By Matt Schabert, Morehead State Athletic Media Relations
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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- With a chance for its first season sweep of an Ohio Valley Conference foe, Morehead State's men's basketball team will shoot for that feat Thursday night at Tennessee Tech. Tip-off is set for 8:30 p.m. ET following the women's game.
The Eagles took down the Golden Eagles 83-72 on Jan. 4 in Morehead. MSU is now 9-10 overall and 3-3 in the league and will look to halt a two-game losing skid. TTU has had a tough adjustment with new head coach John Pelphrey. The Golden Eagles are 4-15 overall and 1-5 in the conference.
The game will air live on ESPN+ and WIVY-96.3 FM and MSUEagles.com.
GAME NOTES
• Morehead State has won four consecutive games against Tennessee Tech and leads the all-time series 87-66. While the Eagles have been dominant against the Golden Eagles at home (13-1 in past 14 seasons), Tech has won two of the last three played in Cookeville. The last three games played between MSU and TTU at Eblen Center have been decided by a combined eight points.
• Senior guard
Jordan Walker moved to No. 19 on Morehead State's all-time scoring list this past week. With 1,332 career points, he passed Glenn Napier (1978-82).
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Tyzhaun Claude's 7.1 rebounds per game is the best rebounding average for a freshman in the OVC and ranks 12th among all freshmen in Division I currently.
• Junior guard
Juice Thomas leads the OVC and ranks among the top 20 in the nation with 45 steals. He is already nearing the top 20 cut-off (53) for steals in a single season in program history.
• Senior guard
Jordan Walker is the second player in program history with at least 1,300 career points, 200 assists, 100 steals and 175 three-pointers made, with the only other player accomplishing that being Ricky Minard.
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Jordan Walker's career free throw percentage sits at .778.
• Senior guard
Djimon Henson has scored in double figures in seven of the last nine games and averaged 14.2 points per outing in that span.
• After not scoring in double figures since Nov. 30, junior forward
James Baker led the Eagles with 14 points at Tennessee State and 16 at Belmont. He shot 71 percent (15-of-21) in Nashville last weekend.
• Morehead State owns the league's best rate for fewest turnovers. MSU only gives the ball up 12.2 times per game and has eight games with 10 or fewer mistakes.
• Morehead State leads the conference in blocked shots (4.5) and ranks second in assist/turnover ratio (1.1).
• The Eagles' two power forwards,
LJ Bryan and
Tyzhaun Claude, combine to hit 52 percent from the field (86-of-165).
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