Men's Basketball Travels to Vermont for ESPNU Showdown on Thursday Evening

UMBC is 1-7 on the road this season.
The Dawgs have lost six straight contests for the first time since the 2015-2016 campaign..
SO guard Dion Brown is 17th in the country with 98 field goals and is 55th with 268 points.
Graduate student forward Max Lorca-Lloyd is 35th in the nation in rejections at 1.9 per game.
The Retrievers rank 45th in the country in bench points at 28.4 per game.
The Dawgs are 62nd nationally in 3-point field goal accuracy at 36.9 percent.

SERIES HISTORY

Vermont has won 41 of 50 all-time meetings against the Retrievers.
The Catamounts have won five straight and seven of the last eight in the series.
The Retrievers last defeated the Catamounts, 66-55, in Baltimore in 2021.
The Retrievers are 4-22 all-time inside Patrick Gymnasium.
UMBC's last win versus Vermont in Burlington was a 66-64 decision in 2020.
The Retrievers finest hour in Burlington came in 2018 when they downed Vermont, 65-62, in the America East Championship game.

A GLANCE AT THE CATAMOUNTS

Vermont is coming off a 65-58 victory in their conference opener versus Maine in Burlington on Saturday.
lleri Ayo-Faleyeb paced three players in double-figures with 14 points. He also a added two blocks and a pair of steals.
The Catamounts have hosted the America East Championship game seven straight seasons. They have won four of the last five titles.
Two-time Sixth Man of the Year Aaron Deloney returns as a graduate student and is averaging 8.9 points per game.
TJ Long is posting a team-best 12.8 ppg.
The Cats lead the America East in points against at 64.5 ppg.

WHO'S HOT

Brown has already recorded 20 or more points six times this season and is 4th in the America East in scoring at 16.8 ppg., 10th in fg percentage (.489) and 10th in rebounding (6.0 pg.). His 108 total field goals leads the circuit and he ranks 17th in the nation in the category.
Graduate student forward Khydarius Smith is 6th in the America East with a .587 shooting rate and is 10th on the circuit in scoring (12.9 ppg.).
Junior guard Devan Sapp has had the touch from long-range during non-conference slate. Sapp, who made just 8-of-29 (.276) treys in his initial season in Baltimore last year, is 22-for-52 (.423 percent) from distance and is 18th in the league with 1.4 3s per game.
Junior guard Marcus Banks Jr. is 4th in the conference with 2.3 3-pt field goals per game and is 4th in 3-pt percentage at .375 percent.
FR guard Franck Emmou is 21-for-23 from the line this season (.913).
Lorca-Lloyd is second in the America East with 1.9 blocks per game. He is also 35th in the nation in the category.
Junior guard Bryce Johnson is 14th in the conference with 1.5 treys per game. Johnson scored a combined 17 points in the three contests prior to his 31-point explosion against American. The 31 points are the most a Retriever has produced since Keondre Kennedy's 31 versus NJIT (1/26/22).