Gameday Information
Patriot League Tournament Quarterfinals
#7 Navy (19-13) at #2 Lehigh (15-14)
Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:00 PM (ET)
Bethlehem, Pa. | Stabler Arena (5,600)
Live Video: Patriot League Network
Live Statistics | Navy Game Notes | Lehigh Game Notes
Navy Radio Network: 1430 AM / 99.9 FM WNAV
Satellite Radio: Sirius 119 / XM 202

ANNAPOLIS, Md. â€" The seventh-seeded Navy men's basketball team (19-13) will play at second-seeded Lehigh (15-14) in the Patriot League Tournament Quarterfinals on Thursday at 7:00 PM in Stabler Arena. Navy advanced to the quarterfinal round by defeating No. 10 Lafayette, 78-70, in the Patriot League Tournament First Round in Annapolis on Tuesday.

The winner of the Navy-Lehigh game will advance to the Patriot League Tournament Semifinals to play the winner of No. 3 Boston University and No. 6 American on Sunday afternoon. The game will be played at the highest remaining seed.

Thursday's game will have free live streaming video on the Patriot League Network and on navysports.com. Pete Medhurst will have the radio call on the Navy Radio Network on 1430 AM / 99.9 FM WNAV and on wnav.com. Adam Pohl will call the game on satellite radio on Sirius 119 and XM 202. The game will be televised on SE2 in the local Bethlehem area. Live statistics will also be available.

Midshipmen Storylines
• Navy (19-13) defeated Lafayette in the Patriot League Tournament First Round on Tuesday in Annapolis, 78-70.
• Senior point guard Tilman Dunbar scored 22 points with eight assists and just one turnover and was 13-of-14 from the free throw line.
• Sophomore guard Shawn Anderson scored 21 points and had four rebounds, four assists and three steals.
• Sophomore forward Tom Lacey posted 12 points and a career-high 14 rebounds for his second double-double of the season.
• Lacey's 14 rebounds set a Navy Patriot League Tournament record.
• Navy won its 19th game of the season against Lafayette, its most wins since going 19-11 in 2009.
• A win at Lehigh on Thursday would give Navy its first 20-win season since going 23-6 in 2000.
• Navy's 19 wins are tied for the ninth-most in a season at the Academy. This is the 108th season of basketball at Navy.
• Navy has increased its overall win total for the fourth straight season under head coach Ed DeChellis (13-19 last season).
• Navy's six-win improvement from last season ranks as the fourth-best improvement from one year to the next in program history.
• Navy was 9-9 in the Patriot League Regular Season and tied for fourth place, but ended up as the No. 7 seed in the tournament due to tiebreakers.
• Navy's nine Patriot League wins this season were its most since going 10-4 in league play in 2010.
• Senior center Will Kelly was named the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year in 2015-16. He was also named to the all-league second team and the all-defensive team.
• Dunbar was named to the All-Patriot League Third Team.
• Navy will be playing its 33rd game of the season on Thursday, the second-most in school history behind the 35 games the Elite Eight team played in 1986 (30-5).
• Navy has set a program record for most road wins in a season with its 11-3 road record and Navy will look to extend that record on Thursday.
• Navy is tied for fourth in the NCAA in road wins behind Monmouth (13), Arkansas-Little Rock (12) and Valparaiso (12).
• Navy currently has four players averaging double-digit scoring, which would tie a school record for a single season. It has happened nine times and most recently in 1984.
• Anderson is Navy's leading scorer at 13.0 points per game and Dunbar is second at 11.6. Kelly is third at 10.4 and sophomore Jace Hogan is the fourth Mid in double-figures at 10.2 per game.
• Kelly ranks second in school history in career blocked shots with 194, behind only David Robinson (516). Kelly's 82 blocks this season rank fifth on Navy's single-season blocked shots list.
• Kelly ranks ninth in the NCAA in total blocks (82) and is 17th in blocks per game (2.56). He leads the Patriot League by a wide margin in both categories.
• Kelly's career field goal percentage of .561 is ranked second in program history and is field goal percentage this season of .624 is also second for a single season. Both totals trail Robinson.
• Kelly also ranks fourth in school history in games played (124) and is 17th in career rebounds (551).
• Dunbar ranks sixth in school history with 431 career assists and is 22nd in career scoring with 1,078 points.
• Dunbar is just the fourth player in school history to amass over 1,000 career points and 400 career assists.
• Anderson has 417 points this season and he is the first Mid to score 400 points in a season since Jordan Sugars in 2011.
• Navy was picked to finish last (10th) in the Patriot League Preseason Poll, but ended in a four-way tie for fourth place.

Navy's Patriot League Tournament History
• Navy is making its 25th appearance in the Patriot League Tournament.
• Navy won the tournament in 1994, 1997 and 1998.
• Navy was also the No. 7 seed last season. The Mids beat No. 10 Army in the first round, 56-52, before falling at No. 2 Colgate in the quarterfinals, 72-62.
• Navy's all-time record in the tournament is 15-21.
• The Mids are now 11-2 in tournament games played in Annapolis after its win over Lafayette on Tuesday.
• Navy will be seeking its first quarterfinal round victory since 2001.
• Navy is 1-3 all-time against Lehigh in the tournament and 1-2 all-time in Bethlehem.
• Navy beat Lehigh in the 1995 quarterfinals, 87-81, in West Point, N.Y. Lehigh beat Navy in the 1999 quarterfinals, also in West Point, 53-45. Lehigh beat Navy in the 2004 quarterfinals in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, 62-60, in overtime and also beat Navy in the 2011 quarterfinals in Bethlehem, 87-75.
• Navy's only win against the No. 2 seed was in 1997 when top-seeded Navy beat No. 2 Bucknell in the championship game, 76-75.
• Dunbar is averaging 14.8 points and 4.3 assists in his four career Patriot League Tournament games.

Lehigh Storylines
• Lehigh (15-4) is the No. 2 seed in the Patriot League Tournament after going 13-5 in conference play.
• The Mountain Hawks were 4-5 at the midway point of the conference slate and then went a perfect 9-0 in the second half of conference play.
• Lehigh enters the Patriot League Tournament on a nine-game winning streak, the fourth-longest active streak in the NCAA.
• Junior center Tim Kempton was named the Patriot League Player of the Year for the second straight season.
• Kempton was joined on the all-conference first team by sophomore guard Kahron Ross.
• Junior guard Austin Price was named to the all-league third team.
• Rookie guard Kyle Leufroy was named to the Patriot League All-Rookie Team.
• Kempton ranks second in the Patriot League in scoring (17.5), second in rebounding (9.3) and is third in field goal percentage (.543).
• Price averages 13.5 points while Ross averages 11.4 points and a Patriot League-best 6.0 assists.
• Leufroy averages 9.8 points.
• Lehigh has won three Patriot League Championships with its most recent coming in 2012 when the C.J. McCollum-led Mountain Hawks went on to upset Duke in the NCAA Tournament.

Series History vs. Lehigh
• Navy leads the all-time series against Lehigh, 45-29.
• Navy is 1-3 all-time against Lehigh in the tournament and 1-2 all-time in tournament games in Bethlehem.
• The teams split the 2016 regular season series.
• Navy won at Lehigh, 69-64, on Jan. 20. It was Navy's sixth straight win and gave Navy a 6-1 conference record.
• Tom Lacey scored a career-high 18 points with six rebounds and Will Kelly added 16 points with five boards.
• Tim Kempton scored 16 points, 14 of which came in the second half, and Jesse Chuku scored 13.
• The win by Navy snapped an 11-game losing streak to Lehigh.
• Lehigh beat Navy in Annapolis on Feb. 17, 77-74, to split the season series.
• Navy had a chance to tie the game at the buzzer on an in-bounds play with under a second left, but could not get a shot off.
• Kahron Ross scored 15 of his game-high 24 points in the final five minutes of the game and Chuku knocked down 6-of-7 3-pointers for 22 points. Kempton posted 14 points and nine rebounds.
• Kelly scored 16 points with eight rebounds for Navy and Shawn Anderson had 16 points and four assists.
• Junior guard Tim Abruzzo knocked down four 3-pointers to finish with 13 points, five rebounds, two assists and two blocks.

Looking Ahead
• The winner of the Navy-Lehigh game will advance to the Patriot League Tournament Semifinals to play the winner of No. 3 Boston University vs. No. 6 American on Sunday afternoon. The game will be played at the highest remaining seed.