SETTING THE SCENE

• Saint Louis (9-14, 2-8 A-10) concludes a Philadelphia road swing Saturday when it heads to Hagan Arena to face Saint Joseph's. Game time on Hawk Hill is 12:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. CT.
• A bye week awaits the Billikens. SLU won't have a mid-week game and is next in action Friday, Feb. 16, when it hosts VCU at Chaifetz Arena for the ESPN/A-10 Friday Night Showcase on ESPN2.
• Saturday's game will be televised on USA Network. Mike Corey, Tim McCormick and Caroline Pineda call the action.
• 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 (9-14, 2-8 A-10) concludes its two-game Philadelphia road swing on Saturday. The Bills snapped a six-game losing skid with a 102-84 win Wednesday at La Salle's Tom Gola Arena.
• The Billikens' 102 points scored at La Salle were the most they have ever scored in an A-10 game. It was the first time SLU scored 100 or more points in a conference game since Jan. 27, 1990, when it scored 102 in an OT game at Loyola Chicago when both teams were members of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference.
• Sincere Parker dropped a career-high 33 points at La Salle Wednesday, the most points scored by a Billiken this season. He was 10-14 from the field, 4-5 from the arc, and 9-9 from the charity stripe. Parker also dished out a career-best three assists.
• Terrence Hargrove Jr. broke the school record for games played at La Salle - the 135th appearance for the fifth-year senior.
• Gibson Jimerson leads the Billikens with 14.5 ppg. He is approaching Erwin Claggett's school record of 295 career 3-pointers, needing just 12 more to surpass the Billiken great. Also, Jimerson is seventh on the Billikens' all-time scoring list.
• Bradley Ezewiro is third on the Billikens with 13.5 ppg and leads the team with 6.5 rpg.
• Kellen Thames scored a career-high 12 points at La Salle.
• Cian Medley leads the Billikens with 77 assists and is tied for 10th for most assists by a freshman in school history.
• SLU has had eight different starting lineup combinations this season, the most in the Travis Ford era.

• Saint Louis scored its most points ever in an Atlantic 10 Conference game in a 102-84 victory over La Salle Wednesday at Tom Gola Arena.
• The Billikens improved to 9-14 overall and 2-8 in A-10 play. La Salle dipped to 11-12 and 2-8 in the league.
• Sincere Parker led all scorers with a career-high 33 points. He shot 10-of-14 from the field, 4-of-5 from 3-point range and 9-of-9 from the charity stripe. The 33 points were the most by a Billiken this season.
• Bradley Ezewiro had 16 points and a team-high seven rebounds. He also blocked two shots. Larry Hughes II had 13 points, while Kellen Thames chipped in a career-high 12 points.
• The Billikens led wire-to-wire. They shot 64.5 percent in the first half to set the tone and took a 51-39 lead into the break. SLU came out firing at the start of the second half and never looked back.

• Led by Gibson Jimerson's blazing 3-point shooting in the second half, Saint Louis overcame a 20-point deficit and defeated Saint Joseph's 88-85 Jan. 10 at Chaifetz Arena.
• The 20-point deficit is the largest overcome by Saint Louis in a Billiken victory in Chaifetz Arena history. The previous record was 18 points vs. North Carolina A&T on Jan. 2, 2009.
• Jimerson's game-high-tying 27 points included 24 in the second half, fueled by a 6-of-7 effort from beyond the arc. He was 7-of-11 from distance for the game, matching his career high for 3-point field goals. The Billikens' 14 triples (14-of-26, 53.8 percent) were a season high and equaled the school record for 3-pointers at Chaifetz Arena.

• Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia, Pa.) is 15-8 overall and 5-5 in A-10 play. The Hawks fell 94-79 against Dayton in their last game on Tuesday, Feb. 6.
• The Hawks are among the top 3-point shooting teams in the country. They make 10.6 per game, which ranks sixth in the NCAA. Their 28.3 attempts per game is 15th nationally.
• Erik Reynolds II leads SJU with 17.4 ppg, which ranks fourth in the A-10. Reynolds' 75 3-pointers made leads the A-10 and is 11th nationally.
• Head coach Billy Lange is in his fifth season at Saint Joseph's with a 53-85 record. He is 184-219 in 14 seasons overall, which includes stops at Merchant Marine and Navy.

• Saint Louis leads the all-time series against the Hawks 17-4.
• The Billikens have won five in a row, including an 88-85 win earlier this year at Chaifetz Arena that saw the Bills rally from 20 points down, making it the largest comeback in a SLU win in Chaifetz Arena history.
• SLU is 8-2 all-time at Hagan Arena. In the last SLU-SJU game on Hawk Hill last season, Gibson Jimerson scored 22 points and Yuri Collins distributed 15 assists to just one turnover in an 83-78 Billiken.
• SJU's last win in the series came during the 2018-19 season, a 91-61 win at Hagan Arena.