Men's Basketball Travels to Maine on Thursday; Seek Third Straight Victory

The Retrievers are looking for their second three-game winning streak of the season.
UMBC is 3-10 on the road this season.
UMBC is 27-16 all-time against the Black Bears.
SO guard Dion Brown is 5th in the country with 203 field goals and is 31st with 509 points. He broke UMBC's sophomore scoring mark at Binghamton last Thursday night.
Junior guard Marcus Banks Jr. is 43rd in the NCAA with 71 treys.
Graduate student forward Max Lorca-Lloyd is 15th in the nation in rejections at 2.29 per game.
The Dawgs are 39th nationally in 3-point field goal accuracy at 36.9 percent.
The Retrievers are 57th in the country with 79.1 ppg.
The Retrievers have led at the half in 8-of-12 America East contests.

SERIES HISTORY

Today will mark the 44th meeting between UMBC and Maine
UMBC is 27-16 against the Black Bears overall.
The Retrievers have won five of the last seven meetings.
UMBC has won 12 straight games against the Black Bears in Baltimore after winning this past January. The Dawgs have won 18 of the last 22 overall meetings.
The Dawgs are 11-7 all-time on the road.

A GLANCE AT THE BLACK BEARS

Maine has dropped three straight and five of their last six contests.
The Black Bears are last in the league in points per game (67.6) but are second in defense (67.3 ppg.)
Peter Filipovity leads the squad in scoring (13.1 ppg.) and rebounding (7.5 pg.)
Maine was selected to finish 5th in the AE preseason poll.

BROWN RACING UP THE ALL-TIME SCHOOL CHARTS

It's been a breakout season for super sophomore Dion Brown.
Brown, a two-time AE Player of the Week this season, broke Jairus Lyles' sophomore record of 482 points set in 2015-2016 and now has 509.
Only seven players have scored 500 points and just three have hit the 600-point mark.
His 203 field goals this season is already a sophomore record and ranks 5th in the NCAA.
Brown's 18.9 points per game is currently the sixth-highest single-season average in history (Jairus Lyles, 23.0).
His 196 rebounds is the fifth-most by a sophomore and only four players have gone over 200.
Brown is currently on pace to score over 1,400 career points and grab 500 rebounds. Only three players (Rick Moreland '83, John Goedeke '79 and Reggie Nance '81) have ever accomplished that feat.

WHO'S HOT

Brown is shooting 54 percent (88-162) over his last 10 contests. He's also 16-37 (43 percent) from deep over that time. His 21.9 ppg. in AE games now leads the league and he's third in rebounding at 9.3 pg. His 72 offensive rebounds is also an overall league-high this season. Brown has produced 20 or more points in five of his last six games and is averaging 24.8 ppg. during the span.
Banks Jr. has connected on 9-of-22 treys over the past two contests and has splashed at least one trey in 14 straight games. He's second (2.6) in the AE in 3-pt field goals per game and is 6th in 3-pt accuracy (35.5). He's averaging 18.5 ppg. in conference contests, which ranks 7th in the league. He's also averaging a league-best 3.3 treys per game in AE contests. Banks is 43rd in the NCAA with 71 treys and needs just four more to move into UMBC's single-season top-10 in the category.
Graduate student forward Max Lorca-Lloyd is tied for tops in the league with 2.3 blocks per game and is 15th in rebounding (5.4 pg.). He's averaged 8.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.6 blocks in AE play. His 55 blocks this year is currently the 5th most in UMBC single-season history.
FR guard Franck Emmou has shot the ball extremely well in his first season in Baltimore. Emmou, who recently scored a career-high 24 points at UAlbany, is 28-for-54 (.518) from 3-point territory and is 38-for-44 (.864) from the foul line this season. He's 61-for-124 (.492) from the field overall. Emmou is a spectacular 15-for-25 (.600) from deep in conference play and is netting 8.6 ppg.
Regimantas Ciunys has seized on his opportunity over the past four games as he's averaged 12.2 points and 6.6 rebounds in just over 22.4 minutes off the bench. He recorded a career-high 22 points on 9-of-11 shooting against UAlbany on February 17.

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