The Kentucky State Men's Basketball team travels to Jackson, Tenn. Thursday to take on Lane College at 8:30 p.m. EST at the JF Lane Gymnasium.

Kentucky State (9-15, 6-11 SIAC) comes off its most recent loss to Miles College Monday night. Senior Jordan Little (Jersey City,N.J.) led the Thorobreds' effort with a team-high 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting. Sophomore Aaron Howard (Ypsilanti, Mich.) added eight points and graduate Shaq Athie (Cincinnati, Ohio) collected a team-high nine rebounds. This was Little's 17th time scoring double digits this season and Athie has now pulled down at least nine rebounds in ten games this year.

Kentucky State has four players averaging over nine points a game. Little leads the team in scoring with 15.3 points per game – good for thirteenth in the SIAC - while also pulling down 8.2 rebounds per game. Senior Grant Goode (Matawan, N.J.) is second on the team in scoring, averaging 11.5 points per game. Athie is third on the team in scoring with 10.3 points and leads the team with 8.5 rebounds per game (good for third in the SIAC). Athie also leads the team with 59 assists and 35 steals. Junior Kevin Wharton-Price (Pittsburgh, Pa.) is averaging 9.5 points per game and leads the team with 58 shots made from behind the arc. 

Kentucky State leads the SIAC in defensive rebounds and ranks second in three-point field goal percent defense, rebounding offense and blocked shots.

Lane College (10-15, 6-11 SIAC) enters the contest coming off its 86-65 loss against Tuskegee University Monday. Lane, which ranks last in the SIAC field goal percentage (39.2 percent), is led by Tyler Henry who averages 16.4 points per game. Daniel Hill is the Dragons' only-other double digit scorer averaging 10.5 points per contest.

Lane also ranks last in the SIAC in assists (10.5 apg), blocked shots (0.9 bpg) and assists-to-turnover ratio (0.7).

Kentucky State is 10-9 against Lane College dating back to 2010, including an 85-73 win in January behind Wharton-Price's 23 points and supplemental double-digit outings from Goode (19), Orlando Fikes (14) and Athie (10).

Written by Jay Poullard