After winning their final non-conference game of the regular season on Tuesday, (rv) Keiser men's basketball will jump back into Sun Conference play with New College of Florida on Saturday. Tipoff from the Hal Chasey Gymnasium in Sarasota, Fla. is set for 4:00 p.m.
(rv) Keiser Seahawks (16-4, 6-2 SUN) vs
New College of Florida Mighty Banyans (11-10, 4-5 SUN)
Saturday, February 1- 4:00 PM
Hal Chasey Gymnasium - Sarasota, Fla.
WATCH: Sun Digital Network
LIVE STATS: SIDEARM STATS
ADMISSION: General Admission $8, Students and Faculty Free
- The Seahawks are 1-0 all-time against the new members of the Sun Conference
- Keiser claimed the only win in the series earlier this season with a 74-62 in West Palm Beach on January 4
- Tyreon Payne scored a season-high 29 points in the win including 26 points in the second half
- Keiser returns to conference play with a 16-4 overall record
- The Seahawks are two games behind the leaders in the Sun Conference, Ave Maria and Florida Memorial, but have two games to play
- KU is 6-2 this season on the road with their only losses coming to ranked opponents
- Keiser is riding a two-game winning streak with wins over St. Thomas and Florida College
- Vincent Miszkiewicz shined on the defensive side of the ball with 13 rebounds and a career-high seven blocks
- On the offensive end, it was Calvin Sirmans who scored a team-high 18 points and nine assists
- Cameron Stitt had a career game on Tuesday with 12 points and 10 rebounds, his first collegiate double-double
- As a team, the Seahawks are continuing to dominate the boards, ranking second in the NAIA at 44.1 rebounds per game
- Part of the reason for the rebounds is forcing missed shots by the opponents which Keiser ranks second in the NAIA
- After recording seven blocks last time out, KU is up to 12th in the NAIA in blocks per game with an average of 4.6 per contest
- New College comes into Saturday's contest with an 11-10 overall record and is 4-5 in the SUN
- The Mighty Banyans are on a three-game skid but have lost by a combined 12 points in those games
- Charlie Yoder is one of the top scorers in the country with an average of 24.9 points per game this season
- New College will look to push themselves to the free-throw line as they are the third-best team in the NAIA from the charity stripe with a 79.1 success rate
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