DES MOINES, Iowa (Feb. 19, 2025) — Graduate student guard
Tyem Freeman (Springfield, Mo./Hillcrest/UCF/Kent State) scored a team-high 15 points, knocking down 4-of-5 three-pointers, and shared the team lead with six rebounds, but UIC (15-12, 8-9 MVC) was unable to dig itself out of an early hole, falling at Missouri Valley Conference leader Drake, 74-57 on Wednesday night at the Knapp Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
For the second consecutive game, redshirt senior forward
Modestas Kancleris (Kaunas, Lithuania/Varpas Gimnazija/Creighton/Cal State Bakersfield) scored a season-high 13 points while matching Freeman's six-rebound night. Sophomore guard
Ahmad Henderson II (Chicago, Ill./Brother Rice/Niagara) also scored in double figures on Wednesday, finishing with 12 points.
The full box score and play-by-play recap from Wednesday's game at Drake can be found
here.
SOCIAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- In two games against Drake this season, Freeman is 9-of-12 from three-point range and scored 15 points in both contests.
- Kancleris extended his streak of double-digit scoring games to a season-best three in a row while matching his season scoring high set on two other occasions (Jan. 18 at Valparaiso; Feb. 16 vs. Missouri State).
- UIC is 3-3 this season against teams ranked in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25 poll (Drake came into the game ranked No. 4 in that poll).
- The Flames are 4-3 against Quad 1-2 opponents this season (Wednesday's matchup with Drake was UIC's second Q1 game of the year, along with an 83-74 loss at Northwestern on Nov. 12).
- UIC shot better than 45 percent from the field for the 17th time this season.
- Drake made 13 of its first 17 shots (5-of-6 from three-point range), before the Flames' defense got on track and held the Bulldogs to a .351 shooting percentage (13-of-37) and 1-of-11 (.091) from beyond the arc during the final 28-plus minutes of action.
UP NEXT
UIC returns home Saturday for a 2 p.m. (CT) matinee against Evansville at Credit Union 1 Arena. Fans can purchase their tickets online through Ticketmaster andÂ
UICFlames.com/Tickets, as well as through the UIC Athletics Ticket Office (312-413-UIC1) or by visiting the Credit Union 1 Arena box office on game day. Doors open an hour before first tip. The game will be televised live on ESPN+, while fans can tune into the free live radio broadcast anywhere in the world on the Flames Network at
UICFlames.com.
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UICFlames.com, or follow the Flames on social media through X (
@UIC_MBB and
@UICFlames) and Instagram (
@uic_mbb and
@uicflames).
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