WALTHAM, Mass. – With the end of the regular season only days away, the top two teams in the Northeast-10 Conference Northeast Division will square off Sunday afternoon (2 pm) when the Bentley University men's basketball team takes on Franklin Pierce University at the FPU Field House. The game will be streamed on the NE10 NOW Digital Network.

Bentley, 18-3 overall and the number one ranked team in the NCAA Division II East Region, leads the Northeast Division by two games with two to play. A win either Sunday or in Tuesday's finale against Saint Anselm, or a Franklin Pierce loss to Assumption on Tuesday, will secure the division title for coach Jay Lawson's team.

Winning at Franklin Pierce won't be easy as the Ravens (14-8) have won seven of their last ten and are 8-1 at home this season. They also feature the region's top scorer in junior guard Isaiah Moore.

The Ravens were also responsible for Bentley's only home loss of the season, 87-86 back on Dec. 12. Moore scored a game-high 27 points and had a game-ending block to secure the victory. The Ravens, one of only two teams who have shot .500 or better against the Falcons this season, had runs of 12-0 in the first half and 8-0 down the stretch.

Since that loss, Bentley has won 12 of 13, including 76-71 at Assumption on Wednesday. In that one, senior guard Mason Webb (Oklahoma City, Okla./Bishop McGuinness HS) scored 19 points, graduate guard Colton Lawrence (Myerstown, Pa./ELCO HS) followed  with 17 and graduate guard Jordan Mello-Klein (Sharon/Thayer Academy) filled the stat sheet with 15 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals.

Bentley, the NE10 leader in both scoring and offensive efficiency (Franklin Pierce is second in both), has four of the conference's top 15 scorers. Lawrence leads the Falcons at 18.5 and is followed by Webb (15.2), sophomore guard Zach Laput (Beacon Falls, Conn./Notre Dame HS) (15.0) and Mello-Klein (14.7).

Lawrence is number one in the conference in three-point shooting (.481), Webb and Laput are in the top five in free throw shooting, and Mello-Klein is top three in rebounds, assists, steals, minutes and assist-turnover ratio. Graduate forward Pete Blust (Hinsdale, Ill./Hinsdale Central HS) has the NE10's top field goal percentage (.622) and is third in blocks (42).

Moore, in addition to leading the conference in scoring, gives the Ravens 5.1 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.1 steals per game. He had 22 points Friday night in an 80-72 win over Le Moyne.

Franklin Pierce's other double-figure scorers are junior forward Maxwell Zegarowski, at 14.8, and freshman Mohamed Traore, at 13.3. Both have knocked down over 50 three-pointers with Zegarowski fifth in the NE10 in accuracy from deep.

Bentley will close out the regular season Tuesday at home with third-place Saint Anselm providing the opposition.