WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - It took every single minute of the MAC Commonwealth men's basketball season, but an Arcadia win over Messiah on Saturday night helped Lycoming College earn the No. 5 seed in the MAC Commonwealth Championship, as it opens the tournament by heading to Stevenson for a 7 p.m. game on Monday, Feb. 22. 

The Warrior men finished the regular season with a 16-9 overall record and an 8-8 record in the MAC Commonwealth, finishing tied for fifth with Widener. The Warriors earned the tiebreaker win on the second criteria, as they split the regular season meeting with Widener (the first criteria) and won the tiebreaker by virtue of a regular-season win over Alvernia, the top-seed in the tournament.

Stevenson (11-14 overall) is led by one of the top players in the league in Erik Fisher, who is fourth with 18.6 points per game and leads the league at 9.4 rebounds per game.

Warrior Notes
• Since joining the MAC Commonwealth in 2008, the Warriors are tied with Albright for the most championship tournament appearances with six.

• This is the first time since the MAC Commonwealth went to a five-team format in 2011-12 that the Warriors have played in the first-round game.

• This is the 25th time in program history that the Warriors have qualified for a Middle Atlantic Conference postseason event. The team won MAC Freedom titles in 2002 and 2004.

• Lycoming is eighth in Division III with a +6.04 turnover margin.

• Sophomore Alex Newbold needs two more steals to become the 14th player in school history to post 100 in a career.

• After averaging 2.6 points through the first 20 games of the season, junior Willie Kee has averaged 16.5 in the last four.

• Junior David Johnson averaged 18.5 points and 2.5 steals in the two meetings with Stevenson this year.