JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 3, 2025) – Fresh off its record-setting performance in Wednesday's Southern Conference opener, the ETSU men's basketball team looks to carry momentum into Saturday's home game versus Wofford. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. inside Freedom Hall.
 
GAME INFO
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 4
TIME: 4 p.m.
LOCATION: Freedom Hall (Johnson City, Tenn)
TEAMS: ETSU (8-6, 1-0) vs. Wofford (6-8, 0-1)
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: Ferguson
 
ABOUT THE BUCS

• ETSU is 8-6 overall and 1-0 in SoCon play
• The Bucs opened SoCon play with an 84-69 win over VMI on Wednesday
• ETSU netted a program record 17 three-pointers against the Keydets, while Jaden Seymour became the third Buccaneer to register a triple-double as he totaled 18 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists
• Seymour joins Buccaneer greats Tim Smith and Courtney Pigram as the only ETSU players to accomplish the feat … Smith had 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against Kennesaw State on Jan. 25, 2006, while Pigram had the exact same stat line versus Wingate on Nov. 20, 2008
• Seymour is one of 14 players this season to record a triple-double
• John Buggs III also had a career day as he finished with 33 points on 10 made three-pointers … Buggs became just the third ETSU player with at least 10 made triples as Patrick Good sank a school record 11 at Western Carolina on Jan. 26, 2019, and Courtney Pigram made 10 against Mercer on Feb. 28, 2009
• Buggs is just one of four players this season to make at least 10 threes in a game, while only one of two to do so against a Division I team … Monmouth's Abdi Bashir Jr. had 10 against Rutgers on Nov. 15, 2024
• Buggs is one of 33 Division I players to make at least 10 triples in a game since the start of the 2021-22 season
• With ETSU's 17 made threes on Wednesday, the Bucs have made at least one three-pointer in 1,173 straight games – the third-longest streak in the country
• Quimari Peterson still leads the SoCon in scoring at 18.2 points per game, while Jaden Seymour is tied for second at 16.7 per contest … Peterson and Seymour are the only teammates across the 31 conferences to rank first and second in scoring
• Quimari Peterson is just one of four Division I players with at least 250 points, 60 rebounds and 60 assists this season … In 14 games this season, Peterson has totaled 255 points, 65 rebounds and 63 assists … The only other players to hit those numbers are Marquette's Kameron Jones, Rutgers' Dylan Harper and Jacksonville State's Jaron Pierre Jr.
• With Quimari Peterson netting a career-high 30 points at Kansas City and John Buggs III scoring a career-high 33 versus VMI, this marks the first time Buccaneer teammates had back-to-back 30-point games since March 4-6, 2009, when Kevin Tiggs scored 37 in the ASUN quarterfinal win over Stetson and Courtney Pigram had 30 points in the semifinal victory over Belmont … The last time a Buccaneer player had back-to-back 30-point scoring games was when Jalen Riley had 31-point games against Tennessee Tech (Feb. 16, 2015) and Chattanooga (Feb. 21, 2015)
• John Buggs III ranks 14th nationally in made threes (47) and 21st in three-pointers made per game (3.4), while Quimari Peterson ranks 23rd in field goals made (100) and 49th in total points (255)
• ETSU has won its last six games inside Freedom Hall and seven of its eight home games this season … In their eight home games this year, the Bucs are averaging 81.0 points and have a scoring margin of +16.8 … The Blue & Gold are shooting 48 percent (242-504), while averaging 17.0 assists and 8.6 steals per game … Quimari Peterson is averaging 17.8 points per game at home, while Jaden Seymour is posting 16.8 points and 7.9 rebounds per contest … John Buggs III is shooting at a 47 percent clip from the beyond the arc inside Freedom Hall (26-55)
• 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 29th in program history with 1,146 career points … Seymour needs 12 points to pass Marcus Reese (1981-84) for 28th, 25 to pass Hal Morrison (1951-54) for 27th and 35 points to climb past Micah Williams (2006-11) for 26th … Overall, Seymour has 1,157 points with 11 of those coming during his freshman season at Wichita State.
• 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 WOFFORD   

• Wofford sits 6-8 overall and 0-1 in SoCon play
• The Terriers, who have won two of their last three, are coming off a 68-66 home setback to UNCG on Saturday
• Corey Tripp led the Terriers with 17 points, five rebounds and five assists against the Spartans, while Kyler Filewich registered a double-double with 13 points and 14 rebounds
• Filewich leads the SoCon with six double-doubles and he has accomplished the feat three times in his last four games
• Filewich is averaging 10.8 points and 10.1 rebounds per game, while Corey Tripp leads the team with 13.7 points per contest
• As a team, Wofford is averaging 74.1 points and allowing 70.6 per game
• Wofford is 4-1 at home, but have dropped seven of its nine games away from Spartanburg … The Terriers lone win was a 74-71 victory at St. Louis on Dec. 18

SERIES HISTORY

• Saturday marks the 61st all-time meeting between the two programs
• ETSU holds a commanding 42-18 lead in the series
• The Bucs are 6-4 in the last 10 meetings
• Overall, the Bucs have won four of the last five and 13 of the last 18 over the Terriers in Johnson City, including a 57-50 win last season 
• Thirteen of the last 19 meetings have been decided by nine points or less with Wofford winning seven of those contests … Three of the last five have been decided by exactly two points with the Terriers winning two of them

UP NEXT
ETSU hits the road for the first time in 2025 as the Bucs play at Mercer on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
  
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