CHADRON, Neb. -- November 21, 2016 -- Two men's basketball teams hungry for a victory will match up at 6 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 22) when the Chadron State Eagles host Montana State-Billings in the Chicoine Center.

The teams are 6-6 in their all-time series.  They haven't played one another since early in the 2011-12 season.  

The Eagles went 0-2 while opening the current season last week.  They were edged 78-77 by the Bellevue Bruins on the road and fell to the hot-shooting Northern State Wolves 94-74 at home. 

Billings is 1-3 so far.  The Yellowjackets opened with a trip to California Nov. 11 and 12.  They lost 101-86 to Cal Baptist in Riverside before topping Holy Names College in Oakland 88-80.

Since returning home, the Yellowjackets have lost to the Rocky Mountain Bears, also located in Billings, 78-73 and were edged by Cal State East Bay 54-50.

Montana State's top scorer has been 6-foot-7 sophomore Preston Beverly, who is shooting 55.8 percent from the field while averaging 18.5 points. He's also averaging 7.5 rebounds.

Next on the scoring chart are 6-6 Christian Evans at 9.8 points a game and 6-2 Marc Matthews at 9.3.

Mathews tallied 30 of his 37 points in the victory over Holy Names.    

The Eagles have been streaky in their first two games.  They led Bellevue 40-29 with three minutes left in the first half, but were ahead by only 43-41 at halftime.  After the Bruins built a 68-55 cushion with 7 ½ minutes left in the second half, Chadron State cut the difference to a single point on Warren Gordon's seventh 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Northern State led by just 22-21 midway in the first half, but the Eagles missed their next seven field goal tries and had five turnovers before scoring again and trailed 44-29 at halftime.

Undaunted, the Eagles took a 51-50 lead just over five minutes into the second half, but the Wolves sank 13 of their 18 field goal shots the rest of the way en route to the victory.   

Northern shot 63 percent and Chadron State 48 from the field for the game.

Gordon has tallied 46 points in the two contests.  Jordan Perry is next on the scoring list with 26 and Darius Polley has 24.