Game Notes

ELON, N.C. – The Elon men’s basketball team will look to take its winning ways on the road as visits the Pete Hanna Center and the Samford Bulldogs on Thursday, January 27. The Phoenix will be looking for the season sweep as it earned a 67-54 victory over the Bulldogs at Alumni Gym earlier this month. Tip is set for 8 p.m. (EST).

Site: Birmingham, Ala.
Arena: Pete Hanna Center
Radio: WPCM 920 AM — Taylor Durham (play-by-play) and Dick Stewart (color)
Live Statistics: elonphoenix.com
Video Streaming: samfordsports.com
Series: Samford leads, 4-1

FREE THROWS
• Elon has never won a game at Samford — the last time the Phoenix played in the Pete Hanna Center, Elon suffered a 55-31 defeat.
• The Phoenix has won its last two games, but dropped its last two road contests. Elon is 3-6 on the road this year.
• Elon is looking for its fifth SoCon win of the year, which would match its total from 2009-10.
• Elon is averaging 75.1 ppg — second most in the SoCon. Samford ranks last in scoring offense at 60.5 ppg — but the Bulldogs rank first in scoring defense at 64.4 ppg.
• Chris Long tied his career high with five steals against Georgia Southern and moved into eighth place at Elon with 136 career takeaways.
• Chris Long is averaging 8.0 apg over the last four games and is in second place on Elon’s career assist list with 447.
• Drew Spradlin is quickly climbing toward the 1,000-point plateau, now at 848 career points. He is averaging 19.1 ppg against SoCon opponents this year — fourth-best in the league.
• Freshman Lucas Troutman has had at least one block in nine of the last 10 games and leads the teams with 25 on the year.
• Drew Spradlin needs just two three-pointers to move into a tie for seventh all-time in school history. Spradlin has knocked down 126 career triples.

LAST TIME OUT
• Elon moved to 4-5 in league action with a dominating 84-62 victory over the visiting Georgia Southern Eagles.
• The win gave Elon its 10th victory of the season, one more than all of 2009-10.
• Drew Spradlin scored in double figures for the 15th time this season, netting 21 points.
• Rookie Lucas Troutman came off the bench for a career-high 17 points.
• The Phoenix racked up 10 steals on 24 Georgia Southern turnovers.

ELON VS. SAMFORD
• Elon got is first-ever victory over Samford on Jan. 8, scoring 67 points. In the previous four contests against the Bulldogs, Elon had averaged only 44.5 ppg. Samford was allowing only 62.7 ppg heading into the game.
• The Phoenix scored 38 first-half points while limiting the Bulldogs to 20 points.
• Elon limited Samford to 35.4% shooting — the Bulldogs were shooting 44.0% on the season.
• The loss at Elon started a stretch of five straight losses for the Bulldogs.