Saturday, January 17
Statesboro, Ga.
3:00 p.m.
Davidson College
at
Georgia Southern
Wildcats Meet Georgia Southern Saturday
1/16/2009 11:41:03 AM | Men's Basketball
Davidson Wildcats (13-3, 6-0 SoCon) vs. Georgia Southern Eagles (5-8, 3-2 SoCon)
Date: Jan. 17, 2009Time: 3 p.m.
Site: Hanner Fieldhouse (4,358 capacity) - Statesboro, Ga.
Audio: John Kilgo calls the action on the Davidson Radio Network (1350 AM, 610 AM, 95.7 FM, online on Teamline)
Video: Televised live on SportsSouth with Tom Werme and Shaun Golden calling the action
Web sites: Davidson (www.DavidsonWildcats.com), Georgia Southern (www.georgiasoutherneagles.com)
Layup Line
• Davidson finishes a stretch where the 'Cats play five games in 10 days with a 3 p.m. contest at Georgia Southern Saturday.
• Four of those five games have been on the road.
• Davidson has won 36 straight Southern Conference regular-season games and 44 of its last 45, dating back to Feb. 25, 2006. The league record is 44 by West Virginia from 1956-60.
• Davidson has won 11 of its last 13 contests and is coming off an 83-68 home win over Elon Wednesday.
• The Wildcats are off to their best start since the 1995-96 campaign, when Davidson won 19 in a row to post a 25-3 mark before falling 69-60 to Western Carolina in the SoCon Championship. The 'Cats lost their last contest that season 100-79 at South Carolina in the NIT.
• Junior guard Stephen Curry needs 357 points to pass John Gerdy and become Davidson's all-time leading scorer.
• Head coach Bob McKillop, the SoCon's winningest coach, needs three league victories to reach 200 for his career.
• Georgia Southern has played its last three games on the road and is coming off a 72-63 victory at UNC?Greensboro Thursday.
• The Eagles are 3-1 at home this season, including 2-0 in league home contests with victories over Chattanooga and Samford.
Series History
• Davidson leads the all-time series 20-6 and has won the last three contests.
• The series began with an 84-64 Davidson victory Jan. 30, 1962.
• The Wildcats shot 72.7 percent in the second half, and Stephen Curry finished with 35 points in the last meeting, an 89-69 Davidson victory in Hanner Field House.
• The win capped a 20-0 SoCon season for the 'Cats, their third undefeated record in league play.
• Boris Meno posted 16 points and nine rebounds, and Jason Richards added 12 points and 12 assists.
• Dwayne Foreman led the Eagles with 15 points, and Julian Allen scored 12.
Leftovers From Elon Game
• Davidson has not trailed since being down by one point at the 17:50 mark of the game against The Citadel, an active stretch of 117 minutes, 50 seconds of action.
• Curry tied his single-half season high, matching the 23 points he scored in the second half vs. N.C. State.
• The Wildcats now boast a 200-58 record in the Belk Arena, a .775 winning percentage.
• It was the fifth sellout in Belk Arena this season and the sixth in the last eight contests, dating back to last year's home finale.
Claw Marks
• The Wildcats have 26 steals in their last three games.
• Davidson has held its opponents under 40 percent shooting in eight games this season.
• Stephen Curry has hit the 20-point mark in 60 career games, the 30-point mark in 23 outings and the 40-point plateau five times. He owns the school record for career games with 40 or more and trails all-time leading scorer John Gerdy in games with 30 or more (24).
• Davidson set a school record with 25 steals against Guilford Nov. 14. Curry and Max Paulhus Gosselin combined for 17.
• The 'Cats' victory over NC?State Dec. 6 was their first against an ACC?school since defeating North Carolina 58-54 in Chapel Hill Nov. 20, 2001.
• Davidson is now 1-2 all-time in Time Warner Cable Arena with the losses coming to North Carolina and Duke last season and a win against NC?State this season.
Clamoring to See the 'Cats
• Davidson has developed quite a following this season as shown by its attendance numbers, especially on the road.
• The Wildcats game against West Virginia in Madison Square Garden Dec. 9 drew 14,675 fans. In comparison, the Duke-Michigan game at MSG in the 2K Classic Championship drew 12,543, and the Purdue-Oklahoma game in the NIT?Season Tipoff final drew 3,670.
• The 'Cats' game at College of Charleston Dec. 29 had a capacity crowd of 5,368, the most in the Carolina First Arena, which is in its first season.
• Davidson and Appalachian State set a record for the Mountaineers' Holmes Center, when 8,350 turned out for the game Jan. 12. That crowd topped the mark set when Appalachian opened the building against North Carolina in 2000.
• A crowd of 5,336 turned out to see the Wildcats at The Citadel Jan. 10. It was the 10th-largest crowd to see a game at McAlister Field House and the first time the attendance was over 5,000 in two years.
• Davidson has sold out its own building five times this season, and its remaining contests are sold out.
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