STATESBORO, GA. – Georgia Southern Men's Basketball visits Arkansas-Little Rock on Saturday night in search of its 18th win of the season, and a season sweep over the Trojans. Tipoff for the first road contest since January 24th starts at 6 p.m. (ET)/5 p.m. (CT).

The Eagles visit Little Rock for the first time since January 1991 when the Eagles and Trojans were both members of the Trans-America Athletic Conference. Georgia Southern is 15-12 all-time against UALR, and has won four of the last five games in the series.

DATE: Saturday, February 14th, 2015
TIME: 6 p.m. (ET)/5 p.m. (CT)
LOCATION: Jack Stephens Center
VIDEO STREAMING: UALRTrojans.com (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: UALRTrojans.com
TWITTER UPDATES: @GSAthletics_MBB 

SERIES HISTORY: GS Leads 15-12 (28th Meeting)
LAST MEETING: 1-31-2015 | Home | Win | 76-61

GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (17-5, 10-3 Sun Belt)
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ARKANSAS-LITTLE ROCK TROJANS (10-14, 5-9 Sun Belt)
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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!

JELANI SETS TWO SCHOOL RECORDS
Jelani Hewitt has earned a pair of career school records at Georgia Southern, winning the steals (236) and free throws (355) records.

HEWITT NEARING ANOTHER RECORD
Jelani Hewitt is nearing the school record in career three-pointers made. He has 250 career buckets from downtown and needs 12 more to match Elton Nesbitt and Terry Williams' record of 262 three-pointers.

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 1,677 career points and passed Johnny Mills for eighth place on February 7th. He needs just seven 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..................................8,660 mi.
Statsboro to Little Rock.................................625 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 39-28 career record with a 32-24 mark at Georgia Southern in his second season in Statesboro.

THE WEATHER
Saturday will bring temperatures approaching 70 degrees for Central Arkansas as the Eagles make their second trip to the state this season.

UP NEXT
The Eagles are back at home for two-straight games on February 19th and 21st as Troy and South Alabama come to Statesboro for 7:30 p.m. contests. The game against the Jaguars on Saturday can be seen live on ESPN3.

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.