Concord Looks to Get Back to Winning Ways Versus W.Va. Wesleyan, Notre Dame

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ATHENS, W.Va. - Coming off a tough loss to Glenville State Saturday, the Concord University men's basketball will seek to start a new winning streak versus West Virginia Wesleyan 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Notre Dame 4:00 p.m. Saturday.

LIVE COVERAGE
The Concord University Sports Information Department will provide live in-game statistics as well as live video feed for both games. Additionally, Jason "Moose" and Steve Cox will have full radio coverage of both games on 97.3 FM and online at mywillie.com. To access all the live coverage options, follow the links at the top of the page or click here.

RECORDS
• Concord enters play with a record of 11-6 overall and 7-5 in the Mountain East Conference. If the postseason started today, the Mountain Lions would host a home playoff game as the five seed.

• West Virginia Wesleyan is 8-10 overall and 6-6 in the league.

• Notre Dame has compiled a mark of 10-8 overall and is tied with WVWC at 6-6 in the conference standings.

THE COACHES
• Concord's Kent McBride is 52-50 in four seasons at his alma mater.

• Gary Nottingham is in his first season at West Virginia Wesleyan, but has a 284-292 record in 21 seasons as a head coach.

• NDC's Tim Koenig is 21-27 in the midst of second season in charge of the Falcons.

MOUNTAIN LION NOTES
• Before falling 89-82 to Glenville State, the Mountain Lions had four in a row including a 92-55 blowout win over UVa.-Wise January 22 at the Carter Center in which all 12 Concord players scored including freshman guard Nick Deems who hit two three-point attempts and scored a career-high six points.

• In the contest versus GSC, junior forward Terry Hopewell notched his fifth double-double of the season as he scored 22 points to go along with 11 rebounds.

• Sophomore guard Aaron Miller also contributed 22 points, collecting his team-best ninth 20+ point game of the season.

• For the season, Miller is averaging 19.1 points per game (ppg) which is fourth in the Mountain East Conference and has also buried 50 three-pointers, third in the league.

• Before Saturday's game, senior point guard Mike Boyd was honored as the 36th member of the 1,000-point club.

• For his career, the Cincinnati, Ohio has scored 1,176 points, 24th in Concord history. Matter-of-factly, Boyd's 10 points against Glenville State allowed him to pass Bernie Hamrick for 24th all-time.

• By scoring three points this weekend, Boyd will move into 23rd on the all-time scoring list.

• Heading into play this weekend, Boyd leads the MEC in assists per game (apg) with 5.8.

• Boyd continues to climb the ladder in career assists at CU as he places sixth with 459 career helpers.

• Over its last three games, the CU bench has averaged 35 points per game, including a season-high 53 versus UVa.-Wise.

• Junior Rob Reed has been at the forefront of the Mountain Lion bench production, averaging 11.0 points and scoring at least 10 points in three consecutive games.

• In his last two contests, Reed is 7-of-12 from behind the arc and has seen his season percentage from three-point range jump from .377 (23-for-61) to .411 (30-for-73).

• The Concord bench has also chipped in to provide rebounds as the CU reserves have averaged 16.6 rebounds per game in the previous three games.

• Reed had a career-high seven boards against West Virginia State while sophomore forward Jalen Camper collected a personal-best 11 versus UVa.-Wise to help Concord's rebounding effort that ranks second in rebounding margain (+6.2) in the MEC.

• The Mountain Lions have already taken down WVWC once this season as they won at West Virginia Wesleyan, 54-41, Dec. 7.

• Miller hit all four three-point attmepts to score 20 points in addition to grabbing a career-high nine rebounds.

• CU also held the Bobcats to 25 percent shooting, its best defensive performance of the season.

• West Virginia Wesleyan's Tanner McGrew leads the conference in rebounds per game (rpg) at 12.6.

• However, earlier this season Concord held McGrew to nine rebounds, just one of two times he hasn't been able to tally 10 or more rebounds in a conference games.

• Thursday will pit three of the best post players in the conference in McGrew and Concord's junior forward Jametrius Wade and Hopewell.

• The trio ranks first, third and fifth in the conference in rebounding.

• Additionally, Hopewell is leading the league in field-goal percentage (.608 / 76-for-125).

• The Bobcats are holding opponents to 42.0 percent shooting from the field, second in the league.

• CU continues to have the second-best shooting offense in the league (50.2 percent).

• WVWC has won three of its last four games.

• Meanwhile, Notre Dame downed Concore 86-76 earlier this season.

• Hopewell had 14 points and 12 rebounds in the defeat.

• Notre Dame possesses the league's highest-scoring duo in Lawrence DeArmond (20.9) and Tyree Gaiter (20.8) who sit second and third in MEC in ppg.

• DeArmond and Gaiter have combined to score 50.5 percent of the Falcons' points this season.

• Additionally, Gaiter has made the most free throw of any player in the conference (131) and has the sixth-best percentage (.840 / 131-for-156).

• Notre Dame is just ahead of the Mountain Lions in terms of scoring offense 82.6-82.5 ppg, fourth and fifth in the MEC.

A CONCORD WIN WOULD...
• A Concord win over West Virginia Wesleyan would give CU two wins over the Bobcats in the same season for the first time since the 2006-2007 season.

• A Concord win over Notre Dame College would be the first win for the Mountain Lions against NDC in school history, CU is 0-3 all-time versus the Falcons

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
7- Consecutive games Hopewell has had at least one offensive rebound.

8- Number of turnovers for Concord against UVa.-Wise,  a season-low.

9- Number of games CU has tallied 10 or more offensive rebounds this season.