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GAME PREVIEW: MBB at Dixie State

SEATTLE – Seattle U men's basketball (21-8, 12-4 WAC) wraps up its final road trip of the regular season on Saturday, heading south down I-15 in Utah to St. George to face Dixie State (13-15, 6-9 WAC). Tip off from Burns Arena is 7 p.m. Mountain Time, 6 p.m. Pacific. The game will broadcast live on ESPN+, and can be hear over the airwaves on KXSU 102.1 FM in Seattle or kxsu.org.

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GAME PREVIEW: MBB at Dixie StateGAME PREVIEW: MBB at Dixie State
Sarah Finney

ST. GEORGE, Utah – Seattle U men's basketball (21-8, 12-4 WAC) wraps up its final road trip of the regular season on Saturday, heading south down I-15 in Utah to St. George to face Dixie State (13-15, 6-9 WAC). Tip off from Burns Arena is 7 p.m. Mountain Time, 6 p.m. Pacific. The game will broadcast live on ESPN+, and can be hear over the airwaves on KXSU 102.1 FM in Seattle or kxsu.org.

FOLLOW THE REDHAWKS

QUICK HITS

  • Seattle U suffered its lowest scoring output of the season on Thursday, falling 67-52 at Utah Valley.
  • The Redhawks managed just 27.4 percent FG shooting in their second consecutive loss.
  • Despite the loss, the Redhawks remain in a tie for second place in the WAC standings with Sam Houston, which also lost Thursday night. At 12-4, both sit 1.5 games back from league-leader NM State. Stephen F. Austin sits in fourth at 11-4 and Grand Canyon is fifth at 10-5. The top two teams in the standings at the end of the regular season receive a bye into the Friday semifinals of the WAC Tournament. The third and fourth place teams will begin play in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
  • Darrion Trammell had 11 points, three assists and four steals against the Wolverines. He has scored in double figures all but three times this season.
  • Riley Grigsby added 10 points. Kobe Williamson added eight points and a team-high nine rebounds.
  • Seattle U has 21 wins for the 13th time in program history and the first time since 2008-09. The 08-09 team finished the season 21-8.

ABOUT THE SERIES VS DIXIE STATE
Seattle U and Dixie State have met just four times in program history with the Redhawks holding a 3-1 edge in the series. Seattle U has won the last two straight, including a 79-68 win in this season's first meeting. At the Redhawk Center in Seattle, Cameron Tyson poured in 25 points to lead five Redhawks scoring in double figures. Tyson buried seven threes in the game.

In 2020-21, the teams split a pair of games on back-to-back nights in St. George. The Trailblazers won the first game, 77-76, before the Redhawks responded with a convincing 77-56 victory in the second game. Darrion Trammell went for 30 points in the win while Aaron Nettles added 16 points.

A neutral site affair during the 2006-07 season marked the first ever meeting between the two programs. The game, played on Dec. 29, 2006, was part of Seattle Pacific's Oak Harbor Freight Lines Classic. Seattle U won the match-up, 87-70. Former Redhawk Assistant Coach Sam Kirby, '08, was in the starting lineup for the contest, finishing with 15 points, four assists and three rebounds in the Seattle U win.

BEST FIRST SEASON AT THE HELM
As Interim Head Coach Chris Victor leads the Redhawks through program's 15th 20-win season, he has entered elite territory among Seattle U coaches who have achieved the feat in their first season. Just four other coaches in Seattle U history have reached or surpassed 20 wins in their first season at the helm:

  • 22 wins - John Castellani, 1956-57, 22-3
  • 22 wins - Bob Boyd , 1963-64, 22-6
  • 21 wins - Vincent Cazzetta, 1958-59, 21-6
  • 21 wins - Chris Victor, 2021-22, 21-7 (thru games on 2/24/22)
  • 20 wins - Jim Hayford, 2017-18, 20-14

TRAMMELL THE THIEF

  • Darrion Trammell has been ranked among the nation's best in steals this season, and is now swiping his way into the Seattle U record book.
  • With four steals on Feb. 24 at Utah Valley, he hit 72 for the season, good for a tie for 3rd with Garrett Lever (2010-11) in Seattle U's single-season record book.
  • Next on the list is Andre Lang (1993-94) in 2nd with 77 steals.
  • Topping the Seattle U single-season steals list is Ray Brooks (1984-85) with 84.
  • Trammell also has 117 career steals and sits just shy of breaking into the Seattle U career top-10.

TYSON FOR THREE

  • Cameron Tyson drained nine three pointers on Feb. 16 at UTRGV, matching the Seattle U single-game record. The feat was previously achieved first by Aaron Waite on Jan. 6, 1990 versus Alaska Pacific, then matched by Bernard Seals on Mar. 3, 2005 versus Western Washington.
  • With 95 made threes through 29 games, Cameron Tyson is 3rd on Seattle U's single-season top-10 list for single season three pointers.
  • Tyson now trails only Isiah Umipig who holds the top two single-season records.
  • Umipig drained 106 threes in 2013-14, then followed with 123 threes in 2014-15.
  • Tyson's personal single-game record is 10, set last season against Our Lady of the Lake while playing for University of Houston.

TEAM THREE POINT RECORD WATCH
The Redhawks have drained 286 three pointers this season, ranking among the best in the country. The total ranks second for a single-season in Seattle U's all-time record book. The 2021-22 squad currently sits 26 made 3s behind the program record of 312, set in 2017-18.

NEXT TO 1,000
While Riley Grigsby surpassed 1,000 career points on Jan. 28 versus Sam Houston, two more Redhawks have the milestone marker in eyesight. Cameron Tyson enters Seattle U's Feb. 26 game at Dixie State with 962 career points during his NCAA DI collegiate career. Darrion Trammell follows with 933 career points.

NATIONAL RANKS
In games played through Feb. 24, Seattle U ranks among the nation's top 50 in 10 team categories:

  • 8th in 3-pt FG attempts (846)
  • 13th in 3-pt FGs made (286)
  • 14th in 3-pt FG per game (9.9)
  • 21st in FT% (76.9)
  • 20th in turnover margin (3.7)
  • 35th in FG% defense (40.3)
  • 34th in total rebounds (1,085)
  • 38th in defensive rebounds per game (27.59)
  • 47th in turnovers forced (15.17)
  • 49th in won-loss % (72.6)

In games played through Feb. 24, Seattle U ranks among the nation's top 50 in 10 individual categories:

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