Men’s Basketball Closes Road Trip at Southern Miss

HOUSTON — Rice closes its road trip this Saturday, January 29, when it travels to Hattiesburg, Miss., to face Southern Miss. Tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m. CT and will be streamed by ESPN+.

Game 20
What: Rice at Southern Miss
When: Saturday, January 29 at 2 p.m. CT
Where: Hattiesburg, Miss.
Arena: Reed Green Coliseum (8,095)
Watch: ESPN+
Listen: RiceOwls.com
Live Stats: RiceOwls.com
Series Information: Rice leads 15-10 (Southern Miss leads 7-4 in Hattiesburg)

Scouting Rice
• Rice enters Saturday afternoon's contest with an 11-8 record. The Owls are 4-4 in Conference USA after falling at Louisiana Tech on Thursday, 80-63.
• Guard Carl Pierre leads the team and is seventh in the conference with 15.1 points per game while pulling down 4.5 rebounds per game. He leads C-USA in three-point field goal percentage (43.8%), is second in three-pointers made per game (3.2), and fourth in field goal percentage (47.8%).
• Guard Travis Evee is second on the team and tied for 10th in C-USA with 14.5 points per game while adding 3.4 rebounds per game and 2.9 assists per game. Evee is third in the league in both three-point field goal percentage (42.6%) and three-pointers made per game (2.7) and is connecting on 48.4% from the field.
• Sophomore Quincy Olivari is averaging 9.5 points per game and is second on the team with 5.2 rebounds per game.
• Guard Chris Mullins is scoring 9.3 points per game while placing third on the team with 2.5 assists per game.
• Forward Max Fiedler is averaging 8.6 points per game and is third in the conference with 8.1 rebounds per game. He leads the team in field goal percentage, connecting on 57.3% from the field and assists per game (3.2). He's also fifth in the conference with four double-doubles.
• Rice is averaging 75.8 points per game while allowing 74.0.
• The Owls are connecting on 45.4% from the field and 37.8% from three, which is second in the league. They are allowing 43.8% from the floor and 31.4% from beyond the arc, good for third in the conference.
• Rice is outrebounding the opposition, 37.1-to-35.2.
• Rice leads the league in assists with 15.7 while placing second in three-pointers per game with 9.7.
• Head coach Scott Pera is in his fifth season leading the Rice men's basketball program. He holds a record of 61-81.

Scouting Southern Miss
• Southern Miss enters Saturday afternoon's contest with a 6-13 record. The Golden Eagles are 1-5 in Conference USA and have dropped five of their last six games after falling to North Texas on Thursday, 63-54.
• Forward Tyler Stevenson is averaging 14.4 points per game while placing second in C-USA in rebounding, pulling down 8.1 boards. He's also second in field goal percentage (51.9%) and 10th in blocks (1.2).
• Forward Isaih Moore is second on the team with 11.5 points per game and 6.5 rebounds per game and is connecting on 56.8% from the field.
• Guard Jaron Pierre, Jr. and forward DeAndre Pinckney are averaging 8.8 and 8.1 points, respectively.
• Guard Walyn Napper is eighth in the league in assists with 3.8 per game.
• Southern Miss is averaging just 63.0 points per game and allowing 70.7.
• The Golden Eagles are connecting on 43.0% from the field and 31.2% from three. They are allowing 42.9% from the floor and 34.8% from beyond the arc.
• USM is being outrebounded by the opposition, 36.9-to-33.8.
• Head coach Jay Ladner is in his third season at the helm of the Southern Miss men's basketball program where he owns a 24-52 record. In eight seasons as a head coach, he is 99-140.

Rice-Southern Miss Series History
• Rice and Southern Miss will meet for the first of two times this year and the 26th time overall.
• Rice holds a 15-10 record in the series.
• The Owls have won the last four meetings and 11 of the last 13 dating back to 2015.
• However, the Golden Eagles hold a 7-4 record in Hattiesburg.
• Twenty-three of the 25 meetings have come as members of Conference USA.
• Last year, Rice swept the series, taking a pair of games in Houston before earning a 61-52 victory in the first round of the Conference USA Tournament.

Next Up
• Rice begins a four-game homestand next Thursday, Feb. 3 when it hosts UTSA. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. CT and it will be streamed by CUSAtv.

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