Men's Basketball | 11/22/2024 12:07:00 PM

The Cloud County Community College men's basketball team will play at Dodge City Community College on Saturday, November 23. The contest from the Student Activity Center in Dodge City, Kansas will tip at 3 pm and will be streamed on ConqTV.

Cloud County is out to a 7-0 start for the second consecutive year. The T-Birds are coming off a 74-69 overtime win against Seward County Community College on November 20 in Concordia. Dodge City won its conference opener at Garden City, 92-76, on November 20. Dodge City has won six of its last eight matchups with Cloud County, but the T-Birds won the most recent meeting between the two schools, 60-49, on February 7, 2024 in Concordia.

Cloud County enters Saturday's matchup averaging 81.7 points per game with a plus-16.7 scoring margin. The T-Birds pull down 42.6 rebounds per outing with a plus-5.9 rebound margin. Cloud County ranks third in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference in blocks per game at 4.6. Cloud County is tied for sixth in the conference in steals per game at 9.3. The T-Birds also average 14.6 assists per game and have a plus-3.5 turnover margin.

Redshirt freshman Keyon Garrett-Miller is averaging 13.3 points per game after scoring in double-figures in six of Cloud County's seven games this season. Garrett-Miller ranks inside the top ten in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference in assists per game at 3.6, highlighted by a seven assist performance at Western Iowa Tech on November 9.

Freshman forward Elidjah Savane has averaged 21.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game over the last two games. Savane is scoring 12.9 points per game this season, while he also ranks ninth in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference in rebounds at 6.9 rebounds per game, and sixth in the conference in blocked shots at 1.7 per game.

Redshirt freshman Matthew Garber is averaging 11.7 points per game after scoring in double-digits in each of the team's last three contests. Garber ranks second in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference in made three-pointers with 20 on the season. Garber has ten made three-pointers in his last three games. The guard from Sabetha, Kansas also leads the team at 7.0 rebounds per game, which ranks eighth overall in the conference.

Freshman guard Syncere Burnette is averaging 10.3 points per game on 40.7 percent shooting, including 43.3 percent from behind the arc. Burnette is also averaging 4.0 rebounds per game and 3.4 assists per game, which is 12th best in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference.

Other T-Bird regulars include freshman guard Kuel Akot (8.1 ppg, 3.0 rpg), freshman forward Vuk Zarubica (5.0 ppg, 6.4 rpg), sophomore guard Fallou Koite (5.0 ppg, 2.1 rpg), sophomore guard Roy Aviv (3.0 ppg, 2.7 rpg), freshman forward Takeo Moore (3.0 ppg, 2.4 rpg), and freshman guard Dejuan Graise (1.9 ppg).