LEXINGTON, Va. (Jan. 23, 2024) – The ETSU men's basketball team heads up I-81 to take on VMI Wednesday night at 6 p.m. inside Cameron Hall. 
 
GAME INFO
DATE: Wednesday, Jan. 24
TIME: 6 p.m. 
LOCATION: Lexington, Va. (Cameron Hall)  
TEAMS: ETSU (9-10, 1-5) at VMI (4-15, 1-5)  
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+  
LIVE STATS: VMIKeydets.com
RADIO: WXSM-AM 640 | 104.9 NASH ICON (Jay Sandos)
TWITTER: @ETSU_MBB
 
ABOUT THE BUCS

• The Bucs have dropped five straight games and are 9-10 overall and 1-5 in SoCon play 
• Jaden Seymour and Ebby Asamoah are both averaging 15.2 points per game, while Quimari Peterson is at 14.3 points per game 
• Peterson has scored in double figures in eight straight games
• Since returning to the court on Jan. 13 at Furman, Allen Strothers has totaled 13 assists (3 turnovers), 12 rebounds and 13 points
• Asamoah has made at least one three-pointer in 17 of his 18 games this season 
• As a team, ETSU is averaging 71.5 points per game and allowing 70.4
• Since Feb. 16, 1987 in a game against Davidson, the Bucs have made at least one 3-pointer in 1,143 consecutive games ... ETSU was 0-for-8 in that 1987 game ... With Western Kentucky going 0-for-21 from beyond the arc on Nov. 9 at Wichita State, the Bucs now have the third-longest streak in the country behind Duke and UNLV … UNLV tops the list with 1,210 games
• The 2023-24 Buccaneer roster features 15 players ... ETSU's roster consists of one graduate player, two redshirt juniors, four juniors, one redshirt sophomore, three sophomores and four freshmen … Three players hail from North Carolina and Indiana, and one each from Tennessee, Iowa, West Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland
• The Bucs return four players from last year's roster who logged minutes, including starters Jaden Seymour and Allen Strothers, along with Justice Smith and Braden Ilic … Overall, ETSU only returns 29 percent of its scoring, 37 percent of its rebounding and 38 percent of its minutes played in 2022-23 … Seymour totaled 253 points, 218 rebounds and 1,793 minutes, Smith posted 237 points, 111 rebounds and 683 minutes, while Allen Strothers recorded 109 points, 51 rebounds and 776 minutes and Braden Ilic added for 46 points, 33 rebounds and 199 minutes
• After losing three starters and eight players from last year's team, head coach Brooks Savage and his staff brought in 11 new guys for the 2023-24 season … Seven of the Bucs are transfers – Ebby Asamoah (Delaware), Karon Boyd (USC Aiken), DJ Hughes (Butler), Jadyn Parker (North Florida), Quimari Peterson (John A. Logan), Tyler Rice (William & Mary) and Timmy Fasehun (Gulf Coast State College) … Four Bucs are true freshmen – Maki Johnson (Huntington Prep), Gabe Sisk (Ballard HS), Jaxson Jones (The Skill Factory) and David Meriwether (Lawrence North HS)

ABOUT VMI

• VMI sits at 4-15 overall and 1-5 in SoCon play 
• The Keydets snapped a five-game losing streak with a 70-63 win over The Citadel on Saturday 
• VMI is led by Brennan Watkins as he's averaging 14.6 points per game and has netted a team-best 39 three-pointers 
• As a team, the Keydets are posting 70.5. points per game and allowing 79.7
• All four of VMI's have come at home 

SERIES HISTORY 

• ETSU has won 15 of the last 16 meetings and 25 of the last 27 and leads the all-time series 56-15
• The Bucs swept the regular season series a year ago with a 64-50 victory on New Year's Eve in Lexington and a 69-65 win over the Keydets in Johnson City on Feb. 10
• ETSU has won six of the last seven and 11 of the last 13 over the Keydets in Lexington
• Three of the last four games in the series and six of the last 10 have been decided by four points

UP NEXT 
ETSU returns home to host league-leading Samford on Saturday at 4 p.m. inside Freedom Hall. 
  
For more information on ETSU men's basketball, go to ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's basketball tab.