Concord Welcomes Notre Dame, Urbana

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ATHENS, W.Va. - The Concord University men's basketball team finishes the 2017-18 regular season with three of its four games at home starting Notre Dame 7:30 p.m. Thursday and continuing 4:00 p.m. Saturday against Urbana.

LIVE COVERAGE
Audio: Jason Reed and Steve Cox will provide live radio play-by-play coverage of both games on 94.5 "Willie" FM and online at www.mywillie.com
Stats: The Concord University Sports Information will provide live statistics of both contests. 
Video: Live streaming video will also be available for both games. 

To access the live coverage, follow the links at the top of the page or click here. 

RECORDS
The Mountain Lions are eighth in the Mountain East Conference standings with a mark of 8-10, and have clinched a spot in the MEC Tournament. CU is 12-12 overall.

Notre Dame and Urbana are both 3-15 in the league, one game behind Glenville State for the final tournament slot.

NDC is 5-19 overall while UU is 4-20.

1K CLUB
Junior guard Tommy Bolte joined the 1,000-point club by scoring 39 points against Fairmont State.

The Chillicothe, Ohio native now has 1,019 points in his career.

Additionally, Bolte continues to lead Division II in scoring with 29.9 points per game, and he has also extended his lead over second place to 2.6 points per game.

This season, Bolte has made 220 shots which ranks third in the nation.

After his performances last week in which Bolte averaged 40.5 points per game, the junior was named MEC Co-Player of the Week and USBWA National Player of the Week.

It was the second time this season that Bolte has posted an average of 40 or more points in a two-game stretch.

During the first two games of the season, Bolte averaged 41.5 points per contest.

GO FOR TWO
After shooting a higher percentage from three-point range than inside the arc against Shepherd, CU was limited to 5-for-26 from distance versus Fairmont State.

However, Concord was 27-for-42 (64.2 percent) on two-point attempts against FSU.

The last time CU shot a higher percentage on two-point buckets was during the 2013-14 season at Notre Dame when the Mountain Lions were 26-for-37 (70.2 percent) on shots inside the three-point line.

Furthermore, the Maroon and Gray shot 81.4 percent (22-for-27) on buckets inside the paint versus Fairmont State.

Bolte was 15-for-23 on two-point shots.

Junior forward Jafar Musa was 3-for-4 while freshman forward Trey Shuff converted both of his shots around the rim.

PICKING UP THE SLACK
When Concord visited Notre Dame and Urbana at the end of the November, Bolte was unavailabler for CU after an injury against Bluefield State November 15.

The Mountain Lions split their trip through Ohio as they were defeated 86-76 against Notre Dame, but took a 77-73 decision from Urbana.

Playing its first game without Bolte, who at the time was averaging 37.3 points per game, Concord received big contributions on the road trip from senior guard B.J. Hamlet who averaged 25.5 points per game in the two-game swing and shot 55 percent (11-for-20) from three-point range.

At Urbana, sophomore forward Trey Brisco scored a career-high 29 points on 11-for-14 shooting that included the go-ahead bucket with two seconds left in a 77-73 victory over the Blue Knights.

In his first career start in place of Bolte, freshman guard Trey Radcliffe handed out a career-best six assists against Notre Dame.

THREE-POINT THREAT
For the fourth game in a row, Concord will face one of the top three-point shooting teams in the MEC when it welcomes Notre Dame to the Carter Center.

The Mountain Lions possess the best three-point shooting defense in the league, allowing teams to shoot 31.9 percent from beyond the arc.

Additionally, CU has allowed the third fewest makes from three-point distance this season (7.4 per game).

CU held both Fairmont State and Shepherd to below 35 percent shooting on three-point attempts.

NDC averages nearly 12 made three-pointers per game (11.8) and is shooting 37.2 percent from deep this season.

Drew Scarberry has made 70 three-pointers this season while KT Taylor has added 65 makes from three-point distance as the duo ranks third and sixth in the MEC in made triples.

CU held Notre Dame to 6-for-20 from three-point range in the first game this season.

MINUTE MEN
Bolte and Hamlet are both on pace to log over 900 minutes this season.

With five guaranteed games left in the season, Hamlet has played an average of 33 minutes per game while Bolte has logged 36.8 minutes per game.

Hamlet is coming off his second-longest minutes played stint of his career against Fairmont State by logging 39 minutes.

Bolte is coming off his eighth game this season where he has played the entire game.

Bolte and Hamlet are set to become the fifth set of teammates since the year 2000 to play 900 or more minutes in the same season.

LAST SECOND PLAYS
Saturday will mark the 10th all-time meeting between Concord and Urbana with CU winning eight of the nine previous games.

However, the one series win for the Blue Knights came in Athens last season as they won 73-71 on a last-second shot.

In fact, three of the last four meetings between Concord and UU have been decided in the final moments of the contest.

Along with Brisco's shot in central Ohio this season, the Mountain Lions held off Urbana 93-90 at home near the end of the 2015-16 regular season.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
6:1- CU's assist-to-turnover ratio when it beat NDC last season on the road (19 assists to three turnovers).

11- Made field goals by Brisco when CU played Urbana, nearly double his career-best of six.

40- Points averaged by Bolte last week as he was named USBWA National Player of the Week.

NOTRE DAME AT A GLANCE
The Falcons have struggled with injuries all season as all-conference player Will Vorhees has missed much of the season, but did score 33 points when Concord and NDC met back in November.

Big man Ja'Sean Lewis has also missed a significant portion of the 2017-18 season.

Taylor is the leading scorer for the Falcons at 17.5 points per game.

Angelo Cugini is averaging 10.8 points and 8.1 rebounds per game for the Falcons.

URBANA AT A GLANCE
Malik Jacobs paces Urbana scoring at 16.7 points per game.

Jacobs is top five in the league in field goal percentage (51.5) and free-throw shooting (81.5).

UU is coming off its first win since January 6 as it knocked off Glenville State 89-68 to inch closer to the Pioneers in the standings.

The Blue Knights are the second-lowest scoring team in the MEC (70.8 points per game).