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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – On Saturday at the Levine Center, the Queens University of Charlotte men's basketball team (17-6, 12-5 SAC) hosts the University of Virginia College at Wise (5-18, 1-16 SAC) in its annual Homecoming Game. 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.

Queens and UVa-Wise, the South Atlantic Conference's newest member, will meet for just the second time. Queens won the first meeting, 90-66, on Jan. 4, on the road, behind a season-high 31-point performance by Daniel Carr.
 
Quick Facts
Queens Royals (17-6, 12-5 SAC)
(Game Notes)

-Last time out, Van Turner Jr. scored 25 points on seven of 12 3-point shooting as Queens sealed a season sweep of Newberry College with an 88-72 victory on Wednesday night at Eleazer Arena. Carr scored 17, Jamari Smith scored 10 with seven rebounds, and Jachai Taylor scored nine with a career-high 11 rebounds.

-So far this season, Queens has collected notable wins over the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (No. 2), Catawba College (No. 6), Lees-McRae College (No. 8), and Anderson University (No. 10), all regionally-ranked teams.

-Queens is currently tied with Catawba for second place in the SAC standings. The Royals are five games back of Lincoln Memorial (17-0) in first place and hold a two-game lead over Anderson University and Tusculum (10-7), who are tied for fourth place. The top four teams in the SAC standings at the end of the season will earn the right to host a quarterfinal game in the SAC Tournament.

-The two-time reigning regional champions remained at No. 5 in the most recent edition of the Southeast Region Poll, D2SIDA announced on Monday, Feb. 10. Queens earned 36 points, to place behind conference rival Lincoln Memorial, UNC-Pembroke, King University and Lander University.

-With a 28-point performance on Saturday, Feb. 8, at Tusculum University, Carr moved into eighth-place all-time on the Queens career scoring list, passing former teammate Todd Withers, who scored 1,367 points in 116 games from 2014-2018. Carr has currently scored 1,377 points in his four-year career (127 games) and is three points shy of tying Antonio Stabler (1,390 points) for seventh place.

-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).
 

UVa-Wise Cavaliers (5-18, 1-16 SAC)

-The Cavaliers currently sit in last place in the SAC standings having lost 12 consecutive game.

-UVa-Wise's last and only conference win came on Nov. 30 versus Anderson University, 90-75.

-Last time out, Wise fell to No. 2/2 Lincoln Memorial University, 94-76, after trailing by just four points at halftime.

-The Cavaliers are led by Cameron Whiteside, who averages a team-leading 20.1 points (No. 2 SAC) and 7.1 rebounds per game (No. 6 SAC).

-Head Coach Blake Mellinger is in his seventh season leading his alma mater. A 2006 graduate of UVa-Wise, Mellinger holds a coaching record of 54-141 (.277 win pct.).