CHICAGO – The UIC men's basketball team will play it's first of two consecutive road games Saturday, as it will travel to Murray, Ky. to take on Murray State. Saturday afternoon's tip-off from the CFSB Center is slated for 3:00 p.m. CT.
 
MATCHUP BREAKDOWN

• Saturday's matchup will be just the third-ever meeting between the two sides, with each claiming a lone victory. The first two meetings took place in the same calendar year, one in February and one in November of the next season.
• The Racers enter Saturday's contest as losers of their last two games, but still sitting in seventh place in the Missouri Valley standings.
• Murray State boasts an impressive 67-58 win over Bradley at the CFSB Center, but also lost to Drake 82-64 on Jan. 7.
• Crashing the glass is a focus for the Racers, who rank fourth in the conference in offensive rebounding as a team, and rank third in team defensive rebounding.

 
MILESTONES

• Graduate student Tre Anderson tallied four assists in UIC's Jan. 7 defeat at Indiana State, bringing his career total to an even 200.
• Toby Okani snagged five rebounds in the Flames' Jan. 10 overtime loss to Drake, with the second of those rebounds being his 300th career board.

 
TRYING THE TRIPLE

• In games this season that the Flames shoot better than 35 percent from behind the arc, UIC has a 4-2 record, conversely owning a 5-7 record when falling below the 35 percent mark.
• The Flames rank 93rd in NCAA Division I in three-point attempts per game with 23.9.
• Jace Carter has attempted the most three pointers on UIC's roster this season, netting 27 of his 102 tries behind the arc.

 
TV NOTES

• As the Missouri Valley Conference selected Wildcard match-up, Saturday's game will be broadcast on Bally Sports Midwest, Bally Sports Indiana, Bally Sports Kansas City, Bally Sports Southeast, and NBC Sports Chicago.
• The game will also be broadcast on ESPN+ for those not in the footprint of any of the networks listed above.
• The Bally Sports Midwest-Indiana-Kansas City-South footprint states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Tennessee will be blacked out on ESPN+, but the game will stream on the Bally Sports app and BallySports.com in Bally Sports Midwest, Indiana, Kansas City and South footprints.

 
The Flames Network will carry an audio stream of Saturday's game live from the CFSB Center, with the Voice of the Flames Jonathan Hood calling all of the play-by-play action, joined by former Flame Kenny Williams serving as the color analyst. You can find that stream here, or via the blue button at the top of this release, as well as on the men's basketball schedule page.