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EKU Men's Basketball Set For First Road Game At Georgia Tech

ATLANTA, Ga. – Eastern Kentucky will play its first road game of the season on Tuesday at Georgia Tech.
 
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.
 
THE COLONELS
-  Eastern Kentucky is 2-0 this season and has scored over 100 points in each of its first two games.
 
-  The Colonels pulled down 18 offensive rebounds in each of its first two games and have scored 62 second-chance points.
 
-  EKU leads the United Athletic Conference and is seventh in the nation with 105.5 points per game.
 
-  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.
 
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).  
 
- 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.
 
-  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.
 
-  The Yellow Jackets have averaged 16.5 turnovers per game and are 324th in the nation in turnover margin (-5.0).
 
INSIDE THE SERIES
-  This is the first-ever meeting between the two programs.

 
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