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After a season-opening loss to Penn State, Saint Francis travels north to Niagara to face-off against the Purple Eagles on
Tuesday.

Like the Red Flash, Niagara also played a game against a BCS conference opponent on Friday, falling to Oregon State, 102-83.  The Purple Eagles were 16-of-34 (47.1%) from the 3-point arc in the contest and had five players hit double-digit scoring totals, led by Jordan Marvin's 17.

Niagara finished the 2011-12 season with a 14-19 record, with one of its wins coming against the Red Flash at DeGol Arena (65-63).

The Flash hit its fair share of 3s in the Penn State game – seven in total – with four of those coming via the hot hand of sophomore Ollie Jackson (Dallas, Texas/Pinkston ).

Jackson led the Red Flash, which shot 47 percent in the game, with 19 points.  Umar Shannon (Atlantic City, N.J./Atlantic City) took a team-high 12 shots, with only two falling.  He wound up with nine points in his first game in nearly a year.


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 - For the Flash, there are no starters from last season's second game projected to start tonight
 - SFU's seven-point setback at Penn State was the closest the Red Flash came to upending the Nittany Lions since a 91-85 loss in 1990-91
 - Sophomore Matt Mazzara (State College, Pa./State College Area) is the only Red Flash player who will not be available to play this evening
 - An SFU win would snap a six-game road losing streak
 - Krimmel on Penn State game: “We knew coming into the game in place like this, the margin for error was not going to be very big.  We had to execute for 40 minutes.  I thought our guys battled but we just didn't execute in stretches.”