The Blue Hose take on league-leading Winthrop Saturday afternoon in the second game of a doubleheader with the women's team.  It is also Scotsman Club Letterman's Day with former PC men's and basketball players being honored.  The Blue Hose will also take time to recognize PC's five women's wrestling All-Americans and two national champions.  During halftime of the women's game the acrobatics and tumbling team will perform an exhibition.

Game Information
Opponent: Winthrop
Date: Feb. 14, 2020
Site: Clinton, S.C. (Templeton Center)
Radio: WPCC (bit.ly/2m3wPAT)
Announcers: Ryan Clary (PbP)
TV Broadcast: ESPN3 (https://es.pn/2vuB7pN)
Announcers: Tyler Shugart (PbP), Kenn Blankenship (Analyst)
Live Stats: www.Presbyterian.Statbroadcast.com (http://bit.ly/2HmcduT)
Twitter: @BlueHoseSports

WIN leads the series 25-13
Last meeting:
2020: WIN 72, PC 57
2019: WIN 93, PC 85

Winthrop
Record: 18-9, 12-2
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Feb. 13, 2020, vs. Gardner-Webb, L 70-74, in Boiling Springs, N.C.
Head Coach: Pat Kelsey
Career Record: 157-92 (8th year)
RAD Record: 157-92 (8th year)
vs. PC: 13-2

Presbyterian College
Record: 9-17, 6-7
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Feb. 13, 2020 vs Radford, L 71-81, in Radford, Va.
Head Coach: Quinton Ferrell
Career Record: 9-17 (1st year)
PC Record: 9-17 (1st year)
vs. WIN: 0-1

NOTES
Presbyterian College heads home for a Saturday contest with league-leading Winthrop ... The game tips at 4 p.m., and caps a doubleheader with the women's team, which takes on Charleston Southern at 2 p.m. ... In a change from the schedule, the game airs live on ESPN3, instead of ESPN+ ... The Eagles own a 25-13 record over PC and won the last meeting, which was earlier this season, 72-57 ...

Winthrop outscored the Blue Hose 30-9 during a 10-minute stretch in the second half to pull away from a close contest and take the 72-57 win over PC in the last contest, in Rock Hill, S.C. ... Chris Martin led the offense with 13 points, with CJ Melton pulling down a team-leading nine rebounds ...

Winthrop is 18-9 overall and 12-2 in the conference after a 70-74 loss at Gardner-Webb this past Thursday ... Hunter Hale paces the Eagles in points with 12.6, with Josh Ferguson on top in rebounds with 6.4 a game ... Winthrop is averaging 80.0 points, 40.9 rebounds, and 16.1 assists per game ...

PC is 9-17 overall and 6-7 in the league, after falling at Radford, 71-81, in its last game ... Cory Hightower leads the team in points (13.2), and rebounds (5.8) per game ... The Blue Hose are averaging 66.8 points, 33.7 rebounds, and 12.3 assists per game  ... 

The men's basketball team was unable to find an answer for Radford from beyond the arc as the hosts connected on 10 threes en route to an 81-71 victory its last game ... Cory Hightower led all scorers with 21 points on eight-of-16 shooting ... 

With 13 points at Radford JC Younger hit the 1,000-point career plateau, which makes him the fifth player in PC DI history to reach the historic number ... He is now in the top five in PC DI career scoring ... With a three-pointer at Longwood JC alsoo took over the top spot in the PC Division I career record book with 215, he now has 229 …

With 12 points against Gardner-Webb Cory Hightower eclipsed 500 career points (now at 671) ...

PC experienced a five-game winning streak earlier this season, which tied for the longest winning streak since the 2017 season when the team picked up five straight ... The Blue Hose have won at least four games in a row just twice in their Division I history ... 

In league play the Blue Hose have been averaging 4.2 points higher, and are shooting .353 from the perimeter against league opponents, compared to .320 overall ... Cory Hightower is scoring 1.6 more points per game, while freshman Zeb Graham is averaging almost three more ... 

Ben Drake's career-high 16 rebounds in the first meeting against Gardner-Webb tied for fifth in the PC DI record book ... The team's 52 rebounds that same game tied for sixth in the PC DI record book ...

A young team in 2019-20, the Blue Hose have enlisted several new starters this season ... In the nine of 10 games four freshmen started along with sophomore Cory Hightower ... Other starters have been Michael Isler, who is averaging 26.4 minutes, as well as Zeb Graham, Sean Jenkins, and Owen McCormack, who are averaging over 15 minutes a game ... 

Michigan was the third and final team that PC played this season from one of the Power 5 conferences ... The Blue Hose faced ACC's Clemson on Nov. 7 and Notre Dame Nov. 18 ... Michigan was the only ranked opponent, sitting 14th/15th ...

The Blue Hose are making marks in the PC DI season stats record book ... Currently PC is third in scoring average (66.8), third in rebounding average (33.7), second in assists average (12.3), fourth in steals average (6.0), third in field goal percentage defense (.446), and second in rebounding margin (0.0) ...

Several Blue Hose are showing up in the Big South stats ... Cory Hightower is 13th in scoring (13.2) and ninth in rebounds (5.8), while Ben Drake is 12th in rebounding (5.6) ... Chris Martin is 11th in assists (2.9), Hightower is 12th (2.7) ... Martin is tied for ninth in steals (1.4) ... JC Younger is 12th in three-pointers made (1.7) ... Hightower is eighth in minutes played (32.7) ...

In conference play the Blue Hose are in the top five in several categories, including free throw percentage (.742 - 2nd), field goal percentage (.474 - 2nd), rebounding defense (30.5 - 1st), as well as rebounding margin (+3.1 - 3rd) ...

A new season brings a new coaching staff with the addition of 2007 PC alum Quinton Ferrell ... An integral member of the basketball team as a student-athlete he served as an assistant coach from graduation to 2012 ... After stops at The Citadel and Army, he settled at College of Charleston for five seasons from 2014-19 ... In his fourth season the Cougars made a memorable run that included the program's second-straight 25-win campaign, an impressive 26-8 overall record and 14-4 mark in CAA play ... The co-regular-season champions won the CAA Men's Basketball Championship and earned their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1999 ...

Ferrell brought with him a new staff with the additions of Ben Korren, Trey Meyer, Nick Lagroone as assistant coaches, Trey Johnson as Director of Basketball Operations, and Erik Goldbach as Video Coordinator ... 

The Blue Hose are looking for another strong season at the Templeton Center in 2019-20, after finishing 12-3 at home last season ... The 12 wins at home was the most in its DI history ... PC is 6-4 at home so far this season ...

The 20 wins in 2018-19 by the Blue Hose were most in PC DI history ... The Blue Hose recorded 14 wins in 2011-12 (14-15) ... The record for most wins all-time is 27, set in 92-93 and 2002-03 ... The last time the Blue Hose won at least 20 games was in 2006-07, the final year of Division II, the team went 20-9 ... 

Last season PC posted nine conference wins (9-7), which was tied for the most in its DI history ... The Blue Hose were 9-9 in 2008-09 ... The team is currently 6-7 in Big South play ...

PC has made at least one three-pointer in the last 398 games ... PC has hit one three-pointer in several games, the last against Clemson in 2015, but has not been held without one in its entire Division I history ...