With 16 blocks over his last two games, Jeff Withey of Kansas has overtaken Anthony Davis as the leader in block percentage from the major conferences at 15.01%.

Withey blocked nine shots in Monday’s win against Kansas State. He also blocked nine shots in December against Long Beach State. Withey has blocked three or more shots in just 12 of his 26 games, while Davis has three or more blocks in 24 of his 26 games. 

Rhamel Brown of Manhattan and William Mosley of Northwestern State each have higher block percentages than Withey and Davis.

Anthony Stover of UCLA is blocking 5.97 shots per 36 minutes, but averages just 8.8 minutes per game. Davis ranks second in that category at 5.55 blocks.

Iona has received the best shot of every MAAC foe this season, most recently defeating Manhattan by an 85-73 final which was for first place.

“We love it. That’s the attention we want,” Scott Machado said. “We go into every game like we did tonight, we’ll be fine.”

Iona has had a habit of blowing big leads.

“We can’t take a night off,” head coach Tim Cluess said. “Everyone’s shooting at us. There’s a lot of energy, and so teams are going to play well against us.”