EASTERN ILLINOIS (2-3) at Central Arkansas (1-4)
Tuesday, November 25  •  6:30 pm 
Conway, Ark.  •  Farris Center

GAME INFO
RADIO: Hit Mix 88.9 WEIU
TV: ESPN+
LIVE STATS: www.eiupanthers.com
SERIES RECORD: UCA leads 3-0
LAST MEETING: UCA 73, @EIU 70 on Dec. 10, 2023
NOTES: EIU Complete Notes

GAME 6
Eastern Illinois makes the first of two trips to the Little Rock area as the Panthers play on Tuesday night at Central Arkansas in the return game from the Bears December 2023 trip to Charleston.  EIU rebounded from two losses to Notre Dame and Kentucky to pick up a home win over Tiffin on Wednesday to improve to 2-3 on the season.  Central Arkansas lost at North Texas on Thursday night dropping to 1-4 on the season. The Bears host Eastern Washington on Sunday before the Panthers visit the Farris Center.   
 
JACOBI WITH DOUBLE FIGURE EFFORT
Kooper Jacobi led the Panthers in scoring for the second time this season as the graduate student finished with 16 points against Tiffin.  The previous week he produced his third career 20-point game with a 20 point night at Notre Dame.  In his two double figure scoring games this season Jacobi is shooting 50 percent from the field (15-of-30) compared to his single digit scoring games shooting 29.6 percent (8-for-27).  Jacobi pulled down nine rebounds against Tiffin falling just short of his 12th career double-double.  He fell just short of another double-double in EIU's early season win over Nicholls with nine points and nine rebounds.  

WHITE REACHES DOUBLE FIGURES FOR FIRST TIME
Junior college guard Meechie White averaged 13 points per game last season earning All-Region honors at Three Rivers College.  On Wednesday against Tiffin the junior broke through with his first double figure scoring game at Eastern Illinois finishing with 11 points going 5-of-7 from the floor.  White also dished out a season high four assists while finishing the game with four steals.  He has seven assists over his last two games while recording steals in four straight contests to move into seventh in the OVC in steals at 1.8 per game (nine total).

TWO-HEADED REBOUNDING MONSTER
Last season Kooper Jacobi led the Ohio Valley Conference in rebounding averaging 8.9 rebounds per game.  Jacobi was the main fixture in terms of rebounding on the Panthers 2024-25 squad with the next best player on the team at 4.3 rebounds per game.  Early this season EIU is getting good rebounding production from multiple players.  Jacobi has a pair of nine rebound contests and is averaging 6.0 rebounds per game.  Sophomore Terry McMorris has become the Panthers rebounding leader at 7.4 rebounds per game which ranks third in the OVC.  McMorris had 11 rebounds in each of the first two games of the season against Valparaiso and Nicholls and just missed his third double figure rebounding game with nine against Tiffin. 

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