Men’s Hoops Hits Road for Eastern Michigan

Game 20
Ball State (12-7, 3-3 MAC) at Eastern Michigan (12-7, 4-2 MAC)
Tuesday, Jan. 24 (9 p.m.)
Ypsilanti, Mich. (Convocation Center)
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Tuesday's game will also be broadcast by the American Sports Network and will air in Muncie tape-delayed at 11 p.m. on WHMB – channel 9 on Comcast and channel 40 on AT&T U-verse and DISH Network.

A Look at the Cardinals
• Ball State visits Eastern Michigan Tuesday for the first of two meetings between the MAC West Division foes. The teams will also meet Feb. 21 in Muncie.

• The Cardinals won both of last season's meetings in noteworthy fashion, defeating the Eagles in Ypsilanti 88-87 on a last-second 3-pointer from Francis Kiapway in double overtime and handing EMU a 115-79 defeat in Muncie behind a school-record 18 3-pointers.

• The Cardinals have won each of their past two visits to Ypsilanti in overtime. Two years ago, Sean Sellers' 3-pointer with 15 seconds left in OT lifted BSU to a 60-59 victory.

• Ball State is coming off a 79-74 loss at Bowling Green when the Cardinals were held below 40 percent shooting for only the third time this season. Behind 16 points from Ryan Weber and Tayler Persons, BSU cut a 15-point lead to one but could not take the lead, as it saw its three-game winning streak snapped.

• Eastern Michigan is tied for the MAC West Division lead with Northern Illinois, one game ahead of Ball State. The Eagles had a three-game winning streak of their own snapped last week with a 70-63 loss at MAC overall leader Akron. Willie Mangum IV leads EMU at 16.0 points per game.

• Saturday's game at Bowling Green snapped a string of three straight games in which Ball State scored at least 85 points. The Cardinals lead the MAC in scoring offense during conference play at 87.2 points per game.

• Ball State has placed 20 scorers in double figures over the past four games. During that stretch, six Cardinals are averaging double digits -- Tayler Persons (15.8), Franko House (13.0), Ryan Weber (12.3), Francis Kiapway (12.0), Jeremie Tyler (10.5) and Trey Moses (10.0).

Impressive Offensive Numbers
• Ball State is on pace to have its best offensive season in decades, statistically.
• The Cardinals' 79.3 points-per-game scoring average is on pace to be the highest since 1973-74 (84.4).
• The team's .467 field goal percentage is on pace to be the best since 1997-98 (.470).

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Players Mentioned

Franko House

Francis Kiapway

Trey Moses

Tayler Persons

Sean Sellers

Jeremie Tyler

Ryan Weber