Game Notes (pdf)JACKSONVILLE -- The top-seeded North Florida basketball team hosts No. 8-seed USC Upstate in a quarterfinal match-up of the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in UNF Arena. The game will be carried on ESPN3 and 92.5 FM. The Ospreys (21-10, 10-4 ASun) enter the postseason riding a three-game win streak. UNF captured the program's second straight regular season conference title and now turn their attention to seeking a second consecutive ASun Tournament crown.USC Upstate (10-21, 4-10) edged NJIT in their season finale, 72-71, to snap a two-game skid. The Spartans dropped five of their last seven game including a hard fought 81-78 decision to the Ospreys on Feb. 20 in UNF Arena.The game is a rematch of last year's Atlantic Sun Conference championship game that saw the Ospreys outlast Upstate, 63-57. The duo also faced each other in the opening round of the 2014 conference tournament at the Hodge Center in Spartanburg, S.C.North Florida is led by Atlantic Sun Player of the Year, Dallas Moore, Defensive Player of the Year, Demarcus Daniels, and fellow first-team all-conference selection Beau Beech. The Spartans lineup boast second-team All-ASun performer Michael Buchanan and All-Freshman team honoree, Deion Holmes.
The winner of the North Florida-USC Upstate contest will face the winner of FGCU-Kennesaw State in Thursday's semifinal round. If UNF is victorious the game would be played at 7:30 p.m. in UNF Arena.#QuickHits- UNF and USC Upstate will be meeting for the 28th time in program history with Spartans holding a 16-11 lead in the all-time series // It marks the third straight season the two squads will face off in the Atlantic Sun tournament- Ospreys have claimed three straight in the series after Spartans had won the previous five prior to last year's ASun Championship game.- North Florida is currently receiving votes in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 - Ospreys are 1 of 8 teams in nation with 5 or more players averaging double digits- North Florida is 13-1 at home this season and have won 20 of their last 21 in UNF Arena-
Dallas Moore is one of four NCAA players to lead their league in PPG & APG with Michigan State's Denzel Valentine, Iona's AJ English & Oakland's Kay Felder.
- UNF became the third program in A-Sun history to win outright A-Sun Regular Season title in back-to-back years with the last coming in the 2011-12 season.
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Trent Mackey has hit an A-Sun leading 102 three's. He's eighth in A-Sun single-season history. The A-Sun record of 116 was set by UNF's Parker Smith.
- Five Ospreys are averaging 12.0+ PPG for the year with Moore (19.7),
Beau Beech (15.6),
Demarcus Daniels (12.9), Mackey (12.2) &
Chris Davenport (12.1).
- A-Sun Defensive Player of the Year,
Demarcus Daniels enters Tuesday with 71 blocks this year & 177 career swats. His career total is eighth in A-Sun history.
- The top seed in the A-Sun Championship has reached the last five conference finals and captured the A-Sun title in 2011, 2012 & 2015.
