HARROGATE, Tenn. – The Lincoln Memorial men's basketball team will try to push its winning streak to four on Saturday afternoon when the Railsplitters welcome the struggling Coker Cobras to Tex Turner Arena for a South Atlantic Conference showdown. 
 
Tip-off between Lincoln Memorial (4-2, 1-0 SAC) and Coker (2-4, 0-1 SAC) is set for 4 p.m. Live stats, video and audio links are available at www.lmurailsplitters.com, while fans can also follow along with live updates on the official LMU athletics Twitter page, @LMURailsplitter. 
 
Notes on Coker 
 
- The Cobras have had an up-and-down start to the 2018-19 season. Coker was destroyed by Barton 98-61 in the season opener and followed that up with a 19-point home loss to Belmont Abbey and a 25-point loss at Limestone. The Cobras picked up their first win against 1-6 Southern Wesleyan last Tuesday before falling at Wingate in its SAC opener 77-68. 
- Coker will by playing its third game in four days on Saturday as the Cobras faced Limestone in nonconference action on Thursday. The Cobras pulled out an 83-79 win to avenge their loss against the Saints earlier in the season.   
- Coker has the worst offense in the SAC, ranking last in the league in points per game with 69.7, field goal percentage at 42.0 percent and three-point percentage at 26.7. 
- To make matters worse, Coker is allowing 82 points per game on 46.5 percent shooting, numbers that rank second-to-last in the SAC. Opponents are also hitting 39 percent of their three-point tries against the Cobra defense. 
- Senior guard Khalil Halls leads Coker with 17.3 points per game, though he is shooting just shy of 45 percent from the field and 26.5 percent from three. Halls, a preseason All-SAC second team selection, has scored at least 20 points in back-to-back games.  
- Senior forward Larry Cooper is second on the team with 9.5 points per game and leads the Cobras with 8.2 rebounds per contest, which ranks third in the league. He is shooting a team-best 66 percent from the field.  
- Other key contributors include Jaylan Robertson (8.8ppg, 3.3apg), Kon Anguik (6.8ppg, 3.5rpg) and Marquis Green (6.5ppg).  
- Coker leads the conference in blocks per game with 4.7. Junior AJ McQuaige paces the Cobras in that department with 10, which ranks second in the SAC. 
- In Wednesday's loss to Wingate, Coker led by as many as nine points in the first half but were outscored 46-37 in the second frame. The Cobras shot just 36 percent as a team. Halls led the way with 20 points on 7-of-20 shooting. 
- Anguik made four free throws in the final 30 seconds to send the Cobras past Limestone on Thursday. Coker shot 49 percent from the field and was led by Halls' 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting. 
- Coker commits the third-fewest fouls per game in the conference with 18.5. By contrast, Lincoln Memorial is eighth in the SAC with 21.0 fouls per game. 
 
Last Time Out 
 
The Railsplitters were sensational again on Wednesday night at Tex Turner Arena, opening SAC play by dismantling rival Carson-Newman 90-68. That victory also extended Lincoln Memorial's conference winning streak to 35 games – a streak that dates back to January 2017. 
 
The Railsplitters never trailed, opened on a 9-0 run and led by as many as 35 points to defeat the Eagles for the fifth straight time and improve to 106-102 in the all-time series. 
 
Lincoln Memorial was efficient offensively, shooting 47 percent for the game despite missing seven of its last eight shot attempts. However, a lockdown defensive effort keyed the win, as the Railsplitters held the Eagles, who entered the game ranked fifth nationally in field-goal percentage offense, to 34.5 percent shooting. 
 
Anthony Brown led the way with 18 points on 8-of-13 shooting to go along with eight assists, six rebounds, three steals and no turnovers. Cornelius Taylor added 18 points as well, while Alex Dahling went 5-for-9 from three to score 17 points. 
 
Taylor Closing in on Milestone 
 
After Wednesday night's 18-point effort, redshirt-junior Cornelius Taylor is now only 26 points away from reaching the 1,000-point mark for his career. He would be the 30th player in program history to hit that mark. 
 
Taylor has led Lincoln Memorial in scoring in four of its six games this season, including a 25-point outburst against USC Aiken, a 23-point showing at Christian Brothers and a 22-point effort versus Clayton State. The Claxton, Ga., native is fourth in the SAC in scoring with 18.8 points per game. 
 
Brown Balling 
 
Anthony Brown's tenure with Lincoln Memorial got off to a slow start, but the junior Indian River State College transfer has strung together some impressive performances of late. 
 
Against Virginia-Wise, Brown fell an assist shy of a triple-double with 13 points, 11 rebounds, nine assists and two steals. The game before that, he scored 14 points with five assists in the win over Paine. On Wednesday, Brown notched a season-high 18 points with eight assists. 
 
Brown leads the team with 23 assists total and is contributing 10.0 points per game while shooting 60.5 percent from the floor. 
 
Home Cooking 
 
The Railsplitters have been downright scary at Tex Turner Arena this season. 
 
Lincoln Memorial opened its home schedule with a 108-58 demolition of Paine in which they shot a season-high 52 percent and hit a season-best 18 three-pointers. The Railsplitters then posted their second-highest field-goal percentage (47.3) and second-most threes (13) of the season in Wednesday's win over Carson-Newman. 
 
LMU is scoring an average of 99.0 points per game at home on 50 percent shooting compared to 76.7 points per game on 41 percent shooting on the road. 
 
This isn't anything new, though. Since the start of the 2015-16 campaign, the Railsplitters are a combined 49-2 in Harrogate. LMU has not lost a regular-season home game since December 17, 2016.
 
Deadeye Dahling 
 
Sophomore sharpshooter Alex Dahling has reached double figures in back-to-back games, going a combined 11-for-21 from three-point territory over that span. Dahling has hit the seventh-most three-pointers in the SAC this season with 18 total. He is contributing 9.8 points per game on a 44 percent mark from deep. 
 
Series History 
 
- The Railsplitters have never lost against Coker, accumulating a perfect 10-0 record since the series began in 2013. 
- Only two of LMU's 10 wins over the Cobras have been decided by fewer than 11 points. Lincoln Memorial has won the past five meetings by 15, 46, 37, 41 and 49 points, respectively. 
- In last year's matchup at Tex Turner Arena, the Railsplitters shot 63 percent from the field and routed the Cobras 120-74. 
- LMU has never beaten Coker by less than eight points in Harrogate.