JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 20, 2024) – The ETSU men's basketball team returns home to host VMI on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. inside Freedom Hall. 
 
GAME INFO
DATE: Wednesday, Feb. 21
TIME: 7 p.m. 
LOCATION: Freedom Hall  
TEAMS: ETSU (13-14, 5-9) vs. VMI (4-23, 1-13) 
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+  (Keith Brake / Bruce Tranbarger) 
LIVE STATS: ETSUBucs.com
RADIO: WXSM-AM 640 | 104.9 NASH ICON (Jay Sandos)
TWITTER: @ETSU_MBB
TICKETS: ETSUTickets.com
GAME SPONSOR: Advanced Call Center
 
ABOUT THE BUCS

• ETSU is looking to end a three-game losing streak as the Bucs sit 13-14 overall and 5-9 in league play 
• The Bucs have lost to Furman, Chattanooga and Western Carolina during this skid
• Jaden Seymour, Ebby Asamoah and Quimari Peterson are all averaging in double figures in scoring … Seymour leads the team at 14.9 points per game, while Asamoah is right behind at 14.8 and Peterson is at 13.3
• Asamoah enters Wednesday's game needing two more three-pointers for 200 in his career and he's 33 points away from 1,000 
• Jadyn Parker is three blocks shy from tying Zakee Wadood (2002-03) for third among ETSU all-time single-season leaders with 66 … Parker's 63 blocks rank seventh among national leaders this season 
• As a team, ETSU ranks 16th nationally in offensive rebounds per game (13.7) and 24th in blocks per game (5.0) 
• Individually, Ebby Asamoah ranks 20th in three-point attempts (211), 40th in made threes (72) and 44th in 3-point field goals made per game (2.8) … Jadyn Parker is 7th in blocks (63) and 11th in blocks per game (2.3) and Karon Boyd is 42nd in offensive rebounds per game (3.1)
• Since Feb. 16, 1987 in a game against Davidson, the Bucs have made at least one 3-pointer in 1,151 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 1,217 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 4-23 overall and 1-13 in SoCon play
• The Keydets have dropped eight straight games, most recently falling at The Citadel on Saturday, 76-51
• VMI's Brennan Watkins, who hasn't played since Feb. 8, leads the team in scoring at 15.2 points per game 
• Tyran Cook is posting 12.7 points and 3.0 rebounds in 27 games (18 starts) 
• The Keydets are averaging 70.3 points and allowing 81.7 
• VMI has lost all 13 true road games this season 

SERIES HISTORY 

• ETSU leads the all-time series, 57-15
• The Bucs have won three straight in the series, 16 of the last 17 and 26 of the last 28
• ETSU is 27-6 at home against VMI 
• ETSU has won the last 13 games played in Johnson City with the last home loss coming back on Jan. 2, 1999 when VMI won 58-55

UP NEXT 
ETSU heads back on the road for two straight games beginning with league-leading Samford Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. ET. 
  
For more information on ETSU men's basketball, go to ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's basketball tab.