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SFA Seeks Return to Win Column Saturday against Incarnate Word
2/22/2019 2:09:00 PM | Men's Basketball
'Jacks own 5-0 all-time record against Incarnate Word in Nacogdoches
Game Twenty-Six | Sponsored by the City of Nacogdoches
SFA (13-12, 6-7 Southland) vs. Incarnate Word (6-20, 1-12 Southland)
Saturday, Feb. 24 | 4:30 p.m. | William R. Johnson Coliseum (7,203) | Nacogdoches, Texas
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THE OPENING TIP
• In a three-way tie for sixth place in the Southland Conference standings, the SFA men's basketball team hopes to gain some separation from that group and put the clamps on a two-game losing skid Saturday afternoon when league adversary Incarnate Word comes to Texas' oldest town.
• The City of Nacogdoches will sponsor the game which will also serve as a canned food drive for the Hunger Jacks campus organization. For each canned food item fans bring to the game up to five items, they will receive one dollar off of a general admission ticket.
• SFA, Houston Baptist and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi have identical 6-7 records in Southland Conference play, putting them in a three-way tie for sixth place. That group of squads is just one game ahead of Central Arkansas who is in ninth place in the league standings. At the conclusion of the league's regular season schedule, the top eight teams will advance to the 2019 Southland Conference Tournament in Katy, Texas.
• Entering Saturday's showdown with the Cardinals, senior Shannon Bogues needs just 23 more point to get to 1,000 in his career. Should that happen Saturday, Bogues would be the 32nd player in the history of Lumberjack basketball to sling in 1,000 or more points in a career.
• SFA ranks 23rd nationally in turnovers forced per game (16.24).
HIT 'EM WITH THE ONE-TWO PUNCH
• No duo in the Southland Conference has put up more points than SFA's upperclassman tandem of Shannon Bogues and Kevon Harris.
• Harris leads the 13-team leading in scoring at a clip of 18.1 points per game while Bogues ranks second at 17.5 points per game. Harris and Bogues also lead the 13-team league in points scored with 452 and 438 respectively. In its NCAA-era history, SFA has never had two players score 500 or more points in the same season but that's a possibility in 2018-19.
• Bogues and Harris join just two other programs in NCAA Division I men's basketball - Duke and CSU Northridge - who have the two two scorers from their respective conference on their squad. For Duke in the ACC, that's R.J. Barrett (23.1 ppg) and Zion Williamson (21.6 ppg) while Lamine Diane (23.8 ppg) and Terrell Gomez (19.1 ppg) do the job for the Matadors.
• Bogues and Harris also rank first and second respectively in the Southland in total minutes played and minutes played per game.
HARRIS' RECORD BOOK RESET
• Ever since the season started, junior Kevon Harris has been steadily moving up the 'Jacks' top ten lists in a number of statistical categories.
• The Ellenwood, Ga., product currently ranks 18th all-time in scoring (1,211 points).
• In SFA's NCAA-era records, Harris ranks 10th all-time in field goals made (391), six in three-point field goals made (121), seventh in three-point field goal attempts (309), sixth in free throws made (308) and fourth in free throw attempts (434).
• This season alone, Harris has gone 116-of-156 at the free throw line. Those 116 free throw makes are the ninth-most in a single season in SFA's NCAA era while his 156 free throw attempts are the eighth-most.
LAST TIME OUT
• Texas A&M-Corpus Christi started the game on a 17-0 run and though the 'Jacks managed to tie things twice in the second half they never could take the lead and fell 65-55 to the Islanders Wednesday night in Nacogdoches.
• The loss was just the third for SFA against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi inside William R. Johnson Coliseum in program history.
• Shannon Bogues put in a team-high 17 points, extending his streak of double-digit scoring games to 26.
• SFA finished with a 16-4 edge in free throws made and a 25-10 advantage in free throws attempts in its second-straight Southland Conference setback.
• Freshman guard Jock Hughes made his return to the SFA lineup following an eight-game absence.
• Junior Kevon Harris scored 14 in the loss to give him 1,211 for his collegiate career. That helped him passed former Lumberjack great Marcus Clark (1,208 points) for 18th on the program's all-time scoring list.
SCOUTING INCARNATE WORD | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATISTICS
• Mired in an 11-game losing streak, the Cardinals come to Nacogdoches trying to do something they've never done before - post a win inside William R. Johnson Coliseum. UIW is 1-9 (.100) all-time against the 'Jacks but is 0-5 (.000) inside SFA's home facility where the 'Jacks' average margin of victory has been 17.8 points.
• Saturday afternoon, the Cardinals will be without the services of their second-leading scorer in Morgan Taylor. Taylor's scoring average of 11.5 points per game was highlight by a 79.1-percent accuracy rate from the free throw line. The freshman also leads the Cardinals in assists with an average of 3.2 per game.
• One of the areas where the Cardinals excel is at the free throw stripe. Incarnate Word currently leads all of NCAA Division I men's basketball with a collective free throw percentage of 80.8. Three Cardinals have converted 85.5-percent or more of their foul line tries and that group is led by Charles Brown III and his accuracy rate of 89.3-percent (50-of-56) from there.
• Road games have presented a tremendous challenge for the Cardinals over the past three seasons. Since 2016-17, Incarnate Word is 3-34 (.081) in road contests and that record includes their 0-10 showing away from the Alamo City this season.
• Christian Peevy leads Incarnate Word in both scoring (13.0 ppg) and rebounding (4.3 per game). He's one of three Cardinals who average double digits in the scoring column while his rebounding numbers boost a UIW squad that ranks last in NCAA Division I men's basketball in rebounds per game (27.1).
COMING UP NEXT
• Each of the next three games the 'Jacks are set to play take place away from Nacogdoches. That stretch begins Wednesday night in Conway, Ark., when SFA does battle with Central Arkansas. Tip-off inside the Farris Center is set for 7:00 p.m. and the clash will be streamed nationwide on the Southland Digital Network.
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