JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 4, 2025) – Opening the second half of Southern Conference play with a thrilling win over Furman on Sunday, the ETSU men's basketball team now takes on a surging VMI team on Wednesday night. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. inside Cameron Hall.
 
GAME INFO
DATE: Wednesday, Feb. 5
TIME: 6 p.m.
LOCATION: Cameron Hall (Lexington, Va.)
TEAMS: ETSU (13-10, 6-4) at VMI (11-12, 5-5)
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+ (Chip Tarkenton/Grafton Young)
LIVE STATS: VMIKeydets.com
RADIO: WXSM-AM 640 (Jay Sandos)
TWITTER: @ETSU_MBB
 
ABOUT THE BUCS

• ETSU is 13-10 overall and 6-4 in SoCon play
• The Bucs got back into the win column after rallying for a 72-69 win over Furman on Sunday in front of 5,211 fans inside Freedom Hall
• ETSU closed the game on a 12-2 run to secure the three-point conference win in front of the largest home crowd since Feb. 29, 2020, when 6,177 fans saw the Bucs rally past Western Carolina to clinch the regular season crown
• In addition to finishing on the 12-2 run, the Bucs ended the first half and opened the second half on a combined 31-5 surge to take a 44-32 lead with just over 18 minutes left in the contest
• According to the ESPN Win Probability Tracker, ETSU was given a 7-percent chance to win when the Bucs were down 67-60 with three minutes remaining
• Six of ETSU's first 10 SoCon games have been decided by five points or less … ETSU is 3-3 in those games
• Karon Boyd notched his third career double-double on Sunday after finishing with 12 points (4-of-4 from the field) and a career-high 13 rebounds … Over his last six games, Boyd has totaled 60 rebounds, while he's averaging 8.1 boards in 10 SoCon games this season
• Jaden Seymour bounced back with a game-high 23-point, 5-rebound performance on Sunday, marking his sixth 20-point scoring game this year
• After combining to go 0-for-17 last Wednesday at UNCG, Boyd and Seymour combined to go 12-for-17 for 35 points and 18 rebounds against Furman
• Quimari Peterson extended his streak of scoring in double figures to 20 straight games after netting 16 points, including having the game-winning score with 29.3 seconds remaining … Peterson now has 900 career points (894 as a Buccaneer)
• With ETSU's six made threes on Sunday, the Bucs have made at least one three-pointer in 1,181 straight games – the third-longest streak in the country
• 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 14th in program history with 1,316 career points … Seymour needs 11 points to pass Rashawn Rembert (2011-15) for 13th all-time on the ETSU scoring list and 36 to pass Jerald Fields (2000-04) for 12th … Overall, Seymour has 1,327 points with 11 of those coming during his freshman season at Wichita State
• Peterson (422 points) and Seymour (404) are the only teammates in Division I who have scored over 400 points, while also being the set of teammates to rank one-two in their conference in scoring
• 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  

ABOUT VMI      

• VMI, one of the hottest teams in the SoCon, sits 11-12 overall and 5-5 in league play
• The Keydets have won their last two and five of their last six games
• VMI is coming off an 80-76 overtime win at Western Carolina on Saturday
• The Keydets are 6-3 at home this season
• VMI is led by Augustinas Kiudulas and Rickey Bradley, Jr. …. Kiudulas is averaging 15.9 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, while Bradley, Jr. is posting 15.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game
• As a team, VMI is averaging 76.2 points and allowing 72.0 per game
• The Keydets are forcing 8.3 steals per game, while they average 9.6 made threes and 15.2 made free throws per game

SERIES HISTORY

• ETSU leads the all-time series, 60-15
• The Bucs have won six straight in the series, 19 of the last 20 and 29 of the last 31
• ETSU is eyeing the regular season sweep as the Bucs defeated VMI 84-69 back on New Year's Day in Johnson City … In that win, the Bucs netted a program record 17 three-pointers – 10 coming from John Buggs III … Buggs finished with a career-high 33 points, while Jaden Seymour notched the third double-double in program history as he totaled 18 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists
• The Bucs have won seven of the last eight and 12 of the last 14 over the Keydets in Lexington
• VMI's last win in the series was on Jan. 29, 2022, when the Keydets defeated ETSU, 83-79 in Virginia

 
UP NEXT
ETSU returns home to take on league-leading Samford Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. inside Freedom Hall.
  
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