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HBU Huskies (5-8, 1-1 SLC) at Nicholls Colonels (9-7, 2-1 SLC)
Saturday, Jan. 12 – 3:30 p.m.
Stopher Gym – Thibodaux, Louisiana

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THIBODAUX, La. – HBU men's basketball team takes aim at Nicholls on Saturday afternoon inside Stopher Gym after opening Southland Conference play after splitting a pair of overtime contests. Husky fans can listen to every second of the action via the Husky Sports Network broadcast with Lonnie King, available at HBUHuskies.com.
 
Parity has been the name of the game early in the SLC schedule with just one team managing to win its first two games and just one winless team in conference play through the first three dates of games. The Huskies (5-8, 1-1 SLC) find themselves right in the middle of the league standings.
 
After downing Lamar in overtime at home to open the SLC slate the Huskies then fell in extra time at New Orleans last Saturday. HBU overcame a 15-point halftime deficit to send the game to overtime but the Privateers were able to pull away during the extra five. Sophomore Ian DuBose earned the first SLC Player of the Week honor of his career after averaging 27.5 points, eight rebounds and four assists in the Huskies' two games, including a career-high 33 in the win over Lamar.
 
Senior Edward Hardt now leads the team in rebounding with 6.1 rebounds per game after grabbing a career-best 14 at New Orleans, which is good for ninth in the conference. HBU has three of the top-13 rebounders in the league with Philip McKenzie (5.9 rpg) and DuBose (5.8 rpg) joining Hardt. McKenzie moved into the top-10 nationally on the offensive boards, pulling down 3.77 offensive rebounds per game to rank 10th.
 
Nicholls (9-7, 2-1 SLC) utilizes the three-pointer more than any other team in the league with shots from behind the arc accounting for 45 percent of the Colonels' field goal attempts this season. Their 455 three-point attempts is the 20^th most in the country this season. So far this year the Colonels have attempted at least 21 treys in every game, topping out with 45 attempts from deep at Washington State.
 
Graduate transfer Jeremiah Jefferson leads Nicholls with 16.4 points per game, good for third in the conference. The Colonels also boast the top free throw shooter in the nation in graduate transfer Gavin Peppers, who is 46-of-48 (95.8 percent) from the charity stripe this season and averaging 13.5 ppg.
 
HBU is 13-13 all-time against Nicholls with the Colonels winning both meetings last season after the Huskies had won the previous two.
 
The Huskies will wrap up their longest road swing of the season on Wednesday, Jan. 16, in Abilene, Texas with a 7:00 p.m. tip-off against Abilene Christian.