LEBANON, Ill. – The men's basketball team will start their 116th year as a program in the annual GLVC/G-MAC Crossover, which will be hosted by Tiffin University this year with the pair of contests to be held at the Gillmor Center in Tiffin, Ohio.
Both games will be streamed live and on demand on FloCollege (FloSports) via a subscription purchase. Fans can tune in on any electronic device to watch the match. Live stats will also be provided for free.
Tickets are currently available for purchase for $11 (general admission) for each of the two days of the crossover.
[Tiffin] [Malone]
SCOUTING THE LAST OUTING
McKendree is coming off an exhibition matchup against NCAA Division I member Southern Illinois University last Monday, November 3rd in Carbondale.
There, the Bearcats could not contain the Salukis in their official season opener at the Banterra Center, where a series of double-digit runs expanded the two sides farther from each other. McKendree kept pushing through the whole game in cutting the deficit, but were immediately responded to by SIU each time as the home Salukis capped off the 83-42 win.
HISTORY SHOWCASE
The Bearcats faced off against Tiffin and Malone University to start the season last year, when the GLVC/G-MAC Crossover was held at Romeoville, Illinois on the campus of conference-foe Lewis University. They won both games by an average score of 19.0 points, which helped ignite a 3-0 start to their regular season.
Dating back to McKendree's debut in the NCAA Division II era (2012-13 season), they are 1-2 against the Dragons, with the lone win coming last year at the crossover at 69-45. Both other outings were also held on neutral grounds.
Against the Pioneers, the Bearcats have faced the team from Canton, Ohio only once in the Division II era, which also came last season as part of the annual event. In that lone game, McKendree came victorious against Malone, 84-70.
KNOW THE FOE
Tiffin was picked to finish this season 12th in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC). They went 7-21 last season as they concluded with three straight losses to miss their conference postseason tournament. That is coming off of two winning seasons with the Dragons posting a .500 or better record.
Malone was slotted at 10th place in this year's G-MAC preseason poll despite winning the conference tournament last year. They ended the regular season slate with an even 16-16 overall record with a 9-11 mark in conference play to earn them the seven-seed in the G-MAC Basketball Championships. In the tournament, they surpassed the two-seed Kentucky Wesleyan College and three-seed Hillsdale College before taking down the four-seed in Thomas More University, who beat the Bearcats last season. By claiming the G-MAC championship, the Pioneers earned the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, where they would go out in the first round game against GLVC-foe Missouri S&T, 77-85.
I DON'T MEAN TO BE A BURTON
A bright spot in McKendree's last outing at Southern Illinois was senior guard Caleb Burton (O'Fallon, Ill.), who led the team in scoring with eight points, which was two more than he had all of last season (6). In 18 minutes of play, Burton also collected a rebound, two assists, and a steal while hitting a 50.0% clip (1-2) from beyond the arc.
SNIPERS IN THE BUSHES
Despite shooting 22.7% (5-22) from deep as team last Monday on foreign floors, four Bearcats shot 50.0% or better from long range that night. One of them being Burton as he went 1-for-2 from distance with the same output as redshirt junior Justin King (Mascoutah, Ill.). Redshirt sophomore Jakob Fredricksen (Elizabethtown, Ky.) knocked in two on four attempts while first-year forward Joshua Schönbäck (Kierling, Austria) dropped in his only attempt from the far corner.
THE NUMBERS TO KNOW
McKendree returns nine players to the fold on this year's roster. From last year's numbers, they averaged a combined 31.3 points per game of the team's 71.3 average output, which is approximately 42.7% of returning production on the scoring side of the ball. In the exhibition match, the returners accounted for 30 of the team's 42 total points, which equates to 71.4% while the newcomers put up the remaining 12 points (28.6%).
NCAA'S TOP 100 (current players and numbers from last season)
McKENDREE
Team:
• Effective field goal percentage (41st – 54.7%)
• Field goal percentage (87th – 46.1%)
• Free throw percentage (67th – 74.5%)
• Scoring Defense (80th – 71.6 ppg)
• Three-point attempts per game (62nd – 25.2)
• Three-point percentage (23rd – 37.8)
• Three-point percentage defense (87th – 33.0%)
• Three-pointers per game (29th – 9.5)
• Turnovers per game (27th – 10.5)
Individual:
N/A
TIFFIN
Team:
• Bench points per game (27th – 29.1)
• Fouls per game (51st – 15.3)
• Turnovers per game (86th – 11.7)
Individual:
N/A
MALONE
Team:
• Scoring defense (33rd – 68.4)
• Turnover margin (74th – 1.6)
• Turnovers per game (1st – 8.6)
Individual:
N/A
LOOKING AHEAD
After the GLVC/G-MAC Crossover, McKendree will return for their home opener against Hannibal-LaGrange University on Friday, November 21st at 7:00 PM CT at the Harry M. Statham Sports Center in Lebanon, Illinois.
The game will be streamed live and on demand on the GLVC Sports Network. Both season and single-game tickets are available for purchase. Live stats will also be provided for fans to tune in live.
TUNE IN-FO
| DATE |
TIME (CT) |
HOME TEAM |
AWAY TEAM |
LIVE STATS |
WATCH LIVE |
| 11/14/25 |
12:00 PM |
Tiffin |
McKendree |
STATS |
WATCH ($) |
| 11/15/25 |
2:30 PM |
Malone |
McKendree |
STATS |
WATCH ($) |
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