WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Even though the Lycoming College men's basketball team made six appearances in the MAC Commonwealth Championship final in the past nine years, it will be new territory for the team on Friday night, March 19, when it heads to top-seeded DeSales University for the MAC Freedom Championship game at 7 p.m.

In a strange scheduling quirk thanks to COVID-19, it will be the third straight game between the Warriors (4-2 overall) and the Bulldogs (9-1 overall).

The two teams split the first two games, with Lycoming winning convincingly, 75-62, in Lamade Gym to clinch a spot in the title game last Friday before DeSales gutted out a tough 63-59 win in Center Valley on Saturday. The teams feature two of the best defenses in the league, with Lycoming leading in field goal percentage defense (.411) and DeSales leading in points against (61.2).

Game Notes
• The Warriors are competing in a conference championship game for the seventh time in the past 10 years.

• Lycoming won two MAC Freedom titles (2002, '04) during its first tenure in the conference from 2000-07. It won three titles in the MAC Commonwealth (2016, '17, '20) from 2008-20.

• The Warriors are 5-8 all-time in conference title games.

• Senior Darius Dangerfield needs four assists to become the fifth player in program history to post 300 in a career.

• Dangerfield leads the MAC Freedom in assists (4.0) and could become the first Warrior to lead the league in dimes since Jerald Williams (2012-13).

• With 76 career blocked shots, sophomore Dyson Harward needs one more rejection to tie Greg Sye (2005-09) for sixth in program history.

• Sophomore Mo Terry needs seven more points to reach 400 in his career.

• The Warriors lead the MAC Freedom in blocked shots (4.8), field goal percentage defense (.411) and 3-pointers made (9.3).