LAFAYETTE, LA.– Following Thursday's 77-58 win over rival Appalachian State, the Eagles will travel across the league for a Saturday night game at UL Lafayette. The Eagles and Ragin' Cajuns play in the Cajundome at 8:15 p.m. (ET) in a game that can be seen live on GS All-Access thanks to a partnership between the schools.

Georgia Southern enters Saturday's after clinching the program's first 20-win season since 2005-06. It was the eighth 20-win season in the Division I Era and the 16th 20-win season all-time for the Eagles. Saturday's game is the Eagles' first trip to the Cajundome since the 1992-93 season, the program's first campaign in the Southern Conference.

The Eagles are in first place at 13-4 in Sun Belt play, tied with UL Monroe for the top spot. The Eagles control their own destiny, and can claim the top-seed for the Sun Belt Tournament by winning out. The 2015 Sun Belt Tournament will be played at the Lakefront Center in New Orleans, La. starting on March 11th.

DATE: Saturday, February 28th, 2015
TIME: 8:15 p.m. (ET)
LOCATION: Cajundome – Lafayette, La.
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: RaginCajuns.com
TWITTER UPDATES: @GSAthletics_MBB 

SERIES HISTORY: Series Tied 2-2 (5th Meeting)
LAST MEETING: 1-15-2015 | Statesboro | Win | 78-70

GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (20-6, 13-4 Sun Belt)
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UL LAFAYETTE RAGIN' CAJUNS (16-12, 10-7 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!

FIRST 20-WIN SEASON SINCE 2005-06
Georgia Southern earned the program's eighth 20-win season in the Division I Era and the first 20-win season since 2005-06 season with the February 26th win over Appalachian State. It is the 16th 20-win season of all-time. The school record for wins in a season came in 1965-66 when J.B. Searce's Eagles win 26 games. The most wins in the Division I Era came in 1991-92 when the Eagles won 25 games and makde their last trip to the NCAA Tournament.

JELANI SETS TWO SCHOOL RECORDS
Jelani Hewitt has earned a pair of career school records at Georgia Southern, winning the steals (243) and free throws (369) records. He needs just three more baskets from downtown to claim the career three-pointers record, besting Terry Williams and Elton Nesbitt (262).

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 1,739 career points and passed Elton Nesbitt for sixth place on February 21st. He needs 104 more points to match Kevin Anderson's (1975-79) total of 1,843 career points in fifth place.

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...............................10,272 mi.
Boone to Lafayette........................................727 mi.
Lafayette to Statesboro................................623 mi.
Trip Total......................................................1610 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 42-29 career record with a 35-25 mark at Georgia Southern in his second season in Statesboro.

THE WEATHER
After a downright frigid few days in North Carolina which featured heavy snow, the Eagles will experience a Saturday which features a high of 64 under sunny skies on the bayou.

UP NEXT
The Eagles are back home on Thursday for the 2014-15 home finale against Texas Arlington. The Eagles and Mavericks get underway at 7:30 p.m. inside Hanner Fieldhouse. Saturday is senior day with Eagle players playing their final game on the hallowed Hanner Fieldhouse floor.

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