Southern Illinoise University Athletics
Men's Basketball Preps for Evansville
01/28/2002 | 12:00:00 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 28, 2002
Southern Illinois (17-4, 7-2) will host Evansville (4-14, 1-8) Wednesday night at SIU Arena. Tipoff is 7 p.m. The Salukis play three of their next four games at home. For tickets, call 453-2000
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Heating Up From Three Three Salukis have been on fire from 3-point range in recent games. Darren Brooks has made 13 of his last 24 (.542), Marcus Belcher has made 12 of his last 19 (.632) and Brad Korn has made 7 of his last 16 (.434). Overall, the team has made 25 of its last 52 attempts (.481) in the previous three games.
Turning Up the D Colorado State is the only team to shoot better than 45 percent from the field against the Salukis this season. Last year, 17 of SIU's 30 opponents shot better than 45 percent against the Dawgs.
The Series vs. Evansville Southern Illinois leads the all-time series with Evansville, 47-44. The Salukis have won six of the last seven meetings, however they lost at home to Evansville last season.
Free Throw Woes The Salukis are last in the Missouri Valley Conference in free throw shooting (61.6 percent). It cost them in Saturday's loss to UNI, as SIU had its worst game of the year from the line, converting 5-of-16 (31.3 percent).
Williams 16th in Career Scoring at SIU Junior guard Kent Williams is the 34th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. The team's leading scorer now ranks 16th in career scoring at SIU with 1,318 points.
Dawg Bites SIU is 8-0 at home, it's best home record since the 1991-92 team posted a perfect 12-0 mark at home...When the Salukis lost to UNI on Saturday, it marked the first loss of the season when SIU outrebounded its opponent...Opponents are shooting 39.8 percent against SIU this season. The last Saluki team to hold opponents below 40 percent on the season was the 1967-68 club.
Roberts Climbs Blocks Chart Rolan Roberts is climbing the school's single-season blocks chart. After 21 games, he has 54 blocks and needs 36 more to tie Joe C. Meriweather's record set in 1973-74.
