The Cougars (20-9, 13-4 SoCon) travel to Statesboro, Georgia to take on the Eagles of Georgia Southern (13-15, 6-11 SoCon). The game will air nationally on ESPN2, tip-off time is 1:00 pm. The Cougars have won 11 of their last 13 games, 17 of their last 20 and are coming off a 50-40 over the Citadel. CofC is 3-3 in their last 6 regular season final games. Coach Cremins is 4-1 all-time against the Eagles. (Photo compliments of Georgia Southern Sports)
Recon
The Eagles finished 1st in the SoCon in 3 of their last 5 seasons. They have won 3 of their last 4 games and 5 of their last 6 games. Georgia Southern is coming off a 68-46 win over Wofford last night. The Eagles have held their opponents to 70-points or less in 8 of their last 9 games. They are ranked 2nd (behind the College) in the SoCon in 3-point defense. Georgia Southern coach Jeff Price is 8-8 all-time against the College. With the SoCon Tourney next week, the Eagles have a history of Dancing in '83, '89 and in '92 and invites to the NIT ('88, '89 and 2006) that they wish to expand.
Tomorrow's game will be the last home game for the Eagles' seniors: Donte Gennie (averages 12.7 ppg, 3.1 rpg and 3.5 boards), Diogo Salazar (2.5 ppg and 2.1 rpg) and guard Jimmy Tobias (7.4 ppg and 3.8 rpg). Junior Louis Graham is on a roll right now, averaging 19-points and 9.3-boards (with 2 double-doubles) in the last 3 games. Graham is 8-points from becoming the 18th player in school history have 1,000 career-points. He has the chance to join his teammate Donte Gennie who passed this mark in January against Furman.
From the Den (The Last Meeting)
On January 15th at Kresse Arena, the Eagles led the Cougars by as much as 13 in the first-half, but the Cougars rallied to take a 9-point lead in the second-half with 7:19 on the clock. The Eagles would shorten the lead to one, and with the final-possession they had the chance to walk a way with a win, but David had other plans, blocking Dwayne Foreman's 3-point attempt at the buzzer.
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The Cougs lost a heard fought battle against the Eagles today by 9-points.
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