Men's Basketball | 1/10/2025 5:15:00 PM

The Cloud County Community College men's basketball team will face No. 6 Cowley College in Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference play on Saturday, January 11 at Arley Bryant Gymnasium in Concordia, Kansas. The contest will begin at 4 pm and will be streamed live on the T-Bird Sports Network. The game can also be heard on NCK 94.9 with Austin McNorton calling the action.

Cloud County takes a four-game losing streak into Saturday's contest, which is the program's longest losing streak since dropping six in a row from January 22 through February 11, 2023. The T-Birds are coming off a 77-73 loss against Hutchinson, which took place at Arley Bryant Gymnasium on December 14. Cowley College will play its third game since the holiday break. The Tigers suffered a 70-62 road loss to Hutchinson on January 4, before bouncing back to beat Garden City, 87-73, on January 8.

Cowley College has won four of its last six meetings with Cloud County. Last season, Cloud County and Cowley College split the season series, with each team winning on its home court.

Cloud County enters Saturday's matchup averaging 79.1 points per game with a plus-5.6 scoring margin. The T-Birds pull down 38.1 rebounds per outing along with 12.9 assists and 7.7 steals per contest. Cloud County is third in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference in three-point percentage at 35.7 percent. The T-Birds also average 3.7 blocked shots per game.

Coming off his tenth straight double-digit scoring performance in the team's loss to Hutchinson, freshman forward Elidjah Savane leads Cloud County in scoring at 14.8 points per game on 58.5 percent shooting, which is seventh individually in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference. Savane's 116 total rebounds is the third most for a player in the conference this season. Savane also leads the T-Birds with 28 blocked shots, the fifth most in the conference.

Redshirt freshman Keyon Garrett-Miller leads Cloud County in assists per game at 2.9, and is second on the team in scoring at 14.4 points per game. Garrett-Miller has three straight games of 20 points or more, the longest streak for the T-Birds since Nate Duckworth posted 20 points or better in three consecutive games in 2021-2022. Garrett-Miller is shooting 50.0 percent from the field and 71.4 percent from the free-throw line.

Redshirt freshman Matthew Garber is fourth in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference in made three-pointers with 37. Garber is averaging 10.8 points and 6.2 rebounds for the season.

Freshman guard Kuel Akot averages 9.4 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists per contest. Freshman guard Syncere Burnette rounds out the T-Bird starters with 9.3 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.3 steals per game. Burnette is shooting 42.2 percent from the field and 45.8 percent from three-point range, which is the second best three-point field goal percentage in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference.

Other Cloud County regulars include sophomore Fallou Koite (5.2 ppg, 2.3 rpg), freshman Da'Ron Waller (3.8 ppg, 1.7 rpg), freshman Vuk Zarubica (3.2 ppg, 3.7 rpg), sophomore Roy Aviv (3.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg), freshman Amare Johnson (2.7 ppg, 52.6 percent FG), freshman Dejuan Graise (1.8 ppg), and freshman Takeo Moore (1.8 ppg, 1.8 rpg).

Up Next
Cloud County begins a two-game road trip with a makeup game at Garden City Community College on Monday, January 13 at 4 pm. The T-Birds then will head to El Dorado, Kansas to face No. 5 Butler Community College on Wednesday, January 15 at 7:30 pm.