By Matt Schabert, Morehead State Athletic Media Relations
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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- The saying "go west, young man" will be true for the Morehead State men's basketball team this week. The Eagles open a western conference road swing at Southeast Missouri Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET at the Show Me Center.
The Eagles (4-11/0-4) are coming off a 70-65 setback at home last Saturday to SIU Edwardsville, while SEMOÂ (7-10/1-3)Â dropped a 76-71 contest at Austin Peay. The Eagles may not have a conference win yet, but MSU has dropped its four OVC battles by a total of just 23 points.
Sophomore guards
Jordan Walker and
Djimon Henson continue to pace the Eagles' offense with 12.7 and 12.1 points per outing, respectively. Denzel Mahoney leads the Redhawks with an OVC top-10 average of 18.9.
The game can be heard live on WIVY-96.3 FM or on MSUEagles.com and will be shown live on the OVC Digital Network. The Eagles then finish the road trip on Saturday at UT Martin.
GAME NOTES
THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI SERIES
Morehead State has enjoyed tremendous success recently against Southeast Missouri and leads the overall series 29-17. MSU enters with a six-game winning streak over the Redhawks, having not dropped a game to SEMO since Dec. 28, 2011. In fact, the Eagles have won 14 of the last 15 matchups in the last 10 seasons (since 2007-08).
THREE-POINT STREAK
Morehead State has made at least one three-pointer in 358 consecutive games, dating back to Feb. 13, 2007 when the Eagles had an 0-for-17 day versus Jacksonville State.
TAKE WHAT YOU ARE GIVEN
Sophomore guard
Jordan Walker rarely misfires when he steps to the free throw line. He boasts a career free throw percentage of .838 (83-of-99). Prior to missing a pair last Thursday against Eastern Illinois, Walker had canned 26 straight charity tosses.
BACK TO BOARDINGMorehead State out-rebounded SIU Edwardsville 40-33 on Saturday following back-to-back games of being out-rebounded. Prior to the game at JSU however, the Eagles had out-rebounded eight of the last nine opponents.
ROAD WEARY
Morehead State is still searching for its first road victory of 2017-18, going 0-9. The Eagles have now dropped 11 consecutive games on the road
500 CLUB
Junior forward
Lamontray Harris eclipsed 500 points in his career in the game at Tennessee Tech on Dec. 28. Harris now has 543 career points. He also needs only seven more rebounds to reach 300 boards for his career. Harris averaged 16.5 points and 9.0 rebounds in the last two games.
A DJIMON IN THE ROUGHSophomore guard
Djimon Henson has scored in double-digits in 10 of the last 13 games, including a 23-point day against Alice Lloyd (Ky.) and a 22-point night at Butler.
KING OF THE HILLJunior forward
Londell King recorded his fourth career double-double at Jacksonville State. Since the start of conference play, King leads the league in rebounding (11.0/game) with three double-digit rebound efforts.
LINEUP COMBOSJunior guard
A.J. Hicks has dished out at least one assist in all 15 games this season and leads the Eagles with 3.6 helpers per outing.
