Jan. 31, 2007

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• Toledo's school-record tying streaks of seven wins to begin a MAC season and 14 straight regular-season MAC wins ended with tonight's loss.

• The Rockets' conference road win streak also was snapped at six games. It was UT's longest MAC road win streak since winning seven in a row on the road from Jan. 29, 2000 - Jan. 10, 2001.

• UT has lost its last three meetings vs. Ohio and now trails its all-time series with the Bobcats by a 62-52 margin.

• Head Coach Stan Joplin now has a 7-7 all-time record vs. Ohio.

• Toledo is now 8-2 when leading at the half and 5-2 when five players score in double figures.

• Ohio's 55 points were the most points UT has allowed in a half this season.

• The Bobcats registered 17 assists and 14 turnovers to snap a string of six straight games that UT has forced a team to have more turnovers than assists.

• The Rockets' 12 three-point field goals and 30 three-point field-goal attempts were their most in a MAC game this season.

• The Rockets' bench has held the upper hand over their opponent in seven straight games.

• Senior forward Keonta Howell reached the 1,000-point milestone with his 21-point effort. He has seven 20-point outings this season and has led UT in scoring on nine occasions.

• UT now has three 1,000-point scorers on the same team for the first time in school history.

• Junior guard Kashif Payne tallied a season scoring high for a second straight game with 16 points and has scored in double figures in seven of eight MAC games.

• Senior guard Justin Ingram scored 15 points to move into 12th place on the Rockets' all-time scoring list with 1,337 career points.

• Senior forward Florentino Valencia scored 15 points and was 6-of-7 from the field to raise his field-goal percentage to a MAC-best 65.4 percent.