JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 10, 2025) – Coming off a thrilling road win at Mercer on Wednesday night, the ETSU men's basketball team returns home to take on The Citadel on Saturday. Tip-off is slated for 4 p.m. inside Freedom Hall.  
 
GAME INFO
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 11
TIME: 4 p.m.
LOCATION: Freedom Hall (Johnson City, Tenn.)
TEAMS: ETSU (9-7, 2-1) vs. The Citadel (5-9, 0-3)
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+ (Keith Brake/Bruce Tranbarger)
LIVE STATS: ETSUBucs.com
RADIO: WXSM-AM 640 (Jay Sandos)
TWITTER: @ETSU_MBB
TICKETS: ETSUTickets.com
GAME SPONSOR: Porter's Tire
 
ABOUT THE BUCS

• ETSU is 9-7 overall and 2-1 in SoCon play
• The Bucs pulled out a gutsy 70-68 win at Mercer on Wednesday night as Quimari Peterson hit the game-winning three-pointer with 19.8 seconds remaining and ETSU's defense came up with two stops in the closing seconds to secure the road win
• With the win, ETSU improved to 5-0 in games played on Wednesday's this season
• ETSU finished plus-10 on the glass, 41-31, and converted 16 offensive rebounds into 16 second-chance points
• The Bucs have totaled 204 offensive rebounds on the season and rank 26th nationally in offensive rebound percentage (36.5)
• Quimari Peterson leads the Bucs in scoring at 18.6 points per game, while Jaden Seymour is posting 16.7 points per contest
• Peterson leads the SoCon in scoring and Seymour is fourth
• Quimari Peterson is just one of two Division I players with at least 290 points, 70 rebounds and 70 assists this season … In 16 games this season, Peterson has totaled 298 points, 70 rebounds and 72 assists … The only other player to hit those numbers is Marquette's Kameron Jones
• John Buggs III is one of 23 Division I players to make at least 50 three-pointers this season … Buggs ranks 18th nationally in made threes (50) and 34th in three-pointers made per game (3.1)
• Jaden Seymour scored his 1,000th career point and 1,000th point as a Buccaneer in the win over USC Upstate on Nov. 22 … Seymour became the 43rd 1,000-point scorer in program history and now is 27th in program history with 1,179 career points … Seymour needs two points to pass Micah Williams (2006-11) for 26th, three points to pass Wes Stallings (1983-86) for 25th, five to pass Isiah Brown (2008-12) for 24th, 19 to move past Kevin Tiggs (2007-09) for 23rd and 28 to move past T.J. Cromer for 22nd (2015-17) … Overall, Seymour has 1,190 points with 11 of those coming during his freshman season at Wichita State.
• With ETSU's nine made threes on Wednesday, the Bucs have made at least one three-pointer in 1,175 straight games – the third-longest streak in the country
• ETSU was picked to finish third in the SoCon Preseason Coaches Poll … The Bucs picked up two first-place votes, while reigning champion Samford was pegged number one and Chattanooga was selected second
• Jaden Seymour and Quimari Peterson landed SoCon preseason honors
• The Bucs return 10 players from last year's 2023-24 roster
• ETSU only lost 8% of its scoring and 9% of its minutes played from last year's roster to the transfer portal – the fewest amount of production from any SoCon program 
• Coach Savage and his staff brought in five new players to complete the 2024-25 roster … The five newcomers include four transfers – Curt Lewis (Missouri), John Buggs III (North Texas), Davion Bradford (Wake Forest) and Roosevelt Wheeler (VCU) … In addition, true freshman Brandon Crawford is the fifth Buccaneer newcomer

ABOUT THE CITADEL     

• The Citadel sits 5-9 overall and 0-3 in SoCon play
• The Bulldogs have lost six straight, including a 67-63 overtime setback Wednesday night against Furman
• The Citadel has dropped all four of its road games this season – at Boston College, at Central Arkansas, at Vanderbilt and at Samford
• The Bulldogs are led by Brody Fox as he's averaging 16.4 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, while shooting 54 percent from the field
• Cam Glover (25) and Colby McAllister (24) have combined for 49 of the Bulldogs' 115 made threes
• As a team, The Citadel is averaging 71.1 points and allowing 73.5 

SERIES HISTORY

• ETSU leads the all-time series, 51-20
• The Bucs have won four straight and 15 of the last 19
• ETSU has won five of the last six against The Citadel in Johnson City and 26 of the last 34 against the Bulldogs at home
• In last year's series, ETSU averaged 71.5 points and allowed 61.5 … The Bucs held the Bulldogs to 15 percent shooting from beyond the arc (5-33)
• Jaden Seymour averaged 13.0 points and 6.0 rebounds, while shooting 52 percent (11-21) in the two games a year ago

UP NEXT
ETSU embarks on a two-game road swing beginning Wednesday night at Furman.
  
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