Tulane @ Georgia St. preview

Melvin Frazier is off to a sizzling start this season for Tulane, scoring 20 or more points four times in five games while leading the Green Wave to their first 5-0 start since 2011-12. Tulane travels to Georgia State on Sunday, and the junior enters the matchup averaging 22 points per game on 71.7 percent shooting from the field and 55.6 percent shooting from 3-point range.

“Coach (Mike Dunleavy Sr.) says when you get the ball inside out, you’ll get good things,” Frazier told the media after scoring 20 points with eight rebounds and a career-high five steals in Wednesday’s 80-59 victory over Miami (Ohio). It is a vastly different start this season for the Green Wave, who can match last season’s win total with a victory Sunday. Georgia State has dropped two of its past three games, losing at Ole Miss and to Prairie View A&M in the MGM Grand Event in Las Vegas. Sophomore D’Marcus Simonds leads the Panthers in scoring (19.6 points), including a career-high 29-point performance against Ole Miss.

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ABOUT TULANE (5-0): The Green Wave are averaging 82.8 points per game, shooting 52.1 percent from the field and 43.3 percent from 3-point range. Frazier averages 8.2 rebounds and leads Tulane with 13 steals, while Cameron Reynolds (16.6 points) and Samir Sehic (12) are both shooting better than 50 percent from the field. Tulane has limited opponents to 28.8 percent shooting from 3-point range.

ABOUT GEORGIA STATE (3-2): Simonds recorded the program’s first triple-double in the season opener against Carver Bible College (20 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists). Junior Malik Benlevi scored 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting in Wednesday’s 71-56 loss to Prairie View A&M. Devin Mitchell (13 points per game) and Benlevi (12.2) join Simonds as the three Panthers averaging at least 10 points, while Georgia State holds opponents to 60.4 points per game.

TIP-INS

1. Reynolds needs 14 points to reach 1,000 for his career.

2. The Green Wave face Alcorn State on Wednesday before traveling to No. 9 North Carolina on Dec. 3.

3. Georgia State has 89 wins since the start of 2013-14, the most of any Division I program in Georgia.

PREDICTION: Tulane 84, Georgia State 74