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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The No. 12/15 Queens University of Charlotte men's basketball team ends its three-game road trip tomorrow afternoon when it travels to Hickory, N.C. for a rematch with Lenoir-Rhyne University. Tip-off from Shuford Gymnasium is scheduled for 2 p.m.
 
Monday marks the 27^th all-time meeting between the two schools with Queens holding an 18-8 advantage in the all-time series. The Royals are 7-3 all-time in Hickory, but suffered a two-point loss in last year's trip to The Shu. Earlier this month, Queens welcomed the Bears to Charlotte and sent them home with an 88-68 loss after shooting 61.4 percent from the floor and scoring 26 points off of 17 LR turnovers.
 
Lenoir-Rhyne has announced there will be no outside fans permitted to attend home men's and women's basketball games. The games will be broadcasted on the Bears Sports Network at lrbears.com/watch.
 
IN THE BACKCOURT
 
-The Royals start the duo of juniors Kenny Dye and Kelyn Pennie in the backcourt. Dye, a SAC Preseason All-Conference selection, averages 12.8 points per game and ranks second in the South Atlantic Conference with 5.1 assist per contest. Dye is just seven assists away from breaking into Queens' Top 10 list for career assists.
 
- Pennie chips in 11.5 points per game and is one of the deadliest 3-point shooters in the NCAA. The Dallas, Texas native is 32-for-72 from deep (44.4%) and ranks among the NCAA's Top 5 in 3-pointers made during the 2020-21 season.
 
-The Bears feature a dynamic backcourt duo of their own in seniors Darius Simmons and Mason Hawks. Simmons is among the League leaders in scoring with 19.3 points per game, shooting 48.3 percent from 3-point range. Hawks follows with 10.2 points per game of his own and makes and has scored in double figures in three-of-six games this year.
 
IN THE FRONT COURT
 
-In the post, redshirt-sophomore Jamari Smith has returned to the court after missing the first six games of the year and is leading the team with 13.8 points per game while shooting 58.3 percent from the floor. Sophomore Gavin Rains controls the paint with 9.1 rebounds per game, including 4.1 rebounds on the offensive glass, to go along with 11 points per game.
 
-Junior forward Quan McCluney has provided Queens a spark off of the bench of late, averaging 14 points and seven rebounds per game over the last two contests while shooting 60 percent from the floor and 70 percent from 3-point range.
 
-Senior RJ Gunn has the ability to score both in the paint and beyond the arc for Lenoir-Rhyne, averaging 14 points per game and leading the team with 4.8 rebounds per contest. The Irmo, S.C. has scored in double figures five times this season for the Bears and has eclipsed the 20-point mark twice.
 
ON THE SIDELINES
 
-Queens Head Coach Bart Lundy is in his 19^th season overall and 13^th season at Queens. During his career with the Royals, Lundy is the program's winningest coach with a 295-95 (.756) record and has a 391-182 (.682) career coaching record at Queens and NCAA Division I High Point University. During his reign, Queens has won five conference championships (three Conference Carolinas, two South Atlantic Conference), four Southeast Region Championships and has made seven appearances in the NCAA Division II Tournament.
 
-Everick Sullivan is in his fifth season in charge of the Bears and ninth overall as a collegiate head coach. He has a 167-86 (.660) career record and is 60-60 (.500) in Hickory. Sullivan led the Bears to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018-19 and LR most recently knocked on second-ranked Lincoln Memorial University on January 9 at home.
 
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
 
-The Royals are 8-2 overall with a 7-1 record in SAC play. Queens ranks among the NCAA Top 25 in scoring defense as opponents are scoring just 66.4 points per game on 41.4 percent shooting from the floor. The Royals force 15.3 turnovers per contest and score 17.3 points per game off of those miscues.
 
-Offensively, the Royals score 77.8 points per game and have eclipsed the 90-point mark twice in the last three games. Queens is shooting 48.1 percent from the floor and 39.2 percent from 3-point range as a team while holding a plus-8.9 margin in rebounds per game.
 
-Last time out, Queens ran its current winning streak to six games in row with a 91-67 victory over UVA Wise on the road. McCluney led the Royals with his first career double-double of 15 points and 11 rebounds, while Smith scored a game-high 17 points in just 21 minutes of play. Junior Kavan Hill chipped in 14 points off of bench and Rains pulled down 10 rebounds.
 
-The Bears 4-2 overall and 4-2 in conference play, having most recently suffered a 73-54 loss to Carson-Newman University on Saturday in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Gunn became the 55^th player in LR history to score 1,000 career points in the loss as the Bears turned in their lowest scoring offensive performance since 2017.
 
-Lenoir-Rhyne's offense averaged 78.5 points per game, but the defense surrenders 76.3 points per contest and allows opponents to shoot nearly 47 percent from the floor. The Bears are minus-9.5 in rebounding margin but have been able to force opponents to more than 17 turnovers per game.
 
-In the previous matchup on Jan. 2, Queens opened the new year with a 20-point victory inside Curry Arena. Queens junior Malcolm Stevenson, who has missed the last three games with an ankle injury, led the charge with 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting, including 4-for-5 from 3-point range, to go along with seven rebounds, four assists and three steals. Rains followed with 14 points, seven rebounds and four assists of his own, while Dye chipped in 13 points and five rebounds in 30 minutes of play.