WALTHAM, Mass. – It's been a dozen years since the 2010-11 Bentley University men's basketball team owned a 12-game winning streak.

This year's Falcons will have a chance to match that mark on Saturday when they play a 3:30 pm game at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vt. Fans can watch the match-up live, or on demand, on the NE10 NOW Digital Network (NE10NOW.tv).

Bentley, whose streak reached 11 Wednesday with a 77-73 victory over Assumption University Wednesday, will travel to the Green Mountain State with records of 13-1 overall and 8-1 Northeast-10. Coach Jay Lawson's Falcons are ranked 14^th nationally in Division II, are in sole possession of first place in the conference and own Division II's fifth longest active streak.

They'll be taking on a St. Michael's team that is 8-9 overall with two wins in nine conference games. The Purple Knights started 6-1 but have dropped eight of their last ten, including four in a row. Most recently, they came up short at Southern Connecticut State on Tuesday, 85-70.

Bentley owns a starting lineup that has all five averaging at least 11 points, all five having at least 35 assists and four of the five shooting at least .500 from the floor.

Junior guard Zach Laput (Beacon Falls, Conn./Notre Dame HS) is the only 20-point per game scorer in the Northeast-10 with his 21.0 average up more than six a game from last year. A career 46 percent shooter from deep, he's scored at least 20 in 11 of 14 games.

Graduate forward Matt Leritz (St. Louis, Mo./St. Louis University HS), the most recent NE10 Player of the Week, has filled the stat sheet with 19.3 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.5 steals over the last five games while shooting 64 percent overall. In the Assumption game, he had 20 points, eight rebounds, six assists, five steals and four blocks.

The starting five also includes graduate guards Mason Webb (Oklahoma City, Okla./Bishop McGuinness HS) and Brian Wright-Kinsey (Brooklyn, N.Y./Brooks School), along with junior guard Aaron Latham (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury HS). All are scoring a little less than 12 a game with Wright-Kinsey the team-leader in blocks (22) and second in rebounds (7.1), Latham the leader in assists (47) and steals (21) and Webb the leader in three-pointers (24).

Bentley leads Division II in free throw percentage and is also in the top four in fewest fouls, rebound margin and defensive rebounds. The Falcons leads the conference in scoring (84.2) as well as scoring margin (+15.2).

Like Bentley, St. Michael's has five double-figure scorers with six-foot-eight junior Joel Kabimba topping the list at 11.5 a game. The transfer, who spent two years at Stetson and split last season at George Mason and Bryant, has led the team in scoring four times with a high of 24 in a one-point win over New Haven.

Sophomore guard CJ Crews (10.9) and freshman guard Alan Brzezinski (10.5) are the team's top three-point threats. Crews has buried 34 with a .358 accuracy rate and Brzezinski, who had 20 against Southern Connecticut Tuesday, has shoots 42 percent from deep with 23 three-balls made.

St. Michael's, 12^th in the NE10 in scoring and eighth in defense, leads the conference in free throws made and attempted. That's in contrast to the Falcons, who only send the opponents to the line about 11 times a game.

Bentley, 55-31 all-time against St. Michael's, has won its last five games at the Ross Sports Center. The two teams met only once last year with the Falcons winning at home, 76-56, on the strength of a 23-point, 11-rebound double-double by Webb.

On Wednesday, Bentley will be back in the Dana Center for an important Northeast-10 match-up with New Haven, a team currently tied for third.