Orono, ME - The University of Maine men's basketball team wraps up their final road trip of the regular season at Binghamton on Saturday afternoon.

Last Time Out -- The Black Bears won their second-straight America East game as they took down UAlbany, 70-59.

Ace Flagg had his best game of his collegiate career as he had 22 points on 8-for-9 shooting, along with seven rebounds, three assists and three steals.

Ryan Mabrey chipped in 14 points while TJ Biel had 11.

Lean on the Defense -- The Black Bears are once again showing that their one of the top defenses in all of the NCAA.

After a mid-season spike that saw their defense jump into the 100's in the NCAA, the Black Bears have been playing some of the best defense in all of the NCAA to help drop their PPG allowed to just 68.9, the 59th-best mark in all of the NCAA and second in the America East.

Maine is also allowing just 30.1% of three-pointers to fall, the 22nd-best mark in the NCAA, which leads the America East, along with their 7.8 steals per game, which is also the top spot in the America East and 78th in the NCAA.

Gray Reaches 1K -- Mekhi Gray, in his sixth season of basketball in the America East, reached the milestone that all players hope to achieve during their time in college basketball, the 1000-career points mark. He did so on Feb. 12 against UMBC. On the season, Gray has scored 230 points for the Black Bears, added to his 801  career points that he scored between his four years at NJIT and a few games played with UMass Lowell.

Impactful Players -- Logan Carey and TJ Biel have been the guys seeing the most minutes during conference play, and have responded with some impressive numbers.

Biel leads the duo in PPG at 13.6 in conference only games., followed by Carey at 11.8. Carey has dished out 42 assists and swiped 27 steals in the lead guard position while Biel has 16 blocks and 55 rebounds in the power forward/center role.

Series History -- This will be the 50th meeting all-time between these two programs.

Maine took the lead all-time in the series in their last matchup as the Black Bears lead 25-24. Maine took the first game by a final score of 79-63 back in January as five different Black Bears reached double-digits in scoring.
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