The Georgia Southern Eagles play the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament in Pensacola, Florida at the Pensacola Bay Center. Georgia Southern reached the quarterfinals of the conference tournament by defeating Louisiana-Monroe 68-57 on Thursday. Georgia Southern has won three straight. Louisiana reached the quarterfinals via a bye after finishing the regular season third in the conference. Louisiana was 23-7 overall and 13-5 in conference action, winning three of their final four. Georgia Southern and Louisiana do not have any players on their injury reports.
Georgia Southern held Louisiana-Monroe to only 57 points in its second round victory over the Warhawks and on the season allowed an average of 67.0 points per game. The Eagles held opponents to a field goal shooting percentage of 42.5% and a three-point shooting percentage of 32.8%. In Thursday's victory over Louisiana Monroe, Georgia Southern held the Warhawks to 33.0% shooting overall and 21.0% shooting from 3-point territory.
During the regular season, Georgia Southern averaged 69.1 points per game while shooting 44.0% overall and 31.5% from three point land. Andrei Savrasov is the leading scorer for Georgia Southern with an average of 14.2 points per game and shoots 50.0% overall and 35.6% from behind the line. Jalen Finch is the only other player for Georgia Southern ave raging double figures in scoring at 10.7 points per game but shoots only 44.7%. Finch is the leader in assists with an average of 3.7 dishes per contest. Savrasov is the leader in rebounds with an average of 7.4 boards per contest, while Finch is the leader in steals with 1.4 per game and Kamari Brown is the leader in blocked shots with an average of 0.8 per game.
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