JACKSONVILLE - The Jacksonville State men's basketball team will play a regular season game at Pete Mathews Coliseum for the first time since Nov. 29 on Tuesday at 7 p.m., when the Gamecocks welcome Berry College into the friendly confines of “The Pete.”

It will be mark the end of a stretch that has seen JSU play four in a row and seven of its first nine regular season game on the road, but it will also be the beginning of a three-game homestand, which ties for the longest for the Gamecocks this season.

The Gamecocks are looking to get back to the winning ways that they started the season with. They have dropped their last two games after starting the season with a Division I-best 6-1 record. They lost the season opener before reeling off six wins in their next six games to get the James Green era off to the second-best start of any coach in JSU hoops history.

JSU is coming off of a 10-day hiatus after suffering a 66-60 loss at Iowa State on Dec. 20, a game that saw both senior Jonathan Toles and sophomore Nick Murphy score 18 points for the Gamecocks. Junior Amadou Mbodji also had an impressive outing, picking up his first double-double of the year with 10 points and 11 rebounds, despite playing just 21 minutes because of foul trouble.

Murphy, a native of Bronx, N.Y., has been the Gamecocks' go-to guy of late. In the last four games, Murphy is scoring a team-high 15.5 points per game while pulling in 5.8 rebounds per game, second on the squad during that stretch.

On the season, the Gamecocks have five players averaging at least 10 points per game, four of which are either freshmen or sophomores.