Tarleton State (17-0, 6-0) vs. A&M-Commerce (13-5, 2-5)
Date & Tip-off	Saturday, Feb. 1 | 7 p.m. CT
LOCATION	Stephenville, Texas | Wisdom Gym
RADIO	KSTV FM 93.1 in Stephenville (Listen Live)
WEBCAST	TarletonSports.com
Live Stats	TarletonSports.com
GAME INFO	Game Notes (PDF)

 
THE GAME
The No. 4 Tarleton State Texans (17-0, 6-0 LSC) will be looking to make history this Saturday, Feb. 1, as the team hosts the A&M-Commerce Lions (13-5, 2-5 LSC) at Wisdom Gym with a tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m. A win over the Lions would give Tarleton its 18th straight win, which would be a program best in the senior college era.
 
Covering the Game
Tarleton State Basketball will be broadcast live on KSTV (93.1 FM) throughout the season. Casey Hogan will have the call with Mike Young joining him for color commentary on mosts of the broadcasts. The games can also be found online at www.kstvfm.com for Saturday's contest.
 
A live video feed will be available as well by logging onto TarletonSports.com and clicking the "Live Video" link at the top of the page. Live stats will be provided and can also be found online at TarletonSports.com.
 
Series Information
The Lions lead the all-time series 29-28, but Tarleton has won seven straight and with a win on Saturday the Texans would become a .500 team against A&M-Commerce. The Texans have won 10 of the previous 13 games as well, which includes a 5-1 mark inside Wisdom Gym.
 
The Lions are just 5-14 inside Wisdom Gym during the Lonn Reisman era, having won just twice in the last 10 games played in Stephenville. A&M-Commerce's lat win against the Texans on the road came back on Nov. 25, 2008, when the Lions downed the home team 85-67.
 
Last Time out for the Texans
Tarleton opened its contest against Eastern New Mexico with a 22-3 run and never looked back on the way to a 86-64 victory and the team's 17th straight win on the year. ENMU's offense struggled to just 3-of-25 shooting (.120) in the first 15 minutes of play and tallied a pair of scoring droughts that each lasted over seven minutes without a field goal.
 
De'Andre Upchurch paced the Texan offense with a game-high 23, while Chuck Guy logged his first career double-double with 14 points and a career-high 11 assists. Emmanuel Andrews poured in 13 points for the Texans off the bench and Tashawn Mabry tallied 10 points and a game-high seven rebounds.
 
The Texans shot 50 percent from the field in the first half and then bettered that mark with a 59.1 percent effort in the final 20 minutes of play. Tarleton was better than 50 percent from downtown for the third time this season as the team went 11-for-19 for a 57.9 percent effort from beyond the arc.
 
Scouting the Lions
A&M-Commerce is coming off a 93-84 win over West Texas A&M in Commerce last Saturday, which snapped a three-game slide the Lions had going into the contest.
 
The Lions opened the season with eight straight wins and winning 11 of its first 12 contests. With a 13-5 overall mark, the Lions are just 2-5 in conference play having picked up wins over the Buffs and A&M-Kingsville (68-66).
 
The Lions are below .500 on the road, with a mark of 3-4 and that includes an 0-3 record against LSC teams away from A&M-Commerce Fieldhouse.
 
The Lions are averaging the second-most points in the conference with 82.9 points per game, but are also giving up 77.7 points per game to opposing teams, which ranks seventh out of eight teams in the league. A&M-C ranks among the top half of teams in three-point percentage (.361) and free throw percentage (.733), but rank seventh in field goal percentage (.437) on the season.
 
LaDon Carnegie leads the Lion offense with 14.3 points per game and is second on the team with a 50.4 shooting percentage from the field. He ranks second on the team with 6.0 rebounds per game, while Christian Macauley's 7.4 boards per game tops the squad.
 
Kameron Price leads the team with 28 steals and 46 assists on the year. Macauley leads the Lions with 49 blocks and is the league leader in the same category with 2.7 blocked shots per game.
 
Texans in the NABC Poll
The Texans retained its No. 4 ranking in this week's NABC Top-25 Poll, giving Tarleton a top-five ranking for the second straight week.
 
The Texans have been ranked inside the NABC Top-25 for 78 different weeks since making its first-ever appearance in the poll back on Dec. 17, 2002. Including this week, Tarleton has been ranked inside the top 10 for 46 different weeks and has been a top five team 29 different weeks.
 
Countdown to 550
With every Texan victory, head coach Lonn Reisman keeps nearing the 550 career wins mark. Reisman, who is in his 26th season at Tarleton, now has 547 career wins heading into this Saturday's contest against the Lions. Reisman is now just three victories shy from earning his 550th career win. He would become just the 26th coach overall and ninth active NCAA Division II head coach to earn 550 wins. He would be the 83rd coach at both the D-1 and D-II levels to achieve the feat.
 
Reisman picked up victory No. 500 back on Jan. 21, 2012 when Tarleton defeated A&M-Commerce 78-53 in Stephenville.
 
Wild Streaks
The Texans are just one win away from recording the program's longest win streak since Tarleton became a senior college in 1961. The Texans have won a current school record 17 straight games twice since 1961 and the both have come under the direction of head coach Lonn Reisman. The last time a Texan team achieved that accomplishment came in 2011-12 when they won 17 straight games from Nov. 22, 2011 through Feb. 1, 2012. Tarleton's first 17-game winning streak came back in the 1990-91 season.
 
Home Sweet Home
The Texans are also just win away from tying the school's third longest home winning streak of 20 straight wins inside Wisdom Gym. The current 19-game winning streak, which dates back to Jan. 2, 2013, last season, is currently the fourth-longest home winning streak in school history.
 
Tarleton's longest home win streak was a 33-game win streak that began on Jan. 22, 2005 and ran through Jan. 27, 2007. The Texans are now 355-64 (.847) overall inside Wisdom Gym under head coach Lonn Reisman.
 
Carter earns second LSC weekly Honor
Junior forward Davene Carter earned his second LSC Player of the Week honor after registering the third double-double of his career this past week, pouring in 12 points and pulling down 12 rebounds in a road win over West Texas A&M. He was a key factor in Tarleton's defense holding opponents to just 43 percent shooting and averaging just 63.5 points per game.
 
Basketball Program Earns First-ever Winning Record
For the first time since becoming a senior college in 1961, the Tarleton Basketball team has a winning record. Tarleton's 76-52 win over Cameron earlier this season gave the Texans an all-time record of 725-724 - marking the first time the program has eclipsed the .500 mark. Heading into this weekend, the Texans are now 727-724 all-time in the senior college era. Tarleton had an overall record of just 180-498 before head coach Lonn Reisman took over, but behind Reisman's overall record of 546-226, the Texan's are finally a winning program.
 
Up next for the Texans
The Texans will close-out its three-game home swing against Midwestern State next Wednesday, Feb. 5. Tip-off between the Texans and Mustangs is set for 8 p.m. in Stephenville.