Game Information
Date / Time: Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019 / 7:00 p.m. (ET)
Site: Conway, S.C. /  HTC Center (3,212)
Audio Broadcast: Chanticleer Sports Network
Radio: WRNN 99.5 "Hot Talk"
Online Audio Link: http://portal.stretchinternet.com/coastal/
Talent: Chris Burgin (play-by-play) 
Online: ESPN+
Talent: Jeff McCarragher (play-by-play); Nate Ross (analyst)
Live Stats: GoCCUsports.com
Twitter Updates: @GoCCUSports, @CoastalMBB

Opening Tip
• After winning five consecutive games, the Chanticleers have dropped their last three games, all on the road.
• This is the eighth meeting in the series with the Chants holding a 5-2 lead in the series.
• Since CCU entered the Sun Belt, CCU has won three of the five meetings.
• The Eagles won the lone meeting between the two programs last season, a 77-66 win over CCU in Conway.
• Before the recent three-game skid, the Chants led the conference shooting almost 50 percent from the field, but in the three losses, CCU has failed to shoot 40 percent from the field and that includes a season-low 23 percent at Texas Arlington.
• The Chants are shooting better at the free throw line ... Over the past five games CCU has hit 108 of its 138 free throws for a 78 percent percentage ... As a team, CCU is now shooting 71 percent and has moved up to seventh in the conference.
• The Chants enter the final three weeks of the season in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Sun Belt.
• This week's game will go a long way in where the Chants may end the regular season, both Georgia Southern (3rd) and Georgia State (2nd) are ahead of CCU in the latest standings.

About Georgia Southern
• Georgia Southern enters tonight's game 18-8 overall.
• The Eagles are presently third in the Sun Belt with an 8-5 conference record ... They have won their past two games and three of their last four.
• Georgia Southern has four starters returning from last year's team and was picked to finish second in the conference in the preseason coaches poll.
• Tookie Brown leads the Eagles ... The senior is a three-time First Team All-Sun Belt selection and was the conference's Freshman of the Year following the 2015-16 season ... He has done nothing to diminish his role on the team this season ... He is averaging 17.5 points per game (10th in SBC) and his 131 assists is good for five per game and is second in the conference ... He is fifth in the conference with 38 steals and his 454 points this season has put him over the 2,000 career point total.
• Quan Jackson is averaging 15.8 points per game ... He also leads the team in steals with 50 which is third in the conference ... He is 12th in the conference in scoring.
• Isaiah Crawley is averaging 11.2 points per game and is shooting 57 percent from the field ... He is averaging 5.5 rebounds per game.
• Montae Glenn is Georgia Southerns top inside player ... He is averaging 7.3 rebounds per game which leads the team and is 10th in the conference ... He also has a team-leading 29 blocked shots and is averaging right at 10 points per game.
• The Eagles are playing without one of its top players in Ike Smith ... He was injured after only playing in 10 games ... At the time of his injury he was averaging 14.7 points and almost six rebounds per game.
• Georgia Southern is the conference's top scoring team, averaging 83.4 points per game ... They are also the conference's top shooting team averaging 50 percent field goal percentage ... They are dangerous on their three-point attempts hitting 33 percent of those.
• The Eagles shoot 68 percent at the free throw line.
• They average over 36 rebounds per game.
• Georgia Southerns 205 team steals and 7.9 steals per game both lead the Sun Belt.
• Their 2.1 turnover margin is second in the conference.

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