Men's Basketball | 11/19/2024 3:53:00 PM

The unbeaten Cloud County Community College men's basketball team will host Seward County Community College on Wednesday, November 20 in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference opener for both schools. The contest from Arley Bryant Gymnasium will tip at 8 pm and will be streamed live on the T-Bird Sports Network or can be heard on NCK 94.9.

The T-Birds enter the game a perfect 6-0 under first year head coach, Kyle Pugh. Cloud County opened the season with an 82-64 road loss to nationally-ranked Indian Hills Community College on November 1, but learned this week that Indian Hills has forfeited the game due to an ineligible player.

Cloud County is coming off a 73-63 win over North Platte Community College in North Platte, Nebraska on November 16.

Seward County (1-4) earned its first win of the season on November 17 with an 86-77 victory at Lamar Community College in Lamar, Colorado.

Cloud County has won three of its last four Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference openers, including an 82-57 home win over Seward County on November 18, 2023.

This will be the seventh meeting between Cloud County and Seward County this decade with the T-Birds having a 5-2 advantage, including a 3-0 mark in Arley Bryant Gymnasium.

Cloud County enters Wednesday's matchup averaging 83.0 points per game with a plus-19.0 scoring margin. The T-Birds pull down 43.5 rebounds per outing with a plus-6.8 rebound margin. Cloud County is second in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference in made three-pointers with 59 and is fourth in the conference in three-point percentage at 36.2 percent. Cloud County also averages 14.3 assists, 9.2 steals and 4.3 blocked shots per contest.

Redshirt freshman guard Keyon Garrett-Miller is averaging 12.8 points per game to lead the T-Birds in scoring. Garrett-Miller also leads Cloud County with 22 assists.

Freshman Elidjah Savane is second on the team in scoring at 11.8 points per game. The 6-foot-8 forward from Nanterre, France posted 24 points on 11-of-17 shooting and 13 rebounds, including eight on the offensive glass, for his first career double-double in the team's win at North Platte.

Redshirt freshman Matthew Garber is coming off a season-high 18 points against North Platte. Garber connected on four made three-pointers in the win. He currently leads the T-Birds with 16 three-pointers on the year and is averaging 11.3 points and 6.2 rebounds for the season.

Freshman guard Syncere Burnette averages 10.2 points per contest and is tied with Garrett-Miller for the team lead in assists with 22. Freshman guard Kuel Akot is averaging 8.7 points and 3.2 rebounds for the season. Freshman forward Vuk Zarubica averages 5.8 points and a team-high 7.2 rebounds per game.