Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball | Game #3 LRBears.com | @bearssports | #GOBEARS MATCHUP » 2020-21 SCHEDULE #19 QUEENS ROYALS (2-2, 1-1 SAC) VS. Date Opponent Time/Result LENOIR-RHYNE BEARS (2-0, 2-0 SAC) D. 12 Catawba W, 93-86 D. 16 at Mars Hill W, 69-65 JAN. 2 |CURRY ARENA | CHARLOTTE, N.C. | 4:30 P.M. J.2 at #19 Queens 4:30 PM J. 9 #2 Lincoln Memorial 4:30 PM J. 13 at UVA Wise 8 PM J. 16 at Carson-Newman 4:30 PM » THE COACHES » THE SERIES J. 20 Wingate 8 PM J. 23 at Coker 4:30 PM Queens: Overall: Queens leads, 17-10 J. 27 Mars Hill 8 PM Bart Lundy Current streak: L1 J. 30 Tusculum 4:30 PM Career Record: 385-182 (19th season) In Hickory: 4-7 Record at Queens 289-95 (13th season) F. 6 Limestone 4:30 PM In Charlotte: 4-9 Neutral sites: 2-1 F. 10 at Catawba 8 PM Lenoir-Rhyne: Last matchup: Queens 106, LR 96 (3/4/2020) Everick Sullivan F. 13 Anderson 4:30 PM First matchup: LR 66, Queens 63 (1/15/1990) F. 17 UVA Wise 8 PM Career Record: 165-84 (9th year) Record at Lenoir-Rhyne: 58-58 (5th year) Largest margin of victory: 25, 92-67 (2/5/1990) F. 20 at Mars Hill 4:30 PM Smallest margin of victory: 2, 82-80 (1/25/20) F. 24 at Queens 8 PM F. 27 Newberry 4:30 PM M. 3 SAC Tournament Quarters TBA » BROADCAST INFORMATION » THE VENUE M. 6 SAC Tournament Semis TBA Web: portal.stretchinternet.com/queens Arena: Levine Center // Curry Arena M. 7 SAC Tournament Champ. TBA SAC Live Address: 1900 Selwyn Avenue Announcers: TBA Charlotte, N.C. 28274 Home games in RED Broadcast start time: 4:15 PM Location: Charlotte, N.C. All Lenoir-Rhyne home basketball games Capacity: 3,000 will be streamed on lrbears.com/watch with Built: 2011 the postgame being uploaded to YouTube and lrbears.com. All broadcasts go live 15 minutes prior to the scheduled tip time. » TEAM STAT COMPARISON 71.8 44.4 32.9 68.8 43.0 29.7 40.8 12.3 2.8 8.3 16.8 SCORING FG % 3PT % POINTS FG % 3PT % DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE REB. ASSISTS BLOCKS STEALS TO 81.0 46.7 34.0 75.5 46.2 46.2 29.5 13.5 1.0 8.0 11.5 1 » WEBCAST/RADIO ROSTER Damion Medwinter Davion Bradford Salle Wilson Everick Sullivan Zach Corliss Blake Simmons #0 | 6’4” | F | R-Fr. #1 | 6’0” | G | Sr. #2 | 6’4” | F | Fr. Head Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach » NUMERICAL ROSTER # Name Ht. Wt. Pos CL Hometown 0 Damion Medwinter 6-4 200 F R-Fr. Trumbull, Conn. 1 Davion Bradford 6-0 195 G Sr. Pontiac, Mich. 2 Salle Wilson 6-4 190 F Fr. Baton Rouge, La. 3 Mason Hawks 6-0 180 G Sr. Mount Airy, N.C. Mason Hawks Elijah Shabazz Marcus Metcalf 4 Elijah Shabazz 6-5 215 F So. Raleigh, N.C. #3 | 6’0” | G | Sr. #4 | 6’5” | F | So. #5 | 6’0” |G| R-Fr. 5 Marcus Metcalf 6-0 160 G R-Fr. Goldsboro, N.C. 10 Darius Simmons 5-11 180 G R-Sr. Raleigh, N.C. 11 Anthony Rice 5-11 190 G Sr. Atlanta, Ga. 12 Tyson McClain 5-11 170 G R-Jr. Spartanburg, S.C. 13 Zim Fields 6-4 200 F So. Savannah, Ga. 14 Marcus Owens Castrillo 6-5 190 F R-Fr. Punta Del Este, Uruguay 15 Tim Steele 6-5 250 F Fr. Myrtle Beach, S.C. 20 Sam Deal 5-11 180 G So. Hickory, N.C. 21 R.J. Gunn 6-7 245 F Sr. Columbia, S.C. 23 Nas Tyson 6-1 200 G So. Wingate, N.C. Darius Simmons Anthony Rice Tyson McClain 24 Armon Muldrew 6-1 190 G Fr. Perris, Calif. #10 | 5’11” |G| R-Sr. #11 | 5’11” | G | Sr. #12 | 5’11” | G | R-Jr. 32 Percy Fyle 6-8 210 C Fr. Charlotte, N.C. 33 Cooper Fowler 6-11 275 C So. Greenville, S.C. Head Coach: Everick Sullivan; Fifth Season at Lenoir-Rhyne Assistant Coach: Zach Corliss Assistant Coach: Blake Simmons » ROSTER BREAKDOWN (BY STATE) Zim Fields Marcus Owens Castrillo Tim Steele #13 | 6’4” | G | So. #14 | 6’5” | F | R-Fr. #15 | 6’5” |F| Fr. North Carolina (7) Mason Hawks South Carolina (4) Georgia (2) Michigan (1) Marcus Metcalf Tyson McClain Zim Fields Davion Bradford Darius Simmons Sam Deal Tim Steele Anthony Rice Sam Deal R.J. Gunn Nas Tyson Elijah Shabazz R.J. Gunn #20 | 5’11” | G | So. #21 | 6’7” | F | Sr. #23 | 6’1” |G| So. Nas Tyson Cooper Fowler Percy Fyle California (1) Connecticut (1) Louisiana (1) Uruquay (1) Armon Muldrew Percy Fyle Cooper Fowler Armon Muldrew Damion Medwinter Salle Wilson Marcus Owens #24 | 6’1” | G | Fr. #32 | 6’8” | C | Fr. #33 | 6’11” |C| So. Castrillo 2 » LENOIR-RHYNE NOTES » LENOIR-RHYNE BY THE NUMBERS HISTORIC 100TH SEASON ROYAL MATCHUP Seasons of Men’s Basketball 100 » Saturday marked the beginning of a » The Bears and Royals have met 27 times Winning seasons 62 historic 100th season of Lenoir-Rhyne men’s but the rivalry has kicked up in recent years. Losing seasons 34 basketball. The historic program began » Lenoir-Rhyne owns three wins over the .500 seasons 3 competition in 1919 but were shut down for Royals in the past two seasons, one at home, Consecutive winning seasons 16 two seasons due to World War II. The Bears one on the road and one at a neutral site. Consecutive losing seasons 6 Wins in a season 26 (1962-63) have won 19 regular season championships » This is the 14th straight head-to-head Longest winning streak 24 (1956-57) and 12 conference tournaments in their matchup between the two programs with Regular Season Championships 19 (last in 2008-09) history. Queens entering as a ranked team. The Conf. Tournament Championships 12 (last in 2003) » The Bears are just 8 wins shy of 1,400 Royals have won 10 of those 14 matchups. Longest home winning streak 25 (1955-58) as a program and own an all-time winning » Everick Sullivan has navigated the Bears All-time games played 2,518 percentage of .552 in the first 99 years of to three wins over the Royals over the past All-time record 1,392-1,126 basketball. two years. In those games, the Royals were All-time SAC record 287-221 » 62 of the first 99 seasons have been ranked No. 5, No. 6 and No. 16 in the nation. 1,000 point scorers 53 winning seasons for the Bears. Last year, the 20+ win seasons 20 (last in 2018-19) Bears went 14-14 which is only the third time VS. RANKED OPPONENTS LR 100-point games 83 (last in 2019-20) in history that LR finished a season exactly » Since the start of the 1989-90 season, All-Americans 8 (last in 2015) at .500. the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball Team All-Conference players 81 (last in 2019-20) has played in 58 games against ranked SAC Players of the Year 5 (last in 2015-16) LAST TIME OUT opponents. The Bears are 11-47 in those SAC Freshmen of the Year 4 (last in 2005-06) » Darius Simmons scored 21 points and contests. NCAA Tournament appearances 7 (last in 2019) went 10-for-12 from the free throw line to » Before engineering an upset of No. 6/9 NCAA Tournament record 3-7 lead Lenoir-Rhyne to a narrow 69-65 victory Queens on Jan. 30, 2019, the Bears had lost Highest national ranking 11 at Mars Hill on Wednesday afternoon. Mason 11 straight games against ranked opponents. Weeks in national rankings 15 Most consecutive weeks in national poll 5 Hawks added 15 points and hit a pair of The Bears went 2 1/2 years without a win Games played at Shuford Gym 732 game-clinching free throws with four seconds over a ranked opponent before that win over Total season at Shuford Gym 65 remaining to send the Bears to victory. Queens. Winning seasons at Shuford Gym 50 » » For just the second time since the start of The Royals rank No. 20 in the nation Losing seasons at Shuford Gym 10 the 2019-20 season, R.J. Gunn was held in currently but were as high as No. 10 earlier Undefeated seasons at Shuford Gym 3 single digits as the senior had three points this season. .500 seasons at Shuford Gym 4 » Lenoir-Rhyne shot just 35.1 percent from Longest home winning streak 25 (1955-58) the field in the victory. The last time LR shot JOHN LENTZ COURT Most home wins in a season 14 (1966-67) below 40 percent and still came away with a » The playing surface at Shuford Gym was Most home losses in a season 10 (2010-11) win was on Nov. 12, 2016 when they shot 37.1 dedicated to John Lentz on Feb. 8, 2020 and Most home wins in a two-year span 24 (1965-67) percent in a 75-52 win over Francis Marion. Lenoir-Rhyne is 4-1 on Lentz Court. Most home wins in a three-year span 35 (1964-67) » The Bears knocked down 26 free throws, the most in a regular season game for LR since hitting 21 at Mars Hill on Jan.