TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- For the first time in 37 days Indiana State football will play a football game at Memorial Stadium when the Sycamores play host to No. 2 North Dakota State Saturday at 1 p.m. ET.
Sycamores fans can welcome to the team to Memorial Stadium at approximately 10:50 a.m. for '
The Walk'.
QUICK HITS
• Saturday's game will be broadcast live on NBC North Dakota and online on The Valley On ESPN3. On the call will be Brian Shawn (play-by-play), Lee Timmerman (color) and Ryan Gellner (sideline).
• Sycamore fans can also listen live on the radio on WIBQ 97.9 FM (1230 AM) or online at GoSycamores.com/Watch with new broadcast crew Luke Martin (play-by-play) and Brian Fritz (color).
• Saturday's game sponsor is Ford.
• The Sycamores are 0-4 for the first time since the 2009. Indiana dropped a heartbreaker to Eastern Illinois to start the season followed by losses at No. 21 Tennessee, No. 19 Liberty and No. 8 Illinois State.
• The road does not get any easier for the Sycamores as the teams' next two opponents are ranked in the top-10. The MVFC has seven teams ranked in the top-25. When it is all said and done, ISU could play six-straight top-25 teams.
OFFENSIVE NOTES
• Senior TE Jacquet McClendon leads ISU and ranks second in the Valley with 23 receptions for 283 yards and two touchdown's through four games.
• ISU ranks eighth nationally with 16.32 yards per completion. Cade Sparks ranks 4th in the country with 16.95 yards per completion and 28th nationally with 8.27 yards per pass attempt.
• Through three games, Sparks is 40-of-22 for 678 yards, four touchdowns and one interception.
• Sparks and Bob Pugh have connected on five different times for 40 or more yards.
• LeMonte Booker ranks second in the Valley and 25th in the FCS in rushing with 382 yards.
DEFENSIVE NOTES
• Indiana State ranks 23rd in FCS in rush defense, allowing just 103.3 YPG on the ground.
• The Sycamores allowed just 56 yards rushing to Illinois State, the fewest since holding Southern Illinois to 27 yards on Oct. 25, 2014.
• ISU has recorded 33.0 TFL for a loss of 139 yards in four games this season (8.25 each game). The Sycamores had four games with 7.0 TFL or more in 2016.
• The Sycamores have recorded 11.0 sacks for a loss of 84 yards -- including 5.0 alone vs. EIU in the season opener.
• The 5.0 sacks recorded against EIU in the season opener is the most by a Sycamore team since tallying 5.0 at Tennessee Tech on Sept. 28, 2013. ISU ranks 25th in the FCS and fourth in the MVFC with 2.75 sacks per game.
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