MANKATO, Minn.-- The Bethany Lutheran men's basketball team (17-6 overall, 12-2 UMAC) concludes the regular season with two home games and will first host Crown (9-13, 7-7) Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. The Vikings are in third and the Storm are fifth in the conference standings. Both teams have clinched bids in the upcoming conference tournament.

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The Series
BLC owns the all-time series lead at 25-7, and won the first meeting of the season, 89-69 on Jan. 22.

Bethany Lutheran
The Vikings have four players in double digits as sophomore Cire Mayfield (St. Louis Park, Minn.) leads the team with 17.4 PPG. Senior Trenton Krueger (Eagan, Minn.) follows at 15.9 and juniors Jared Milinkovich (New Prague, Minn.) and Brian Smith (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) round out the leading scorers with 13.2 and 12.0 PPG, respectively.

Krueger leads the team on the glass with his 8.7 rebounds/game. Mayfield has a team-high 165 assists and Smith has a team-best 43 steals.

Career Record Watch
Krueger is first in blocks (76) and field goals (440), third in rebounds (567), and seventh in points (1,093). Jared Milinkovich is third in blocks (55) and Mayfield is fourth in assists (303). Freshman Hunter Nielsen (New Prague, Minn.) is 10th in blocks (28).

Single Season Record Watch
Mayfield is first in assists (165) and Nielsen is fourth in blocked shots (28).

Krueger is third in rebounds (199), tied for seventh in blocks (22), and 10th in field goals (156).

As a team, the Vikings have set a new record in blocks (101).

National Stat Rankings
Bethany Lutheran ranks in the top 100 of 15 national stat categories, the NCAA released Monday.

The Vikings are: sixth in scoring offense (92.0 PPG), seventh in field goal percentage (50.3), eighth in assists/game, ninth in assists (445), 23rd in assist turnover ratio (1.39), 35th in scoring margin (11.1), 38th in blocked shots/game (4.4), 40th in three-point field goals/game (10.1) and blocks (101), 41st in three-point field goals made (232), 55th in three-point field goal percentage (37.7), 57th in free throw percentage (74.6), 58th in won-loss percentage (73.9), 68th in rebounds/game (40.78), and 78th in rebounds (938).
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Against the Conference
BLC leads the league in scoring offense (92.4 PPG), and field goal percentage (.501).

Mayfield is the fourth-leading scorer (17.1 PPG), and Krueger is the fifth-leading scorer (16.4) and fifth-leading rebounder (8.4 rebounds/game).

Krueger is first in field goal percentage (.744), Mayfield is first in assists (109) and Nielsen is second in blocks (20).

Crown's Tim Wendel is the conference's leading scorer (25.2 PPG) and Gunnar Ledin is third (17.4)

Crown
Wendel leads the team with 23.5 PPG and 9.9 rebounds/game. Ledin and Christian Moore follow with 16.8 and 10.3 PPG, respectively.