Smithpeters to miss Arkansas game with knee injury
Tyler Smithpeters will miss Monday night's SIU men's basketball game at Arkansas because of a left knee injury suffered in Friday night's loss to Wright State, according to Saluki coach Barry Hinson.
Smithpeters is out indefinitely and has an MRI scheduled for Tuesday.
Smithpeters missed his only two shots in seven minutes off the bench against the Raiders. Wright State beat SIU 85-81 despite the Salukis sinking 45 percent from the 3-point line (9 of 20).
Mike Rodriguez, who scored a career-high 29 points to go with six assists, made 3 of 6 behind the arc. Leo Vincent made 3 of 4, and Armon Fletcher sank 2 of 6.
Smithpeters, a senior guard from Harrisburg, led the Salukis (0-1) in 3-point shooting last season at 40.5 percent. He made 47 of 116 attempts, finishing with the second-most triples on the team behind Anthony Beane's 72.
Smithpeters is a career 40.6 percent 3-point shooter. He came off the bench against Wright State and in SIU's only exhibition game against Division II Missouri-St. Louis, but has started 38 of 52 games.
Smithpeters' absence at Arkansas could add minutes for freshman point guard Aaron Cook, who is already backing up Rodriguez. Cook had one rebound and one assist in four minutes off the bench against Wright State.
Arkansas (1-0) defeated IPFW 92-83 Friday night at Walton Arena in Fayetteville. Guard Dusty Hannahs led the Razorbacks with 23 points. He was one of six players in double figures against the favorites for the Summit League title.
IPFW hit nine 3s, outscored Arkansas by eight at the free-throw line (24-16) and grabbed 21 offensive rebounds.
"When it mattered, I thought our guys did a good job executing defensively, and we finally started rebounding the basketball, which was, really, the only thing that I was really disturbed by," said Anderson, a former coach at Missouri who took the Tigers to three NCAA tournaments. "They had 21 offensive rebounds. They shot only 36 percent, but the other part of defense is rebounding the basketball. They shoot a lot of 3s, so I saw a lot of long rebounds, but they had a rebound off a free throw, which, our guys know that if that happens in a game we're probably running some suicides."
Arkansas forward Moses Kingsley, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound senior who was named preseason player of the year in the SEC, scored nine points and grabbed nine rebounds in the opener. Kingsley also swatted seven shots to lift the Razorbacks to their 47th non-conference win at Walton Arena under Anderson in 49 tries.
Hannahs was a preseason second team all-conference pick this year. Guards Jaylen Barford and Daryl Macon give Arkansas two more elite scorers from the juco ranks. Barford, a 6-3 guard like Macon, led the nation in scoring last season at 26.2 points per game at Motlow (Tennessee) State Community College. Macon, the nation's sixth-leading scorer last season at 23.9 points per game, put up 13 points, seven rebounds, five assists and four steals against IPFW.
The game is the first of three this season for the Salukis against Power Five conference teams. SIU plays at Minnesota Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving, and plays at No. 13/14 Louisville Dec. 7. SIU is 2-3 against Arkansas and 9-21 against current members of the Southeastern Conference.
Tyler Smithpeters will miss Monday night's SIU men's basketball game at Arkansas because of a left knee injury suffered in Friday night's loss to Wright State, according to Saluki coach Barry Hinson.
Smithpeters is out indefinitely and has an MRI scheduled for Tuesday.
Smithpeters missed his only two shots in seven minutes off the bench against the Raiders. Wright State beat SIU 85-81 despite the Salukis sinking 45 percent from the 3-point line (9 of 20).
Mike Rodriguez, who scored a career-high 29 points to go with six assists, made 3 of 6 behind the arc. Leo Vincent made 3 of 4, and Armon Fletcher sank 2 of 6.
Smithpeters, a senior guard from Harrisburg, led the Salukis (0-1) in 3-point shooting last season at 40.5 percent. He made 47 of 116 attempts, finishing with the second-most triples on the team behind Anthony Beane's 72.
Smithpeters is a career 40.6 percent 3-point shooter. He came off the bench against Wright State and in SIU's only exhibition game against Division II Missouri-St. Louis, but has started 38 of 52 games.
Smithpeters' absence at Arkansas could add minutes for freshman point guard Aaron Cook, who is already backing up Rodriguez. Cook had one rebound and one assist in four minutes off the bench against Wright State.
Arkansas (1-0) defeated IPFW 92-83 Friday night at Walton Arena in Fayetteville. Guard Dusty Hannahs led the Razorbacks with 23 points. He was one of six players in double figures against the favorites for the Summit League title.
IPFW hit nine 3s, outscored Arkansas by eight at the free-throw line (24-16) and grabbed 21 offensive rebounds.
"When it mattered, I thought our guys did a good job executing defensively, and we finally started rebounding the basketball, which was, really, the only thing that I was really disturbed by," said Anderson, a former coach at Missouri who took the Tigers to three NCAA tournaments. "They had 21 offensive rebounds. They shot only 36 percent, but the other part of defense is rebounding the basketball. They shoot a lot of 3s, so I saw a lot of long rebounds, but they had a rebound off a free throw, which, our guys know that if that happens in a game we're probably running some suicides."
Arkansas forward Moses Kingsley, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound senior who was named preseason player of the year in the SEC, scored nine points and grabbed nine rebounds in the opener. Kingsley also swatted seven shots to lift the Razorbacks to their 47th non-conference win at Walton Arena under Anderson in 49 tries.
Hannahs was a preseason second team all-conference pick this year. Guards Jaylen Barford and Daryl Macon give Arkansas two more elite scorers from the juco ranks. Barford, a 6-3 guard like Macon, led the nation in scoring last season at 26.2 points per game at Motlow (Tennessee) State Community College. Macon, the nation's sixth-leading scorer last season at 23.9 points per game, put up 13 points, seven rebounds, five assists and four steals against IPFW.
The game is the first of three this season for the Salukis against Power Five conference teams. SIU plays at Minnesota Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving, and plays at No. 13/14 Louisville Dec. 7. SIU is 2-3 against Arkansas and 9-21 against current members of the Southeastern Conference.
