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Senior Nathan Boothe has registered four straight double-doubles and 10 this season.

Men's Basketball

Toledo to Begin Two-Game Road Swing at Kent State on Saturday

QUICK HITTERS
•   Toledo (13-9, 4-5 MAC) begins a stretch of playing four of its next five games on the road when it travels to Kent, OH on Saturday, Feb. 6 to battle Kent State (15-7, 6-3 MAC). Tip-off time is set for 7:00 p.m. at the M.A.C. Center.
•   The Rockets will look to build off Tuesday's convincing 89-62 home victory over Western Michigan, a victory that snapped UT's season-high three-game losing streak (its longest in three years). The Golden Flashes have dropped road decisions in their last two outings at Ohio (72-61) and Central Michigan (88-61).
•   Toledo is in fourth place in the MAC's West Division and trails first-place Central Michigan by two games. Kent State is tied for second place with Buffalo in the MAC's East Division, one game behind Akron
•   Head Coach Tod Kowalczyk is in his sixth season at UT's helm and has orchestrated a dramatic turnaround since his arrival in 2010. He possesses a 98-87 (.530) record on the Rocket bench, including a 94-59 (.614) win-loss ledger over the last five years.
•   Kowalczyk has guided Toledo to a share of the 2013-14 Mid-American Conference regular season title in addition to a piece of the 2012-13 MAC West Division title.
•   Senior Nathan Boothe notched his 10th double-double of the season and fourth in a row with 16 points and 10 rebounds against the Broncos. Junior Jonathan Williams topped the Rockets with 24 points, the most he has scored in a league contest in his collegiate career.
•   Boothe and Williams rank among the MAC's top scorers with Boothe setting the pace at 19.2 and Williams in third place at 18.1 ppg. Boothe also is first in the MAC with 7.3 defensive rebounds per game, third with a team-high 9.2 rpg, seventh with 3.6 apg, eighth with a 51.4 FG%, and ninth with a 1.7 assist/turnover ratio.
•   Boothe, who ranks second in league play in scoring (20.7 ppg) and rebounding (9.7 rpg), surpassed J.C. Harris (1989-92) as Toledo's all-time blocked shot leader against Ohio last week and now has 141 rejections.
•   UT tops the MAC with 16.9 apg and a 1.48 assist/turnover ratio and is second with 78.7 ppg and a 46.1 FG%.
•   Kent State ranks second in the MAC in rebounding margin (+4.5) but is 11th in 3PTFG% (29.4) and last in treys per game (4.7).
•    Junior forward Jimmy Hall ranks sixth and seventh in the MAC with a team-high 16.4 ppg and 7.5 rpg, respectively. Senior forward Khaliq Spicer is second in the conference with 1.7 bpg.
 
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Players Mentioned

Nathan Boothe

#53 Nathan Boothe

6' 9"
Senior
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Jonathan Williams

#1 Jonathan Williams

6' 3"
Junior
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