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CHATTANOOGA, TENN. – The Citadel basketball team is poised for its third game in five days when it travels to league-leading Chattanooga on Monday. Tip off is slated for 7 p.m. ET on the SoCon Digital Network and Sports Radio 1450 AM.
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The Bulldogs are fresh off their 10th victory of the season as head coach
Duggar Baucom's squad ousted VMI 78-75 on Saturday at McAlister Field House.
Derrick Henry scored a game-high 21 points and collected five steals while
P.J. Boutte recorded a career-high 11 rebounds to go with eight points and four assists. The duo scored The Citadel's last six points to complete a comeback in the second half and help the Bulldogs improve to 5-5 at home.
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Chattanooga (18-3, 7-1) has won five consecutive games heading in to Monday night's clash. The Bulldogs went toe-to-toe with the Mocs in their Southern Conference opener at McAlister Field House, but Chattanooga prevailed with a late surge and won 84-78.
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After tomorrow's contest, The Citadel travels to Mercer on Saturday before hosting Samford on Feb. 8. For all the latest on The Citadel basketball, followÂ
@CitadelHoops and stay tuned to CitadelSports.com.
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NOTES• After Saturday's win,
Duggar Baucom needs just two wins to reach 200 total career victories as a head coach.
• The Dogs reached 10 wins on Saturday vs. VMI. The Citadel didn't reach that mark until late February last season.
• Junior
Warren Sledge has made a three-pointer in 20 consecutive games. He made just 20 total triples during his freshman and sophomore seasons combined.
• The Bulldogs are now 6-2 in games decided by five points or less this season, including 4-1 in contests decided by three points or less after the 78-75 win over VMI.
• Freshman
Quayson Williams is the only freshman in the SoCon to score 30 points in a game this season and the only player to hit seven three-pointers in a game twice during the 2015-16 campaign.
• Williams' 48 three-pointers are already the eighth-most treys made by a freshman in a season in program history .
• Freshman
Zane Najdawi ranks second in the SoCon in blocks per game with 1.7. Najdawi's 38 blocks this season are the third-most ever by a freshman at The Citadel. He needs nine more swats to set the freshman single-season block record.
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Derrick Henry has 852 career points. If the senior (who is averaging 16.8 PPG) scores 15 points per contest the rest of the season, he'll become the 32nd player in Bulldogs history to rack up 1,000 career points.
• Henry went 7-for-7 at the line to help beat VMI and has made 36-of-40 free throws over the last five games. Henry ranks fifth in the SoCon in free throw percentage (84.6 percent) and second in total made free throws (121). He has at least 79 more free throw attempts than all four players who rank above him in FT percentage.
• Henry has as many 20-point games this season (8) as the rest of the Bulldogs combined. He earned his 10th career 20-point performance vs. VMI.
• When 5-foot-9
P.J. Boutte has tracked down six rebounds or more, the Dogs are 4-0.
• Boutte has dished out 127 total assists through 22 games, which leads the SoCon. The 127 dimes already ranks eighth all-time in program history for assists in a season. If the 2015-16 campaign ended today, his 2.20 assist-to-turnover ratio would rank fourth all-time in school history for a single season. So far it's the highest assist-to-turnover ratio by a Bulldog since 2000-01.
• The Citadel is the only team in the nation that averages more than 87 points a game with a Division I-leading 89.6 PPG.
• When the Bulldogs have held a rebounding edge over an opponent, they are 6-0 this season.
• The Citadel is 276 points away from setting the school record for total points in a season and 25 three-pointers shy from the setting the school for total treys in a season with at least 10 games remaining.
• The Bulldogs are responsible for four of the top 10 single-game performances in the SoCon this season (Henry - 30 pts., 30 pts.; Williams 30 pts., 29 pts.). No other SoCon team is responsible for more than two.
• The Citadel ranks in the top six in the nation in steals per game and turnovers forced per game. The Bulldogs have won the turnover battle 15 times in 22 games this season.
• The Citadel is the only team in the SoCon to have forced more than 400 turnovers this season. WCU ranks second in the league with just 344 TOs forced. The Citadel leads the league in steals and turnover margin.
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Contact:
R.J. Layton; (843) 990-0330;
rlayton@citadel.edu