River Forest, Ill. – The Dominican University Men’s Basketball team will end their 2024-2025 season against the Spartans of Aurora University on Saturday afternoon.
Series History vs Aurora:
All-Time Record / Streak: 6-29 / Dominican L2
Dominican and Aurora met in Aurora on January 8th, 2025 this season and, the Stars fell 98-64
Senior Terrell Taylor was the leading scorer for DU in this game with 13 points on 6-9 shooting.
Fifth-year student Camron Scott was in double figures with 10 points in the last matchup.
DU’s last win was inside the Igini Sports Forum on January 3rd,2024 in a 66-62 battle against the Spartans.
Dominican is 4-12 against Aurora inside the Igini Sports Forum.
DU in Review:
-Dominican comes into this game on a 6-game losing streak. Three of those losses have been exactly 10 points, and the other three have been by one possession.
-DU is averaging 77.8 points per game and their opponents are scoring 82.6 points per game.
-The Stars are currently 4-8 when playing at Dominican.
-Dominican is 2-14 coming off a loss.
-DU is 7-5 when they score over 80 points in a game.
Last Time Out:
-The Stars lost to the Eagles of Edgewood in a high-scoring battle. The final score was 93-91.
-Dominican leading scorer was Senior Terrell Taylor with 23 points in 26 minutes of action. T. Taylor shot 10-15 from the floor.
-5th-year student Andre Bennett chipped in with 16 points off the bench for Dominican and went 5-6 from the charity stripe.
-Senior Daniel Nennig got hot from the floor shooting 5-6 and finishing with 14 total points.
-Dominican shot a pour 64% from the free-throw line which ended up being the difference in the game.
Star Gazing:
-5th-year Student Camron Scott has been incredible all season for the Stars collecting 7 double-doubles this season and has a total of 288 points and 185 rebounds. Scott leads the team with 26.6 minutes per game.
-5th-year Student Andre Bennett is currently shooting 87.5% from the charity stripe.
-Senior Terrell Taylor leads the Stars with 15.1 points per game this season.
-Senior Daniel Nennig has filled the stat sheet all season for DU collecting 201 points, 75 rebounds, and 51 assists.
Scouting Report:
-Aurora is 11-13 overall, with a 9-8 conference record and a 4-7 record away from their home court.
-The Spartans enter the game winning back-to-back games looking to make a winning streak.
-Aurora has beaten Lakeland (109-60) and Concordia Wisconsin (67-66) in their last two games.
-The Spartans are scoring 76.8 points per game while allowing 72.4 points per game to their opponents.
-AU is currently the 6th seed in the NACC for the conference tournament. A win clinches a bid into the tournament, a loss puts the Spartans in jeopardy of dropping out.
