The contest featured 58 total fouls and three Huskies fouled out (Travon Baker, Michael Orris and Aaric Armstead). NIU had just two foul outs on the season heading into the game.
• Mike Talley led Eastern Michigan with 25 points, Karrington Ward added 12 points for the Eagles.