JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 6, 2024) – The ETSU men's basketball team eyes a third straight win when the Buccaneers play host to Wofford on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. inside Freedom Hall. 
 
GAME INFO
DATE: Wednesday, Feb. 7
TIME: 7 p.m. 
LOCATION: Freedom Hall  
TEAMS: ETSU (12-11, 4-6) vs. Wofford (13-10, 6-4)  
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+  (Robert Harper / Bruce Tranbarger) 
LIVE STATS: ETSUBucs.com
RADIO: WXSM-AM 640 | 104.9 NASH ICON (Jay Sandos)
TWITTER: @ETSU_MBB
TICKETS: ETSUTickets.com
GAME SPONSOR: Ferguson
GIVEAWAY: First 500 fans receive ETSU Hawaiian shirt
 
ABOUT THE BUCS

• ETSU sits 12-11 overall and 4-6 in SoCon play 
• The Bucs have won back-to-back conference games for the first time this season as ETSU defeated Mercer 54-49 last Wednesday and beat The Citadel 62-60 on Saturday 
• The Blue & Gold are looking for their first three-game SoCon win streak since winning four straight from Jan. 18-30, 2021
• ETSU has held its last two SoCon opponents to 109 points, marking the fewest points in back-to-back league games since the 2021-22 season when the Bucs held Wofford to 49 points and Chattanooga to 53
• The Bucs have played nine games this season that have been decided by three points or less … ETSU is 5-4 in those contests 
• ETSU has won its last five home games in February dating back to last season 
• ETSU has played five SoCon games with Karon Boyd and five without … In the games with Boyd, the Bucs are 3-2, while holding opponents to 64.6 points per game and 28 percent shooting from beyond the arc (31-112) … Meanwhile, in the five games without Boyd, ETSU is 1-4 with the opposition averaging 78.2 points per game and shooting 45 percent from long distance (47-104)
• Over the last four games, the Bucs are 3-1 … Ebby Asamoah has netted 16 threes during this stretch, while Jaden Seymour is averaging 16.0 points and 8.3 rebounds … The Bucs have a plus-11.8 rebound margin and are holding opponents to 64.3 points per game
• As a team, ETSU ranks 21st nationally in offensive rebounds per game (13.5), 39th in blocks per game (4.7) and 47th in rebounds per game (39.2)
• Individually, Ebby Asamoah ranks 14th in three-point attempts (184), 26th in made threes (65) and 27th in 3-point field goals made per game (3.0) … Jadyn Parker is 19th in blocks (48) and 26th in blocks per game (2.1) and Karon Boyd is 29th in offensive rebounds per game (3.3)
• Since Feb. 16, 1987 in a game against Davidson, the Bucs have made at least one 3-pointer in 1,147 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 1,214 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 WOFFORD 

• Wofford enters Wednesday's midweek game with an overall record of 13-10 and a 6-4 mark in league play 
• The Terriers defeated Western Carolina 88-86 in overtime last Saturday in Spartanburg 
• Seven of Wofford's 10 SoCon games have been decided by four points or less 
• Nine of Wofford's 13 wins have come at home this season, while the Terriers are 4-9 in games played away from Spartanburg 
• The Terriers have four players averaging double figures in scoring with Corey Tripp leading the charge at 16.6 points per game … Tripp is coming off a 27-point performance on 13-of-17 shooting against Western Carolina 
• Dillon Bailey (11.8 ppg), Klyer Filewich (10.3) and Jackson Sivills (10.0) are also averaging double figures in scoring … Filewich is also posting 9.3 rebounds per game and shooting just under 60 percent from the field (107-180)
• As a team, Wofford is averaging 77.5 points per game and allowing 76.3

 
SERIES HISTORY 

• ETSU leads the all-time series 41-18, but Wofford defeated the Bucs 75-73 earlier this year in Spartanburg 
• Overall, the Bucs have won three of the last four and 12 of the last 17 over the Terriers in Johnson City, including a 77-52 win last season 
• Twelve of the last 18 meetings have been decided by nine points or less with Wofford winning seven of those contests … Three of the last four have been decided by exactly two points with the Terriers winning two of them

UP NEXT 
ETSU wraps up its three-game home stand on Saturday when the Bucs host Furman on national television … Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network. 
  
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