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CHARLOTTE, N.C. –The 17^th-ranked Queens University of Charlotte men's basketball team (14-5, 9-4 SAC) returns home on Saturday to meet conference rival and second-ranked Lincoln Memorial University (20-1, 13-0 SAC) in its annual White Out Game. The first 100 students in attendance will receive this season's official White Out t-shirt for free. Opening tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.

General admission is $6 for adults, $4 for children ages 13-17, and free for seniors (60 and older) and children 12 and under. Queens students, faculty, and staff will also receive free admission with the presentation of their Queens ID card.

Saturday marks the 23rd all-time meeting between the two schools. Lincoln Memorial leads the all-time series, 16-6, and won the season's first meeting, 73-64, on Dec. 7. However, Queens had previously won three straight in the series and, since the start of the 2016-2017 season, LMU holds a slight 6-5 edge.

Over the previous four seasons, each year Queens and Lincoln Memorial has finished first and second in the South Atlantic Conference's final standings, with Queens claiming one outright title in that span (2018-2019), LMU claiming two outright titles (2015-2016 & 2017-2018) and the two sides splitting the regular-season conference crown once (2016-2017).

The two sides have also combined to win the last four Southeast Region titles, as the Railsplitters claimed back-to-back crowns during the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 seasons. The Royals followed with back-to-back region titles in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.
 

Quick Facts
No. 17 Queens Royals (14-5, 9-4 SAC)
(Game Notes)

-Last time out, down by 14 with less than seven minutes to play, the Royals' comeback effort fell short and No. 17 Queens fell to Anderson University, 86-82, on Wednesday night at Abney Athletic Center. The game featured 13 lead changes and nine ties, as Queens dropped a second consecutive game for the first time since February of 2016. Jermaine Patterson paced six Royals in double figures with 16 points. 

-With a 22-point performance on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at Wingate University, Daniel Carr moved into 10th-place all-time on the Queens career scoring list, passing DeWayne Ansley who scored 1,266 points in 111 games from 1991-1996. Carr has currently scored 1,314 points in his four-year career (123 games) and is 31 points shy of tying Yogi Leo (1,345 points) for ninth place.

-So far this season, Queens has collected notable wins over the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (No. 3), Lees-McRae College (No. 6), Catawba College (No. 7), and Lenoir-Rhyne (No. 8), all regionally-ranked teams.

-Queens is ranked No. 17 nationally in the latest edition of the D2SIDA Media Poll, released on Tuesday, Jan. 28. The Royals remain ranked in at least one of the two major national polls every week since Nov. 2016, a streak that spans more than three full seasons.

-The two-time reigning regional champions held at No. 2 in the most recent edition of the Southeast Region Poll, D2SIDA announced on Monday, Jan. 27. Queens earned 53 points, placing just behind conference rival Lincoln Memorial, who received all six first-place votes and earned 60 points. The Royals were ranked No. 1 in the region in the preseason.

-On Tuesday, Dec. 31, the Royals fell out of the NABC / Division II Rankings for the first time this season, ending the program's streak of 65 consecutive weeks in the national coaches' poll. The streak, which began on Nov. 24, 2015, the first poll of the 2015-2016 season, lasted 1,498 days (4 years, 1 month and 7 days).  

-Over the previous three seasons, the Royals have won 93 games, the fourth most of any program at all NCAA levels during that span (Gonzaga 103, Northwest Missouri State 100, Villanova 94).

-The Royals have won 30 games or more in each of the last three seasons and are one of just two programs in all levels of NCAA basketball who have accomplished the feat (Gonzaga).
 

Lincoln Memorial Railsplitters (20-1, 13-0 SAC)

-Lincoln Memorial most recently defeated Carson-Newman University, 87-65, on Wednesday night to clinch the program's 11th consecutive 20-win season.

-LMU's only loss came in its season opener versus currently-No. 3/5 West Texas A&M University, 99-89, in overtime.

-The Railsplitters' 20-game winning streak is the longest active such streak in NCAA Division II.

-LMU is ranked No. 2 in both major national polls and No. 1 in the Southeast Region.

-The Railsplitters hold a four-game lead over Queens atop the South Atlantic Conference standings.

-The Splitters are led by Courvosier McCauley, who averages a team-best 19.8 points per game (No. 3 SAC). McCauley, who has twice been named SAC Player of the week this season, is also third in the League in 3-point shooting percentage (44.3%).

-Head Coach Josh Schertz is in his 12th season at Lincoln Memorial and holds an overall record of 306-65 (.825 win pct.). A former assistant coach of Bart Lundy's at Queens and High Point University, Schertz has led LMU to seven SAC Championships, eight NCAA Tournament appearances and four of the program's five 30-win seasons.