Game Notes | Live Stats | Watch

KUTZTOWN, Pa. – The Kutztown University men's basketball team used a late 19-6 spurt to defeat Bloomsburg University 97-92 last Wednesday, Jan. 3 to get back in the win column. Another tough test awaits this weekend when it travels to take on the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West Division's top team Edinboro University Saturday, Jan. 6 at 3 p.m. at McComb Field House.
 
The Golden Bears (9-2 overall, 5-2 PSAC East) will look to halt the Fighting Scots (9-2, 6-1 PSAC West) five game winning streak as they look to win their second straight.
 
For KU, who is averaging the second highest points per game (ppg) in the conference (87.2), to be successful, it needs to continue finding the hot hand of redshirt-junior Anthony Lee (Willow Grove, Pa./Abington). He has tied his career-high with 34 points in each of the last two games, and is averaging 23.5 ppg, second in the PSAC.
 
Lee is shooting 54.7 percent from 3-point range, which ranks first in the PSAC and fourth in Division II. He is also fifth in the PSAC in field goal percentage (58.8%) and third in free-throw percentage (93.5).
 
Senior Ethan Ridgeway (West Chester, Pa./Bayard Rustin) is scoring 17.7 ppg and is three points away from 1,000 for his career. His 7.2 assists per game (apg) leads the league, and his 544 career assists is 11th all-time in PSAC history. Junior Dan Cuevas (Stroudsburg, Pa./Stroudsburg) is averaging 16.8 ppg and is shooting 60.2 percent from the field, fourth in the conference.
 
Redshirt-freshman Moe Williams (Townsend, Del./Life Center Academy) is sixth in the PSAC in blocks per game (1.3) and is averaging 7.2 ppg. Senior Rafiq Marshall (Philadelphia, Pa./Simon Gratz (Cheyney)) (6.9 ppg) is third on the team in apg (2.0). Freshman Facundo Arens (Buenos Aires, Argentina/Bahia Blanca) has started the last two games after missing the first nine and is averaging 3.0 ppg and 1.5 apg.
 
Sophomore Max Wagner (Perkasie, Pa./Pennridge) stepped up in the last game versus the Huskies, coming up one point shy of a career-high 14 points, and added five rebounds, two blocks and two steals.
 
Edinboro plays more of a slower-paced game. It comes in averaging 79.4 ppg, but holds its opponents to just 71.6 ppg. KU will look to push the pace and use its fast break behind Ridgeway, Marshall, Lee and Ricky Hicks (Coatesville, Pa./Polytech).
 
To stop the Fighting Scots, the Golden Bears have to slow down the league's leading scorer Keshawn Liggins. Liggins does it all for Edinboro, leading the team in scoring (24.1 ppg), rebounds (11.1 rpg) and assists (3.4 apg).
 
These two teams did not meet last season. The last game they played against each other was a 92-82 victory for KU back on Nov. 21, 2015 at Edinboro.
 
Kutztown begins a stretch of three games in five days Saturday, before it hosts Shippensburg University (Jan. 8) and Mansfield (Jan. 10) next week.