MARSHALL, Texas – Continuing their road trip to start the 2019-2020 season, the East Texas Baptist University men's basketball team is headed to Georgia for two games this weekend. They will take part in the LaGrange Basketball Tournament hosted by LaGrange College. ETBU is currently 1-1 on the year after splitting their games last weekend.
Below is the information about the games.
ETBU vs. LaGrange College| LaGrange, GA | Friday, Nov. 22nd
Arena: Mariotti Gym
Time: 4:00 PM CST
All-Time Series: First Meeting
ETBU vs. Huntingdon College | LaGrange, GA | Saturday, Nov. 23rd
Arena: Mariotti Gym
Time: 3:00 PM CST
All-Time Series: ETBU 1-0
- Last ETBU Win: Nov. 19, 2016 (112-96)
ETBU
- 1-1 following a win over Rhodes College and a loss to Millsaps College
- Chris Haynes led ETBU with 13 points in the win over RC. Jaden Conner (11 points), Landin Brown (10 points), and Robby Dooley (10 points) also had double-digits in the game
- Brown led ETBU with 16 points in the loss to Millsaps
- Second straight year for ETBU to take a trip to Georgia. Went 0-2 last season with losses to Denison College and Emory University. Games were at Emory University
- Averaging 77.5 points per game, 33.0 rebounds per game, and 9.5 assists per game
- In the 2016 win over Huntingdon, Brown finished with 16 points while Jordan Gray added 11 points.
LaGrange College
- First meeting all-time with ETBU
- Finished 17-9 in 2018-19
- 0-2 following loss to Birmingham Southern
- Averaging 82.5 points per game, 26.5 rebounds per game, and 11 assists per game
- Julian Cameron averages 25.0 points per game
- Lincoln Anderson averages 6.0 rebounds per game.
- Bershard Edwards averages 3.0 assists per game
- Kyle Brown leads with six steals
Huntingdon College
- 0-4 following loss to Sewanee
- Averaging 70.0 points per game, 31.0 rebounds per game, and 7.7 assists per game
- Lost to ETBU 112-96 in 2016
- Damien Madison leads with 16.7 points per game
- James Harris grabs 4.3 rebounds per game and dishes out 2.3 assists per game, both of which are enough for first on the Hawks
