Men's Basketball Set for Second Meeting with Screaming Eagles

SIUE Cougars (13-9, 6-5 OVC) at Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles (5-16, 2-9 OVC)
January 31, 7:30 p.m.
Liberty Arena
Evansville, Indiana

The Cougars dropped a 67-65 decision at Morehead State Thursday.
SIUE had won three consecutive games for the first time this season.
Southern Indiana opened the OVC season 0-6, but has picked up two wins in its last five.
SIUE held the Screaming Eagles to just 55 points in a win Jan. 1 at First Community Arena.
USI leads the all-time series 46-26, but SIUE has won five of the eight meetings at the Division I level.
Tyler King has started the last seven games and scored a career-high 24 points Thursday at Morehead State.
He has scored in double figures in five straight games and six of his last seven and is averaging 12.8 points over the last eight games.
Arnas Sakenis recorded his first career double-double (16 points, 12 rebounds) last Saturday against Tennessee Tech.
He scored a career-best 19 points at SEMO.
His career high was nine points before this year. This year he has nine double-digit games.
He has averaged 12.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 blocks over the last seven games. He is shooting 41-56 (.732) in that time.

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