Thursday, February 3 • Laredo • TAMIU Kinesiology & Convocation Building
St. Mary's (9-7, 6-1 LSC) at Texas A&M International (11-6, 3-3) • 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 5 • Kingsville • SPEC
St. Mary's at Texas A&M Kingsville (10-6, 1-4) • 4 p.m.
Opening Tip
• St. Mary's will continue its long stretch of five games in eight days as they play at Texas A&M International on Thursday and Texas A&M Kingsville on Saturday.
• Senior F Mamady Djikine is the only Rattler to have started all 16 games this season. Josh Brewer, Emmanuel Ewuzie and Caleb Jordan are the other three to have played in all 14.
• Junior Ryan Leonard has blocked at least one shot in each of the last seven games. He's now averaging 1.0 blocks per contest with 14 swats in 14 contests.
• The Rattlers have held the last four opponents below 30 percent from the arc.
• The Rattlers had two players score 20 or more points for the first time this season as Josh Brewer had 22 and Caleb Jordan 20 in the win over #20 West Texas A&M on Tuesday.
• Both games are rematches from earlier this season when the Rattlers dropped both by almost identical scores. The team lost to the Dust Devils 78-67 and the Javelinas 78-66 in consecutive games.
• Sophomore Tyler Caron leads the Lone Star Conference in league games in both field goal percentage (.603) and three-point field goal percentage (.517).
