• ETSU and Morehead State will break a deadlock in their all-time series Sunday, with the series tied 28-28. The Eagles will look to halt a four-game winning streak in the series for the Bucs. ETSU has won the last two times the teams have played in Morehead, but the Eagles own a 17-10 advantage in games played on their home court.
• Morehead State has cracked the century mark on the scoreboard twice this season. It marks the first time since the 2018-19 season the Eagles have put together 2+ 100 point outputs.
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Alex Gross leads all OVC players in offensive rebounds per game, grabbing 3.2 of his team-high 7.6 boards per game off the offensive glass.
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Alex Gross is one of just six current players on Division I teams to score 2,000+ career points in college. He is the ONLY player in Division I to record 2,000+ points AND 1,200+ career rebounds in college. His career college totals stand at 2,136 points and 1,294 career rebounds.
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Alex Gross now has 43 double-doubles in his last three college seasons, including three this season. Gross had MSU career highs of 23 points and 13 rebounds against KCU while hitting 11-of-12 from the field.
• Morehead State has the rare opportunity to potentially have four 1,000+ point college scorers on the same team this year.
Alex Gross (2,136) and
Branden Maughmer (1,797) already have surpassed 1,000.
Mark Freeman has 918 and
Jalen Hawkins is at 837.
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Mark Freeman scored a season-high 18 points against North Alabama. In his seven games in an Eagle uniform, he has only not scored 10+ one time. In the past three games, Freeman averaged 15.6 points per game.
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Mark Freeman and
Branden Maughmer both boast career free throw accuracies of 81 percent. Both players led their respective leagues (Freeman - OVC at Tennessee State; Maughmer - DII Great Midwest at Cedarville [Ohio]) at one time in free throw percentage.
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Jalen Hawkins has averaged 10 points per game in his first four games as an Eagle. The Norfolk State transfer scored 18 in his MSU debut versus Kentucky State.
• Morehead State ranks 16th in the nation and first in the OVC in fast-break points per game (17.3).
• Morehead State ranks first in the OVC in rebounding margin at +4.8.
• The Eagles lead the OVC and rank 36th nationally in three-point percentage defense, allowing opponents to only hit 28 percent from distance.
• When North Alabama did not hit a three-pointer against MSU last weekend, it marked the first time since 2012 a team failed to make a 3 against MSU (EIU was 0-for-17 in 2012).
