Trojans Face Oral Roberts Monday on ESPN3

Little Rock at Oral Roberts
Date	Monday, Dec. 19
Time	7 p.m.
Location	Tulsa, Okla.
Venue	The Mabee Center (10,575)
Stats	ORUAthletics.com
Audio	The Point 94.1 FM
Video	ESPN3
Notes	Little Rock | Oral Roberts

LITTLE ROCK – Little Rock will go for its seventh straight win when it takes on Oral Roberts on Monday night at The Mabee Center. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. and the game can be seen on ESPN3.
 
Little Rock boasts a 39-7 record (.848) since the start of the 2015-16 season. The only programs with better win percentages over the same span are reigning National Champion Villanova (.902) and Kansas (.875).
 
Little Rock's 14 true road wins since the start of the 2015-16 season are tied for third-most nationally. Only Monmouth (17) and UC Irvine (15) have more. The Trojans' road win percentage over the same span (.778) ranks sixth nationally, and first among schools having played more than 15 road games.
 
Including six neutral court wins over the same span, 20 of the Trojans' 39 wins since Nov. 2015 have come away from the Jack Stephens Center.
 
Oral Roberts is 2-10 on the season with wins over Rogers State and John Brown. Most recently, Oral Roberts dropped an 66-65 decision at Creighton on Saturday night.
 
The Golden Eagles are led by Albert Owens' 14.5 points per game. Kris Martin (14.2 ppg), Jalen Bradley (13.0 ppg) and Emmanuel Nzekwesi (10.5 ppg) all average double figures for an ORU offense scoring 70.2 ppg.
 
Oral Roberts is shooting 38.5 percent from 3-point range as a team, led by Martin's 47.1 percent clip this season.
 
Little Rock leads Oral Roberts 3-2 in the all-time series between the teams. In the two teams' last meeting (Dec. 2011), Damen Bell-Holter banked in a three-quarter length buzzer-beater as time expired to give the Golden Eagles a 68-65 win at the Jack Stephens Center.
 
Head coach Scott Sutton is in his 18th season as head coach.
 
Quick Hits
• Little Rock's win percentage of .848 (39-7) since the start of the 2015-16 season ranks third nationally and trails only Villanova (.902) and Kansas (.875).
• Head coach Wes Flanigan's 9-2 record through 11 games trails only Chris Beard's 10-1 start in 2015-16 for first-year Trojan head coaches.
• A win Monday would give the program its third start of 10-2 or better since moving to Division I ('78-79).
• All five Little Rock starters are averaging double figures in scoring – the 1989-90 season was the last time Little Rock had five double-figure scorers in a season.
• Little Rock's 14 true road wins since the start of the 2015-16 season are tied for third-most nationally.
• Marcus Johnson Jr. recently set a Jack Stephens Center record with nine made 3s in Little Rock's win over Central Arkansas on Dec. 10.
• Little Rock leads the Sun Belt in free throw percentage (.711) and ranks second in 3-point field goal percentage (.389).
• Last season, Little Rock won the Sun Belt Conference regular-season and tournament championships and beat Purdue in the NCAA Tournament first round.