Aces and Gamecocks to play Monday evening
A 72-62 win at Green Bay on Saturday saw the University of Evansville men’s basketball team improve to 8-3 overall and 3-0 on the road.  The Purple Aces look to improve those statistics on Monday when they take on Jacksonville State at Pete Mathews Coliseum.  Game time is 7:30 p.m. with ESPN+ and the Purple Aces Radio Network on the call.
Setting the Scene
– Riding a 5-game win streak, the Aces face the Gamecocks on their home court in Jacksonville, Ala.
– The 5-game win streak is the longest in head coach Walter McCarty’s tenure
– Monday’s game will be the third for the program in the state of Alabama; the Aces have taken on South Alabama on two occasions, most recently in 1987
– UE and JSU met for the first time last season at the Ford Center with the Gamecocks earning a 55-50 win on Dec. 15
Last Time Out
– On Saturday, the Aces picked up a 72-62 win at Green Bay
– Evansville led by as many as 19 points in the game and never trailed
– DeAndre Williams posted his fourth double-double of the season, scoring 22 points and adding 12 rebounds; he was 7-8 from the floor
– John Hall scored 12 points while Noah Frederking added 11
– K.J. Riley had a season-high 10 rebounds
– UE’s defense held the Phoenix to 62 points – 18 under its season average
– The defense also held Green Bay to just 27.3% shooting; the second-lowest in Coach McCarty’s two seasons
 Win Streak
– As a team, the Aces have improved in several facets over the recent win streak; in the three losses, UE was outrebounded by 13.3 boards per game – the last five games – all wins – the Aces have outrebounded the opposition by 2.0 per game
– UE’s shooting has gone up – the Aces have shot 49.2% in the win streak while the three losses saw the team finish at 37.9%
– Evansville has shot 50% or better in the three of the last five, including 64.2% against the RedHawks – the top effort in the Coach McCarty era
Dialing up from downtown
– In the win over Western Illinois, the Aces connected on 15 3-pointers, the most for the team in a home game at the Ford Center; UE added 12 against Miami Ohio and 10 at Green Bay
– Under Coach McCarty, the Aces have hit 10 or more triples on 13 occasions
– Between the start of the 2009-10 season and the end of the 2017-18 campaign, the program hit 10+ triples just 11 times in 298 games
