Men’s basketball

Saturday

Georgia Southern at Virginia Tech

2 p.m. at Cassell Coliseum

Records: Georgia Southern 3-5; Virginia Tech 8-1.

Internet: ESPN3.com

Last meeting: Tech won 76-41 at home on Jan. 15, 1997.

Va. Tech probable starters: F C.J. Barksdale (5.7 ppg), F Jarell Eddie (14.8 ppg), C Cadarian Raines (8 ppg), G Robert Brown (13.2 ppg), G Erick Green (24.4 ppg).

Georgia Southern probable starters: F Eric Ferguson (15.4 ppg), F Cameron Baskerville (3.6 ppg), G Cleon Roberts (9.1 ppg), G Tre Bussey (10.4 ppg), G C.J. Reed (9.8 ppg),

Notes: Tech is 5-0 against the Eagles. … This is Tech’s final home game of the month. … About 50 former Hokies who are visiting Tech for a men’s basketball alumni weekend will be recognized at halftime. … Raines is shooting just 47.4 percent from the field and only 64.3 percent from the free-throw line. He missed two key free throws at West Virginia and was 0-of-4 from the field in Monday’s win over Mississippi Valley State. … The Eagles have lost to Valparaiso, Charlotte, Maryland, Elon and Samford. They have beaten only one Division I foe, Kennesaw State