RICHMOND, Ky. – The Eastern Kentucky University men's basketball team will host first-place Belmont in its regular season home finale on Thursday night at McBrayer Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 9:00 p.m. The game will air live on ESPNU.
WHAT TO KNOW
TV: ESPNU (DirecTV Channel 208 and Dish Network Channel 141)Live Stats I Live Audio I Game Notes I Live Tweets - Senior Day ceremonies will be held before Thursday's tip.
- Senior
Ja'Mill Powell buried a career-high six three-pointers and scored a season-high 25 points in the Colonels' 79-78 loss to Tennessee State last Saturday. He missed his career high by one point.
- Freshman
Anthony Pratt Jr. made his first career start vs. TSU and responded with eight points, a career-high 10 rebounds and a career-high four assists.
- Freshman
Nick Mayo has been voted the OVC Freshman of the Week nine times this season. He ranks eighth in the league in scoring (16.7 points-per-game) and fourth in field goal percentage (62.2) during OVC play.
- Mayo has scored 402 points this season. The EKU record for single-season points by a freshman is 489 (Antonio Parris, 1983-84).
- Junior
Isaac McGlone has committed only two turnovers in EKU's last 14 games. He has played a team-high 467 minutes during that span (33.4 minutes-per-game). He has dished out 36 assists during that span.
- Junior
Jaylen Babb-Harrison leads the OVC in three-point field goal percentage (45.6). The last Colonel to finish the season as the OVC's leader in three-point field goal percentage was Mike Rose in 2008-09 (48.1). Rose also led the NCAA that year.
- EKU leads the OVC and ranks 7th in the country in field goal percentage at 49.7. The EKU single-season field goal percentage record is 49.1 (1986-87).
- Senior
Jarelle Reischel is 28 points shy of 1,000 career points (972).
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT - This is the 12th all-time meeting between EKU and Belmont. The Bruins lead the series, 6-5.
- EKU handed Belmont its first-ever home OVC loss, 88-78, on Feb. 6 at the Curb Event Center in Nashville. The Bruins were 29-0 vs. OVC opponents at home before the loss. It snapped the nation's longest conference home winning streak.
- The last time Belmont visited McBrayer Arena, the Colonels defeated the Bruins, 81-69, on Feb. 5, 2015 in a nationally-televised game on ESPNU.
- Thursday's game matches the two highest scoring offenses in the OVC: No. 1 Belmont (81.7 points-per-game) and No. 2 EKU (80.8 points-per-game).
- The Bruins are led by Evan Bradds, who averages 17.5 points-per-game and 9.5 rebounds-per-game.
UP NEXT The Colonels wrap up the regular season on the road next week, traveling to Jacksonville State on Thursday, February 25, and Tennessee Tech on Saturday, February 27.
