LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The Bellarmine Knights continue on their ASUN Conference play on Tuesday evening when they host league newcomer Central Arkansas at 7 p.m. in Independence Hall.
Like Bellarmine, UCA is a previous Division II system, earning the transition to DI in 2006 when they joined the Southland Meeting. Acknowledged by numerous basketball enthusiasts as the alma mater of previous NBA good Scottie Pippen, the Bears are quickly building a name for on their own in the ASUN just after notching wins at EKU and at dwelling above Lipscomb. The early achievements was surprising by the league coaches, who voted UCA past in the preseason coaches poll.
Though the Bears return two of their best three scorers from very last year’s squad that went 5-19, Mentor Anthony Boone is receiving the most production from newcomers Darious Hall (13.3 pts/7.8 rebs/2.7 asts) and Camren Hunter (13. pts/4/4 rebs/2.7 asts). Corridor, a 6-7 guard/forward, started his collegiate vocation at Arkansas in 2017, taking part in in 35 online games for Razorbacks right before transferring and playing 32 online games at DePaul in 2019-20. Hunter, a 6-3 guard, is a correct freshman.
Collin Cooper and Eddy Kayouloud, UCA’s prime two returning scorers are the two contributing to the Bear’s offense once more this period, adding 10.2 and 8.4 details for each recreation respectively.

Also like Bellarmine, UCA performed a competitive nonconference program, likely 3-10 although squaring off from “energy 5” packages Baylor, Arkansas, and Texas A&M.
Tuesday’s match will come to a decision the early ASUN West Division chief as equally teams come in undefeated in league participate in. Bellarmine manufactured its meeting debut on Saturday with a 66-61 victory more than the Japanese Kentucky Colonels. Irrespective of enjoying brief-handed, the Knights ran out to 20-level 1st half direct then held off a relentless EKU group in the second 50 {4a5bba0ff4e6e71c77a43f702bcf67aaa905f098cd98a7212a705248916f19b8}.
Bellarmine’s CJ Fleming, Curt Hopf and Alec Pfriem all tied or set new occupation highs in scoring towards the Colonels, with Pfiem top all scorers with 23.
On the season, Dylan Penn stays the foremost scorer for the Knights with a 15.1 average, which also ranks amongst the major five in the ASUN. Penn also tops the Bellarmine aid charts with 81 on the year, and his 5.4 assists for each video game average is 2nd in the league.
Juston Betz carries on to the direct Bellarmine in rebounding. His 10 boards versus EKU lifted his annually ordinary to 6.6 for each sport to rank third in the ASUN.
