Men's Basketball | 11/15/2015 6:21:00 PM

Georgia Southern (1-0) vs. Ole Miss (1-0)
Monday, Nov. 16 - Tad Smith Coliseum (8,867) – 8 p.m. Eastern
Live Video | Live Audio | Live Stats 
Radio: 103.7 WBMZ-FM (Statesboro/Metter/Swainsboro), 102.1 WZAT-FM (Savannah), 1370 WLOP-AM (Jesup)
Series: GS leads 1-0
Last meeting: 12/28/83, W 60-58
Probable Starters:
#0 Montae Glenn
#1 Devonte Boykins
#2 Mike Hughes
#3 Ike Smith
#10 Jake Allsmiller

Georgia Southern Information:
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Ole Miss Information:
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Layup Line
• Georgia Southern plays its first road game of 2015-16 when the Eagles travel to Ole Miss Monday.
• The game will be broadcast live on SEC Network + and can be seen at WatchESPN.com or the Watch ESPN app.
• Georgia Southern opened the season with a 116-49 home victory over Webber International Friday night.
• Ole Miss posted a 90-76 home win over Northwestern State in its season opener Friday afternoon.
• Georgia Southern returns just four scholarship letterwinners from last season's 22-9 team that advanced to the Sun Belt Conference Championship game.
• With 11-of-12 scholarship student-athletes who are freshmen, redshirt freshmen or sophomores (92 percent), Georgia Southern has the highest percentage of underclassmen on its current roster of the 345 NCAA Division I squads. Liberty (91 percent), Ohio State (85 percent), Fairleigh Dickinson (85 percent) and Wyoming (80 percent) round out the top-5.
• Georgia Southern lost 76 percent of its scoring and 72 percent of its rebounding from last season.
• Georgia Southern was picked 10th in the Preseason Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll.
• It's the Eagles' first game against an SEC opponent since a 78-75 loss at Auburn Dec. 30, 2011. Georgia Southern plays at Auburn Nov. 20.
• Ole Miss returns three starters from last season's NCAA Tournament team and was picked to finish ninth in the SEC preseason media poll. The Rebels have not finished worse than sixth in the league since the conference went away from the divisional format.
• Stefan Moody was named first-team Preseason All-SEC after leading the league in scoring in conference games last season (18.6). The senior posted 29 points and six rebounds in the opener Friday.
• Ole Miss won 20 games for the seventh time in nine seasons under Andy Kennedy last year. Ole Miss had seven 20-win campaigns in the 96 seasons prior to Kennedy's arrival in Oxford.
• Ole Miss is 122-31 (.796 win pct.) in games played at Tad Smith Coliseum during Andy Kennedy's tenure.
The Series
• The Eagles won the only meeting in the series, a 60-58 decision Dec. 28, 1983, on a neutral floor in the Krystal Classic in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Season Tickets
• Season tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at GSEagles.com/tickets. Season ticket options are available for both general admission and reserved seating. Fans can enjoy chair-back seats in the reserved sections for $90 a season ticket for either men's or women's basketball. Alternatively, general admission season tickets are $65 and are located behind the baskets on bleachers. A combo package is also available for $120 and includes both men's and women's basketball contests.

Preseason All-Sun Belt
• Mike Hughes was named fourth-team Preseason All-Sun Belt by College Sports Madness. Hughes averaged 7.6 points and 4.9 rebounds a game, started every contest and finished second on the team in assists (70) and steals (40).

A Memorable Campaign
• Georgia Southern's 2014-15 men's basketball campaign saw the Eagles enter a new league and produce the program's deepest postseason run in over two decades. Picked ninth in the Sun Belt Preseason Poll, the Eagles finished second in the regular-season standings. Georgia Southern also made its first appearance in a conference championship game since 1992.
• Georgia Southern posted the 16th 20-win season in school history and the eighth in the Division I Era. It was the first 20-win season since the 2006-07 campaign.
• Defensively, Georgia Southern ranked 29th nationally while holding opponents to 60.2 ppg. The Eagles held opponents to .393 from the field (24th nationally) and .305 from downtown (24th nationally).
• The Eagles' 40-36 win over Texas State (1/3/15) was the fewest points allowed since Dec. 5, 1987, when they held Savannah State to 36 points. It is the first 40-36 game in the shot clock era and ranks in a tie for 19th lowest scoring game for two teams combined and the lowest scoring Sun Belt game in the shot clock era.  The Eagles topped that mark in a 38-36 setback to Georgia State (3/15/15).
• Georgia Southern is the only Division I team in the shot clock era (since 1986) to play two games scoring 76 points or less combined points.
2014-15 by the Numbers
3 – The Eagles improvement of seven wins sparked a 191-place jump in the RPI, the third-biggest leap of any team in the country, according to NCAA RPI.
13 – The Eagles posted a 13-2 record in Hanner Fieldhouse.
16 - Sixteen games in 2014-15 were decided by six points or less, and the Eagles won 10 of them. The Eagles were 1-1 in overtime and 3-5 in games decided by three points or less.
22 – By going 22-9, Georgia Southern earned its first 20-win season since 2005-06.
32 - Under coach Mark Byington, the Eagles are 32-1 while leading with five minutes left and were 16-0 in 2014-15.
1992 - Georgia Southern made its first appearance in a conference championship game since 1992.
4,325 – The Eagles filled Hanner Fieldhouse to its capacity multiple times in 2014-15.

Apples and Trees
• Five Eagle student-athletes' fathers played and/or coached college basketball.
• Jake Allsmiller's dad, Brian, played at Vanderbilt (1978-81); Devonte and Devince Boykins' father, Robert, played at Johnson C. Smith (1992-95); Shawn O'Connell's father, Dave, played at Duke (1973-76); Jason Burnell's dad, Frank, is the head coach at Edward Waters College in Florida and is in his fifth season. He played at Stetson from 1981-85.
• Aubrey McRae's father, Travis, coached him at Glenn Hills High School.

Boarding the Mothership
• Ten Georgia Southern games will be broadcast on the ESPN family of Networks this season.
• Games at No. 4 Duke (12/15) and Georgia State (2/23) will air on ESPN2. 
• Seven Sun Belt contests will be broadcast live on ESPN3, and the matchup at Ole Miss will be shown on the SEC Network +. 

The Brothers Boykins
• Brothers Devonte and Devince Boykins will suit up for the Eagles this season. Devonte is a sophomore guard, who played in 25 contests in his freshman season. Devince is the older brother of Devonte and transferred to Georgia Southern after graduating from Marshall.
• They are the first pair of brothers to play together in the same season at Georgia Southern since Matt and Charles Simpkins in 1977-78.

A Trio of Redshirts
• Three student-athletes who redshirted last season - Jonathan Sanks, Aubrey McRae and Shawn O'Connell - will make their debuts this season.

Road warriors
• The Eagles play six of their first eight games on the road this season, a stretch that includes contests at Ole Miss, Auburn and No. 4 Duke.

Next Up
• Georgia Southern stays in the SEC and travels to Auburn for a contest Friday, Nov. 20. Tipoff is set for 9:30 p.m. Eastern.

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