SETTING THE SCENE

• Saint Louis hits the road to take on the Loyola Chicago Ramblers on Tuesday night in Chicago. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.
• Tuesday's game will be streamed live on ESPN+. Jordan Bernfield and Chris Sparks have the call.
• KMOX 1120 AM serves as the Home for Billiken Basketball on the radio. Billiken Hall of Famers and longtime SLU men's basketball radio partners Bob Ramsey and Earl Austin Jr. will the call the action for all SLU games, both at home and on the road.

• Saint Louis (8-12, 1-6 A-10) looks to snap a four-game slide on Tuesday night in A-10 action at Gentile Arena.
• Gibson Jimerson leads the Billikens with 15.3 ppg. He is 15 3s away from becoming SLU's all-time leader and surpassing Billiken great Erwin Claggett's 295 career treys. Also, Jimerson recently cracked the top-10 in career FGs and is tied for 8th with 551. He needs three more FGs to pass Jordan Goodwin for seventh.
• Bradley Ezewiro is averaging 13.8 ppg (second on Billikens) and a team-leading 6.7 rpg. He had a double-double against Loyola Chicago earlier this year (13 points/10 rebounds).
• Larry Hughes II is coming off a career-high 14 points against UMass where he drained four triples. 16 of his 27 3-pointers this year have come during league play.
• Kellen Thames has appeared in all 20 games off the bench. He is shooting 63.4 percent and has the top 2FG% in the A-10.
• Michael Meadows Jr. and Cian Medley man the point guard spot for SLU. Medley leads the Bills in total assists (62) while Meadows is second in the A-10 in assist/turnover ratio (2.83).
• Terrence Hargrove Jr. has scored in double figures in each of the last four games and is third on the Bills with 12.8 ppg.
• SLU has already had eight different starting lineup combinations this season, the most in the Travis Ford era.

• This is the second game of the season between the Billikens and Ramblers. Loyola Chicago won at Chaifetz Arena on Jan. 3, 80-73, in the A-10 opener for both teams.
• The Billikens trailed by as many as 18 in the first half and rallied to tie the game in the second half, but they were never able to snag the lead as the Ramblers posted the road win.
• Gibson Jimerson led the Billiken scoring effort with 19 points, followed by Terrence Hargrove Jr. with 18 and Bradley Ezewiro with 13.
• Ezewiro added a game- and career-high 10 rebounds for his first career double-double, while Larry Hughes II (career high) and Kellen Thames grabbed six boards apiece as Saint Louis gained a 44-30 edge on the glass including a season-high 19 offensive caroms.
• Des Watson scored a game-high 24 points for Loyola Chicago on 5-of-7 shooting from 3-point range. Braden Norris dished out seven assists.

• Gibson Jimerson scored a team-high 16 points and Larry Hughes II tossed in a career-high 14, but Massachusetts held off Saint Louis 84-73 Saturday night at Chaifetz Arena.
• SLU dipped to 8-12 overall and 1-6 in the Atlantic 10 Conference, while UMass improved to 13-7, 4-4.
• Bradley Ezewiro and Terrence Hargrove Jr. tallied 12 and 10 points, respectively, for the Billikens, who stuck around in the game by shooting 44 percent (11-of-25) from 3-point range and 87.5 percent (14-of-16) from the foul line. Hughes tied his career best of four 3-pointers (4-of-6).
• Michael Meadows Jr. matched his season high and led all players with seven assists to go with nine points. Djordje Curcic netted a career-high eight points.

• The Loyola University Chicago Ramblers enter Tuesday's action 12-7 overall and 5-2 in league play. They are tied with VCU for third in the A-10 standings behind only Richmond (7-0) and Dayton (6-1).
• Philip Alston and Des Watson lead the team in scoring with 13.3 ppg and 12.7 ppg, respectively. Jayden Dawson is near double figures with 9.9 ppg thanks in part to a team-high 38 3-pointers.
• Braden Norris is third in the conference in assists per game with 4.8.
• Miles Rubin leads the team and is third in the A-10 with 2.25 blocked shots per game.
• As a team, the Ramblers are second in the A-10 in assists per game (16.5) and bench points per game (26.2).
• Teams shoot just 39.9 percent against the Loyola defense, which ranks 24th in the NCAA and third in the A-10.
• Head coach Drew Valentine is in his third season as head coach at Loyola Chicago. He has been on the staff of two programs that have made a Final Four – with Loyola Chicago as an assistant coach in 2018, and with Michigan State as a graduate assistant in 2015.

• This is the 50th meeting all-time against the Ramblers. Loyola Chicago leads the series 25-24, including a 13-9 mark in games played in Chicago.
• While this is the second season the two teams are meeting as members of the A-10, the series goes way back. The squads first played more than 100 years ago in 1922. From 1982 to 1991, the Billikens and Ramblers met regularly as members of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference.
• Loyola Chicago is the Billikens' most-played conference opponent other than Dayton (71 meetings).
• Perhaps one of the greatest games ever by a Billiken occurred between the Billikens and Ramblers in Chicago at Rosemont Horizon (now Allstate Arena) on March 1, 1990. Billiken great Anthony Bonner scored 45 points – which still stands as the SLU single-game record to this day – and snagged 20 rebounds as the Billikens beat Loyola Chicago 102-86 in overtime. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted that Bonner had quipped: "When you come to Michal Jordan's town, you get the fever." Bonner would go on to play six years in the NBA.