Men's Basketball Travels to Bryant on Thursday Evening

UMBC is 1-9 on the road this season. The victory came against Hampton on November. 27th
The Retrievers are 2-1 all-time against Bryant.
Bryant defeated UMBC, 81-67, in the America East season-opener on Jan. 6th in Baltimore.
SO guard Dion Brown is 18th in the country with 146 field goals and is 89th with 360 points.
Junior guard Marcus Banks Jr. is 74th in the NCAA in 3-point percentage (37.6).
Graduate student forward Max Lorca-Lloyd is 43rd in the nation in rejections at 1.9 per game.
The Dawgs are 64th nationally in 3-point field goal accuracy at 36.4 percent.
The Retrievers have led at the half in 4-of-6 America East contests but are just 1-3 in those situations.

SERIES HISTORY

UMBC and Bryant have met just three times.
UMBC swept the season-series in 2022-2023.
The Bulldogs defeated the Retrievers, 81-67, on Jan. 6th in Baltimore. Guard Sherif Gross-Bullock poured in a career-high 41 points on 16of-24 shooting, including 7-for-12 from deep. UMBC led 36-33 at the break but could not hold off the Bulldogs. Dion Brown recorded a "double-double" of 22 points and 11 rebounds while Bryce Johnson and Marcus Banks tossed in 16 points each.

A GLANCE AT THE BULLDOGS

Bryant suffered their first America East loss of the season, 67-57, last Saturday in Smithfield. Forward Earl Timberlake paced the Bulldogs with 16 points while Gross-Bullock recorded a "double-double" of 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Gross-Bullock is third in the America East in scoring at 18.8 ppg.
Timberlake is 9th in the league in scoring (14.0 ppg.), third in rebounding (8.9 rpg.) and is 6th in assists per game (4.1).
Forward Daniel Rivera leads the conference with 2.3 blocks per game.
The Bulldogs are second in the league in scoring at 79.3 ppg.

WHO'S HOT

Brown ranks fourth in the conference in scoring (17.1 pg.), seventh in rebounding (6.6 pg.), and is 13th in steals (1.4 pg.). He has scored 20 or more points on eight different occasions and has three double-doubles.
Brown needs 138 points to break the Retriever's all-time single-season scoring mark ( 482 points) by a sophomore. (Jairus Lyles, 2015-16). Lyles also holds the program's single-season mark with 665 points during the 2017-18 NCAA Tournament campaign.
Banks Jr. ranks 2nd in the AE with 2.5 3-pt field goals per game and is fourth in 3-pt accuracy (.376). He's averaging 18.3 ppg. in conference contests, which ranks seventh in the league. He's also averaging a league-best 3.5 treys per game in AE contests.
Lorca-Lloyd ranks 10th in conference games with 7.8 rebounds per game and is fifth in blocks per game (1.7).
FR guard Franck Emmou has shot the ball extremely well in his first season in Baltimore. Emmou, who scored a career-high 17 points against NJIT this past Saturday, is 18-for-36 from 3-point territory and 23-for-25 from the foul line this season. He's 38-for-80 (48 percent) from the field overall.

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