Binghamton Game Notes
UNH Game Notes

VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton men's basketball begins a two-home-games-in-three-days stretch when the Bearcats (5-17, 2-7 America East) welcome New Hampshire (12-9, 5-3 AE) to the Events Center at 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

QUICK FACTS
•    Junior guard Marlon Beck (9.9 ppg.) is coming off a 4-for-5 performance from beyond the arc. He ranks second in the AE in threes/game (2.5) and has moved up to fourth on BU's all-time made 3s list (146). 
•    Sophomore forward Willie Rodriguez is fourth in the AE in scoring (14.4 ppg.) and seventh in rebounding (6.5 rpg.).
•    Freshman center Thomas Bruce is averaging 6.6 points (on 55% FG) and 4.8 rebounds in league play.  
•    Binghamton's current rotation features no seniors and just two juniors. The 11 underclassmen gives BU the eighth-highest underclassmen percentage in the country (73.3%).

LAST TIME OUT
•    On Wednesday, league-leading and unbeaten Stony Brook used a 23-3 run midway through the second half to pull away from the visiting Bearcats 76-51.
•    Binghamton led 28-27 at the half before the Seawolves hit eight threes and shot 58 percent in the final 20 minutes.
•    Sophomore forward Willie Rodriguez just missed a double-double with a game-high 16 points and nine rebounds.
•    Junior guard Marlon Beck added 12 points (4-of-7 FG), nine of which came in the first half.

ABOUT UNH
•    UNH has won four of its last five games — wins over Maine, Lowell, Hartford and most recently, at UMBC on Wednesday (84-81).
•    The Wildcats are scoring and giving up 72.3 points per game.
•    UNH returns four starters and nine lettermen from a 19-13 team that finished fourth in the AE (11-5) and lost to Albany by a bucket in the semis.
•    Reigning AE Rookie of the Year Tanner Leissner leads the team in scoring (14.7 ppg., 3rd in AE) and is second in rebounding (6.3 rpg.).
•    The Wildcats are putting 72 points on the board per game and rank second in the AE in rebounding (39.6/game). 

ALL-TIME SERIES VS. UNH
•    Binghamton leads the series 17-13 — it's best mark vs. any team in the America East.
•    UNH has won three straight and eight of the last 10 however.
•    On Jan. 9 in Durham, UNH ended the game with a 25-9 run and posted a 58-43 win at Lundholm Gym.
•    In that game, sophomore forward Willie Rodriguez produced a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds but BU was just 3-of-20 on threes.    

NEXT UP
•    Binghamton finishes up a three-games-in-six-days stretch when two-time reigning America East champion Albany pays a visit to the Events Center on Monday. That 7 p.m. game will be shown on ESPN3 — the fifth time this season that the Bearcats have been covered by the ESPN family of networks.