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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology men's basketball team hosts Transylvania on Saturday at 3 PM for their 2022-23 home opener and HCAC opener.

ROSE-HULMAN (3-3, 0-0 HCAC) GAME NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman finished 15-10 last season and has been picked to finish third in the HCAC this season, according to the preseason coaches poll.
* Miles McGowen was named HCAC Men's Basketball Player of the Week this week - after averaging 16.0 points and 14.5 rebounds per game in road games at Carthage and Albion.
* Max Chaplin has reached double figures in scoring during each game of the 2022-23 season, led by a 17-point performance in the win at Albion.
* A balanced scoring attack in the 71-65 win over Albion featured double-figure scoring performances from Chaplin (17), Kobe Stoudemire (14), Willie Bowman (13) and Miles McGowen (10).
* Head coach Nick Sales is the new head coach for Rose-Hulman. Sales was an associate head coach at Marietta for the past nine seasons where he won seven OAC regular season championships, made three NCAA tournaments, and reached the NCAA Division III Final Four in 2022. Sales was 204-45 on staff at Marietta.
* Terry Hicks was named to the all-HCAC second team in 2021-22 after averaging 10.6 points and 7.7 rebounds per game last season.
* Max Chaplin was also named all-HCAC honorable mention in 2021-22 following his team-high 11.8 points per game.
* Rose-Hulman seeks its first HCAC regular season championship since 2018 and its first NCAA Division III Tournament appearance since 2014 this season

TRANSYLVANIA (2-3, 0-1 HCAC) GAME NOTES:
* Transylvania sits at 2-3 on the season. They opened the season with a pair of losses to ranked teams with Elmhurst and Wheaton. They then got a pair of wins over Oglethorpe and Centre.
* The Pioneers fell to Manchester on Wednesday night 78-86 in their HCAC opener.
* Jaylen Green leads the way for Transylvania on the season as he does it all for the Pioneers. Green is averaging 15.6 points per game on the season. He also had a monster game against Manchester with 15 points, 12 rebounds, and 7 assists.
* Hunter Penn dominates the paint for the Pioneers with 12.0 points and 8.6 rebounds per game this season.
* Colby Napier and Simon Smith each average double figures with 11.0 and 10.5 points per game.
* The Pioneers next game will be on Saturday, December 10 vs Bluffton.

SERIES HISTORY:
* Transylvania leads the all-time series 24-14.
* Rose-Hulman won both meetings last year with each game being decided by one possession.
* Transylvania won the five previous meetings from 2018-2020.
* Only two of the previous 14 meetings between the two schools has been decided by double digits.