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Hanner House Party on Saturday Night vs. UALR

Eagles welcome Trojans to Statesboro for first time since 1991, tipoff at 7:30 p.m.

STATESBORO, GA. – Georgia Southern Men's Basketball goes for its fourth-straight victory on Saturday night as Arkansas-Little Rock comes to Hanner Fieldhouse at 7:30 p.m. Get your tickets now by calling 1-800-GSU-WINS or visiting the Georgia Southern Athletics Ticket Office adjacent to Paulson Stadium. Saturday's game is a Hanner House Party with DJ Nino on hand to play live music. The game can be seen live on GS All-Access at GSEagles.com with the radio broadcast starting at 7:00 p.m. on network stations and at GSEagles.com

DATE: Saturday, January 31st, 2015
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Hanner Fieldhosue – Statesboro, Ga.
TICKETS: 1-800-GSU-WINS
VIDEO: GS All-Access (Premium)
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 (Free)
LIVE STATS: GSEagles.com
TWITTER UPDATES: @GSAthletics_MBB 

PROMOTIONS:
Hanner House Party – DJ Nino spins the tunes at the friendly confines

SERIES HISTORY: GS Leads 14-12 (L1)
LAST MEETING: 3-5-1991 | Deland, Fla. (TAAC Tournament) | Loss | 65-70

GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (14-4, 7-2 Sun Belt)
Schedule/Results | Roster | Stats | Media Guide | Game Notes

ARKANSAS-LITTLE ROCK TROJANS (8-12, 3-7 Sun Belt)
Schedule/Results | Roster | Stats | Media Guide | Game Notes

EAGLES ROUT MOUNTAINEERS
Georgia Southern improved to 8-0 at home this season on Jan. 29th with a rout of rival Appalachian State. The Eagles took the 83-46 win over the Mountaineers for the program's biggest win by margin over a D-I opponent since 11-12-2006 when the Eagles took a 116-73 win over UC Davis at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

HEWITT SETS NEW STEALS RECORD
Jelani Hewitt passed Terry Williams' career total of 221 career steals against UL Monroe on Jan. 24th to seize the career record. Hewitt now has 227 career steals.

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 1,618 career points and passed Louis Graham for ninth place at Texas State on January 22nd. He needs just 41 points to match Johnny Mills (1970-74) for eighth place in school history.

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..................................8,035 mi.
2014-15 total season mileage..................12,283 mi.
2013-14 total season mileage....................9.216 mi.

GEORGIA STATE GAME 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!

BLUE WHITE WEEKLY BACK FOR 2015
Blue-White Weekly, the weekly television show about Georgia Southern Athletics is back for the 2014-15 basketball seasons. Fans can watch the show on Fox-28 Savannah on Monday nights at 6 p.m. The show can also be seen on GS All-Accss at GSEagles.com each week before it airs on Monday.
 
THE COACH
Head Coach Mark Byington enters this game with a 36-27 career record with a 29-23 mark at Georgia Southern in his second season in Statesboro.

THE WEATHER
Saturday should be a beautiful day throughout Bulloch County with high temperatures in the mid-50s following a morning low of 34 degrees. Mostly sunny skies will dominate the final day of the month.

UP NEXT
The Eagles face in-state rival Georgia State on Thursday, February 5th, in the first conference basketball contest between the programs since the 1992-93 season. The Eagles face "That Team from Atlanta" at 7:30 p.m. in a game that can be seen live on WSAV-DT2 on the WSAV Basketball Blitz series.

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.

 
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Players Mentioned

Jelani Hewitt

#5 Jelani Hewitt

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6' 2"
Redshirt Senior

Players Mentioned

Jelani Hewitt

#5 Jelani Hewitt

6' 2"
Redshirt Senior
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