WISE, Va. – UVa-Wise men's basketball wraps up the regular season Saturday afternoon at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia, tip-off is scheduled for 4 p.m.
 
Storylines – vs. Concord University
The Cavaliers and Mountain Lions meet for the regular season finale after Concord defeated UVa-Wise 100-85 back on Jan. 21 inside the David J. Prior Convocation Center. In the two teams' first meeting this season the Cavs outscored the Mountain Lions 53-40 but could not come back from a 28-points 60-32 halftime deficit. UVa-Wise started very slow against Concord in that game as it took the Cavs four minutes and 15 seconds to score a point.
 
Now Concord has secured a first-round bye and No. 4 seed in next week's Mountain East Conference Tournament. The Mountain Lions hold a 13-8 league mark and an 18-9 overall record but are coming off a woeful 30-point 92-62 loss at the University of Charleston Thursday night.
 
Led by senior guard Rob Reed (21.1 ppg), the Mountain Lions are averaging 88.4 points per game but are giving up 84.6 points per contest. Junior guard Aaron Miller (17 ppg) is also one of Concord's top scorers, while senior forward Terry Hopewell is averaging a double-double with 12.2 points per game and 10.5 rebounds per game. Junior guard Michael Sanchez leads the team in assists per game with 4.3.
 
Reed and Miller each had 27 points in the Cavs' first meeting with Concord as Hopewell reached his double-double with 10 points and a game-high 14 rebounds.
 
About UVa-Wise
UVa-Wise is coming off of one of the more impressive games this season, a 102-89 MEC home win over West Virginia State Thursday night in the Prior Center.
 
In Matt Day's senior night, the starting forward erupted for a single-game UVa-Wise and MEC record 49 points. The Buckhorn, Kentucky (Buckhorn H.S.), native lit up the scoreboard in his final game on the campus of UVa-Wise, as he broke two other school and MEC records with 24 made free throws out of 27 free-throw attempts. The free-throw makes and attempts broke Terry Edwards' 19-for-22 performance from the foul line against Mars Hill College during the 1982-83 season. Day's 49 points shattered the old record of 42 points held by both David Ray, against King College in the 1976-77 season, and Hobby Stuart, versus Pikeville College during the 1985-86 season.
 
The senior became just the fifth player in all of NCAA Division II to score 49 points or more this season. Furthermore, his outing was the 14th-most points scored in a single-game by a men's basketball player in all NCAA divisions (I, II, III) this year.
 
Thursday night's win snapped a 13-game losing streak and was the Cavs first MEC home win in two years, since defeating Fairmont State 77-74 in overtime on Feb. 22 of 2014.
 
The Cavs can clinch the No. 11 seed in next week's MEC Tournament with a win or an Urbana University loss to Notre Dame College.