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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nine days after hooking up in Richmond, the Eastern Kentucky and Belmont men's basketball teams will take the stage in Music City Saturday.

Tipoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET. The live radio broadcast is available in the Richmond area on WCYO 100.7 FM, and can be heard worldwide on EKUSports.com. A live video broadcast is available on OVCDigitalNetwork.com.

The Colonels (14-6, 5-2 OVC) are coming off a 94-78 win at Tennessee State on Thursday and have won four in a row for the second time this season. Belmont (15-7, 6-1 OVC) beat Morehead State, 80-66, at home on Thursday and has won three in a row since losing in Richmond on Jan. 16.

In the first meeting, Eastern used a 13-0 run midway through the second half to pull away for a 74-63 win. Corey Walden led four Colonels in double figures with 18 points. He also added four rebounds, three assists and two steals. Glenn Cosey finished with 13 points. Craig Bradshaw paced the Bruins with 22 points, while Drew Windler had 12.

EKU overcame a 37-24 rebounding deficit in the game by shooting 51.9 percent (27-of-52) from the field and 73 percent (19-of-26) from inside the three-point line. The Colonels stifled Belmont to its worst shooting game of the season: 37.5 percent (18-of-48) from the field.

On Thursday, Eastern Kentucky knocked down 13 three-points and put Tennessee State away early in a 94-78 victory. Cosey finished with a team-best 24 points to go along with six rebounds and five assists. Tarius Johnson added 13.

Cosey came out of a shooting slump at TSU. He had shot 21 percent from the field and 17 percent from three-point range in his previous four games but finished 9-for-15 (60 percent) from the field and made 6-of-9 (66.7 percent) from deep against the Tigers. He leads Eastern with an average of 18.9 points per game.

J.J. Mann, a 6-foot-6 senior, leads Belmont with 16.5 points per game and is third on the squad with 4.1 rebounds a night. Bradshaw, a 6-foot-3 sophomore guard, has shot 51 percent from the field and contributes 15.8 points per game. Windler, a 6-foot-9 senior forward, is averaging 10.8 points and 4.2 rebounds in his first season as a Bruin.

Bradshaw had a game-best 24 points in the win over Morehead State. Mann finished with 19 points. Reece Chamberlain had 17 points, six rebounds and six assists. Belmont shot 50 percent as a team and committed seven fewer turnovers.