ATLANTA, Ga. – Eastern Kentucky will play its first road game of the season on Tuesday at Georgia Tech.
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The game will begin at 7 p.m. ET and air live on the ACC Network Extra. The live audio broadcast of the game is available worldwide on EKUSports.com and the EKUSports app.
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THE COLONELS
-Â Eastern Kentucky is 2-0 this season and has scored over 100 points in each of its first two games.
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-Â The Colonels pulled down 18 offensive rebounds in each of its first two games and have scored 62 second-chance points.
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-Â EKU leads the United Athletic Conference and is seventh in the nation with 105.5 points per game.
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- Eastern has held its first two opponents to 18.4% shooting from 3-point range (9-for-49). The Colonels rank 10th in the nation in 3-point percentage defense.
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SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
- Georgia Tech is also 2-0 on the season after picking up wins over Hampton (75-55) and Georgia Southern (95-83). Â
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- Nasir Whitlock, a 6-foot-2 senior guard who played the previous three seasons at Lehigh, leads the team in scoring at 16.5 points per game. Cole Kirouac, a 7-foot sophomore center, is the Yellow Jackets top rebounder at 10 per game. However, he did not play in the second game of the season.
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- Through its first two games, Georgia Tech has made just 28% of its 3-point attempts, going 13-for-46. Tech has shot a combined 72 free throw attempts through two games, the 11th-most in the nation.
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-Â The Yellow Jackets have averaged 16.5 turnovers per game and are 324th in the nation in turnover margin (-5.0).
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INSIDE THE SERIES
-Â This is the first-ever meeting between the two programs.
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