Salukis Welcome to Alcorn State’s nonconference game on Saturday

CARBONDALE, Ill. Southern Illinois basketball will look to end a two-game skid Saturday night when the Salukis host Alcorn State. Tipoff is set for 7pm from the Banterra Center. You can buy tickets by clicking HERE.

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The game will be available nationally on ESPN3, with Mike Trude (play-by-play) and Dominic Hoscher (analyst) calling the action.
The radio broadcast can be heard on the Saluki Radio Network with SIU Hall of Famer Mike Reis (play-by-play) and Rodney Watson (analyst).

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Marcus Domask (17 pages) and Lance Jones (11.6 ppg) leads the Salukis offense.
SIU’s 63 points per game is third in the MVC and 57th nationally.
The Salukis are holding opponents to just 26.7 percent from beyond the arc – leading the MVC and 18th nationally.
SIU’s 8.1 assists per game are third in the MVC and 87th nationally. Lance Jones leads the team with 2.2 assists per game and has recorded multiple assists in four of his last five games.
Marcus Domask moved into 17th place in SIU history with 262 assists. Domask ranks 10th in school history in 81 games with an average of 3.2 assists. He has multiple assists in all but one game this season.
Xavier Johnson set a career high in 3-pointers made at Evansville (4) before setting a new career high in his next game with six at SLU.
Clarence Rupert shooting 69.4 percent (25-36) – best of all Salukis over 10 attempts.
Southern is shooting 46 percent from the field, which ranks fourth in the MVC, while tied for eighth in the Valley at 32.9 percent from deep.
A win against Alcorn State would give the head coach Bryan Mullins his 50th career win. He would become the 10th coach in program history to reach 50 wins.

MATCH

This will be only the second time Southern Illinois and Alcorn State have met on the hardwood. The Salukis and Braves played in 2021 in Carbondale, with SIU coming out on top 62-59 after trailing by 24 points. Marcus Domask. The Salukis had to rally from a 17-point deficit and outscored ASU 40-23 in the second half. Lance Jones also joined Domask in double figures with 21 points.

Alcorn State enters Saturday’s contest 3-6 on the season after playing a tough nonconference slate with Ole Miss, Arizona State, Grand Canyon and most recently Tennessee. The Braves have knocked off Wichita State and Stephen F. Austin on the road while winning a nonpartisan contest against CSU Bakersfield in the Jim Forbes Classic in El Paso on Thanksgiving Day.

ASU is led by the duo of Byron Joshua and Dominic Brewton, who are both scoring in double figures at 11.6 and 11.4 points per game. As a team, the Braves are scoring 61 points per contest while shooting 37 percent from the field and 28 percent from beyond the arc.

JOHNSON EARNES NEW PERFORMANCE OF THE WEEK for MVC
Xavier Johnson The shooting lights went out for the Salukis this past week, converting on 13-of-16 shots in two games and finishing at 81.3, including 10-of-12 from beyond the arc. He averaged a team-high 18.5 points and four assists for SIU, while averaging 4.5 rebounds and two assists per game. The Germantown, Maryland native led the Salukis to their first MVC win on the road at Evansville with 14 points, four rebounds and two steals, hitting 5-of-6 shots from the floor and all four attempts from long range. Johnson scored a career-high 23 points on the road at Saint Louis after shooting 8-for-10 from the field and 6-for-8 from deep. His six assists and six three-pointers against the Billikens also set new career highs.

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