SETTING THE SCENE

• Saint Louis (7-8, 0-2 A-10) welcomes the Saint Joseph's Hawks (10-4, 0-1 A-10) to Chaifetz Arena on Wednesday. Game time is 6 p.m. (CST).
• Wednesday's game will be televised on CBS Sports Network. John Sadak and Bob Wenzel 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.

• The Billikens (7-8, 0-2 A-10) are searching for their first A-10 win of the season after falling at home against Loyola Chicago and on the road at George Mason.
• Likewise, Saint Joseph's (10-4, 0-1 A-10) is winless in A-10 play after it dropped its league opener at Rhode Island on Jan. 3. The Hawks were on a bye last weekend.
• Bradley Ezewiro is four games into his Billiken career and is averaging 16.0 points and 8.0 rebounds. He posted his first career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds Jan. 3 against Loyola Chicago, and he has led the Billikens in rebounding in each of the last three games. Ezewiro became eligible on Dec. 15 with the rest of the NCAA's two-time transfers.
• Gibson Jimerson (16.3 ppg) has led the Bills in scoring in five out of the last six games. He scored 20 points at George Mason to move into eighth on the Billikens' all-time scoring list.
• Larry Hughes II tied a career high with 12 points at George Mason. He has combined for seven 3s in the last two games.
• Terrence Hargrove Jr. averages 13.4 ppg and 6.1 rpg. He shoots 52.2 percent from the field and 41.7 percent from 3.
• Leading scorer Sincere Parker (17.3 ppg) hasn't played since suffering a broken foot on Nov. 16 vs. Wyoming.
• SLU has already had six different starting lineup combinations this season, tied for the most in the Travis Ford era (2021-22).
• The Billikens are 163-137 in A-10 regular-season games. Travis Ford needs two more A-10 wins for 100 in his career.

• Saint Louis dropped a 79-67 decision at George Mason on Saturday afternoon in Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball action at EagleBank Arena.
• Saint Louis dipped to 7-8 overall and 0-2 in the league with its third straight loss. George Mason won its sixth in a row and improved to 13-2 overall (2-0 A-10), matching its best start in school history.
• Gibson Jimerson led the Billikens with 20 points, his seventh game of 20 or more points this season. He moved up to No. 8 on the SLU all-time scoring list, passing Tommie Liddell III.
• Bradley Ezewiro scored in double figures for the fourth time in as many games, finishing with 16 points and a team-high eight rebounds.
• Larry Hughes II matched his career high with 12 points, which included a career-best four 3-pointers.
• SLU outshot the Patriots from the field (48 percent to 44 percent) but committed 16 turnovers that the Patriots turned into 21 points. Meanwhile, George Mason committed a season-low five turnovers.
• The Billikens won the battle on the glass 30-29, the second straight game SLU outrebounded its opponent. George Mason was 27-of-34 from the free throw line, while SLU was 8-of-11.

• Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia, Pa.) is 10-4 overall and 0-1 in A-10 play. The Hawks fell 78-74 at Rhode Island in their A-10 opener Jan. 3 in Kingston, R.I.
• Saint Joseph's has received votes in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll this season. It's the first time since the 2015-16 season that the Hawks earned votes in the poll. St. Joe's has been ranked in the top 25 of the AP poll 66 times, reaching as high as No. 1 in the 2003-04 season.
• The Hawks are among the top 3-point shooting teams in the country. They make 11.1 per game, which ranks sixth in the NCAA. Their 30.6 attempts per game is fifth nationally.
• Defensively, teams shoot just 37.7 percent from the field against the Hawks. That's the top defensive mark in the A-10 and ranks sixth nationally.
• Erik Reynolds II leads SJU with 16.9 ppg, which ranks among the top in the league. Reynolds' 3.43 3-pointers per game leads the A-10 and is ninth nationally.
• Reynolds II, Xzayvier Brown and Cameron Brown and have combined to shoot 41.7 percent (111-266) from 3-point range.
• Head coach Billy Lange is in his fifth season at Saint Joseph's with a 48-81 record. He is 179-215 in 14 seasons overall, which includes stops at Merchant Marine and Navy.

• Saint Louis has won four in a row and leads the all-time series 16-4. Last year, SLU defeated the Hawks 83-78 at Hagen Arena behind a team-high 22 points by Gibson Jimerson.
• The Hawks have only won once in St. Louis, the first game of the series in 2005-06 in SLU's first year in the A-10. The Billikens have won eight in a row at home against Saint Joseph's.