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FAIRFIELD, Conn. - The Saint Francis men's basketball team finishes the regular season at Sacred Heart on Saturday afternoon. Tip is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. following the women's game between the Red Flash and Pioneers. 

Both teams will qualify for the NEC Tournament, but the seeding is still completely undecided. For Saint Francis, a win on Saturday would give the Red Flash the No. 5 seed for the second consecutive season. With a loss, the SFU seed will be determined by other results from around the conference on Saturday. 

Sacred Heart will clinch the No. 2 seed with a win and a Fairleigh Dickinson loss. Sacred Heart will be either No. 2 or No. 3 with a win, but it will fall to either a No. 6 or No. 7 seed with a loss. 

Saint Francis has owned the recent series with Sacred Heart, winning five straight games against the Pioneers. SFU head coach Rob Krimmel is 5-1 against the Pioneers in his career, and SFU hasn't lost at Sacred Heart since the 2011-12 season.  

ABOUT SACRED HEART
Sacred Heart saw its three-game winning streak snapped with a 73-63 home loss to Robert Morris on Thursday night. Cane Broome led three Pioneers in double figures with 21 points while Tevin Falzon grabbed 10 rebounds. 

Sacred Heart is in a four-way tie for second place in the NEC with a 10-7 record. The Pioneers are a game ahead of the Red Flash in the standings, and Saturday's game will go a long way towards determining playoff seeding in the Northeast Conference.

SERIES HISTORY
Saint Francis leads the all-time series, 14-12, and has won five straight in the series. The teams met on Jan. 4 in Loretto, an 84-80 win for the Red Flash. Ben Millaud-Meunier (Montreal, Quebec/Vanier) scored 24 points to lead five SFU players in double figures. He hit five three pointers in the game including a stretch of three makes in just 93 seconds early in the second half. Greg Brown (Odenton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) had 19 points, as well. The win gave the Flash a 2-0 start in Northeast Conference play for the second straight year, a program first. 

NOTES FROM WAGNER

• The win gave Wagner the Northeast Conference regular season championship and home-court advantage through the NEC Tournament.
• Greg Brown (Odenton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) recorded his 14th double-digit scoring performance of the season, topping last season's total by one.
• Ronnie Drinnon (Jamestown, Ohio/Greenview) had his streak of seven straight double-doubles snapped. 
• Drinnon scored 13 points to record his 22nd double-digit scoring game in his 28 games played.
• Saint Francis is now 2-10 in games where it is outrebounded.  

TEAM CLOSING IN ON THREE POINTERS LIST
The Red Flash has made 202 three pointers this year, and the team is on the cusp of moving into the top-five for most three pointers made in a season. The 2009-10 team is fifth on the list with 203 makes, and the all-time school record is 238 set by the NEC Championship team of 1990-91. 

VAN LIER IN REACH FOR DRINNON
Senior Ronnie Drinnon (Jamestown, Ohio/Greenview) recorded seven rebounds at Wagner on Thursday night to give him 764 for his career. Drinnon is now just five rebounds behind legendary Saint Francis player Norm Van Lier for 12th place on the school's all-time rebounding list. Van Lier, who played from 1966-69, finished his career with 769 rebounds. He also averaged 10.3 rebounds per game in his career. Drinnon has matched that number in his final season, pulling down 10.3 rebounds per game to go with his 12.9 points per game. Drinnon is looking to become the first SFU player in nearly 20 years to average a double-double. Current SFU assistant coach Eric Taylor was the last player to do so in 1997-98.

NEBO TIES SCHOOL RECORD
Freshman center Josh Nebo (Katy, Texas/Cypress Lakes) tied the school record for blocks in a single game with six against LIU Brooklyn. Nebo tied three other performances - two by Jerry Mack during the 1985-86 season and one by Melvin Scott in 1997. Nebo is just the second player in school history to reach 50 blocks in a season. Scott was the first, finishing with 70 blocks in 2000-01.
 
FLASH POINTS

• Saint Francis is looking for its 10th win in NEC play on Saturday. The last time SFU won double-digit games in NEC play was in 2004-05 when it went 10-8.
• Saint Francis has qualified for the NEC Tournament for the third straight season for the first time since 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05.
• Saint Francis will open with a road game in the NEC Tournament for the third straight year. SFU has won its NEC Tournament quarterfinal game in each of the past two seasons on the road. It won at Bryant in 2014 and Mount St. Mary's last year.
• Saint Francis has played 15 consecutive NEC Tournament games on the road. Its last home game came in a 95-76 win over St. Francis Brooklyn in an NEC Tournament preliminary game in 1994-95.
• This year will mark head coach Rob Krimmel's 10th NEC Tournament as an SFU player or coach.

LOOKING AHEAD
Both teams will play in the NEC Tournament quarterfinals on Wednesday against opponents to be determined.