ST. EDWARD'S (13-4, 6-3 Heartland) at LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (11-6, 5-4 Heartland)
Saturday, January 23 at 3 p.m.
Lubbock, Texas (Rip Griffin Center)
All-time series: LCU leads 10-7

History between the squads
Lubbock Christian and St. Edward's first met on the hardwood over three decades ago. From 1985 to 1997, LCU held a slim 7-6 record over the Hilltoppers. The teams did not play each other again until the 2013-14 season where the teams split 1-1, as they did again the following season.

Last meetings amongst the teams
Lubbock, Texas (February 19, 2015) – A pair of free throws by Isaac Cardona with five seconds remaining allowed Lubbock Christian to squeak by St. Edward's, 60-59, and saved the Chaps from squandering a double-digit second half lead and kept them in a three-way tie for second place within the Heartland Conference.
Luckey tallied 11 points for LCU, along with seven rebounds and five assists. For SEU, Mgbolu recorded a team-high 17 points.

Road woes for LCU
The Chaps have performed well inside the Rip Griffin Center this season by compiling a 8-1 record, with the only loss coming at the hands of then fifth-ranked Angelo State in overtime.
Contests outside of Lubbock have not treated LCU as well as the Chaps have gone 2-5, including 1-4 in Heartland play.
On the road, LCU averages 16 less points than at home, shoots 21-percent less from the field, takes a 12-percent hit from the three-point line and pulls down seven less rebounds.

Shared scoring of the Chaps
During LCU's 16 contests of 2015-16, seven Chaps have stepped up to lead the squad in scoring. Tyler Rogers has tallied top honors seven times, and A.J. Luckey is close behind with six; Marcus Arrington has on five occasions, while Isaac Cardona did twice. Ridrell Holman, Matthew Alford and Marcos Schuster each have notched a team-high in points once.

The awakening of Arrington
Junior Marcus Arrington's numbers have dramatically improved from the 2014-15 season. This year, the Carlsbad, N.M., native has more than doubled his scoring average (4.1 to 9.9 ppg) while upping his assists average from 4.1 to 4.8 and his rebounds from 2.5 to 3.8 per game.
Arrington's marksmanship from the floor has climbed 22-percent on field goals, more than doubled from the three-point line and gone up seven percent from the charity stripe.
In addition to tallying game-high scoring honors twice this season, the point guard has also corralled a team-high in rebounds two times along with a squad-best in assists on 12 occasions.

LCU welcomes Malori home with Chap win
LUBBOCK, Texas (January 21, 2016) – Tyler Rogers matched his season-high of 19 points for Lubbock Christian University in an 82-71 victory over the University of Texas of the Permian Basin Thursday night inside the Rip Griffin Center as LCU welcomed home volleyball student-athlete Malori Maddox and her family.
The Chaps (11-6, 5-4 Heartland) hit 28-of-59 shots from the field, 21-of-26 from the three-point line and outrebounded the Falcons (8-9, 3-6 Heartland) by 15 to propel them over the .500 mark in conference play. Isaac Cardona nearly secured a double-double with his nine points and game-high 12 rebounds while Marcos Schuster recorded 11 points and A.J. Luckey added 10.
The arrival of Malori at the 3:07 mark of the first half seemed to spark LCU as the team turned a 30-28 deficit into a 39-33 advantage leading into a special halftime presentation for the Maddox family. While Malori was in Dallas throughout the previous months in recovery, the LCU athletic family held fundraisers and raised over $8,900 to help cover medical expenses. At midcourt the Maddox family was presented with the money collected by Malori's fellow student-athletes.
Less than a minute into the second half, Matthew Alford gave the Chaps their first double-digit lead as Cardona found him cutting through the lane for an easy layup. UTPB's Johnnie Lacy trimmed the deficit to eight on a three-pointer with 15:38 on the clock, but Ridrell Holman dropped in a three from the right wing along with two free throws, and Rogers added a layup to nearly double the lead to 58-43 within two minutes.
The Falcons stayed in the game and closed to within 66-57 on a four-point play by Lacy with nine minutes to go. The squads traded four free throws each for a 74-62 game in favor of the Chaps with 5:20 to play and repeated the scenario a minute later to push LCU in front 80-67 before Luckey scored in the paint and Lacy closed the game with a layup and pair of free throws.
For UTPB, Lacy scored a game-high 23 points.