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EAST STROUDSBURG – The East Stroudsburg University men's basketball program will look to right itself after dropping three of its last four games when the Warriors host PSAC East leader Cheyney on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Koehler Fieldhouse.

ESU (20-4, 7-4), ranked No. 17 in Division II and fourth in the Atlantic Region, is in a three-way tie for second in the PSAC East with Kutztown and Mansfield, one game behind Cheyney (15-9, 8-3), with three games left in the regular season. The top four teams will make the conference playoffs, with the first and second seeds earning home games in the first round.

The Warriors will also recognize their 36 1,000-point scorers in school history between games of the conference doubleheader, which will be televised live on Blue Ridge TV-13 beginning with the women's game at 1 p.m.

ESU won 19 of their first 20 games, including a 77-73 win at Cheyney on January 23, and were ranked 12th in the nation before hitting their current stretch to drop from the top spot in the PSAC East for the first time in nearly a month.

The Warriors averaged 80.6 points per game while going 6-1 in the first half of their PSAC East schedule, but has seen that drop to 66.0 points per game during the first four games of the second half. Their shooting percentages from the field, three-point line and foul line are also down as they played their last four games in a seven-day span – a 59-57 loss to Bloomsburg, an 83-73 win at Shippensburg, a 65-63 loss to Bloomsburg and a 71-61 setback at Mansfield on Wednesday night.

Freshmen Marcus Brown, Duane Johnson and Terrance King have all taken on more minutes and will be key when the Warriors take on Cheyney on Saturday. Brown has scored 10 points in four of the last five games and had eight points, all in the first half, of the first meeting with the Wolves last month. King is averaging 7.0 points and 6.3 rebounds in the last four contests and Johnson has continued to emerge as one of ESU's top perimeter defenders, especially late in games.

Senior guard Robby Pines, who ranked eighth in Division II with 6.5 assists per game entering the week, had 10 points and seven assists against Cheyney the first time around and ran an efficient offense that had six players score at least eight points. The Warriors were 25-for-31 at the foul line in the second half and used a late 9-0 run, sparked by a jumper by senior guard Andy Heimbach, to pull away.

Heimbach scored his 1,000th career point in the first half of that game and will be recognized along with the other 1,000-point scorers, which also includes senior DeAnna Rayam of the women's team.

Rayam scored 18 points to go over the 1,000-point mark in a 68-63 win at Mansfield on Wednesday night and had a career-high 32 points two days before against Kutztown. She will be honored prior to the women's game at 1 p.m. and again immediately following the game when all of the 1,000-point scorers in attendance take the floor.