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MBB Preview: Billikens Host Saint Joseph's Wednesday Night

SLU Men's Basketball Game Notes & Information
Game 28 Saint Joseph's (5-22, 1-13 A-10) at Saint Louis (19-8, 8-6 A-10)
Date // Time Wednesday, Feb. 26 // 8 p.m. (CT)
Location St. Louis, Mo. (Chaifetz Arena / 10,600)
Tickets Tickets
TV CBS Sports Network (Tom McCarthy, Steve Wolf)
Stream CBS Sports App
Radio 101 ESPN / TUNE IN (Bob Ramsey, Earl Austin Jr.)
Live Stats Statbroadcast
Game Notes SLU | SJU | Atlantic 10

Saint Louis continues Atlantic 10 Conference play on Wednesday night when it hosts Saint Joseph's at Chaifetz Arena. Game time is scheduled for 8 p.m.
 
The game will be televised on CBS Sports Network, with Tom McCarthy and Steve Wolf calling the action. The radio broadcast will be carried on 101 ESPN. As always, Billiken Hall of Famers Bob Ramsey and Earl Austin Jr. will be on the radio call.

Saint Louis is 19-8 overall, 8-6 in the A-10. Saint Joseph's is 5-22 overall, 1-13 in the league. The Billikens enter the week in a three-way tie for fifth (Davidson and Duquesne) in the A-10 standings.
 
The Billikens and Hawks met earlier this year at Hagen Arena, with the Billikens coming away with a 78-73 victory. Javonte Perkins scored a SLU season-high 33 points in the game, while SJU leading scorer Ryan Daly scored 35 for the Hawks.
 
Here are five additional facts in advance of Friday's game against Saint Joseph's:
 
1 // Jordan Goodwin and Hasahn French are the only teammates in the NCAA averaging a double-double. Goodwin leads the team with 15.5 ppg and 10.5 rpg, while French averages 12.2 ppg and 10.3 rpg.
 
2 // Javonte Perkins leads the Billikens and is fifth in the A-10 with 17.8 ppg in league games only. Tommie Liddell III holds the school record for scoring average in a season in A-10 play (17.3 ppg, 2006-07).
 
3 // Yuri Collins is second in the NCAA among freshmen with 144 assists. His 12 assists against VCU are tied for the most by a freshman in the NCAA this season.
 
4 // Wednesday's game is part of the Jesuit Basketball Spotlight. The JBS is a nationwide effort to bring greater positive awareness and exposure to Jesuit higher education and its shared mission of academic excellence, the service of faith and the promotion of justice, through basketball games.
 
5 // Saint Louis University has partnered with the Mike Slive Foundation to provide prostate cancer awareness at Wednesday's game. SLU will wear special Mike Slive Foundation shooting shirts, and the coaching staffs will wear lapel pins to draw awareness to prostate cancer research. In addition, SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital will have a table in the concourse with additional information on the early detection of prostate cancer.
 
Up Next: Saint Louis hits the road to take on the Rhode Island Rams on Sunday afternoon. Game time in Kingston, R.I., is 1 p.m. (CT), and the game will be televised on ESPNU.
 
 
 
 
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Players Mentioned

Yuri Collins

#1 Yuri Collins

G
6' 0"
Freshman
Hasahn French

#11 Hasahn French

F
6' 7"
Junior
Jordan Goodwin

#0 Jordan Goodwin

G
6' 3"
Junior
Javonte Perkins

#3 Javonte Perkins

G/F
6' 6"
Junior

Players Mentioned

Yuri Collins

#1 Yuri Collins

6' 0"
Freshman
G
Hasahn French

#11 Hasahn French

6' 7"
Junior
F
Jordan Goodwin

#0 Jordan Goodwin

6' 3"
Junior
G
Javonte Perkins

#3 Javonte Perkins

6' 6"
Junior
G/F