STATESBORO, GA – Georgia Southern Men's Basketball visits Texas State on Thursday night in the first of two games on the road this week. The Eagles square-off against the Bobcats at 8:30 p.m. (ET) with live video available on GS All-Access at GSEagles.com. The Georgia Southern Sports Network from Learfield Sports will provide radio coverage of the game starting at 8 p.m. (ET)

DATE: Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
TIME: 8:30 p.m. (ET)
LOCATION: Strahan Coliseum – San Marcos, Texas
VIDEO: GS All-Access
RADIO: Georgia Southern Sports Network from Learfield Sports
Play-by-Play – Chris Blair - @CSBRadio
Analyst – AJ Henderson - @AJHenderson_SID
Metter/Swainsboro – 103.7 WMBZ-FM
Savannah/Hilton Head/Brunswick – 102.1 WZAT-FM
Jessup – 1370 WLOP-AM
Worldwide – GS All-Access
LIVE STATS: TxStateBobcats.com
TWITTER UPDATES: @GSAthletics_MBB 

SERIES HISTORY: GS Leads 2-0
LAST MEETING: 1-3-2015 | Home | Win | 40-36

GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (11-3, 4-1 Sun Belt)
Schedule/Results | Roster | Stats | Media Guide | Game Notes

TEXAS STATE BOBCATS (10-7, 4-4 Sun Belt)
Schedule/Results | Roster | Stats | Media Guide | Game Notes

FIRST SELLOUT SINCE 2009
Georgia Southern posted its first sellout since 1-17-2009 in the UL Lafayette game. The Eagles took a 78-70 win over the Ragin' Cajuns to move into first place in the Sun Belt with the victory in front of 4,325 fans, the seventh-highest total in Hanner Fieldhouse history.

HEWITT MOVES INTO TOP-10
Jelani Hewitt continued his move up the Georgia Southern career scoring chart, moving into the top-10 in the win over South Alabama on January 10th. He has 1,572 career points and needs nine more to reach Louis Graham's ninth place total of 1,581.

STEALS RECORD WITHIN REACH
Jelani Hewitt enters Thursday's game with 217 career steals, he is just four short of Terry Williams' (2001-05) school record of 221 career steals. Hewitt and Williams are the only Eagles in school history to post more than 200 career steals.

FEWEST POINTS ALLOWED SINCE 1987
Georgia Southern's 40-36 win over Texas State was the fewest points allowed by the Eagle defense since a 67-34 win over Savannah State on December 5th, 1987. It was the first 40-36 game in the shot clock (Division I) era, ranks in a tie for 19th lowest scoring game for both teams combined, and the lowest scoring Sun Belt game in the shot clock era. The contest is the lowest combined scoring game since January 14th, 1950 when J.B. Searce's Eagles defeated the Erskine Flying Fleet 39-36.

ALL AROUND THE WORLD
The Eagles will travel 12,283 miles in the 30 games scheduled for the 2014-15 schedule. That total is just 168 miles less than halfway around the Earth. Georgia Southern's farthest games away from home last season, played in Cancun (840 mi.), are closer than two of the Eagles' opponents at Texas State (971 mi.) and UT Arlington (893 mi.).

Season miles to date..................................7,043 mi.
Total trip mileage.......................................1,963 mi.
Statesboro to San Marcos............................971 mi.
San Marcos to Monroe.................................389 mi.
Monroe to Statesboro...................................603 mi.
2014-15 total season mileage..................12,283 mi.
2013-14 total season mileage....................9.216 mi.

GEORGIA STATE PICKED UP ON WSAV BASKETBALL BLITZ
For the second-straight season, Georgia Southern will have a home game broadcast on the WSAV Basketball Blitz. The games will air on the WSAV MyLC channel in the Savannah/Hilton Head market. The channel is available over the air at 3.2, DirecTV 29, BTC Communications 7, Bulloch Co-Op 6, Comcast 237, Darrien Communications 104, Hargay CATV 100, Kennedy Cablevision 104, Northland-Statesboro 7, Northland-Vidalia 12, Pineland Cable 60, and Time Warner 1215.

TOURNAMENT TICKETS ON SALE NOW
All-session ticket books to this year's Sun Belt Basketball Championships March 11-15, in New Orleans are available for $99 at the Georgia Southern Ticket Office. Call 1-800-GSU-WINS!

THE COACH
Head Coach Mark Byington enters this game with a 33-27 career record with a 26-23 mark at Georgia Southern in his second season in Statesboro.

THE WEATHER
A blustery, rainy day is expected on Thursday with an inch or two of rain possible with winds out of NNE at 25-35 mph. High temperatures should reach the low 50s with rain abating in the evening while the wind persists.

UP NEXT
Georgia Southern will be back on a plane after Thursday's game for the skip to Monroe, La. The Eagles will face UL Monroe on Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. (ET).

Georgia Southern Athletics provides up-to-date information on all its sports through its official website, GSEagles.com, through social media channels facebook.com/GSAthletics and twitter.com/GSAthletics. To purchase tickets call 1-800-GSU-WINS.