Men's Basketball Visits USC Upstate Saturday Afternoon

Saturday, January 20

Spartanburg, S.C.

2 p.m.

University of North Florida

USC Upstate

Basketball preview graphic for Upstate game with Ospreys standing in line for national anthem in the back ground

Photo by: Todd Drexler

1/19/2018 5:04:00 PM | Men's Basketball

By: North Florida Athletics

QUICK VIEW – The North Florida men's basketball team visits USC Upstate Saturday to wrap up the first ASUN road weekend of the season. The game tips at 2 p.m. in the Hodge Center and will be carried on ESPN3.

GAME DAY CENTRAL
WHAT: North Florida vs USC Upstate
WHERE: Hodge Center (837)
WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 20 - 2:00 PM (ET)
THE SERIES: UNF trails the series, 13-17
LAST MEETING: The pair met at UNF Arena on Feb. 11, 2017 | Ospreys held a slim 31-29 point lead at the half before the Spartans blistered the nets at a 64% clip and scored 55 second half points | Dallas Moore scored 26 points to lead UNF while Wajid Aminu chipped in 15 pts | The Spartans got 28 points from Mike Cunningham along with a 22-point/13-rebound double-double effort by Michael Buchanan | The Upstate win snapped a five game losing streak to the Ospreys

FOLLOWING THE ACTION
TV/WEB: ESPN3
LIVESTATS: UpstateSpartans.com
TWITTER: @OspreyMBB

ABOUT NORTH FLORIDA (8-13 / 2-2 ASUN)
Roster | Schedule | Statistics | Game Notes

ABOUT USC UPSTATE (6-15 / 1-3 ASUN)
Roster | Schedule | Statistics | Game Notes

NOTABLE
- #BirdsofTrey have made a three-pointer in 648 consecutive games including every game of their Division I history - a string of 400 straight
- UNF is 3rd in the nation for 3PM and ranks 5th in 3PA and 9th in 3PM/game | Ospreys have 12 games with double digit 3PMs
- Today's meeting marks 31st all-time between Ospreys and Spartans with Upstate owning a 17-13 advantage
- Coach Matthew Driscoll owns a 9-10 mark against USC Upstate while Coach Kyle Perry is facing UNF for the first time
- Ospreys have won five of the last six meetings between the teams but Spartans halted a UNF win streak with their win last February | UNF has earned the "W" in each of their past two visits to Spartanburg
- The UNF-Upstate game pits the league's top 2 three-point shooting squads against each other: UNF averages 11.0 3PM/game while Spartans are making 10.6 per game

ON THE ROAD AGAIN: North Florida played its first six games of the year away from UNF Arena and closed the 2017 calendar with 4 consecutive games on the road | UNF collected only road W of year at FAMU (1-11) | Ospreys are in the midst of playing 4 of 5 games away from home

UP NEXT
- North Florida hosts FGCU in the squad's final home contest of January on Wednesdsay (Jan. 24)