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LA GRANDE, Ore.. -- The No. 10 Eastern Oregon University men's basketball team welcomes the No. 23 Carroll College Saints and Walla Walla University for the 13th annual. The weekly notes are now available.

Games 2-3: No. 10 Eastern Oregon vs. No. 23 Carroll College and Walla Walla University
When: Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Where: La Grande, Ore., Quinn Coliseum (1,400)
Live Stats: EOUSports.com                    
Live Video: EOUSports.com
Live Radio: KUBQ 98.7 FM                   
Live Audio: EOUSports.com
Series: The Mountaineers have won 24 of the 26 all-time meetings.

GAME TIME
Tipoff on Friday and Saturday is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. There are live video and audio streams on EOUSports.com. Live radio will be available locally on KUBQ 98.7 FM. Live stats will be on EOUSports.com.

THE SERIES
* Carroll has won 12 of the 16 meetings all-time versus Eastern.
* The last meeting between the schools came last season in Helena. The Saints won 84-78.
* The last meeting in La Grande was on Nov. 12, 2005. Carroll won 77-67.
* Both Carroll and EOU were picked second in the respective conference preseason polls.
* EOU is 25-2 all-time versus Walla Walla University.
* The last Wolves' victory over Eastern Oregon was on Feb. 1, 2005, 73-67, in College Place.
* Walla Walla has never beat EOU in Quinn Coliseum.
* The Mountaineers are 6-0 against WWU under Isaac Williams.

QUICK HITS
• Isaac Williams reached 50 wins faster than any coach in EOU men's basketball history with the victory last weekend at Walla Walla.
• Williams is six wins away from fifth on the most wins by a coach list in EOU history.
• The Mountaineers' last season ended at the national tournament for the fourth straight season and had a fourth trip to the national round of 16.
• Eastern Oregon broke 17 school records, including most wins in school history.
• Eastern ended the year ranked No. 10.
• Eastern played in its first conference tournament title game in 2011.
• EOU student-athletes Jamar Johnson and Thomas McCarthy were named All-Cascade Collegiate Conference performers. JC Cook was named to the honorable mention list.
• Jared Heitzman and Josh Cottle, were named 2011 NAIA Div. 2 Scholar-Athletes.
• Eastern Oregon has had six consecutive winning seasons, and has appeared in 22 straight national Top 25 polls.
• Before the five-year streak of 20-plus wins, the Mountaineers had four 20-win seasons in the 81-year history of men's basketball, with the last coming in 1965-66.
• The EOU men have won 63 of its last 70 games on its home court, Quinn Coliseum.

ABOUT THE SAINTS
Carroll College begins the season ranked No. 23 in NAIA Div. 1. The Saints were co-champions in the Frontier Conference in 2010-11 and were picked second in the Frontier Conference preseason poll this year. The Saints finished 2010-11 in the national tournament second round. Carroll's Byago Diouf and Andy Garland were both named first-team All-Conference last season, and Diouf also garnered conference Defensive Player of the Year honors. Head coach, Brandon Veltri, was named Frontier Conference Coach of the Year last season as well. Veltri and the Saints play one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country featuring several ranked opponents, including No. 10 EOU, No. 25 College of Idaho, No. 17 St. Catherine, and No. 4 Bellevue.

ABOUT THE WOLVES
Walla Walla University welcomes back a solid core from its 2010-11 team this season. First-year head coach Jimmy Hill takes over after serving as Associate Head Coach last year. The Wolves bring back four starters, but lose leading scorer Tristan Greenidge to graduation. WWU should be led by scoring threat Mark Moore. The senior averaged 14.39 points per game in the 2009-10 season. Walla Walla finished last year 6-24.