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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Queens University of Charlotte men's basketball team concludes play in the D.C. Paradise Jam in Washington, D.C. against Belmont University. Opening tipoff is scheduled for 12 p.m. from the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
 
Saturday marks the first all-time meeting between the two schools. NCAA Division I institutions George Mason University, and Howard University round out the four-team field for the tournament that is typically played the week of Thanksgiving each year in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
 
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the tournament moved to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Nov. 26-28. All members of the tournament - players and staff - will have to follow comprehensive COVID-19 protocols created by local DC health officials.
 
Quick Facts
 
Queens Royals (1-1)
(Game Notes)
 
-Queens opened the tournament with a one-point loss to George Mason on Thursday afternoon before pulling off an 85-71 rout of Howard on Friday evening.
 
-The Royals surpassed the 20-win mark last season for the fifth straight year. The Royals have a total of 607 victories in program history since it's inception in 1989-90.
 
-The Royals were ranked No. 10 overall in both the D2SIDA Media Poll and the NABC Preseason Coaches Poll . Queens finished the 2019-20 season ranked No. 15 in the final edition of the D2SIDA Media Poll and held a No. 23 ranking in the NABC Coaches Poll.
 
- Over the past five seasons, the Royals have won 142 games and have won at least 30 games in three of the last four years.
 
-The two-time reigning regional champions were picked to finish second in the South Atlantic Conference's Preseason Poll, as voted on by the League's coaches. The Royals received one of 13 first-place votes and 144 total votes to place second behind preseason favorite Lincoln Memorial University.
 
-Junior Kenny Dye and redshirt-sophomore Jamari Smith were each named to the SAC's Preseason All-Conference Team, as voted on by the League's coaches.
 
-Dye is averaging 17 points, 4.5 assists and four steals per game thus far, while freshman Justin Thomas is scoring 13.5 points per game on 73.3 percent shooting from the field. Sophomore Gavin Rains chips in 11 points and 7.5 rebounds per game as the team's primary option in the post.
 
-Head Coach Bart Lundy is in his 13^th season at Queens and 19^th season overall as a collegiate head coach. Lundy boasts a 384-181 (.680) career record and is Queens' all-time winningest coach with a 288-94 (.755) mark.
 
 
Belmont Bruins (2-0)
(Game Notes) 
 
-The Bruins finished the 2019-20 season 26-7 overall and earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament after claiming  its 11th regular season conference championship in 15 years, sixth in eight years of OVC membership.
 
-Belmont returns eight letterwinners, including All-OVC performers Nick Muszynski (Pickerington, Ohio) and Grayson Murphy (Franklin, Tenn.), each among the most accomplished juniors in college basketball.
 
-Muszynski has 52 double figure scoring games to his credit in his career. The 6-11 center is on pace to become Belmont's career scoring and blocked shot leader of the NCAA Division I era.
 
-Belmont has ranked in the Top 25 nationally in 3-point field goals made per game every year but one since becoming an NCAA Division-I member institution in 1996. Currently, no program has made more 3-pointers than Belmont (7025) since the Bruins went Division I.
 
-Casey Alexander is in his second season with Belmont after compiling a 26-7 overall record in his debut season with the Bruins in 2019-20. Alexander is in his 10th season overall as a collegiate head coach, compiling a 165-127 record with previous stops at Stetson University and Lipscomb University.