STATESBORO – Quan Jackson scored a career-high 25 points, tied the school record with eight steals and corralled nine rebounds to lead Georgia Southern to a 139-51 men's basketball victory over Carver College in the season opener Wednesday night in Hanner Fieldhouse.

The Eagles broke the school record for points in a game in the Division I era with a lay-in by Trey Dawkins off a Daniel Cooper assist with 3:07 to go. The previous mark was 126, set against Georgia State in 1974. The Eagles were one point shy of tying the school overall mark of 140, set against High Point Dec. 17, 1955. The 88-point margin of victory was also the second-highest in school history.

Jackson now shares the single-game steals record with Johntavious Rucker, who tallied eight against Reinhardt in 2010.

Eagles of the Game
Montae Glenn posted 16 points and 10 rebounds for his ninth career double-double, and David-Lee Jones Jr. scored a career-high 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting. All 11 players who played scored, and eight of the nine scholarship players who played scored in double figures.

Key moment
Georgia Southern scored the first 11 points of the game, and a 23-2 run that ate up the last five minutes of the first half and first 1:30 of the second frame gave the Eagles a 41-point cushion.

Stat of the Game
Montae Glenn collected his 500th career rebound 3:35 into the contest. Fittingly, the senior's 499th and 500th caroms were on the offensive glass as he ranked second in the nation in that category last season. Glenn is the 16th Eagle to grab 500 boards in Georgia Southern's Division I era.

Quotables
Quan Jackson
"Anything my team needs me to do to win, I'm going to do it for them. Steals, scoring, rebounds - anything I need to do to help my team win."

David-Lee Jones Jr.
"I've been working hard all offseason, and it's good to see it pay off, and we've been working hard as a team so it's good to go out and have fun out there together."

On watching the walk-ons
"It was cool, because Eito is one of the hardest workers on the team so it was neat to see that, and everybody had fun."

Coach Mark Byington
Overall 
"The first 10 minutes I thought we overwhelmed them, but I didn't think we were playing the right way, whether it be sharing the ball or our intensity on defense. No matter who your opponent is, you want to play the right way, and I thought in the last 30 minutes, we did that."

On Tookie Brown's 11 points
"Tookie could have scored 40 tonight if he wanted to, but that just shows you what his goals are. He is so unselfish, and his mindset is to get other guys involved and when he does that, it adds to our team chemistry and becomes contagious to other guys."

On the positives from tonight's game
"We talk about culture all the time. Playing hard and togetherness were two things we wanted to get out of this game, and I thought we did that. It's good karma when you are happy for somebody else's success. Looking at our bench and seeing guys react to other guys making plays was definitely a positive."

Next up
The Eagles play host to George Mason Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Hanner Fieldhouse. Picked fourth in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll, George Mason is the only team in the country that returns 100 percent of its scoring and every player on its roster from last season.