LIVE STATS | LIVE WEBCAST | LIVE AUDIO | Game NotesCEDAR CITY, Utah – Eastern Kentucky, a team with the 12th longest home court non-conference winning streak in the nation, will take to the road for the first time this season when it plays at Southern Utah University on Wednesday. The Colonels opened the season with three straight home court victories.
The game will start at 9 p.m. The live radio broadcast is available in the Richmond area on WCYO 100.7 FM, and can be heard worldwide on EKUSports.com.
The Colonels are on a two-game road trip that will conclude on Saturday at BYU.
In its last game, senior forward
Eric Stutz did not miss a shot and Eastern never trailed Saturday, defeating the University of Cincinnati Clermont College 115-50. Stutz finished with a career-high 23 points on a perfect 10-of-10 shooting. He made his only three-point attempt and was also 2-for-2 from the free throw line.
Jaylen Babb-Harrison added 22 points to the effort and senior guard
Corey Walden had 18 points, five rebounds, three assists and two steals. Junior guard
Ja'Mill Powell scored 17 points on 6-of-12 shooting.
Eastern Kentucky has never trailed in any of its first three games. The Colonels have scored 100 or more points in two straight games for the first time since November 2004. EKU hasn't scored 100 or more in three straight games since the beginning of the 1993-94 season.
Eastern leads the nation in scoring (102 ppg), steals per game at 17.7 and turnover margin (+24.7). EKU has committed 74 fewer turnovers and out-scored their opponents by 110 points off turnovers (126-16) this season.
Since the start of the 2012-13 season, Eastern Kentucky is 15-2 in the month of November.
Southern Utah is 0-3 this season with road losses at Kansas State and Miami (Ohio), and a 10-point home court loss to Utah Valley. SUU returned all five starters from last season's team that finished 2-27.
One of those returners, 6-foot-3 guard Trey Kennedy, was the first freshman to lead the Thunderbirds in scoring since the school became a NCAA Division I member in 1988. Kennedy contributed 9.5 points per game last season and is averaging 6.7 points through three games this year. A.J. Hess, a 6-foot-6 junior guard, leads the team in scoring this season at 14 points per contest.
As a team, Southern Utah is averaging 69 points, 10 points more per game than the team averaged last season. SUU has allowed 86 per game, with opponents shooting 56 percent from the field and 53 percent from three-point range. SUU's opponents have shot over 50 percent from the field and over 50 percent from three-point range in all three of its games this season
The Thunderbirds are averaging 18.3 turnovers per game, 4.7 more than their opponents
Hess led the team with 12 points in an 85-75 loss to Utah Valley on Saturday. The Thunderbirds shot 51 percent from the field but allowed Utah Valley to hit 56 percent.
