WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -Â After three wins at home to open the season, the Lycoming College men's basketball team will venture onto the road for the first time in 2016-17 when it heads to 25th-ranked Susquehanna for a pre-Thanksgiving showdown on Tuesday night, Nov. 22.
The Warriors (3-0 overall) won the Dutch Burch Tip-Off Tournament with a pair of 100-point performances, putting six in double figures in the 103-90 championship game win over Western Connecticut State. Junior
Alex Newbold was named the tournament MVP after averaging 15.5 points per game.
The River Hawks (2-1 overall) won their Pepsi Tip-Off Tournament, posting a 78-65 win over King's in the championship game, as senior Steven Weidlich scored 31 points in the win.
Game Notes
• Lycoming has scored 100 points in back-to-back games for the first time since doing it in five straight games from Nov. 21-Dec. 8, 1995.
• The Warriors have shot better than 50 percent from the field in each of the last two games and in four of their last seven.
• Senior
Nyk King needs one more double-double to tie Mike Bradley (2008-12) and Rasheed Campbell (1996-00) for 10th in school history with nine in a career.
• Despite leading the MAC Commonwealth with an average of 98.0 points per game, no Warrior is listed amongst the league's top 10 scorers.
• Junior
Alex Newbold needs 22 more points to reach 600 in his career.
• The game is Lycoming's first regular-season game against a team ranked in the D3hoops.com poll since they beat 21st-ranked Messiah, 81-73, in 2013-14.