MARTIN, Tenn. – Bethune-Cookman and UT-Martin meet for the third consecutive season Saturday night at the Elam Center at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST.

This is the third consecutive year the 'Cats and Skyhawks have tangled, and the road team has won all the meetings. UT-M enjoyed a 74-56 bashing in Daytona Beach in 2014 while the Wildcats  returned the favor last year with an 86-79 victory in the Elam Center that snapped a 24-game non-conference road losing streak.

The 'Cats are 0-6 on the road this season and had a neutral site loss to Nicholls State at Samford.
 
TABS ON TABB: Junior Brandon Tabb has scored 20 points eight times so far this season. He is third in the   nation in 3FG (4.27 per game). How he ranks in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and nation in other categories:
Minutes Per Game (37:38): 2nd MEAC/4th NCAA
Points Per Game (21.8): 2nd/22nd
Total Three-Point Field Goals  (47): 1st/4th
Total Field Goals (81) 1st/10th
 
MORE NOTES: The Wildcats (3-8) have played three overtime games this season and are 1-2 in those contests. Only Toledo (5, 2-3) has played more. Eastern Kentucky (1-2) has also played three… Quinton Forrest leads the MEAC in FG% (56.1); he has 2 20-point games, including a 24-10 double-double against Cleveland State in Quicken Loans Arena … Jeffrey Altidort leads the MEAC in steals with 2.0 per game; his 8 against Trinity is in a three-way tie for the nation's single-game high in that category … Both Forrest and Reggie Baker have been in double figures six of the last seven games … Freshman Brandon Suggs has had 7 rebounds in his last two outings.
 
ABOUT UT-MARTIN: With an 8-4 record UT Martin's eight overall victories are tied for the most in the Ohio Valley Conference. Despite the fact that their 11-game home winning streak was snapped on Wednesday, the Skyhawks have won over 80 percent (25-6) of their home contests in the past three seasons. Kedar Edwards leads a UT Martin squad that ranks fi fth out of 347 Division-I basketball teams in assists (203). The senior forward from Brooklyn, NY is one of just two OVC players to rank in the top-20 in the league in scoring (16.1 points per game, seventh), rebounding (5.7 per game, 19th), assists (4.1 per game, seventh), steals (1.8 per game, fifth) and blocks (1.0 per game, fifth).

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