VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton men's basketball plays its final road game of the regular season when the Bearcats (12-17, 3-11 America East) square off against Hartford (8-21, 3-11 AE) Wednesday night at 7 p.m. from the Chase Arena.  The game will be broadcast on ESPN3.

The Bearcats can lock up the No. 6 seed for the upcoming America East tournament with one more win in their remaining two games. A win on Wednesday would give BU a season sweep of the Hawks for the first time in eight years.

Last time out
•    BU hung around early at Stony Brook on Saturday and trailed by just two nine minutes into the contest 
•    But the Seawolves stretched a 14-point halftime lead with a 16-2 run to open the second half and beat BU 76-55 
•    Senior guard Marlon Beck and junior center Dusan Perovic had 12 points apiece. Sophomore center Thomas Bruce added eight points.
   
Ahearn takes blow to nose, returns to lineup with face mask     
Junior center Bobby Ahearn shook off a hard elbow to the nose in the Vermont game on Feb. 16 but still contributed 15 points and seven rebounds in 33 minutes. The broken nose, however, kept him out of two games. Ahearn had been one of BU's most productive offensive players with four games of 15+ points and an 11.6 scoring average in an eight-game stretch. He returned for the Stony Brook game sporting a face mask and chipped in four points and six rebounds in 24 minutes.     
 
About Hartford
•    The Hawks have dropped 13 of their last 16 games, including an 82-52 defeat at UNH on Saturday in a game UH played without two injured starters
•    The team boasts the conference leading scorer in Jalen Ross (20.1 ppg.)
•    Hartford launches an average of nearly 25 three-point attempts per game but is hitting just 29% in league play
•    The Hawks had to replace a second team all-conference player in their lineup and were picked to finish eighth (of nine) in the preseason poll     

All-time series vs. Hartford
•    Hartford leads the all-time series 20-13 and has won 10 of the last 12
•    BU has won the last two meetings, including a 76-55 home win on Jan. 25. In that game, BU opened the second half with a 27-8 run and never looked back. Senior guard Marlon Beck scored 12 of his team-high 15 points in the second half, when BU shook off a three-point halftime deficit and took control. Hartford misfired on 20 of 24 shots to begin the period and drew no closer than 11 the rest of the way. Sophomore center Thomas Bruce ripped down a career-high 16 points and added three dunks en route to eight points. 
•    Binghamton is 5-10 at Chase Arena 
•    Twenty of the 33 all-time games have been decided by single digits, including 14 games by four or fewer points
•    The teams split the season series last year with each winning on the road.