Eagles Close Homestand Against Arkansas State on Military Appreciation Day

Thursday, February 12

Statesboro, Ga.

7:30 PM

Georgia Southern University

Arkansas State

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Eagles Close Homestand Against Arkansas State on Military Appreciation Day

2/11/2015 9:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball

Eagles face Red Wolves at 7:30 p.m. before heading on the road for Saturday’s game

STATESBORO, GA. – Georgia Southern Men's Basketball hosts Arkansas State on Thursday night to close a five-game homestand. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. against the Red Wolves on Military Appreciation Day. Active duty military members can get free admission to the game by showing their military ID at the door. Military family members can purchase general admission seats for just $5.

Fans can get their tickets for Thursday's game through the Georgia Southern Athletics Ticket Office by calling 1-800-GSU-WINS. 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: Thusrday, February 11th, 2015
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Hanner Fieldhouse – Statesboro, Ga.
TICKETS: 1-800-GSU-WINS
VIDEO STREAMING: 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:
Military Appreciation Day
Free general admission for both games with military ID
Military family members get $5 general admission tickets
Georgia Southern ROTC will be in attendance, and sing the national anthem before the men's game
Troops will get sworn into the military at halftime of the men's game

SERIES HISTORY: GS Leads 6-3 (W4)
LAST MEETING: 1-8-2015 | Away | Win | 73-61

GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (16-5, 9-3 Sun Belt)
Schedule/Results | Roster | Stats | Media Guide | Game Notes

ARKANSAS STATE RED WOLVES (9-13, 4-9 Sun Belt)
Schedule/Results | Roster | Stats | Media Guide | Game Notes

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!

HEWITT APROACHING ANOTHER CAREER RECORD
Jelani Hewitt enters the Arkansas State game with 351 career free throws made. He is just two shy of Elton Nesbitt's (2003-06) school record of 353 career free throws.

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 233 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 1,662 career points and passed Johnny Mills for eighth place on February 7th. He needs just 22 points to match Matt Simpkins' (1975-79) total of 1,684 career points.

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.

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 38-28 career record with a 31-24 mark at Georgia Southern in his second season in Statesboro.

THE WEATHER
Thursday will be another warm day in Statesboro with temperatures in the 60s with 20-30 mph winds expected. Temperatures will cool down after the game to an overnight low of 25 degrees.

UP NEXT
Georgia Southern visits Arkansas-Little Rock on Saturday for a 6 p.m. (ET) game in the capital city. Saturday's contest will be the second game this year against UALR following the Eagles' 76-61 win on January 31st.

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.