Concord Closes Regular Season at Charleston, vs. UVa.-Wise

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ATHENS, W.Va. - With the Mountain East Conference Tournament on the horizon, the Concord University men's basketball closes out the regular season 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Charleston before honoring four seniors, Terry Hopewell, Rob Reed, Taylor Smith and Jametrius Wade, 4:00 p.m. Saturday at home versus UVa.-Wise.

LIVE COVERAGE
Charleston Live Video
Charleston Live Stats
UVa.-Wise Live Audio
UVa.-Wise Live Video
UVa.-Wise Live Stats

The University of Charleston Sports Information Department will provide live in-game statistics as well as live video for Thursday's game. The Concord University Sports Information Department will do likewise with live video and stats Saturday. Additionally, Jason "Moose" Reed and Steve Cox will have live radio play-by-play of Saturday's game on 97.3 FM as well as online at mywillie.com. All the live links can be accessed above, at the top of the page or by clicking here.

MOUNTAIN LION NOTES
With two more wins this season, the Mountain Lions would secure a second straight 20-win season.

It would be the first time since 1990-91 and 1991-92 that CU had consecutive 20-win seasons.

While no senior for Concord played all four years for the Mountain Lions, the 46 wins for CU over the last three years when Hopewell and Smith arrived on campus are the most over a three-year stretch since 2004-2007.

And the 38 wins since Reed and Wade transferred are the most since 1996-1998 when that group amassed 39.

Reed has made 93 three-pointers this season, tops in the conference and seventh nationally.

Reed can become the third player in Concord history and the first since Todd Keffer in 1991-1992 to make 100 three-pointers in a season with seven more makes from behind the arc.

The South Bend, Indiana has made at least one three-pointer in 29 of his last 30 games.

Junior guard Aaron Miller is continuing to climb the all-time list at CU for career made three-pointers.

Miller has 172 made triples and can pass Anthony Lansdowne for seventh with three more three-pointers.

In an 85-75 win over Notre Dame Saturday, the Mountain Lions outrebounded the Falcons 57-38 tying its largest rebounding margin of the season.

CU was also +19 on the glass versus Shepherd at home. Additionally, CU outrebounded Urbana 47-35.

The combined rebounding margin of +31 for the Mountain Lions is the second largest over a two-game stretch for Concord this season.

Against Shepherd (+19) and at West Virginia Wesleyan (+13) is the only other larger margin in a two-game stretch this season.

With the large gap in rebounding for the Mountain Lions recently, it vaulted CU up to second in the MEC in rebounding margin (+5.8).

Hopewell and Wade are one of two sets of teammates in the MEC to have 200 or more rebounds this season.

Notre Dame's Ja'Sean Lewis and Will Vorhees are the other set of teammates.

Hopewell has already surpassed last year's rebounding total of 218, collecting 258 this year.

Wade, meanwhile, needs 20 rebounds to total more rebounds than the 222 he had last year.

At 631 career rebounds, Hopewell needs 19 rebounds to become the 12th player in program history with at least 800 points and 650 or more rebounds  in a career.

CUdefeated Charleston 69-66 at the Carter Center Nov. 23 on a three-pointer by Reed with one second left in the game.

The basket completed an 11-point comeback with less than seven minutes left in the game.

After a three-pointer by UC's Tino DiTrapano at the 6:49 mark put Charleston up 63-52, from there, here's how CU came back on the Golden Eagles.
 

UC Possession	Time Left (Score)	Concord Possession
	6:31	Missed Jumper
Block (by Reed)	6:06
	5:46 (54-63)	Made two foul shots (Reed)
Steal (by Wade)	5:34
	4:28 (57-63)	Made Three-Pointer (by Michael Sanchez)
Missed Jumper	3:52
	3:31 (59-63)	Made Layup (by Wade)
Missed Layup	3:01
	2:51 (62-63)	Made Three-Pointer (by Miller)
Missed Three-Pointer	2:29
	1:57	Turnover
Made Three-Pointer	1:30 (62-66)
	1:07 (64-66)	Made Layup (by Hopewell)
Steal (by Wade)	1:03
	0:43 (66-66)	Made Jumper (by Reed)
Missed Jumper	0:12
	0:01 (69-66)	Made Three-Pointer (Reed)

Concord will be going for a season sweep of UVa.-Wise after downing the Cavaliers on the road 100-85 January 21.

Miller and Reed each scored 27 points in the game with Miller netting his 1,000th point along the way and Reed scoring 25 of his 27 in the first half.

Freshman guard Tommy Bolte had a career-high seven assists with Sanchez chipping in eight assists.

CU had 27 assists on 38 made field goals against the Cavaliers. CU has defeated UVa.-Wise by an average of 22.3 points per game in the last three meetings including a 92-55 win at home last season.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
8- Consecutive home games CU has had held its opponents to less than 45 percent shooting.

49- Points needed by Reed to reach 1,000 for his career.

52- Combined points for Reed against Charleston and UVa.-Wise this season.

SCOUTING CHARLESTON
The Golden Eagles are 13-13 overall and 10-10 in the conference as they sit in a tie with Shepherd for sixth place heading into the final week of the season.

UC is tied with Shepherd for sixth and is one game behind NDC for fifth.

Three Charleston players average double figures in scoring led by Aleksander Kesic with 13.1 points per game. Jevonte Hughes (12.3 ppg) and Tino DiTrapano (12.2 ppg) also score 10 or more points per game.

UC gives up just 69.8 points per game, second best in the league.

SCOUTING UVA.-WISE
The Cavaliers are 3-23 and 1-19 in the MEC this season.

UVa.-Wise is tied for 11th in the league with Urbana. Big man Matt Day averages a double-double with 21.6 points per game and 10.7 rebounds per contest.

Philip Owens II is averaging 7.3 assists in his last three games and is ranked fourth in the league in assists per game (4.5).

UVa.-Wise lost 91-87 in overtime to Urbana last Saturday.

The Cavaliers will host West Virginia State Thursday before traveling to Concord Saturday.