VESTAL, N.Y. - Riding the momentum of a resounding road win at Maine, Binghamton men's basketball (9-21, 5-10 America East) returns home for its regular season finale on Tuesday as longtime SUNY rival Albany (11-19, 6-9 AE) comes to town. The teams tip at 7 p.m. at Dr. Bai Lee Court at the Events Center in a game broadcast on ESPN+. 

The teams are already locked into their respective playoff seeds with the Bearcats holding the No. 7 tag and Albany assured of the No. 6 spot. But a BU win would split the season series and give Binghamton a share of sixth place in the standings with the Great Danes, while also providing BU with its highest conference win total in nine seasons.

QUICK HITS
•    This is Binghamton's 73rd season of basketball, 18th at the Division I level
•    BU was picked to finish 6th (of 9) in the America East Preseason Coaches' Poll
•    This is the 18th America East season for BU, which is 106-170 (.384) all-time
•    BU has clinched seventh place in the standings and will play a 2-vs-7 quarterfinal game Saturday at the winner of tonight's Hartford-Stony Brook game
•    A win tonight would give BU six AE wins — the most since 2009-10 (9 years)    

Last time out
•    Senior guard J.C. Show set a school record with 10 3-pointers and BU also set a record with 19 team treys in an 83-60 win at Maine on Saturday
•    Show hit 10-of-14 3-pointers (7-for-7 in second half) to break his own record (8)
•    Senior forward Caleb Stewart added his fourth double-double of the season with 23 pts. and 10 rebs. and freshman guard Sam Sessoms scored 13 in second half       

About Albany
•    Coming off 82-80 overtime loss at Hartford on Saturday
•    Squandered 16-point halftime lead to Hawks and now have the program's most AE losses (9) in 10 years
•    Entire starting five are freshmen, led by guard Cameron Healy (16.4 ppg.)
•    In off-season team had to replace all-conference guards Joe Cremo (Villanova) and David Nichols (Florida State), who transferred for their final graduate years
•    Eighteenth-year HC Will Brown returned only one starter and six lettermen (10.7 ppg.) from a 22-10 team of a year ago (10-6 AE) 

All-time series vs. Albany
•    Albany leads the series, which dates back to 1948, 71-32
•    Since both teams have been in the America East (2001), Albany leads 22-14
•    Albany has won 16 of the last 17 after BU had won 13 of 19 previous games
•    On Feb. 2 in Albany, the Great Danes scored the game's first 19 points and posted a 64-50 win. Binghamton battled back and had the game within six points with five minutes remaining before Albany closed the door.
•    BU is 19-37 at home vs. Albany but won the last meeting last January, 79-66

Binghamton will finish seventh, head to Hartford or Stony Brook for quarters
With Saturday's win at Maine, BU locked up the No. 7 seed for the upcoming America East tournament. The Bearcats will travel for a quarterfinal game against the winner of tonight's game between Stony Brook and host Hartford. 

Sessoms claims seventh Rookie of Week honor in final week
With this week's nod, freshman guard Sam Sessoms has now been named America East Rookie of the Week seven times this season (Nov. 12, Nov. 26, Dec. 10, Dec. 24, Jan. 7, Feb. 11, March 4). Only two America East players in the league's 40-year history have received more rookie honors. In BU's 18-year membership in the AE, only one freshman has held down a higher scoring average (Albany's Jamar Wilson, 18.9 ppg. in 2002-03).

Show drains school-record 10 3-pointers, continues torrid streak
Senior guard J.C. Show had another memorable performance in his storied collegiate career Saturday at Maine. He poured in a school-record 10 3-pointers (10-for-14) and 30 points to key BU's 83-60 win. It was his 13th 20+ point game and second 30+ game in 2+ years at Binghamton. He went 7-for-7 from 3-point range in the second half to break the record for 3s in a game (8) he previously shared with teammate Sam Sessoms and two others. In his last five games, Show is averaging 20.0 points. Show has 926 points in a BU uniform, which ranks sixth all-time. He has 1,162 total collegiate points (236 for Bucknell as freshman).   

Stewart piling up stats, records fourth double-double in win at Maine
Senior forward Caleb Stewart has boosted his case for all-conference honors with notable games of late. On Saturday at Maine, Stewart notched his fourth double-double of the season with 23 points and 10 rebounds. In his last 16 games, Stewart is averaging 15.3 points. In his last 11 games, he is averaging 8.9 rebounds. In conference play, Stewart ranks third in rebounds (8.2), fourth in blocks (1.1) and ninth in scoring (14.5). 

BU records program-record 19 3-pointers, wins third straight road game
The Bearcats broke an eight-year-old school record with 19 3-pointers in Saturday's win at Maine. The previous record was 17, set in a first-round tournament win over UMBC on March 3, 2011 (at Hartford). At Maine, BU made eight treys in the first half and 11 in the second half. Five different players converted, led by senior guard J.C. Show, who set an individual record with 10. Senior forward Caleb Stewart made four and freshman guard Sam Sessoms added three.

Sessoms' record-tying performance not enough to beat Hartford
Freshman guard Sam Sessoms exploded for 34 points (8-of-15 3-pt. FG), including 24 in the second half, in the 96-76 loss to Hartford on Wednesday. Sessoms tied school records for points in a game and 3-pointers in a game — both of which are held by teammate J.C. Show. His 24 points in a half are second-most in program history (Dusan Perovic scored 29 points in the second half en route to 34 points at Boston Univ. on Dec. 3, 2014). Sessoms has two of the top eight scoring performances in the America East this season, having also netted 32 points against UMass Lowell on Jan. 23.   

Bearcats lead America East, rank 22nd in nation in blocks
Despite opening the season without the top shot blocker in the America East (Thomas Bruce), BU has racked up 137 blocks through 30 games, tops in the AE and 22nd-most in the country. In blocks per game, BU led the country for a week and currently ranks 28th (4.7/game). Individually, senior forward Caleb Stewart swatted a career-high five vs. Columbia and has 52 blocks, which ranks third in the conference and 58th in the country. His 1.73 average is 70th. Senior forward Chancellor Barnard had a career-high seven-block showing (all in second half) against UMass Lowell on Jan. 23 and has 41 blocks (4th in AE).