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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - For the second year in a row and the third time in the last four years, the third-seeded Lycoming College men’s basketball team is set for a tilt in the Commonwealth Conference Championship game, heading back to Reading for the second time this week to face top-seeded Alvernia on Saturday, Feb. 23.

The Warriors (17-9 overall) are looking for their first conference title since winning the Freedom Conference in 2004. Since joining the Commonwealth Conference in 2008, though, the team has been a constant precense in the championship game, appearing in four of the last six title games.

The Crusaders (22-4 overall) enter the game as the top-seed in the Mid-Atlantic Region. They beat Arcadia, 69-66, in the conference semifinals on Wednesday, Feb. 20.

Warrior Notes
• The Warriors’ senior class needs one more win to tie the school record of 73 wins set by the senior class of 2005.

• With 261 assists, senior Jerald Williams needs six more helpers to move into seventh in the NCAA Division III single season record book, where Albert Kitchner of Mt. St. Vincent (1989-90) resides.

• With his first of a school-record tying six blocks against Albright, junior Michael Rudy now holds the school record for blocked shots in a season with 60.

• Senior Anthony Martin needs six more points to  become the 21st player in school history to score 450 in a season and the first since Jonathan Pribble in 2005-06.

• With 154 blocked shots this season, the Warriors need four more to break the school record of 157 set by the 2011-12 squad.

• At 83-46 as head coach at Lycoming, Guy Rancourt is tied with Don Friday (2003-08, 83-49) for fourth on the school’s all-time coaching wins list.