Game 30 | Southeastern (18-11, 12-6 SLC) at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (17-13, 10-8 SLC)
March 1, 2025 | 4:30 p.m. | American Bank Center (8,000) | Corpus Christi, Texas
Series History: TAMUCC leads, 17-10
Last Meeting: TAMUCC 80, SLU 71 (Jan. 4, 2025 – Hammond, La.)
Television: ESPN+
Radio: None
 
Game 31 | Southeastern (18-11, 12-6 SLC) at Texas-Rio Grande Valley (14-15, 6-12 SLC)
March 3, 2025 | 6:30 p.m. | UTRGV Fieldhouse (2,700) | Edinburg, Texas
Series History: SLU leads, 5-3
Last Meeting: SLU 79, UTRGV 75 (Jan. 6, 2025 – Hammond, La.)
Television: ESPN+
Radio: None

HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana University men's basketball team heads out on the road for the final two games of its 2024-25 regular season, looking to earn at least a single bye and potentially a double bye in the upcoming Southland Conference Basketball Championships, as it takes on Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Texas-Rio Grande Valley to wrap up the season.
 
Saturday's game between the Lions (18-11, 12-6 SLC) and Islanders (17-13, 10-8 SLC) is set for 4:30 p.m. in the American Bank Center while Monday's game against the Vaqueros (14-15, 6-12 SLC) will tip off at 6:30 p.m. at the UTRGV Fieldhouse. Both games will be televised on ESPN+ with live stats also available through the host institutions. A radio broadcast will not be available for either contest.
 
Southeastern can wrap up a single bye to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Southland Conference Basketball Championships with one win in its last two contests while the Lions can still clinch the tournament's two-seed and a double bye all the way to the semifinal round with a couple wins and some assistance from outside. Lamar (18-11, 13-5 SLC), who SLU defeated in their lone meeting this season, is currently a game up on the Lions to get the two-seed and hosts McNeese (23-6, 17-1 SLC) and Nicholls (18-11, 12-6 SLC). The Colonels, who are also battling Lamar and SLU for the two-seed, play at a desperate Stephen F. Austin squad, (14-15, 7-11 SLC), who is trying to get into the SLC Tournament field, before going to Lamar to end its regular season.
 
The Lions enter the final week of the regular season looking to get back on the right footing after suffering a tough 72-69 defeat to Northwestern State in the regular season home finale on Monday night. Sam Hines, Jr. led the way for Southeastern on Monday with 22 points, six rebounds, two steals, and a block. Brody Rowbury tied his career high with 20 points against the Demons while grabbing six rebounds, giving out a pair of assists, blocked a shot, and came up with a steal. Jeremy Elyzee added 16 points, five rebounds, a season high four steals, an assist, and a blocked shot against NSU.
 
Hines, Jr. continues to be the all-purpose threat for SLU, as he has all season, averaging 16.7 points per game on 49.7 percent shooting and 38.5 percent from three-point range. He also grabs a team-best 6.2 rebounds a game while adding 1.9 assists, 1.0 steals, and 0.6 blocks per game.
 
Jakevion Buckley will look to rebound after a tough night against the Demons. He's averaging 14.7 points per game on 47.6 percent shooting while leading the Lions in assists, 4.2, and steals, 1.9, per game average.
 
After scoring 16 against Northwestern State on Monday, Elyzee is on his longest run of double-figure scoring of the season, having scored at least 10 points in all of the last five contests. That's bumped his scoring average up to 10.5 points per game while hitting 50.2 percent of his shot attempts on the year. He also secures 4.9 rebounds a game while leading the Lions in blocks, rejecting 0.7 opposing shots per contest.
 
Following his 20-point performance on Monday, Rowbury is now averaging 8.3 points and 5.6 rebounds a contest. He has the team's best shooting percentage, hitting 53.4 percent of all shots he's taken this season, including 42.9 percent on three-point field goal attempts, and is a 78.9 percent free throw shooter.
 
Kam Burton remains SLU's top deep threat, having hit a team-best 46 three-point field goals this season. He's a 38.6 percent shooter for the year while hitting 34.8 percent from beyond the arc this season. Carlos Paez has the highest three-point shooting percentage on the team this season, hitting 33 shots from long distance while hitting at a 44.6 percent clip from deep.
 
The Lions score 73.3 points per game on the season while hitting 45.2 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from three-point range on the season. SLU's opponents average 69.5 points per game and hit 43.3 percent from the field and 32.5 percent from beyond the three-point arc on the season.
 
On Saturday, SLU will be looking to earn a season split in the series with the Islanders after Texas A&M-Corpus Christi knocked off the Lions 80-71 back on Jan. 4. That was the final defeat in an 0-3 start to SLC play for Southeastern. Since then, the Lions have won 12 of their last 15 contests.
 
After a 6-1 start to conference play, A&M-Corpus Christi has dropped seven of its last 11 contests, including four of its last six and two-straight. In its last contest, the Islanders held a 14-point first half lead at Nicholls, only to see the Colonels storm back during the second half and take a 71-69 decision from TAMUCC Monday Night at David R. Stopher Gymnasium.
 
Garry Clark led the way for the Islanders against the Colonels, scoring 17 points with seven rebounds and a block. Dian Wright-Forde finished with 12 points, three rebounds, and an assist off the bench. Stephen Giwa and Jaden Walker both scored 11 points with Giwa adding seven rebounds, two assists, and a block while Walker had three rebounds, three assists, a steal, and a block.
 
Clark is TAMUCC's leading scorer, averaging 14.7 points per game on 54.8 percent shooting and 30.4 percent from three-point range. He's also the team's leading rebounder, averaging 7.7 per game, and shot blocker, one of four Islanders with 13 blocks on the season.
 
Isaac Williams, who came off the bench in return from injury to score 23 points in the first meeting with SLU, has missed the last four games. He's averaging 10.8 points per game on 44.1 percent shooting while leading the team in assists with 3.7 dimes per contest. He also grabs 3.2 rebounds per contest.
 
Owen Dease scores 9.7 points per game while hitting 45.1 percent from the field and 38.8 percent from three-point range, having hit 31 three-pointers on the season. He grabs 4.3 rebounds a game and has 10 blocked shots on the year.
 
Jordan Roberts scores 8.9 points per game on 42.7 percent shooting and has a team-best 38 made three-point field goals on the year, hitting at a 36.9 percent clip from beyond the arc. He secures 1.1 rebounds a game and also has 10 blocked shots on the year.
 
Giwa, Walker, and Shilo Jackson all have 13 blocked shots with Clark to aid the interior defense while Damarion Dennis has 12 blocks on the season.
 
The Islanders average 76.3 points per game on 48.6 percent shooting and 33.9 percent from three-point range on the season. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi allows 68.7 points per game while their opponents connect on 42.5 percent from the field and 33.7 percent from long distance this year.
 
Southeastern will be looking to finish a season sweep of the Vaqueros on Monday night after the Lions knocked off UTRGV 79-75 back on Jan. 6, a victory which started SLU on a six-game win streak.
 
The Vaqueros enter their game Saturday against New Orleans looking to end a three-game losing streak and skid of six losses out of their last seven contests. In its last time out, UTRGV trailed McNeese by just nine at the break but was outscored 57-31 in the second half as the Cowboys pulled away for a 100-65 win in the Legacy Center on Monday night.
 
Howie Fleming, Jr. led UTRGV Monday night at McNeese with 18 points while also grabbing four rebounds and getting a steal. D.K. Thorn finished with 15 points, hitting three three-pointers, to go with a team-high seven rebounds, four steals, and three assists. Trey Miller added 11 points and three rebounds. K.T. Raimey came off the bench to also score 11 points, while also connecting on three three-point field goals, in the loss to the Cowboys with a rebound and an assist.
 
UTRGV's leading scorer and rebounder is Hasan Abdul Hakim, who hasn't played since UTRGV's home win over East Texas A&M on Jan. 13. He was averaging 13.3 points and 6.8 rebounds while shooting 48 percent from the field and 32.7 percent from three-point range on the season.
 
Thorn is the top active scorer for the Vaqueros, averaging 12 points per game on 40.9 percent shooting and 33.5 percent from three-point range, having hit 56 shots from beyond the arc on the season. His 1.5 assists per game also leads the team this season.
 
Fleming, Jr. puts in 11.9 points per game while hitting 56.7 percent from the field and 41.6 percent from three-point range. He's the team's top active rebounder at 6.2 boards per game.
 
Cliff Davis has connected on 88 three-point field goals this season on his way to averaging 11.6 points and 4.5 rebounds per contest. He hits 37.1 percent from the field and 36.4 percent from long range.
 
Miller scores 10.2 points per game while connecting on 46.4 percent from the field and 25 percent with 15 makes from long range. He's the team leader in assists with 4.3 per game this year.
 
Raimey averages 9.9 points and 2.3 rebounds while hitting 38.6 percent from the field and 28.7 percent from three-point range with 48 made shots from distance.
 
Kwo Agwa, the East Texas A&M transfer, averages 6.0 points and 4.2 rebounds a game while hitting 56.2 percent from the field. He leads the team in blocked shots, having rejected 31 opposing shots on the year.
 
UTRGV scores 76.3 points per game while hitting 44.2 percent of all shots and 32.3 percent from three-point range this year. The Vaqueros allow their opponents to score 73.8 points per game while hitting 43.7 percent from the field and 32.7 percent from three-point distance.
 
Once this weekend's action concludes, the Lions, who have already clinched a spot in the 2025 Southland Conference Basketball Championships, will know their seed and schedule for the run to a conference championship. The 2025 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Championship Tournament will be held March 9-12 in Lake Charles, La. at McNeese's Legacy Center.
 
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