MANKATO, Minn.-- The Bethany Lutheran men's basketball team (12-5 overall, 7-1 UMAC) concludes a three-game road trip Saturday against Minnesota-Morris (5-11, 2-6) at 3 p.m. The Vikings are tied for first and the Cougars are tied for sixth in the conference standings. BLC enters the weekend on a seven-game winning streak.

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The Series
The series is tied at 18-18, though the Vikings have won the last six meetings. This includes the game on Jan. 8 in Mankato where BLC won 96-86.

Bethany Lutheran
The Vikings have four players in double digits as sophomore Cire Mayfield (St. Louis Park, Minn.) leads the team with 17.9 PPG. Senior Trenton Krueger (Eagan, Minn.) follows at 15.7, and juniors Jared Milinkovich (New Prague, Minn.) and Brian Smith (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) round out the leading scorers with 13.2 and 11.3 PPG, respectively.

Krueger leads the team on the glass with his 9.3 rebounds/game. Mayfield has a team-high 111 assists and Smith leads the way with 30 steals.

Career Record Watch
Krueger is first in blocks (70), fourth in rebounds (526), seventh in field goals (395), and ninth in points (995). Jared Milinkovich is third in blocks (52) and Mayfield is fifth in assists (249).

Single Season Record Watch
Mayfield is sixth in assists (111). Freshman Hunter Nielsen (New Prague, Minn.) is tied for eighth in blocked shots (21).

Against the Conference
BLC leads the league in field goal percentage (.479).

Mayfield is third in scoring (18.0 PPG) and Krueger is seventh (16.5 PPG). Mayfield is first in assists (55).

Krueger is the third-leading rebounder (9.5/game), first in field goal percentage (.692), and Nielsen is first in blocks (13).

Minnesota-Morris
The Cougars also have four players in double digits. Dillon Haider leads the team with 139 PPG, James Pendleton has 13.3, Kenneth Riley has 10.9 and Jaret Johnson has 10.4. Ian Carlin leads the team on the boards with 5.3 rebounds/game.