Jan. 25, 2004

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• Notre Dame totaled more turnovers (12) than assists (10) for the second straight game, after going seven straight games with more assists than turnovers.

• Sunday’s game marked just the second time this season that the Irish have lost when totaling fewer turnovers (12 to 14) than the opponent (now 6-2 in those games).

• Senior swingman Torrian Jones poured in 12 second-half points to finish with 16 in the game, one shy of matching his career-high.

• Jones has scored in double-digits four of the last eight games, after scoring 10-plus just six times in his first 96 games with the Irish.

• Junior G Chris Thomas (16 points) reached double figures in scoring for the 69th time in 82 games with the Irish.

• Thomas has started every game of his ND career (82, good for 15th in the ND record book) and owns the third-longest streak of consecutive starts in the program’s history (Pat Garrity started all 111 games from 1999-2003 while John Paxson started each game in his final three seasons, spanning 85 games from 1980-83).

• Thomas (1,442) passed Donald “Duck Williams (1,433; ’74-’78) into 14th place on the ND career scoring list, with another guard up next on the list (Elmer Bennett, with 1,488) Thomas now ranks 5th all-time in scoring among ND guards, behind Austin Carr, David Rivers, Matt Carroll and Bennett.

• Thomas picked up two steals, pushing his career total to 152 and tying Elmer Bennett for 4th in the ND record book (behind David Graves’ 202 and David Rivers’ 201). Thomas added three assists for 570 in his career, now just 16 shy of that record held by Rivers.

• Sophomore F Torin Francis (8 points) saw his streak of double-digit scoring games end at 15 games.

• Francis (12 rebounds) posted double-digit rebounds for the 20th time in his ND career and eighth time in ’03-’04.

• Sophomore G Chris Quinn (9 points) also saw his streak of double-digit scoring games end at nine games.

• Quinn had totaled just 13 turnovers in 14 previous games this season but was credited with three turnovers in Sunday’s game.

• Notre Dame now has made at least one three-point basket in 162 consecutive games (the last time the Irish did not make a three-pointer was Jan. 12, 1999).

• Senior C Tom Timmermans (10 points) reached double-digits scoring for the second time in the last three games, after not scoring 10-plus in his first 72 games with the Irish.

• Junior F Jordan Cornette (3 blocks) pushed his career block total to 120, still 4th in the ND record and now just six behind Troy Murphy for 3rd place.