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EAST STROUDSBURG – East Stroudsburg University can secure its fifth trip to the PSAC men's basketball tournament in the last six seasons with a win over Bloomsburg in the Warriors' home finale on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Koehler Fieldhouse.

ESU President Dr. Robert J. Dillman has declared Wednesday as a "Warrior Pride Day" and has encouraged all ESU students, faculty and staff to wear their favorite Warriors sweatshirt or t-shirt all day Wednesday in preparation for the game. All fans are asked to help "RED OUT" Koehler Fieldhouse for the final home game of the season.

ESU (13-11 overall), Bloomsburg (10-14) and Cheyney (16-8) are tied for third in the PSAC East with 6-6 records entering the final two games of the regular season. Cheyney hosts sixth-place West Chester and first-place Mansfield this week, while ESU heads to last-place Shippensburg and Bloomsburg is at West Chester on Saturday.

If the Warriors win on Wednesday, they are favored in all of the tiebreaker scenarios thanks to their season sweeps of Cheyney and West Chester. A loss to the Huskies would give them the sweep and muddles the playoff picture for ESU, which led by 22 points in the second half in an 81-80 (OT) loss at Bloomsburg on February 3.

ESU is 10-2 at Koehler Fieldhouse this season but hasn't had a two-game winning streak since opening the division schedule with wins over Cheyney and West Chester on January 12 and 15. Bloomsburg lost home games to Mansfield (81-73) and Cheyney (83-81) last week and is 4-9 away from home this season.

The Warriors will have an opportunity to string together back-to-back wins after beating Kutztown 69-68 on Saturday, the key victory of the season to this point. The PSAC East preseason favorites rallied from a nine-point halftime deficit after trailing by as many as 13 points in the first half and came up with two defensive stops after senior forward Mike Tobin knocked down a jumper for the game's final points with 1:24 left.

ESU's three seniors – Tobin and guards Micah Covert and Mike DeMarco – will be recognized before tip-off against Bloomsburg on Wednesday night.

Last year, Tobin and DeMarco were starters and Covert was the top guard off the bench as the Warriors won a school-record 24 games, won a share of the PSAC East regular season title for the first time since 1992 and played in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in school history.

Covert joined the starting lineup this season after point guard Russell Graham III went down with a season-ending injury in December. DeMarco and Covert have taken over the point guard duties, ranking first and second on the team with 71 and 64 assists, and Tobin is the Warriors' second-leading scorer (10.9 ppg) and top rebounder (6.3 rpg) for the second straight season.

Tobin will enter Wednesday's game with 758 points, 488 rebounds and 120 steals in his career, impressive numbers for a two-year starter who saw just 75 minutes of action as a freshman. He has 55 steals this season, ranking second in the PSAC with 2.3 steals per game, and needs one steal to enter ESU's season top 10 and two to tie former teammate Robby Pines for 10th on the career list. Tobin averaged 10.2 points and 7.2 rebounds and had 36 steals on last year's NCAA Tournament team.

DeMarco, a three-year starter, averages 6.5 points and is 13th in the PSAC with 3.0 assists per game. A shooting guard his first three years, he has adjusted to the point guard spot and has a 1.4-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio while playing almost 26 minutes per game. DeMarco averaged 7.7 points as a sophomore and 8.0 points as a junior and has compiled 682 points, including 90 three-pointers, in 108 career games.

Covert arrived at ESU last season after two years at Harcum Junior College and was an immediate contributor in the backcourt, averaging 7.8 points per game as the top scorer off the bench. He has increased his average to 8.4 points this season, including three straight double-figure games entering Wednesday night, and has more than 60 assists in both of his seasons for the Warriors.

While ESU will honor its seniors, a junior, three sophomores and a freshman will also play key roles against Bloomsburg. Second-year forwards Duane Johnson (504) and Terrance King (500) are both halfway to 1,000 career points, reaching the mark in the win over Kutztown, and are two of the Warriors' top three scorers.

Johnson leads ESU in scoring (12.9 ppg), ranks second in rebounding (4.8) and steals (37) and is shooting 50.0 percent from the field and 75.4 percent at the foul line as one of the most versatile players in the conference.

King, last year's PSAC East Freshman of the Year, averages 10.3 points and 4.7 rebounds and is second in the PSAC in blocked shots (50, 2.2 per game). Marcus Brown (6.4 points, 3.3 rebounds), another sophomore, had one of his top games of the year with nine points and six rebounds against Kutztown. Junior forward Eric Bryan has been steady all season with 6.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and just under a block per game.

Freshman guard Will Brown (8.8 ppg) has come off the bench to light up the PSAC East. He is second in the PSAC in three-point percentage (48.3) and has scored at least 15 points in three of the last five games, including a 20-point game with the go-ahead three-pointer in the final minute of a 75-72 win at Cheyney.

Six players scored at least eight points and Will Brown had six points in the win over Kutztown on Saturday, reminiscent of the balance the Warriors displayed during their run through the PSAC East a year ago.

A similar effort will be needed against Bloomsburg, which is averaging a PSAC-best 83.4 points per game in conference play. The Huskies are led by high-scoring freshmen Dontahe Jordan (15.9 ppg) and Lorenzo Christmas (11.5 ppg), guard Trevon Johnson (14.6 ppg) and forward Larry Webster (12.9 ppg), who is second in Division II in field goal percentage at 70.3 percent.

At the defensive end, ESU is near the bottom of the PSAC in scoring and field goal defense after ranking in the top four in both categories last season. Fifteen straight opponents have scored at least 68 points and nine of those have shot at least 45 percent.

The Warriors held Bloomsburg to 36.4 percent in the first meeting but were outrebounded by 13, and Webster tipped in a missed layup for the winning points with 3.2 seconds left in overtime. ESU shot 47.1 percent but lost when shooting a better percentage than its opponent for the only time this season.