VESTAL, N.Y. - After a 2-2 Florida trip that featured an upset win over Big West power Long Beach State, Binghamton men's basketball (4-4) returns to Dr. Bai Lee Court at the Events Center on Wednesday, looking to stretch the team's home unbeaten streak to three. The Bearcats host Mansfield (3-2) at 7 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN3.

After knocking off Beach on Thanksgiving night, BU dropped a 74-57 contest at FIU Sunday night to wrap up the road trip. In that game, redshirt sophomore guard J.C. Show scored a game-high 22 points and junior forward Bobby Ahearn added 13 points and six rebounds. The host Panthers, however, shot 62 percent in the second half and owned the glass in the 17-point win. 

Show ranks sixth in the America East in scoring (15.8 ppg.) and fifth in three-pointers per game (2.4). Ahearn leads the league in field goal percentage (.627) and is just outside the top-20 in scoring (10.4 ppg.). Sophomore point guard Timmy Rose is fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.2) and fifth in assists (3.5/game). 

The Bearcats have alternated wins and losses through the first eight games of the season. The team already has more wins in November (4) than any BU team the last 23 years and also has half of last season's final win total (8) just two weeks into the 2016-17 season.

Mansfield, an NCAA Division II program situated 75 miles southwest of Binghamton, is 3-2 on the season. The Mounties play out of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) and have already posted an upset over a Division I program this season (79-74 exhibition win over Duquesne on Nov. 5). Mansfield's roster features a pair of Division I transfers and all five starters back from a year ago. The squad has been idle for 10 days following a 73-70 PSAC home win over California (Pa.). Junior forward Matt Tamonosky leads the team in scoring (16.2 ppg.) and is shooting 61 percent from the floor.

Binghamton and Mansfield have played several exhibition games during BU's Division I tenure and the last "countable" game they played was during BU's championship season in 2008-09. In the season opener for both teams in Vestal, the Bearcats prevailed 80-62. Mansfield leads the all-time series, 12-5, though 10 of those wins came during then-Triple Cities College's formative years between 1949-56. 

After Wednesday's game, BU hits the road again for a game at St. Francis (Pa.) on Saturday night.