Men Aim for Season Sweep of Southeastern

Oklahoma Baptist – Men's Basketball Notes
Oklahoma Baptist (11-9, 10-4) vs. Southeastern Oklahoma (12-6, 8-6)

TEAMS

• Oklahoma Baptist is 11-9 overall and 10-4 GAC, alone in third place and one-game back of Southern Arkansas for second…The Bison are 3-4 on the road winning games at Southwestern Oklahoma (87-74), Harding (70-67) and Arkansas Tech (99-63).
   
• Southeastern Oklahoma 12-6 overall and 8-6 GAC, tied for fifth with Henderson State and Arkansas-Monticello…Southeastern is 8-1 at home with its only home blemish an 80-65 loss to Henderson State on Dec. 18…SOSU has won four straight at home.

 
COACHES
Oklahoma Baptist – Jason Eaker (Texas-Pan American) 11-9 (55.0%), first season
Southeastern Oklahoma – Kelly Green (Northwestern Oklahoma) 101-116 (46.5%), seventh season

SERIES

• Teams are meeting for the 154^th time since first beginning series in 1915…SOSU leads with an overall mark of 98-55.
• OBU was an 80-77 overtime winners at home on Nov. 29, 2018...Julian Daughtry had six of OBU's nine overtime points and Dishon Lowery added 18 points and 13 rebounds.

 
LAST OUTING

• OBU lost 83-71 at Henderson State Saturday in Arkadelphia, Ark…Antonio Wade had 17 points and six assists...OBU shot a season-low 21% from three-point (five-of-23).
• Southeastern lost 84-82 at Arkansas Tech Saturday in Russellville, Ark…Jett Jobe had a season-high 34 points, including a conference best 10 three-pointers in the game.

 
OBU KEY STATS

• OBU is first in the GAC in scoring averaging 81.7 point per game…The Bison have scored 90 or more points four times this year, winning three.
• Brantly Thompson and Tyler Lester were teammates of SOSU's Jett Jobe at Tuttle High School…The trio led Tuttle to a 24-4 record and a berth in the Class 4A semifinals in 2015.
• Mohammed Abubaker had his first back-to-back double figure scoring games…He is averaging 12.5 points and making nine-of-14 (64%) in his last two outings.
• OBU has led at the half in 16-of-20 games this year…Only four teams -- Nebraska-Kearney, Northeastern State, Rodgers State and Southern Nazarene – have come back on OBU.

 
SOSU KEY STATS

• Kevin Buckingham is SOSU's top scorer averaging better than 19 points per game…He has scored 30 or more points three times…His high output was 33 in a win at Harding.
• Southeastern ranks second in scoring margin at 10.1 points per game…They have a 33-point win over nationally-ranked Southern Nazarene and 43-point win over Ecclesia.