ESU at Shippensburg (Saturday, 3 p.m.) - Live Stats / SUTV Free Live Broadcast

EAST STROUDSBURG – All four games in the PSAC East, including East Stroudsburg University's tilt at Shippensburg, will potentially play a role in determining the field for the PSAC men's basketball tournament as the regular season concludes on Saturday.

ESU (14-11, 7-6) earned its fifth trip to the PSAC tournament in six seasons with an 83-64 win over Bloomsburg on Wednesday and can enter the postseason on its first three-game winning streak since early December with a win over Shippensburg (9-16, 4-9). The Red Raiders won the first meeting, coming back from an eight-point deficit in the final eight minutes for a 76-72 win on January 29.

Elsewhere around the conference, Cheyney (17-8, 7-6) and Bloomsburg (10-15, 6-7) will fight for the PSAC East's fourth playoff spot in separate gyms just 10 miles apart as Cheyney hosts first-place Mansfield (18-7, 10-3) and Bloomsburg travels to West Chester (14-11, 5-8). Cheyney is in the playoffs with a win, while Bloomsburg needs a win and a Cheyney loss.

ESU can finish anywhere from No. 2 to No. 4. The Warriors' only shot at the No. 2 seed and a home game in the quarterfinals is a three-way tie for second between ESU, Cheyney and Kutztown – ESU is 3-1 against the other two schools in the tie (2-0 vs. Cheyney, 1-1 vs. Kutztown), while Cheyney and Kutztown split their season series.

The Warriors would be the No. 3 seed if they tie with Kutztown at 8-6, Bloomsburg and Cheyney at 7-7 or just Cheyney at 7-7. They would be the No. 4 seed by virtue of a tiebreaker over Bloomsburg if Kutztown and Cheyney win and ESU and Bloomsburg finished tied at 7-7.

ESU's win over Bloomsburg was highlighted by six players, including all five starters, hitting double figures in a dominating performance that saw the Warriors maintain a lead of at least 15 points over the final 18 minutes.

Senior guards Micah Covert (14 points), Mike DeMarco (13) and forward Mike Tobin (11) led the way in their final regular season home game at Koehler Fieldhouse, while sophomore forwards Duane Johnson and Terrance King both had double-doubles. Freshman guard Will Brown dropped 11 points for his eighth double-figure game off the bench.

King had 16 points and 13 rebounds in the first meeting with Shippensburg, but the Red Raiders ended the game on a 15-3 run to hand ESU its third straight loss after two wins to open the conference schedule.

The Warriors are 5-3 since then, including a road win at Cheyney that gave them a key tiebreaker with the season sweep, to make the PSAC tournament for the fifth time under head coach Jeff Wilson.

Last year's PSAC East Coach of the Year and the top assistant coach on ESU's only PSAC championship team in 1989-90, Wilson passed Sal Mentesana for third in school history in career victories in January. He enters the regular season finale with a record of 139-107 in his ninth season, and ESU is 106-60 in the last six years, its longest stretch of over .500 basketball since the first 12 years of the program from 1927-38.

The PSAC tournament begins next Tuesday with four quarterfinal games at campus sites. The top remaining seed in the PSAC West will host the Final Four on March 4-5. ESU hosted the Final Four last season after winning a share of the PSAC East title for the first time since 1992.