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MANSFIELD, Pa. - The Bloomsburg University men's basketball team will play its final road game of the regular season on Saturday, traveling to Mansfield. The Huskies are battling for the third seed in the upcoming PSAC Tournament, which would give Bloomsburg a first round home game The Huskies enter Saturday a game ahead of fourth-place Lock Haven and Millersville which are tied at 8-6. Bloomsburg swept the season series from Lock Haven while splitting a pair of games with Millersville.

SCOUTING MANSFIELD
Saturday is Senior Day at Decker Gymnasium with seniors Charles Becoats, Kevonte McClain, Onyema Utti and Xavier Warner playing their final home games. Beacoats averages 12.0 ppg and has 780 career points to lead the senior class. The Mountaineers remained alive in the PSAC Tournament race with an 80-77 win at Shippensburg on Wednesday, placing Mansfield a half game behind Kutztown for the sixth and final playoff spot from the PSAC East. Saturday's game is Mansfield's last chance to improve its stock as it marks the Mountaineers' regular season finale. On Wednesday, Joe Bell scored a game-high 21 points while Charles Pemberton posted his ninth double-double of the year by scoring 14 points and hauling in 14 rebounds.

Mansfield ranks sixth in the PSAC in points per game at 74.5 while standing last in defense, surrendering 80.0 ppg. The Mountaineers shoot the ball well – ranking fourth in field goal percentage at 46.1 percent, and also allow their opposition to shoot very well – opponents have shot 46.0 percent from the floor against Mansfield.

THE BLOOMSBURG-MANSFIELD SERIES
Bloomsburg leads 100-72
Saturday marks the 173rd meeting between the two schools in men's basketball. The Huskies last swept the season series in 2011-12. Mansfield won, 73-66, at Nelson Field House last February and recorded a 101-68 win at Decker Gymnasium in the first round of the PSAC Tournament. Bloomsburg used a 16-2 run over the final 5:43 to pull away from Mansfield in the first game of the year, taking a 70-68 lead and turning it into an 86-70 victory on Jan. 22. Last year's regular season game at Decker Gymnasium went to double overtime with the Huskies prevailing, 82-81.

TWEETABLES (Huskies facts in 140 characters or less)
-Dontahe Jordan (Williamsport/Williamsport) has become just the seventh player in Huskies history with 700 career rebounds.

-Jordan enters Saturday tied for seventh all-time in school history with 703 boards.

-Jordan leads the team this year in rebounds per game (8.6) and offensive rebounds (43).

-Andrew Morgan (New Brunswick, NJ/St. Joseph's) leads the Huskies in assist-to-turnover ratio this year (1.26).

-Morgan has recorded back-to-back games with double figure scoring for the first time in his BU career.

-Three Huskies are shooting over 50 percent from the floor this year - Alssene Saintilus (Williamstown, NJ/Williamstown) (55.0%); Dontahe Jordan (Williamsport/Williamsport) (53.5%) and Wes Lyons (Millville/Millville) (51.7%).

-Zach Sheetz (Landisville/Hempfield) has not missed a free throw attempt on the year. He's a perfect 11-for-11 at the stripe.

-Alssene Saintilus (Williamstown, NJ/Williamstown) has the most free throw attempts of any Husky with 143, 51 more attempts than any other player on the team.

-Jon Riles (Philadelphia/Academy of the New Church) leads the Huskies in minutes played this year with 648 (27.0/game).

-The Huskies are averaging 76.2 points in their 14 victories, but just 65.3 ppg in 10 losses.

-Bloomsburg has only lost twice this season when reaching 70 points.

PLAYOFF TICKET PUNCHED
Bloomsburg has locked itself into the PSAC Playoffs next month. This will be the third straight year the Huskies have reached the PSAC Tournament, the first time Bloomsburg has reached the conference playoffs three consecutive years since a run from 1995-2002. The top two seeds receive byes and have already been determined as East Stroudsburg and West Chester have been locked into the first and second seeds respectively.