Well, since I'm not a coffee drinker let's kick-start the dome monitoring this game. Game in Fort Myers, Fla. Iona has played two pretty good teams, barely losing to Charleston and handling Sacred Heart. High Point is 0-2 vs. Division I opposition. Graduates Osborn Shema, Joel Brown and Idan Tretout were Iona's representatives on the Preseason All-MAAC Teams, and all three are living up to it. Tretout ranks No. 2 nationally in scoring (25.5 ppg) and three-pointers per game (4.5/g). KenPom ranks Iona more than 100 points higher.

Iona's Tobin Anderson plays a presure full court defense with an aggresive uptempo offense. Anderson is in his first year at Iona and has modeled his press after Rick Pitino's press. High Point HC Alan Huss is from Creighton and expects to play an uptempo offense. High Point is averaging 86.5 points per game while allowing 85.