WALTHAM, Mass. – The Bentley University men's basketball team, co-leaders in the Northeast-10 with two regular season games to play, will be looking for the 18^th 20-win season in program history Saturday afternoon when the Falcons play at Franklin Pierce University. The 3:30 pm game at the FPU Field House will be streamed over the NE10 NOW digital network.

Coach Jay Lawson's team, 19-4 overall and 14-4 NE10, will be attempting to post back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time since doing so a remarkable seven straight years from 2005-11. Lawson's 32 years at the helm have included 20-plus wins 11 times, including nine in the last 17 seasons.

Franklin Pierce, tied for sixth in the conference, is 15-10 overall and 10-8 NE10. The Ravens are coming off a 76-73 victory at Southern Connecticut State and are 9-6 on their home court.

With the schedule quickly approaching an end, Bentley shares the top spot with Southern New Hampshire. The Penmen still have to face Assumption, which knocked Saint Anselm out of a first-place tie on Wednesday, and St. Michael's. Meanwhile, the Falcons' final game will be Tuesday at home against American International.

This will be the second meeting of the season between the Falcons and the Ravens with the first, back on Dec. 31, an 87-76 Bentley victory. All five Falcon starters scored in doubles that day with NE10 scoring leader Zach Laput (Beacon Falls, Conn./Notre Dame HS) topping the list with 20 and junior guard Aaron Latham (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury HS) following with 16. Bentley buried 12 three-pointers, shot 63 percent inside the arc and was a plus-15 on the boards.

Bentley is coming off a 87-48 thrashing of Saint Rose, a game in which the Falcons held an amazing 65-19 lead with more than ten minutes left to play. Laput scored a game-high 26 before leaving the game for good with 13 minutes to play, five other Falcons scored exactly nine points and all five starters were a plus-34 or better.

Lawson has gone with the same starting five in every game this season and all five are averaging double-figures in the scoring column. Laput is at 20.1, graduate forward Matt Leritz (St. Louis, Mo./St. Louis University) follows at 14.6 and the other three are graduate guard Mason Webb (Oklahoma City, Okla./Bishop McGuinness HS) at 13.7, Latham at 11.3 and graduate guard Brian Wright-Kinsey (Brooklyn, N.Y./Brooks School) at an even 10.

Off the bench, senior guard Kellen Bochenek (Kettering, Ohio/Fairmont HS) has provided 6.3 a game over the last seven while shooting .531 from the field.

Nationally, Bentley ranks second in Division II in fewest fouls, sixth in rebound margin, 11^th in three-point accuracy and 17^th in scoring margin.

Franklin Pierce spreads the offense around with five different players having been the team's top scorer during the last six games. That honor went to six-seven sophomore Sean Trumper in the Southern Connecticut win as he scored a career-high 28 while raising his season average to 10.5.

Sophomore guard Mohammed Traore leads the Ravens in scoring for the season at 13 a game. Senior guard Brandon Kolek, who scored 22 against Bentley in the first meeting, follows at 11.6 and junior forward Sean Brennan is third on the list at 11.2.

Franklin Pierce is fourth in the NE10 in scoring offense and seventh in scoring defense.

Bentley is 29-16 all-time against the Ravens, including a 68-62 win in the Northeast-10 Championship game last March. At the Field House, the Falcons are just 2-6 in their last eight trips.