NIU (14-9, 6-4 MAC) at Buffalo (11-12, 5-5 MAC)
Date / Time: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 • 6 p.m. CT (7 p.m. ET)
Site: Alumni Arena • Buffalo, N.Y.
TV: ESPN3
Radio: WLBK 1360-AM, 98.9-FM (DeKalb) • TuneIn
Live Stats: BuffaloBulls.com 
All-time Series: Buffalo leads 18-13
Last Meeting: Feb. 2, 2016 • UB 90-78

Huskie Quick Hits
• Aaric Armstead currently has 141 career steals, third all-time in school history. Armstead also has 1,136 career points, currently ranked 19th in school history in scoring, 16 points behind Darion "Jake" Anderson (2007-10) for 18th all-time.     
• Laytwan Porter leads the MAC in three-point field goal percentage, shooting 47.2 percent (25-of-53) from beyond the arc. 
• One of the elite big men in the MAC, Maric is one of just four players to rank in the top-20 in the league in scoring as well as the top-10 in rebounding and field goal percentage.
• Over the last five games, NIU is shooting 47.3 percent (132-of-279) as a team, including 44.3 percent (31-of-70) from three-point range.
• NIU has won five of its last six road games dating back to a December trip to the State of Florida. NIU's five road wins are tied for the most by any team in the MAC (with Buffalo) and the Huskies are the only team in the MAC to have a winning road record.  
• The NIU bench has outscored the reserves of its opponents by an average of 8.1 points per contest, 26.1 to 18.0. 
• NIU has 64 wins over the last four seasons going back to the beginning of the 2013-14 campaign, tied for the second-best four-year stretch in program history. 
• NIU is 21-2 all-time under Mark Montgomery when reaching the 80-point plateau, the Huskies are 8-0 when reaching 80 points under Montgomery in conference games. 
• The Huskies are the third-least experienced team in the MAC according to KenPom (1.39 years of experience per minute played). That mark is 281st in the country. Western Michigan is 290th at 1.31 and Miami is 324th at 1.11. 

About Buffalo
• The Bulls bring an 11-12 overall record, 5-5 in Mid-American Conference play, into Tuesday's contest. Buffalo has won its last two games, downing Central Michigan at home, 101-91, on Jan. 31, and winning at Ball State, 96-69, on Feb. 3.
• Four players are scoring in double figures for the Bulls, led by 17.3 points per game from Blake Hamilton. Nick Perkins (14.0 ppg), C.J. Massinburg (13.8 ppg) and Willie Conner (13.1 ppg) also score in double figures for Buffalo.
• Buffalo leads the MAC in defensive rebounds, pulling down 28.0 defensive boards per contest; the Bulls also lead the MAC in total rebounding in conference play, grabbing 41.0 boards per game.
• Buffalo has represented the MAC in the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two seasons as winners of the MAC Tournament. 

All-time Series with the Bulls
• Buffalo leads the all-time series against NIU, 18-13, and the Bulls have a 12-5 advantage all-time in Buffalo.
• The Bulls have won 11 consecutive meetings with the Huskies, dating back to an 84-82 NIU overtime win in DeKalb on Jan. 7, 2006. Buffalo has won 15 out of the last 16 in the series dating back to 2004. 
• In last season's lone meeting, Marshawn Wilson scored a game-high 25 points while Marin Maric added 19 points and 11 rebounds, but Lamonte Bearden led Buffalo with 23 as the Bulls handed NIU its only home loss of the season, 90-78, (Feb. 2, 2016).

Among the Program's Best
• NIU has 64 wins over the last four seasons going back to the beginning of the 2013-14 campaign, tied for the second-best four-year stretch in program history. 
• The current stretch includes last season's 21 victories, tied for second-most in program history, when NIU played in the postseason for just the fourth time in its history, participating in the Vegas 16. The current stretch also includes 15 wins in 2013-14 and 14 wins in 2014-15. 
• The winningest four-year stretch in school history came between the 1989-90 and 1992-93 campaigns, when the Huskies won 68 games. NIU won 17 in 1989-90, a school-record 25 in 1990-91 (advancing to the NCAA Tournament), 11 in 1991-92 and 15 in 1992-93. Jim Molinari was the head coach for the first two seasons of that stretch and Brian Hammel guided the final two years of that run. 
• NIU has had three other four-year periods in which the Huskies have won 64 games. NIU won 64 from 1969-70 to 1972-73, a run that included a then school-record 21 wins in 1971-72, a season in which the Huskies were ranked as high as No. 19 in the AP Poll. 
• NIU also won 64 games between 1988-89 and 1991-92, a run that included the school-record 25 wins and NCAA Tournament appearance in 1990-91. 
• NIU's other 64-win four-year stretch came between 1992-93 and 1995-96, highlighted by a 20-win campaign and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 1995-96.