Men's Basketball 11/14/2017 10:22:00 AM

ECU AWAITS RADFORD FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT CLASH

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GAME INFORMATION

SETTING THE STAGE

The Highlanders enter the second game of a three-game road trip with a 1-1 record after topping Georgia Southwestern at home, 72-63, and falling to Ohio State, 82-72, in Columbus
East Carolina owns a 1-0 record thanks to a 76-50 victory over Coppin State in their home and season opener this past Sunday night

SERIES HISTORY

Radford is 3-5 across eight all-time meetings with East Carolina
The first contest between the two institutions came on December 19, 1987 when the Highlanders defended their home turf in a 77-75 victory
The Highlanders and Pirates played each other for four straight years between 1987 and 1990 and then did it again from 2000-2003
The most recent meeting came on December 30, 2003 and it didn't go so well for the Highlanders, who fell 50-87, on the road

HIGHLANDER HIGHLIGHTS

Record: 1-1 (0-0 Big South)
Redshirt freshman guard Carlik Jones was named Big South Freshman of the Week after averaging 17.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists on 65-percent shooting including a 67-percent clip from three-point range
Travis Fields, Jr. and Devonnte Holland each made their first career starts in a Radford uniform at Ohio State. It was the second game as a Highlander for Fields, Jr. and 29^th for Holland
As a team, Radford shot 50 percent (11-for-22) from three-point range against Ohio State, their best shooting percentage from three since going 14-for-26 (54-percent) against Charleston Southern on Feb. 9, 2017
Radford has scored exactly 72 points in each of its first two games of the season after averaging 65.3 points per game in 2016-17
The Highlanders' bench has outscored opposing benches by a combined tally of 77-35 through two games
Head Coach Mike Jones is utilizing his squad's depth, with 15 of the team's 16 eligible players having already seen game action

SCOUTING THE PIRATES

Record: 1-0 (0-0 AAC)
ECU was picked to finish 11^th out of 12 teams in the American Athletic Conference preseason coaches' poll following a run of three straight losing seasons
Head Coach Jeff Lebo enters his eighth season at the helm of the Pirates, accumulating a 115-118 record thus far
Three of the team's top four scorers – Kentrell Barkley, B.J. Tyson and Jeremy Sheppard – returned from a season ago. The trio combined to score more than 50-percent of the Pirates' points in 2016-17.
ECU's defense shined in its season opening win against Coppin State, holding the Eagles to a shooting percentage of 24.6-percent from the floor and 23.1-percent from three
The Pirates also outrebounded Coppin State by a large 47-30 margin
10 different players pulled down multiple rebounds in the contest
Barkley picked up where he left off last season, scoring 14 points and bringing down seven rebounds in the season opener