WALTHAM, Mass. – The 50th season of Bentley University men's basketball will draw to a close Tuesday night when the Falcons looking for their fourth consecutive win as they face UMass-Lowell for the 50th and final time. Game time at the Dana Center is set for 7:30 pm.

It's been a reloading season for the Falcons, who have received 70 percent of the scoring and 69 percent of the rebounds from its two youngest classes, with the freshmen accounting for a large portion of those numbers.

Coach Jay Lawson's team, 10-15 overall and 8-13 Northeast-10, enters the finale coming off consecutive victories over Southern New Hampshire, 23rd-ranked Franklin Pierce and Stonehill, with the latter two coming on the road.

UMass-Lowell, which will be moving to America East after this season, has been headed in the opposite direction this month, dropping its last three and six of its last seven.

Two Falcons will be donning the Bentley uniform for the final time Tuesday night, starting point guard Mike Topercer (Scottsdale, Ariz./New Hampton Prep) and four-year walk-on Mikerson Laurent (Hamilton, N.J./Hun School).

It will be the 98th career game for Topercer, who leads the team in assists (80) and is fourth in minutes, averaging 27.1 a game. He's started 18 times this season, including the last 15, and has had at least five assists six times.

Junior guard Jasper Grassa (Lynn/Lynn Classical HS) and freshman forward Tyler McFarland (Rockport, Maine/Camden Hills HS), Bentley's top two scorers, have both been playing their best basketball in recent weeks. Grassa leads the Falcons at 15.3 points per game, with his 78 three-pointers a conference-best, and McFarland follows at 14.9, along with 8.2 rebounds.

Grassa, over the last ten games, has averaged nearly 19 points while shooting 45 percent overall, 44 percent from three and 88 percent at the line. McFarland, the NE-10 Freshman of the Week for the fourth time, is coming off a career-best 28 points at Stonehill. Over the last five games, his averages are an even 20 points and 10 rebounds, and during that stretch, he's made 10 of 17 threes and 20 of 21 free throws.

Sophomore guard J.P. Koury (Red Bank, N.J./CBA), Bentley's third-leading scorer at 10.6, has been even better at the line of late than those two. He's made 31 of 32 since mid-January.

A look at the stats shows UMass-Lowell having been very much a first-half team this season, both in terms of the season and games.  The River Hawks were 10-3 during the first half of the schedule but only 4-8 since. They've outscored their opponents by 4.6 a game before halftime, but their opponents have a plus-3.8 scoring margin after intermission when UMass-Lowell allows 42.1 a game, a significant difference from their first-half average of 32.5.

UMass-Lowell features the conference's only 20-point per game scorer, junior guard Akeem Williams. His average is up to 20.2 following five straight games with 22 or more, including 33 Feb. 16 against Merrimack.

Junior guard Antonio Bivins follows Williams in the scoring column at 16.7, with the two forming the highest scoring duo in the conference. Bivins shoots 59 percent inside the arc, gets to the line a conference-best 5.6 times a game and leads UML in rebounds (7.1).

In the earlier meeting between the Falcons and River Hawks, UMass-Lowell pulled away late in the first half and went on to best Bentley, 63-50. The Falcons struggled at the offensive end, shooting only 28 percent while committing 19 turnovers. Grassa and Williams led their respective teams in scoring, both finishing with 13.