Men's Basketball | 12/21/2015 11:03:00 AM

Georgia Southern (3-6) vs. Stetson (4-8)
Tuesday, Dec. 22 - Hanner Fieldhouse (4,325) – 7 p.m.
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Last meeting: 12/18/2014, W 76-67 (away)
Probable Starters:
#2 Mike Hughes
#3 Ike Smith
#4 Tookie Brown
#5 Devince Boykins
#11 Shawn O'Connell

Georgia Southern Information:
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Stetson Information:
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Layup Line
• Georgia Southern caps a two-game homestand with its final non-conference game of the season, a 7 p.m. tilt against longtime opponent Stetson Tuesday in Hanner Fieldhouse.
• The Eagles are in a stretch in which they play six of eight contests at home.
• Georgia Southern has lost its last three and is coming off an 88-81 setback to Winthrop Saturday afternoon. It was the fifth time the Eagles scored 80 or more points this season.
• Georgia Southern is 22-9 under head coach Mark Byington in Hanner Fieldhouse and posted a 13-2 record in the building last season. The Eagles are 2-1 this season.
• 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.
• The Eagles were picked 10th in the Preseason Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll.
• Stetson is coming off a 95-89 setback at IPFW and is 1-4 in its last five games.
• The Hatters are 1-5 on the road this season.
• Stetson was picked seventh in the Atlantic Sun Preseason Coaches Poll.
• Derick Newton leads the team in scoring with 15.5 points a game, while Divine Myles averages 13.6 points and 4.7 assists a contest. Brian Pegg averages 10 points and 8.4 rebounds.

The Series
• Georgia Southern leads the series, which began in 1933, 42-29 and has won the last five.
• The Eagles earned a 76-67 victory over the Hatters on the road last season behind 30 points from Jelani Hewitt. Hewitt scored 20 points in the second half after the Eagles trailed by seven points at halftime.
• GS shot 56 percent in the second period and went 6-of-12 from beyond the arc down the stretch to take the win. 
• Georgia Southern was 12-2 against Stetson when the schools were both members of the TAAC. The Eagles have won 13 of the last 16 contests in the series since 1987.

Quick Hitters
• Devonte Boykins has been named one of 154 nominees for the NABC AllState Insurance Good Works Team.
• Tookie Brown has scored 20-plus points in three games, including the last two. He is averaging 19.2 points in the last six contests.
• Sophomore Mike Hughes has started every game in his career.
• The Eagles are averaging 82.6 points a game this season and have scored 80-plus points in five games, including three of their last five. Georgia Southern scored 80-plus points in just six contests last year.
• Eleven different Eagles have scored 10 or more points in a game this season.
• Georgia Southern is 15-3 in Hanner Fieldhouse in its last 18 contests there.
• Georgia Southern's 21 steals against Bob Jones (11/30) was one shy of the school record set against Little Rock in 1981 and tied against The Citadel in 2004.
• After not playing an SEC opponent since a 78-75 loss to Auburn Dec. 30, 2011, the Eagles have faced two this season. Georgia Southern fell 82-72 at Ole Miss Nov. 16 and 92-62 at Auburn Nov. 20.
• Georgia Southern's 116 points in a 116-49 season-opening win over Webber International Nov. 13 were tied for the 16th most all-time and the most since a 116-73 neutral site win over UC Davis Nov. 12, 2006, which was the 2006-07 season opener.
• The Eagles' 40 3-point attempts tied for the second-the most in school history (West Georgia, 1/2/1992).

Boarding the Mothership
• Thirteen Georgia Southern games will be broadcast on the ESPN family of Networks this season.
• Games at Duke (12/15) and vs. Georgia State at home (2/23) will air on ESPN2. 
• Eight Sun Belt contests will be broadcast live on ESPN3, and the Eagles' game at USC Upstate Nov. 27 was shown on ESPN3.
• The matchups at Ole Miss and Auburn were shown on the SEC Network +.

Next Up
• Georgia Southern opens a slate of 20 Sun Belt Conference games Dec. 30 at Texas State. Following a match-up at UT Arlington, Georgia Southern plays four straight home contests from Jan. 7-16.

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