GAME CENTRAL
Men's Basketball - MEAC Tournament
#5 Savannah State Tigers (14-14, 9-7 MEAC) vs. #12 Delaware State (7-24, 5-11 MEAC) 

GAME/TIME: Monday, March 7, 2016 – 5 p.m.  
LOCATION:  Norfolk, Va.  |  Norfolk Scope Arena
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Tiger Bites
· SSU and Delaware State will meet for the 5th time in the series with DSU leading 3-1. This will be the second consecutive year the Tigers and Hornets will meet in the first round of the MEAC tournament. Last season, DSU eliminated SSU from the tournament with a 64-58 win.

· SSU is 2-4 when playing in the MEAC Tournament since entering the conference in 2011-12. The Tigers have advanced twice (2012-13 and 2013-14), but has never  made it past the quarterfinal road. In 2011-12, SSU came in as the #1 seed, but loss to Hampton in the quarterfinal round.

· This will be the first time SSU has played at a neutral site this season. The Tigers have had an outstanding season when playing at home, finishing the regular season 12-2. However, playing away has been the exact opposite as SSU finished  the season 2-12 on the road.

WALK-ON TO STARTER
Senior forward Brian Pearson entered SSU as a Junior walk-on in 2014-15. Since, he has become a rebounding force and has earned a spot as a starter on the 2015-16 team. Pearson  leads the team in rebounding averaging 5.4 and is third in FG% at 45%.
 
GOOD COMPANY
Horace Broadnax is only one of three SSU coaches to have won at least 100 games. The other two are Theodore Wright and Russell Ellington. Wright and Ellington are in the SSU Athletic Hall of Fame
 
DIVERSE ROSTER
The SSU roster has players from seven different states (Georgia, California, Maryland, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Michigan) and two other countries (Senegal and England)

STARTING FIVE
The Tigers have started the same five for the past eight games. Since starting Khalen Pinkett, Chris Martin, Troyce Manassa, Lenjo Kilo and Brian Pearson, SSU has won seven of their last eight games. Martin and Manassa have started all 28 games for SSU.
 
G'TOWN CONNECTION
Horace Broadnax and Billy Martin, the father of SSU guard Chris Martin, were teammates at Georgetown.
 
50 PLUS
50 seems the be the magic number for the Tigers as SSU is 0-3 when scoring under 50 points. The Tigers are 14-11 when scoring over 50 and 11-4 when scoring over 60.
 
LONGEVITY
Horace Broadnax is in his 11th year as head coach of the Tigers,  trailing Theodore "Ted" Wright who was the Tigers head coach for 14 seasons.
 
1,000 POINT CLUB
Lenjo Kilo currently has  surpassed the 1,000 career points mark while at SSU. Kilo amassed 362 points while at Seton Hill College, 494 points at the University of the District of Columbia and 273 points so far at SSU. He currently has a career total of 1,129 points.
 
Savannah State 2015-16 Game Notes: Click Here
Savannah State 2015-16 Stats/Results: Click Here
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Standings/Stats: Click Here
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Delaware State University
Delaware State University Game Notes: Click Here
Delaware State University 2015-16 Stats: Click Here
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