Men's Basketball Welcomes Old Dominion to RGC for Home Finale

HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- The Southern Miss (14-14, 7-8 Sun Belt) men's basketball team takes on Old Dominion (10-18, 6-9 Sun Belt) Saturday afternoon in the home finale at Reed Green Coliseum. It will also be senior day for six Golden Eagles as they take on the Monarchs at 2 p.m.

Game 29: Southern Miss (14-14, 7-8 Sun Belt) vs. Old Dominion (10-18, 6-9 Sun Belt)
Saturday, February 21 at 2 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN+ | Radio: Southern Miss Radio Network
Reed Green Coliseum (8,095)

Fans can listen on the Southern Miss Radio Network, Southern Miss Game Day App, or their local Southern Miss Network affiliate to hear John Cox on the call. The game will air on ESPN+ with Lee Roberts (pxp) and Larry Boyd (color).

NEWS AND NOTES
- Tylik Weeks has moved into fourth all-time in single-season free throws with 165. He now trails Jeremy Wise, who is in third with 177 makes in the 2008-09 season
- Weeks scored 32 points against Troy on Feb. 14, with 30 of those points coming in the second half. He is the only Golden Eagle to score 30 points in a 20-minute half
-Djahi Binet was named the Sun Belt Player of the Week on Feb. 10 after averaging 24.0 points and 11.0 rebounds in games against Marshall and Kent State
- Southern Miss helped the Sun Belt to a 14-12 win in the MAC-SBC Challenge after beating Kent State, 66-65, on Feb. 7 at Reed Green Coliseum
- Binet became the first player in the Sun Belt this season to have a 30-point, 15-rebound game as he went for 31 points and 15 boards at Marshall on Feb. 4
- Southern Miss limited its turnover number to a season-low seven at Coastal Carolina on Jan. 24
- Southern Miss picked up two wins in its first Sun Belt road trip, which is its best start in league play on the road in over 10 seasons
- Southern Miss won its Sun Belt opener against Louisiana, 62-54, in a low-scoring affair. Israel Hart dropped a season-best 17 points in the win
- Weeks posted his first career double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds against Ole Miss — the rebound total was a career best
- Weeks was named the Sun Belt Player of the Week as he took home MVP honors at the Pensacola Invitational
- Outside of an 11-point deficit at the half against North Florida, Southern Miss dominated the Pensacola Invitational and took home its second MTE title under Jay Ladner
- Weeks scored 37 points in the win over North Florida, which was the 11th-most in program history and the second-most by any Sun Belt player since the 2022-23 season
- The 2025-26 season marks the 106th season of Southern Miss basketball and the 61st season inside Reed Green Coliseum
- Southern Miss was voted 12th in the preseason poll after finishing in 12th last season in the league standings

ABOUT THE OPPONENT
-Old Dominion is 10-18 and coming off an 83-72 win over Louisiana on Monday night. The win moved them to 6-9 in Sun Belt play and winners of three of the last four
- Ketron Shaw leads ODU in scoring at 17.0 points per game. Jordan Battle (14.0) and LJ Thomas (11.1) both average 10-plus points per game. On the glass, Caelum Swanton-Rodger leads the team in rebounding at 5.1 boards per game
- The Monarchs rank top-five in the Sun Belt in assist/TO ratio (1.22), defensive rebounds (26.0), scoring offense (74.8), three-point percentage defense (31.8), and turnovers per game (10.8)
- Battle scored 27 in ODU's win over Louisiana, going 7-for-10 from the field and 10-for-11 from the free throw line. Four other Monarchs also scored in double figures -- Ketron Shaw (16), Zach Wiggins (12), Swanton-Rodger (15), and Thomas (11)

SERIES HISTORY
- Southern Miss and Old Dominion are slated to meet for the 18th time in the series history
- Old Dominion is 13-4 against the Golden Eagles and 5-2 against Southern Miss in Hattiesburg
- Southern Miss last won in 2024, 78-73. Old Dominion has won three of the last five and two of the last three in Hattiesburg

Charity Stripe Livin'
- Southern Miss has made a living at the free-throw line this season, making at least 20 free throws in 10 games. The last time Southern Miss made at least 20 free throws in that many games was during the 2013-14 season, when it happened in 24 games
- A season-high 27 free throws were made in the win at Radford, while the Golden Eagles had 32 attempts in that game
- The 27 freebies were the most by a Jay Ladner-coached Southern Miss team. The top four of the Ladner era are all from this season

HOME SWEET REED GREEN
- Southern Miss is 44-12 at The Greenhouse since the start of the 2022-23 season
- Southern Miss moved to 69-12 in home openers dating back to the 1956-56 season when the Golden Eagles fell to Louisiana Tech
- The Golden Eagles are 7-0 in home openers under Jay Ladner, while six of those have been double-digit wins

ON THIS DAY
Date: February 21
- Southern Miss is 7-9 all-time on February 21. The Golden Eagles last played on this date in 2022 against Marshall, losing 74-60. The last Southern Miss came in 1998, an 88-60 whipping over Tulane at Reed Green Coliseum. In 1968, Berlin Ladner scored 45 points against Samford. To this day, Ladner's 45 points are the most in program history for single-game scoring

THE VETERAN OF THE COUNTRY
- Curt Lewis enters the season as one of the oldest players in Division I basketball. The Louisville, Ky., product was born on May 19, 1999
- Below is a list of the oldest players in the country

Ramel Bethea, Green Bay - July 27, 1996
Nginyu Ngala, Kansas - April 3, 1999
Curt Lewis, Southern Miss - May 19, 1999
Ibrahim Olajuwon, FIU - May 26, 1999
Hunter Erickson, Hawaii - September 14, 1999
Bouna Kebe, Delaware - December 24, 1999

LOADED NON-CON SLATE
- Southern Miss had a loaded non-conference slate that includes only five home games
- Notable stops on the road included South Carolina, Miami (Fla.), Radford, and LSU. The Golden Eagles also played Ole Miss at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum
- Other non-conference games were Buffalo, Tougaloo, Grambling (two times), William Carey, North Florida, UT Martin/Prairie View A&M, and Kent State

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