GAME NOTES: The Lumberjacks of Stephen F. Austin and Governors of Austin Peay conclude their stay in Sin City with a matchup at Orleans Arena on Friday.

Both teams enter the fray with losing records, as the Lumberjacks are 2-3 while the Governors sit at 2-4.

Stephen F. Austin put the brakes on a three-game slide with a 73-61 win over Prairie View as part of this event on Thanksgiving. Next up, the Lumberjacks will head to Memphis to face the Tigers on Dec. 2 before returning home for five straight.

Austin Peay beat Brown on Thursday, 79-58, as it too stopped a three-game skid. The Governors will also play one more on the road, at Southern Illinois on Dec. 6, before embarking on a three-game homestand.

This is only the second meeting between these two schools in men's basketball, with the first going to Stephen F. Austin in a 93-54 rout back in 2008.

Jacob Parker scored 16 points and Thomas Walkup added 10 more to lead Stephen F. Austin to a 12-point win over Prairie View on Thursday. In all, a dozen players scored for the Lumberjacks, who made good on 42 percent of their total shots, missing 12 of their 16 3-point attempts along the way. A 27-of-38 showing at the free-throw line certainly helped matters, as did a 40-30 advantage on the glass. Both teams were rather reckless with the basketball, with PVAMU turning it over 22 times, and SFA 21.

Jacobs and Walkup are the team's only double-digit scorers on the season, netting 15.2 and 14.2 ppg, respectively. SFA is averaging just about the same number of points (67.8 ppg) as it allows (67.4 ppg), and the Lumberjacks are shooting just 41.2 percent from the floor, 30.5 percent from beyond the arc, while narrowly winning the battle on the boards (36.4 to 35.2 rpg). They are forcing nearly 17 turnovers per outing, but are guilty of just over 15 themselves.

Austin Peay used some nifty shooting to knock off Brown on Thursday, as the team made good on 53.2 percent of its field goal attempts, which included a 7- of-16 showing from 3-point range. Conversely, the Bears missed the mark on 15 of their 20 long-range launches, hitting 41.8 percent from the floor overall. Brown committed 21 turnovers while coming up with only 28 rebounds, compared to 40 for the Govs. Chris Freeman scored 20 points to pace APSU, while Ed Dyson added 18 on the strength of his 4-of-6 effort from 3-point range. Khalil Davis pitched in with 10 points, and Chris Horton grabbed a dozen rebounds.

Freeman (14.8 ppg, 5.3 rpg), Horton (12.3 ppg, 9.2 rpg) and Dyson (10.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg) are all averaging double digits for the Bears this season, as the team as a whole puts up 67.8 ppg while allowing 72.3 ppg. Brown is +1.5 in rebounding margin, and is nearly dead even in terms of turnovers.

This should be a pretty competitive game between two teams that don't possess many stars, but will put forth gritty efforts in the hopes of getting back in the win column. Expect the Govs to do just that as Jacobs and Walkup lead them once again.