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LA GRANDE, Ore. – The No. 13 Eastern Oregon University men's basketball team travels to No. 18 Northwest University Friday and Evergreen State Saturday to end the regular season.

THE SERIES
* EOU holds a 20-13 advantage over Northwest in the all-time series.
* The Mountaineers are 14-9 versus Northwest since 2000, and have won four of the past five.
* Eastern Oregon's last trip to Kirkland was an overtime loss last season, 85-84.
* Eight of the last 10 games against NU have been decided by single digits.
* The series between Evergreen and EOU is tied at 12-12.
* Eastern has won three straight games over the Geoducks.
*The 113 points EOU scored in the last game against Evergreen was the most points scored by Eastern Oregon in a Cascade Conference game since 1994, when EOU tallied 115 in a win over SOU.

QUICK HITS
* EOU is 41-2 in its last 43 regular season games at home.
* The Mountaineers are 63-7 in the past 70 games in Quinn.
* EOU's average margin of victory this year is 13.5 points.
* The Mountaineers have not won the rebound advantage five times this season, resulting in four losses.
* Eastern is 16-2 when leading at halftime this season.
* The Mountaineers are 11-0 when opponents have scored less than 70 points, and 23-1 under Isaac Williams in the same stat.
* EOU is 19-0 this season when leading with five minutes left in regulation, and 19-1 when leading with 10 minutes left.

ABOUT THE EAGLES
The Eagles (19-6) (11-5) and EOU were picked tied for second in the conference preseason poll, and will be fighting for second place in the last weekend of the regular season. The NAIA's No. 4 three-point field goal percentage defense from NU squares off against the Mountaineers' No. 10 three-point field goal percentage offense. Northwest, winners of seven of its last eight, is 11-2 this season at home, including a win over CCC regular season champion, Oregon Tech.

ABOUT THE GEODUCKS
The Geoducks (8-18) (5-11) will show off their athleticism Saturday night against Eastern. Evergreen has been outscored in the first half by an average of 33-39 so far this season. The Geoducks are at the bottom of the conference in field goal percentage offense and defense and three-point field goal percentage offense and defense. First year head coach Arvin Mosley has the third best rebounder in the conference in Marice Tolliver who is averaging 7.44 rebounds a game.

LAST TIME OUT
Travares Peterson's lay-in with 0.4 seconds gave the No. 14 Eastern Oregon University men's basketball team a 66-65 thrilling win over Northwest Christian Saturday. The Beacons were poised for the upset leading for much of the game, including a 41-27 lead with 41 seconds left in the first half. Eastern Oregon's only lead of the first half was a 2-0 advantage to begin the game. A pair of Peterson free throws with 13:38 remaining in regulation was the next EOU lead. Peterson led Eastern with 16 points and eight rebounds. The junior shot 6 for 11 from the field. JC Cook contributed 15 points and Jason Mumm added 12 points and eight rebounds. EOU finished 36 percent from the field and 14 of 24 from the free-throw line. The leading three-point shooting team in NAIA Div. 2 was held to 6 for 26 from behind the arc.

RECORD WATCH
The Mountaineers are doing their share of setting new records this season. EOU has already broke the school mark for three-pointers in a single season nad single game records of threes made, points, and rebounds. Eastern is 309 points shy of breaking the record for points in a season. Thomas McCarthy needs to make five three-pointers to break Ryan Orton's 15-year-old school record of 88 three-pointers in a single season. The senior has hit 84 of his 202 three-pointers this season. The Prineville, Ore. native has connected on 179 of his 457 career three-pointers. Mark Carollo holds the school career record when he made 210 of his 606 shots.

DIALING LONG DISTANCE
Eastern is hitting its share of shots from behind the perimeter this season. The Mountaineers are first in NAIA Div. 2 in three-pointers made per game (10.3), and in total three-pointers made (268). EOU is 10th in the country in three-point percentage (38%). Jamar Johnson is third in the country with his 46 percent shotting from three-point range. Thomas McCarthy is seventh in NAIA Div. 2 with 84 three-pointers, making 3.2 per game which is seventh in the nation.

IT COMES DOWN TO THIS
The only thing certain in the Cascade Collegiate Conference postseason picture is Oregon Tech will be the top seed. The Mountaineers have clinched their fourth straight home playoff game. EOU has the clearest way to the second seed of the three games within a game of each other. If Eastern wins both games this weekend, its No. 2.

TWENTY WIN CLUB
Eastern has clinched its fifth straight 20-win season. Before the five-year streak, the Mountaineers had four 20-win seasons in the 81-year history of men's basketball, with the last coming in 1965-66. This season's squad became the 20th team to reach 16 wins in school history. The 2007-08 team had the school's best record at 26-6. That team was 17-3 after 20 games, and started 25-4.

TOP 25 STREAK CONTINUES
The Eastern Oregon University men's basketball team climbed to No. 13 in the NAIA Div. 2 Top 25 Monday. The Mountaineers avoided a pair of upset bids last weekend with wins over Corban and Northwest Christian. EOU rallied from double-digit deficits in each game for the victories. Eastern rides the longest winning streak in the Cascade Collegiate Conference, five games, to No. 18 Northwest University Friday. Eastern appears in the Top 25 for a school-record 19th straight time. The Mountaineers have been in the Top 25 in 25 of the last 26 polls. EOU has been in the Top 25 in every poll dating back to last season's preseason poll on Oct. 26 when it received votes. The Mountaineers had their best preseason ranking in the 2008-09 season when they started at No. 6. EOU climbed to No. 3 in the national poll that season, the highest in school history.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Three Mountaineers have received Red Lion Cascade Collegiate Conference Players of the Week honors this season. Travares Peterson, Anthony Brown, and Thomas McCarthy each were awarded. Peterson took the award this week, McCarthy was honored for his efforts from Dec. 27 from Jan. 2, and Brown was the recipient for his Jan. 10 to Jan. 16 performances.

LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARIES
Eastern Oregon is one of five teams to have made it to the past three Sweet 16 rounds at the NAIA Div. 2 National Tournament. Two programs in those five, Oregon Tech and EOU, are from the Cascade Collegiate Conference. There are only a dozen teams that have made the national tournament in each of the past three years, including Eastern.