Quick Notes

• Trinity International steps back into league play Tuesday night, when they host the Judson Eagles in search of their first CCAC win of the early season.
• Live stats and streaming video of Tuesday's matchup can be found at TIUTrojans.com/LIVE
• The Trojans are coming off an exhibition loss, 101-70, to NCAA Division II foe Wisconsin-Parkside last Saturday. Sophomore guard Jeremy Carlyle led the Trojans with 18 points in the losing effort.
• Trinity boasts the second-highest scoring offense in the CCAC in the early season, averaging 95.9 points per game. Defensively, the Trojans are tied for sixth in the league, allowing 79.0 points per contest.
• Judson are off to a 4-1 start to the season, and are scoring 79.2 points per game, the 6th-highest average in the CCAC. Defensively, the Eagles hold their opponents to just 67.4 points each night, ranking 3rd in the league.
• Senior forward Zach Kirschbaum is the team's leading scorer and rebounder, with 17.3 points and 11.3 rebounds per game.
• Kirschbaum has posted five double-doubles over the first seven games of the season, more than any other player in the CCAC. He also leads the league in rebounding and blocked shots, with 2.4 per game.
• Grant Corsi is also posting double figures to start the season, with 14.4 points per game. Corsi posted a team-high 30 points in the loss at St. Xavier on Wednesday, the second 30-point performance by a Trojan this year. 
• Six players in all are scoring more than eight points per game for the Trojans.
• Henry French is averaging 10.6 points per game, after putting up 14 and 17 points respectively against Silver Lake (Wisc.) and Waldorf (Iowa) during the 2016 Trojan Classic on Nov. 11-12.
• The Trojans have some of the best defensive statistics in the country two weeks into the season. Trinity leads the NAIA in blocks (44; 6.3 per game), and rank 4th in steals per game (11.1). The Trojans are also 5th nationally in turnover margin (+8.3), and 6th in total steals (78)
• Trinity is coming off of their first 20-win season in 17 years, and return four of five starters from a year ago.
• Last season, the Trojans reached the NCCAA National Semifinal, in their first NCCAA Tournament appearance since 1999. TIU finished 4th overall in the eight-team tournament after coming in as the No. 6 seed.

Series History
• Tuesday's game will be the 30th meeting between Trinity and Judson since the 2003-04 season. The Trojans hold a narrow 17-14 lead in the series.
• The series was even at 13-13 before the Trojans won four of the last five meetings over the Eagles, including just their third-ever 100-point performance, in a 101-74 win on Nov. 23 last season.

Scouting the Opponents
• The Eagles started the year winning three straight before dropping the conference opener to Cardinal Stritch last week. On Saturday, Judson secured a 73-66 home win over Olivet Nazarene to improve to 1-1 in the CCAC.
• Illya Galloway leads the team in rebounding, and is just outside of the top ten nationally with 10.2 rebounds per game (11th in NAIA), and 3.6 offensive boards each game (14th in NAIA).
• Justin Allen is averaging a team-high 15.6 points per game

Trojans in the Polls
• The Trojans debuted at No. 8 in the NCCAA Top 10 Rankings, announced on Tuesday.
• Trinity International has appeared in the NAIA Division II Coaches Poll 21 times in program history, but not since the 1997-98 campaign.
• The Trojans' last NAIA ranking came on Jan. 6, 1998, when the TIU came in at No. 20.
• The highest ranking in program history was during the 1995-96 season, when Trinity was at No. 3 in the Jan. 22, 1996 poll.
• This season, the Trojans placed 4th in the CCAC preseason ratings, with all three programs rated above Trinity earning spots in the NAIA Preseason Coaches Poll.

Record Books
• On Nov. 11, Trinity posted 126 points in their Trojan Classic victory over Silver Lake (Wisc.). The performance was one point shy of the all-time program record of 127 points scored in a single game. (Feb. 14, 1996 at Rockford [Ill.])
• As a team the Trojans combined for 25 made three-pointers against the Lakers, setting a new CCAC single-game record.
• The 25 threes also goes down as the second-highest number of three-point field goals in a single game in NAIA history.
• With two blocks against St. Xavier on Wednesday night, Zach Kirschbaum moved into fourth place on Trinity International's all-time blocked shots list. Kirschbaum surpassed Cameron Burkett's (2003-05) 62 blocks for the No. 4 spot on the list.
• Senior Sean Smith celebrated his 100th game as a Trojan in Saturday night's win over Waldorf (Iowa). The LaGrange, Ill. native played in 34 games as a junior last year, tying the single-season record for total appearances in TIU history. Smith is now nine games away from ninth place on the all-time games played list.

Up Next
• Trinity will head west over Thanksgiving weekend, traveling to Phoenix, Ariz. to face off against Arizona Christian on Friday, Nov. 25, and Benedictine-Mesa (Ariz.) on Saturday, Nov. 26.
• The Trojans will resume CCAC play on Wednesday, Nov. 30, with a road trip to face the Roosevelt Lakers.